Texas journalist Molly Ivins delighted in collecting colorful expressions from state legislators, including “Who put Tabasco sauce in his oatmeal?” to refer to a suddenly invigorated colleague. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Molly Ivins Sayings”
Political commentator molly ivans was always good for a turn of phrase from her native texas
She called the state legislature they’re the finest free entertainment in texas and one expression
That she introduced me to is that when you have a colleague who’s just sort of spacing out
Or something, and then they suddenly become invigorated, she would say, who put Tabasco
Sauce in his oatmeal?
There we go.
Yeah, I can see that.
Right.
And you know what?
Tabasco sauce in oatmeal is a thing in certain parts of the country.
I did not know that.
Can you imagine?
Well, aren’t there parts of the country where they put hot sauce on everything?
I guess, yeah, I guess that would be Texas, wouldn’t it?
I went to a diner in Nevada, and I ordered just a typical, you know, egg and sausage
Breakfast.
And the woman said, you want hot sauce?
And kind of this way that met my answer was yes.
So I took it but didn’t use it.
But in your oatmeal?
No, not in my oatmeal.
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