Posted on 08/15/2018 7:02:09 PM PDT by EdnaMode
The inexorable rise of identity condiments has led to hard times for the most American of foodstuffs. And that’s a shame.
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Along about a decade ago, though, I began to notice I was toting home as much of my offerings as I’d concocted. My contributions were being overlooked — or shunned. Why should this be? Mom’s extraordinary potato salad — fragrant with dill, spiced by celery seed — went untouched on the picnic table. So did her macaroni salad, and her chicken salad, and her deviled eggs. … When I carted home a good three pounds of painstakingly prepared Waldorf salad — all that peeling and coring and slicing! — I was forced to face facts: The family’s tastes had changed. Or, rather, our family had changed. Oldsters were dying off, and the young ’uns taking our places in the paper-plate line were different somehow.
I racked my brain for the source of this generational disconnect. And then, one holiday weekend, while surveying the condiments set out at a family burger bash, I found it. On offer were four different kinds of mustard, three ketchups (one made from, I kid you not, bananas), seven sorts of salsa, kimchi, wasabi, relishes of every ilk and hue …
What was missing, though, was the common foundation of all Mom’s picnic foods: mayonnaise. While I wasn’t watching, mayo’s day had come and gone. It’s too basic for contemporary tastes — pale and insipid and not nearly exotic enough for our era of globalization. Good ol’ mayo has become the Taylor Swift of condiments.
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Apparently, as the author says, Swift like Mayonnaise, "is too pale".
Now imagine if some black singer was described like some black food as being too dark.
Mayo on a bologna sandwich...just like mom packed in my lunch growing up. Unrefrigerated for 5 hours, never got sick.
I remember when I was about 10, my folks talking about us qualifying for the free lunch program. My dad was a Freeper before his time, “It’s not the government’s job to feed my kids”
[It has it’s specific uses. Definitely deviled eggs and potato salad. Burgers, too, as well as turkey and chicken sandwiches.]
Not to mention BLT sandwiches!
Eat what you want. Duke’s has soybean oil which I am sure was not in the original recipe. They use soybean because it is cheaper. For me, I make my own with olive oil, paprika, cayenne, pressed garlic and a tad of cumin. Wonderful.
duke’s has soybean oil, one which I am sure the
Wrong. The Belgians love mayo on their fries. The Belgians invented potato fries. The French turn up their noses at fried foods of any kind. Parmentier cooked potatoes fifty ways, so the French Academy named the starch `pommes de terres’ to honor his name but he never fried them.
Comprenez vous?
;^)
It annoys me to go to deli’s and the egg salad or potato salad is not made with it. They don’t taste good at all to me. Make it with Hellmann’s. I’m crazy about it.
Non, je ne parlez pas francais.
You forgot the crumbled bacon, or is that too German?
Hellman’s...is...everything. End of discussion.
Love mayo! On cheeseburgers and everything! My 20+year old kids don’t eat it. So sad!
How hard is it to whip up, how much do you make, how long does it last? I should give it a try.
Freegards
My in-laws swear by that dog vomit. Worse yet, they insist on the FAT-FREE dog vomit. Needless to say, I avoid making tuna salad when I'm there. A little spread on a turkey sandwich is about all I can stomach.
So you want the recipe?
Mom made all my baloney (ok, bologna) sandwiches in the 50s with Miracle Whip. I was too young to know any better. Then I found real mayo when I left home at 18 and never had another drop of Miracle Whip. I tried it once about 20 years ago and you are absolutely right! “Nasty stuff.”
No mayo? What the Hell man?
I like mayo in controlled portions. Even better if it has a nice portion of horseradish mixed in.
Swift is very talented. I can’t believe the author compared her to mayo.
and healthy. Agree.
Sour cream makes a great sandwich spread.
Sure! I can just google it I guess if you don’t want to type it out.
Freegards
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