"It can still happen to you Mayo-naise!"
If it doesn’t have eggs, it’s not Mayo, just like corn syrup and red dye isn’t ketchup. Margarine isn’t butter. Call it something else.
Multiple false claims with their labeling:
http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/2015/ucm458824.htm
Replace “Just Mayo” with ‘The TEA Party”, the “American Egg Council”
with “Lois Lerner” and “USDA” with the Obama and you would
get the same story but a totally different outcome.
Our fascist government at work.
Mayo has eggs, plus they have an image of an egg on the label. It appears misleading to me.
‘So why was the federal government trying to strangle Just Mayo in its cradle?’
Anti-capialism.
Next question.
Since all the other “mayo” manufacturers include additives that aren’t in a traditional homemade mayo, do they have to remove the word from their labels as well?
I gave up taking labeling seriously when FAT-FREE Half and Half came out.
Same reason Miracle Whip isn’t called Mayonnaise - because it isn’t.
Mayo is an emulsion of eggs and oil. Add some acid (vinegar or lemon juice) and some seasonings.
No eggs, no mayo.
There is a standard legal definition of mayonnaise based on its ingredients(mayo is a long recognized abbreviated term for the same) under FDA rules. This definition was long acknowledged in culinary practice long before the advent of FDA. It is deceptive to label a product as “Just Mayo” without any qualifier such as “vegan” or “eggless”. The FDA was doing its job in this case and the makers of the vegan “mayo” were and are in the wrong.
One of my children is allergic to eggs. I’ve been buying “egg free mayonnaise” for years in the natural food section. No one had an issue with the small market manufacturers calling their eggless product mayo. It’s only an issue because Just Mayo is selling more.
I had no idea Just Mayo didn’t have eggs because it was on the shelf next to regular mayo. I’ve eaten if at a friend’s house and it tasted good-a major accomplishment as most egg free mayos make me gag.