Posted on 07/18/2018 8:13:45 AM PDT by Blue House Sue
Victor Lachin, an electrical engineer living in southern Mississippi, vividly recalls the first time he tried mayonnaise as a child.
The year was 1966, and he was having lunch at a friend’s house in the Lakefront area of New Orleans. The friend had “a ham sandwich with white Bunny Bread, slathered with Blue Plate mayonnaise,” he tells me over Facebook Messenger. “Asking me what I would like, I responded ‘Peanut butter sandwich, ma’am!’ She complied with a nice Bunny Bread sandwich and a glass of cold white milk.”
Lachin bit into the sandwich, expecting a creamy, nutty taste to fill his mouth. Instead, “Mayonnaise oozed out the side of the crusted bread, coating my tongue and all senses with an oily, sulfur semi-liquid. ... Gagging, I leapt from the kitchen table as her hate-filled babbling told me to never come back again. I remember the sound of a worn corn broom chasing my bare feet out the back door. I climbed the fence to get home.” He was 5 or 6 years old, he reckons.
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You don’t have to be a fussy eater to know you just don’t like some stuff. Sometimes it’s genetics, the cilantro tastes like soap gene has actually been identified, certainly nothing fussy about those folks not eating cilantro. Sometimes it’s negative life experience, I haven’t eaten Swedish meatballs some I got some spoiled ones when I was 15, just the smell of them turns my stomach. As for mayo, some just find it an unpleasant tasting phlegmy nastiness that spoils otherwise good food.
I love Duke’s because it does not have any hint or undertaste of sweetness like some other brands. I dislike mayonnaise which has any sweetness in the flavor. I also dislike cornbread and hush puppies which contain sugar. All of the foregoing foods should be savory (not sweet) only.
Easy on the Mayo, please.
You want an awesome wing dip mix some miracle whip and sriracha at approximately 65/35 or to taste...
Few people hate mayonnaise as much as I do.
Just the sight of the word gives me a sicky feeling.
If it accidentally touches my skin, I get physically nauseous.
Actually getting it in my mouth can cause me to hurl.
I ate ketchup sandwiches when I was a kid. I can barely stand the stuff, now.
However, if you serve me CATSUP... :D
agreed! I don’t like hellman’s either.
Oddly, that is about the only thing I like mayonnaise on, a peanut butter and Banana sandwich.
“...the number of millennials I’ve run into that don’t like beer...”
Most of them today want these “crafted” beers that taste like anything besides beer....
ICEBERG LETTUCE?? Oh, the humanity!
How ya doing, King?
Red heads have more taste buds, and more sensitive ones. That’s my story, and I’m stickin’ to it!
That’s a fleeting taste I always appreciate reliving, the taste beer had when dad would give you a sip of one he cracked after doing something like mowing grass. It pretty much is exclusive to American “blue collar” lagers and if you drink beer with any regularity you only catch it if you haven’t had one for a few weeks and/or you really exerted yourself.
And that commercial from the late 1990s with the anti-mayo guy scraping his bread on the edge of the table. Might have been an insurance ad.
Liver tastes like the metal dentists used to scrape off the fillings they were putting in my teeth, years ago. People who like liver, don’t get that sensation.
I find it weird that some people find that abnormal. I've eaten hot dogs with mustard and ketchup my whole life.
I never liked mayo. When I went to college in north Jersey I discovered that mayo comes on everything, order an italian hoagie (sorry, they say sub) and it will come with mayo no matter how many times you say "no mayo". An italian haogie with mayo for heaven's sake! Sacrilege! My theory was the the rolls are baked like twinkies, with mayo as the creamy filling. They just come that way so you can't get a sandwich without mayo there.
But then I moved to Spain for a while and though it's illegal apparently ladies who work in kitchens at Spanish restaurant insist on making mayo from scratch rather than using the jar stuff. Wow, it is 100x better. I acually liked mayo over there.
Slow news day?
I sure can & it’ll be ready & waiting ; )
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