REALLY? - Mayonnaise haters???

[packman]

"Of all the condiments out there, a fierce hostility toward mayonnaise is definitely the most prevalent. It’s one of the most divisive foods, on par with cilantro, blue cheese and coconut. But the hatred for what is essentially emulsified egg yolks, oil and some kind of acid (typically lemon juice, or vinegar) goes beyond the polite declining of a tuna sandwich: It’s a force that bonds people, either as a comfort or, in some cases, a means to control public mayonnaise options"

As a lover of all things mayo and growing up with the various salads - egg, ham, tuna, chicken, etc. AND especially that apex of culinary delights a BLT with mayo slathered on the toast bread of the sandwich - I am drawing the line between me and thee who hates mayo. Begone---

Then again, my hero President Obama belongs to that group - well, there's always exceptions, of course.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mayo-hate-groups_us_5b465a30e4b0bc69a7834b86

[dchill]

1. Actually, I prefer Miracle Whip!

It's zestier!

[Docreed2003]

6. What's weird is I love Mayo but I'm not a fan of Miracle Whip

Not sure why though! Something about the "zest" is suppose!

[dchill]

7. To each his own, as they say.

If it's mayo or nothing, I'll take mayo every time!

[tblue37]

14. Miracle Whip seems nauseatingly sweet to me. I like mayo & mayo based spreads

like tuna salad and egg salad.

[Docreed2003]

17. Maybe that's it...

[WhiteTara]

51. I love mayo especially when the jar is first opened

I buy little jars because I can't stand the bottom of the jar. And Miracle Whip is gross. Sorry to all you fake mayo lovers, I don't mean to be insulting. To each their own. I won't eat margarine either.

[OriginalGeek]

62. I like them both

and use them almost interchangeably EXCEPT I will ONLY put mayo on turkey. Ever since I was a kid and my dad would make turkey salad with mayo and sweet pickle relish and leftover thanksgiving turkey, I can only stand mayo to go with turkey.

[Moostache]

11. AGGGHHHHH!!!! I've found a witch!!! May I burn her?????

(J/K of course....kind of!)

Miracle Whip is to Mayo as Cool Whip is to Whipped Cream!!!!
Anything that uses a contracted "whip" in its name is anathema!!!

Now, please go to the local sandwich shop that is NOT a chain store and do your appointed penance of a TRUE BLT for lunch and sin no more!!!

(LOL...I kid because my wife is a big Miracle Whip person and I won't touch the stuff!!!)

[dchill]

13. A TRUE BLT is always, of course, made with Miracle Whip!

[LisaM]

27. Miracle Whip is sugary....

It's not really like mayo at all, and I wouldn't consider it on a BLT!

[GeorgeGist]

39. And SWEET ...

ugh.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

45. It's vile! Who wants sweet mayonnaise?

[TexasBushwhacker]

59. I like Miracle Whip for tuna salad

Because I make a "sweet" tuna salad with green apples and pecans. Otherwise I prefer mayo.

[fleur-de-lisa]

2. I am a mayonnaise hater.

[Tikki]

24. To me, Mayonnaise always tastes like it is just ready to go over...

Same with Mayo based salad dressings.
If I am going to eat a sandwich, I want it to taste super fresh.

Tikki

[Hoyt]

56. Me too. Makes me gag.

[democratisphere]

3. My absolute favorite is Mayonesa; mayonnaise with a touch of lime.

Mayonesa is difficult to get in the USA.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

4. Kraft makes a mayonesa. They sell it at Publix in the SE US. nt

[democratisphere]

10. I think Mayonesa is a southern USA and Mexico condiment.

I live in the northeast and the damn Yankees don't know what is good for them! Hellmans, Kraft and McCormick all make it but it is almost impossible to find around here.

[Docreed2003]

5. Love Mayo!

Dukes is my personal favorite!

[unc70]

26. Another fan of Dukes

Don't really like Hellmann's or Kraft. Find Miracle Whip to be sickeningly sweet.

About to have a banana sandwich with Dukes mayo for lunch. Wish I had a juicy tomato in the house.

[GulfCoast66]

63. Dukes, Hellmans and Blue Plate(Louisiana boy) my long time go to

But I just discovered Sir Kensington’s. Cost way more but holy cow! Almost as good as homemade.

[Docreed2003]

64. Blue Plate is another great one!!

I'll definitely look out for Sir Kensington's

[Kittycow]

8. Grew up on Miracle Whip...

but it's banned in our house now. I love real, full-fat mayonnaise! And not some rinky-dink off-brand from the Dollar Store

[RobinA]

46. Me Too

Grew up with Miracle Whip, hated it, and thought it was a brand of mayo. Therefore I thought I hated mayo. It wasn't until college that I realized there was something different. I had actual mayo at some point where I couldn't get out of it and I was amazed that I suddenly liked it. THEN I learned that Miracle Whip and mayo were NOT the same thing.

[Kittycow]

48. Same here. The taste of real mayo was such a surprise!

My elderly (spry) mother still uses Miracle Whip when all the family is gathered and she makes a batch of sandwiches for us lazy louts. I just go along with the program as to not offend the hostess

At least she doesn't serve powdered milk anymore, the bane of my childhood!

[NBachers]

54. My mom would make powdered milk and try to pass it off as real milk. We'd bust her every time.

And that picture of the girl on the Carnation powdered milk box was cloyingly cutesy and wholesome.

[unblock]

9. vinegar is a migraine trigger for me, so i learned to loathe mayo at a young age.

i suppose i could try to make a vinegar-free mayo, but have never bothered.

[packman]

16. Try making your own with lemon juice

or lime (never tried that, but sounds interesting). Homemade mayo is easy to make with a blender and there are tons of how-to-do on the internet.

[Siwsan]

12. Much like sweet pickles, Miracle Whip is barred from my home

I grew up eating potato, macaroni and egg salads and tuna sandwiches made with Miracle Whip and sweet pickle relish. Once I moved out on my own, I joined Team Mayo and Team Dill, and have never looked back.

[samnsara]

34. sweet pickles! LOVE them and esp now that ive found sugar free sweet pickles.

BEST sandwich ever is toasted bread with butter and a little mayo..a giant slice of Walla Walla Sweet onion and sweet pickles. I used to have that for breakfast all the time.

[Siwsan]

36. I'm the oddball in my family. Everyone else loved Gherkins

I love baby dills. Truth is, I just love dill. I have a whole garden of it growing just outside of my kitchen.

[Ferrets are Cool]

15. Mayo lover here...especially, the new Hellmanns made with Olive Oil. nt

[mahatmakanejeeves]

18. War on mayonnaise? I thought this week we would be fighting the war on back to school. NT

[Freddie]

19. I, unfortunately, love mayo

My hips are living proof.
Must be real, none of that diet crap. Preferably Hellman's but Giant brand is really good too. Not Kraft, too sweet. Miracle Whip is ok in some things (coleslaw, egg salad) to save calories but not spread on a sandwich.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

20. Love it and all things made with it! 😋

[SamKnause]

21. Hellmann's rules.

[IrishEyes]

22. Sorry, I don't like mayonnaise but I'm glad you enjoy it.

However, I like cilantro, blue cheese and coconut.

[Shrike47]

23. Love mayo, sadly enough, and the scales show it.

Husbands come and go, but mayo lasts forever!

[demmiblue]

25. Team Vegenaise checking in!

[Doreen]

29. Yahoo

[demmiblue]

33. We are few, but we are mighty!

[Doreen]

35. Yes we are.

[Harker]

50. Hellmann's makes a vegan version.

My omnivorous sweetheart likes it, too. It's supplanted Vegenaise, which I liked quite a bit.

[Doreen]

58. I will need to look for that and try it. Is it in the refrigerator or on shelf?

[Harker]

61. On the shelf...

at one smaller grocery store in western PA. The bigger chains don't stock it. It's difficult for me to compare to the original, which I've not eaten in nearly 40 years, but it's smoother and more serious than Vegenaise, if that makes sense. Hope you'll enjoy it.

[MuseRider]

38. I was looking through the thread

for Vegenaise! I love Mayo but will use Vegenaise when I can get it. Thankfully it is usually available here now. I like the kind made with Olive Oil the best.

[Doreen]

28. I do not care for Mayo and I hate Miracle Whip.

I do use Mayo when what I like is not available. If Miracle Whip is the only thing available I just pass. I am a Veganaise person.

[LisaM]

30. I prefer Hellmann's (which is supposedly a little different from Best Foods)

the name changes on different sides of the Rockies, but people claim Hellmann's is a little better. We get Best Foods in Washington, but got Hellmann's in Michigan, and I keep meaning to get a little jar of each and do an actual comparison.

Mayonnaise is also really, really easy to make. We always added a little salt, pepper, vinegar, and then a pinch of dry mustard. I've tried making it with olive oil, but you need to be really careful to get the right olive oil; otherwise, the mayo is just bitter.

[Major Nikon]

44. I make it with light olive oil

Which is much more like canola oil in taste than EVOO.

[Coventina]

31. Two words: Undercover Brother!

[samnsara]

32. mayo is ok if not used in great quantities..its that Salad Dressing that make me gag...

...I do love Salad Spread tho….esp on thick baloney, lettuce, tomato and a slice of cheddar cheese. I guess its the type of sandwich that gets mustard, mayo or sandwich spread. Ive rarely put ketchup on ANY kind of sandwich( maybe a little dab on a burger if Ive had enuff beers) and NEVER Miracle Whip.

[Fla Dem]

37. I'll take Mayo over mustard and ketchup every day of the week. The more the better. nt

[NCjack]

40. Oh, packman, why did you begin with that horrible image of a

bottle of mayo? Mayo is repulsive.

How I came to hate mayo. When I was a little 5-yr old boy, my family was very poor. So, my mom took us out for picnics, where we would watch the workers cutting and loading sugar cane. The usual food was mayo sandwiches. That's where I learned to hate mayo. The last mayo I ever willing ate gave me the worst pain in my guts that I ever had -- I believed that I would die. There under a tree, with the cane cutters watching, I was working every way possible to eliminate that mayo sandwich. That was 73 years ago, and the only memory I have of being five is that damn mayo sandwich. Today, I will eat mayo only if it is spread on bread, less than one "molecular" monolayer thick. If I can see any evidence of mayo, I become unable to eat it. If I can't see it but have a strong suspicion that mayo is present on my food. I can eat it only by covering it with generous amounts of mustard. And that is how I came to love mustard. Mustard, the gift from the gods. I like to take the little single serving packets, open them, and squeeze all the mustard into my mouth. Especially refreshing when I suspect that I have accidentally eaten some mayo.

[packman]

41. Mayo turns in heat

I'll bet you had a food poisoning episode with that mayo sandwich. It will cause stomach distress of the worst kind if left out for any period in the heat. Learned that from a potato salad experience that we didn't keep cool at a picnic- has to do with the protein. BUT MAYO in and by itself DOES NOT cause food poisoning.

To wit:

Mayonnaise does not cause food poisoning, bacteria do. And bacteria grow best on foods that contain protein and are at temperatures between 40-140 degrees F. Commercially prepared mayonnaise is safe to use. At greater risk for developing bacteria are the foods mayonnaise is commonly mixed with for picnics and potlucks, such as pasta, potatoes, eggs, chicken, or tuna. But even these will be safe if you keep your cooler below 40 degrees F.

https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/food-poisoning/features/9-food-poisoning-myths#1

[NCjack]

42. I read your words. I can almost hear your lips and tongue flapping, but

I not chancing it again. Mustard is the answer.

Actually, I have found a little sandwich and soup cafe that makes mayo, pico de gallo, etc. fresh every morning. So, I tried the mayo and found it to be delicious. I only eat their mayo.

[rurallib]

43. mayonnaise

it is a taste killer.
What makes me mad is that so many place slobber on the mayo without any warning.
Now "no mayo or other white sauce" is a standard part of my order.

[zanana1]

47. I like mayo as salad dressing.

By salad dressing, I mean alot of it mixed in with my salad. To make it even more disgusting, I use my hands to mix it in. And don't try to tell me no one else does it that way! (Only at home, of course; it just wouldn't look right in a restaurant).

[left-of-center2012]

49. Dukes

[TDale313]

52. Hater might be a bit strong, but I'm no mayo fan.

The one food I *really* hate is mushrooms. In pretty much any form. Dunno why, and I know I’m in the minority on that but 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Funtatlaguy]

53. It looks like a fraternity had a bukake night - nasty.

[TexasBushwhacker]

60. That was unnecessary n/t

[Hoyt]

55. Cannot stand the stuff. Cannot tell you how many times I've had to hide uneaten food

so as not to offend people.

When younger and dating, had to come up with all kinds of excuses to keep a lady from cooking until I knew her well enough to admit my darkest, disgusting secret. Mayonnaise is in darn near everything. Lost a few ladies I liked that way. But t, I’m sure I’d have run them off for other reasons at some point.

[NBachers]

57. I bought "healthy" mayo from the health food store and ruined a huge batch of potato salad with it.

I'll never make that mistake again. From now on, it's honest American grocery-store mayonnaise. Living west of the Rockies, I'm relegated to Best Foods mayo, instead of Hellmann's.

I took my niece down the Coast Highway a few years back. There was a big mobile film crew doing some shoots. They said they were shooting iconic West Coast locations in prep for the rollout of Hellmann's on the western side of the country. I keep waiting for it to happen, but it hasn't yet.