Posted on 11/11/2014 7:28:43 AM PST by Olog-hai
You have to break some eggs to make an omelet and, according to a lawsuit from the maker of Hellmann’s, the same goes for mayonnaise.
The food company Unilever is suing a California company that uses the word “Mayo” in its sandwich spread name, saying that federal regulators and dictionaries define mayonnaise as a spread that contains eggs.
The suit claims false advertising by the company Hampton Creek for labeling its egg-free product “Just Mayo.” Unilever says in a complaint filed in federal court that the word “mayo” implies that the product is mayonnaise, and Just Mayo is “stealing market share from Hellmann’s”. …
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Along with the 14oz pound of bacon and the 11.5 ounce bottle of beer. Some brands are chiselers.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mayonnaise?s=t
The dictionary, common sense, and seemingly some federal regulations disagree with you.
I don’t dispute smaller delivered amounts, I don’t know really. I can, however, believe that there is a difference that delivers in the texture and taste for mayonnaise and also from different types of Tuna.
As I’ve grown older, I’ve noticed a distinct difference between various products I remember when young and now. You might chalk it up to old age and damaged taste buds, and I probably wouldn’t disagree with you.
However, one of the few products, Hellmans, has never changed that I can tell in quality or taste. There are many others out there with the old names that don’t fill this bill. Cheese Its and Cheese Whiz are a couple. They taste fake and of chemical aftertaste to me. Even for tuna, only the solid white is reminiscent of younger days.
One day Monica dropped off some clothes, at the dry cleaners, and the clerk was hard of hearing. She advised him that there was a stain on the dress that needed particular attention. “Come, again?” the clerk replied. “No, its mayo” she answered.
“federal regulators and dictionaries define mayonnaise as a spread that contains eggs”
Gosh, but the plaintiff calls their product “Mayo”. What does the dictionary and federal regs say about what’s in “Mayo”?
“It’s all crap. eggs or no. It is the paste that keeps the hamburger from falling apart.”
Ugh! Can’t stand mayo on a hamburger! Speaking of which, will pork growers soon be suing makers of ‘ham’ burgers?
“...For those not old as us, I believe that is Virginia Mayo.....”
Correct. It’s part of C.F.Sauer, which has been here in Richmond since 1887. They have been in their current location on Broad Street since 1911.
“Later, in 1929, the Sauer Company purchased Duke’s Products Company of Greenville, South Carolina. This company was started by Mrs. Eugenia Duke in 1917, when she began selling homemade sandwiches to soldiers training at nearby Fort Sevier.
The sandwiches sold well, primarily because of Mrs. Duke’s own recipe for mayonnaise, with which they were spread. Drugstores sold the sandwiches and, later, a local grocer agreed to take a few bottles of the mayonnaise on consignment. From making and selling several dozen sandwiches a day, Mrs. Duke’s work increased until she had to start making the mayonnaise in a separate outbuilding. On the day she sold eleven thousand handmade sandwiches, a delivery truck was purchased....The taste of Mrs. Duke’s original recipe for mayonnaise has never been altered, and it remains the only major mayonnaise brand made without sugar.”
I wonder about Miracle Whip versus Mayo as it pertains to childhood.
It seems to me that a lot of people prefer what they grew up eating.
For me it was Miracle Whip. Don’t like Mayo. Mostly, I use mustard.
“Hellman’s can psuck it. DUKE’S rules the world of mayonnaise. “
I just had a sandwich with Duke’s on it. I grew up on Hellmann’s but Duke’s is less tangy. I like them both.
What about Whitman Mayo, A.K.A. “Grady” from “Sanford and Son?”
Kerwin Bell, the Throwin' Mayo-an.
Agree. Things don’t taste the same as they did when we were kids. Too many preservatives and fake ingredients. Everytime I find a great tasting product, they change the recipe. Oreos lost this customer over their changed recipe long before they went gay. Totino’s Pizza Rolls lost my dollars five years ago when they changed the recipe but thankfully the store brand is using a not great but passable version of the original. Blue Belle Ice Cream used to be the best ice cream but I’d rather just buy plain vanilla store brand because Blue Belle lowered their standards. Too many products, like pork ‘n beans have no taste except tin can taste.
http://virginiamayo.com/images/titles/about.jpg
Napoleon once said, “Hark, they are playing the Mayonnaise! The army must be dressing.”
How about “Almost Mayo”?
Both are owned by Unilever; they are identical products with different names for different regions of the U.S.A.
Hellman’s is for east of the Rocky Mountains and Best Foods is for west of the Rocky Mountains.
No but Hamburgers may sue purveyors of the hamburger sandwich for misappropriation of the name.
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