There is a YouTube channel called "What's My Line?", it is a channel that archives and uploads episodes of the old panel show of the same name. The famous John Charles Daly hosts this game show where a celebrity panel interrogates the subject on what their profession is, kind of like a game of 20 questions. Sometimes they blindfold themselves to bring in guest celebrities (like Jack Benny and Groucho Marx) and they have to guess who they are talking to.

My memory is a little hazy as this has been some years, but I believe one person had worked as like a mustard taste tester, or worked in a mustard factory, or was an officiant for mustard marriages. I don't remember. But when the panel asked "Is what you [work with] a liquid or a solid?", the subject looked confused. The famous John Charles Daly, in all his grace, wisdom, and good nature, took the subject in for a private deliberation, and very confidently announced that the mustard was a SOLID OBJECT, which of course derailed the entire subsequent line of questioning to an inevitable failure.

For as much as I respect and love the famous John Charles Daly, I will never forgive him for this, and I've never watched another episode since. Peanut butter, a liquid? Maybe. I admit I am not smart enough to argue for or against this. There are better qualified people for it. But MUSTARD? That I have to shake up and squeeze out of a bottle? That I can easily spread over my bologna sandwich in the back of a limousine? I will never agree to call it a solid. Maybe you do, maybe you will side with the famous John Charles Daly purely on the trust he has built with you. But he's not fooling me, and I'm not afraid to look dumb enough to argue against him.