This is the mustard that made me love mustard — and I really, really love mustard. I'm sure I had mustard before Honeycup Mustard, but it wasn't memorable. This one, however, flavors my earliest condiment and sandwich memories. 
I hadn't had it in years, so when I found a jar at my local Lucky supermarket, I brought it home to see if it was as good as I remembered, now that I've tried dozens of other mustards. I immediately remembered its odd gelatinous quality, almost like an apple butter, and the familiar flavor immediately brought me back to childhood. Though it's hard for me to pick a favorite mustard — after all, variety is the condiment of life — Honeycup definitely holds its own.
I'm sure my family had Honeycup as a kid because it was one of the first "gourmet" mustards available in my hometown. My mom used it to re-create the grilled ham-and-cheese sandwich with hot-sweet mustard served at a local restaurant called Dabo's; incidentally, those sandwiches are one of my most cherished early sandwich memories. I think it's very fitting that Honeycup Mustard was established in 1978, the same year I was.
There you have it: my seminal mustard. I even managed to make it through this whole post without saying "cuts the mustard." Are you a mustard person?
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