A trip to the Mayo Clinic might cure you...
And here I thought I was the only one. Friend!
When you make your own mayo, you find that it is very simple: egg, fresh lemon juice, salt and olive oil, blended.
Delicious.
Love it on salmon salad.
I grew up thinking I hated mayo.
In high school I dated a girl that went to a VERY Christian high school. They did not have a prom, they had a Senior Banquet. No popular music, no dancing allowed.
I asked what was the proper attire and was told “nice church clothes”. This was in 1979.
So I arrive in a sportscoat and tie. Everyone else is in jeans and polo shirts.
Here I am, at an event with people I don’t know, meeting my girlfriends classmates for the first time, way overdressed.
They called it a banquet so I am thinking, you know, a sit down dinner. Au contraire, they are having it catered by a local sub shop - LaSpada’s. They bring in these 6’ long subs. All of them have...mayo.
This thing is turning into a cocktail party without liquor or dancing. Everyone is just standing around, talking, and eating slices of these giant subs. Not wanting to feel even MORE awkward, I decide to choke down a slice of sub.
I take a bite and the clouds part, the angels sing and I am eating the best tasting sandwich in my life. The mayo is delicious! I like mayo!
The next day I share with my mom that I now like mayo. “Great,” she says, “let me make you a bologna sandwich.”
She does, I take a bite, and gag.
“What is this stuff?”
“Mayo,” says Mom, holding up a jar of Miracle Whip.
All this time I thought I hated mayo when I really hated Miracle Whip!
Who said I hate mayo?
I’ll eat mayo right out of the jar. Love it. Hellman’s all the way.
A trip to the Mayo Clinic might cure you...
My dad HATED mayo. He never explained why. He just hated the stuff.
Japanese mayonnaise = much better!
Duke’s = 1st down south
Cains= 1st up north
second place = Hellmann’s
Unfortunately I love the stuff.
I love mayo. Obviously it doesn’t go with everything.
“anti-mayo crowd” lol
I’m a Miracle Whip fan.
According to wiki, Miracle Whip is a blended mayo. The ingredients are basically the same, with less oil and half the calories. Miracle Whip has cornstarch added which I find makes it a superior binder in potato, macaroni, egg, chicken and tuna salads.
mayo ingredients: (Hellmann’s) Soybean oil, water, whole eggs, distilled vinegar, egg yolks, salt, sugar, lemon juice concentrate, calcium disodium edta (used to protect quality), natural flavors.
miracle whip ingredients: (wiki) water, soybean oil, high-fructose corn syrup, vinegar, modified corn starch, eggs, salt, natural flavor, mustard flour, potassium sorbate, spice, and dried garlic.
When I was kid, I hated mayo, except potato salad. Now I really like it, except on hamburgers.
I know a half dozen people who love full strength Miracle Whip and have no idea why people choose Mayonnaise instead.
Miracle Whip is like the Encyclopedia Britannica of the Mayonnaise family.
Some people really hate articles about how people hate certain foods too.
You don't like mayonnaise, don't eat it.
There, I have solved the problem.
Our cats love it. They insisted on having pea salad tonight and they ran to it and licked all the mayo and cheese off.
Now, mayo can be a little, well, greasy. So try mixing Duke's with plain whole milk Greek yogurt, 50/50.
And Miracle Whip is atrocious.
The one and only purpose for that vile material is to hold tunafish, egg salad, and chicken salad together, and only enough to actually do the job. Anything else is vile and disgusting.
