Posted on 02/25/2011 8:11:54 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
No, your eyes were not mistaking you: That really was political guru James Carville hawking Miracle Whip in a television commercial.
The spot — part of the company's "We're Not For Everyone" campaign — features Carville and others expressing either their love or hate for the spread. The commercials debuted this week.
Amy Sedaris is a fan. “Jersey Shore” star Pauly D is not. As for Carville? He's in the pro-Miracle Whip category.
"If you've got these fancy, dancy mustards and stuff like that, that's kind of an elite thing," says Carville. "Miracle Whip is America."
It's funny that Carville appears in an ad featuring dueling sides of a debate, since the outspoken Democratic political strategis is married to Republican strategist Mary Matalin.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
I have never bought a jar of Miracle Whip and I am now quite confident I never will.
Then check out the uses for Miracle Whip on the Weird Al vid “Weasel Stomping Day”.
;^)
Then check out the uses for Miracle Whip on the Weird Al vid “Weasel Stomping Day”.
;^)
Hellman’s is okay. Miracle Whip is not. We are having a war in this family on the subject. I told my children that if they want Miracle Whip like some kind of liberal person from Wisconsin, then fine—they can go to the grocery store and buy it themselves with their own money, but I am not shelling out for that garbage.
I like a person who stands up for what they believe in. Brava! Stand strong.
Ick, those two things disgust me. Give me Hellmann’s any day!
;-)
I did too.. it wasn’t until I was in my early 20s that I actually tasted good mayo and was hooked. It’s now included in half of my sandwiches. Olive oil and spices are included in most of them (even with mayo).
I am now enjoying good mustard which I hated most of my life too.
First, the product differences. Hellman's is, of course, a mayonnaise. By law, it must contain 80% oil by volume.
Miracle Whip is labeled "salad dressing". By law, this product can be as little as 50% oil by volume -- though I believe Miracle Whip is about 65%.
About half the country prefers mayonnaise, the other half Miracle Whip -- and the preferences are highly regional.
This dichotomy goes back to the turn of the century (19th and 20th). J.L. Kraft had established a door-to-door retail cheese business in the Chicago area (his processed cheese didn't need refrigeration, it's now known as Velveeta). He began to look for more products he could peddle off his horse-drawn grocery carts. Miracle Whip was among the first of them.
The business was a success and Kraft began rolling out from Chicago, establishing distribution networks in town-after-town. Eventually, he was covering most of the Midwest, the Southeast and Southwest.
At around the same time, Richard Hellman -- who ran a deli in New York City -- invented his mayonnaise recipe. He also began a horsedrawn grocery cart business that sold door-to-door. He, too, was successful and began expanding out from New York. Eventually, Hellman's covered the Northeast and the Atlantic seaboard all the way to Florida.
Meanwhile, out in the West, a company known as Best Foods developed a mayonnaise near-identical to Hellman's -- and began the same distribution process up and down the coast.
Consequently, whether you prefer Miracle Whip or mayonnaise is largely a function of where you were born and raised. In the packaged food business, there are Miracle Whip markets -- Midwest, from Pittsburgh west, Southeast, from the Georgia-Alabama line west and the Southwest. And there are mayonnaise markets -- the East and West coasts.
And they're defined by whose horse-drawn peddler carts got there fustest with the mostest...
Carville, being from Louisiana, would obviously be a Miracle Whip guy. As am I, being from Oklahoma.
We really don't like that advertised too much, would much prefer *West Mississippi*, *South Arkansas* or *East Texas* used as where he's from :^)
They must have dragged a hundred dollar bill through his neighborhood to get him to do this.
Yep I thought the same thing. I only use real Mayo and real butter.
>> “I only use real Mayo and real butter.” <<
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I only use real mayo that is made with olive oil.
Lots of mayo is made with soy or canola, and thus not fit for human consumption.
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