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How Millennials Killed Mayonnaise
Philly Mag ^ | August 11, 2018 | SANDY HINGSTON

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: mayo; mayonaise; mayosucks; millennial; millennials; miraclewhiprules; trends; yuck
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1 posted on 08/15/2018 7:02:09 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

More idiotic clickbait


2 posted on 08/15/2018 7:04:51 PM PDT by MountainWalker
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To: EdnaMode

Philly is Miracle Whip country. Nasty stuff.


3 posted on 08/15/2018 7:04:51 PM PDT by mindburglar (I like spelling it Lazers. It looks cooler.)
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To: EdnaMode

4 posted on 08/15/2018 7:06:16 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: EdnaMode

I didn’t do nothing! Mayo is ok....I guess.

Better than that disgusting avocado that they try to shove down my throat because “ALL Millennials LOVE AVOCADO TOAST!”.


5 posted on 08/15/2018 7:06:58 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: EdnaMode

LOL, I really dislike mayonnaise, so when I saw the thread, I had to come in and ask “Is it really dead?”

Great. One down, one to go. Onions next.


6 posted on 08/15/2018 7:08:28 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Shadow44


7 posted on 08/15/2018 7:10:46 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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I use olive oil mayo now. Back when I used to eat salads out, I would always ask for Mayo on the side for my salad dressing. A couple of the wait staff even asked me “why would you do that?” And I told them salad dressing has powdered garlic, powdered onion, powdered this powder that and I can taste it for 3 or 4 days afterwards. So I just use Mayo little salt and pepper and I’m good.


8 posted on 08/15/2018 7:11:22 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: EdnaMode

Mayonnaise reminds me of certain body fluids. Just saying.


9 posted on 08/15/2018 7:11:59 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: EdnaMode

From my cold dead greasy hands...


10 posted on 08/15/2018 7:12:06 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: Shadow44

I put mayonnaise on my avocado.


11 posted on 08/15/2018 7:13:12 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives. Do nothing, they win and we lose.)
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To: EdnaMode

So new I have to keep my S&W Model 60 in the fridge to protect my mayo?


12 posted on 08/15/2018 7:13:35 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (You know that I am full of /S)
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To: EdnaMode

Make your own. It’s not hard and it’s delicious.

L


13 posted on 08/15/2018 7:13:52 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: taxcontrol

>>>Mayonnaise reminds me of certain body fluids. Just saying<<<

That’s a good line, don’t worry, it tastes like Mayonnaise.

I guess Bill Clinton didn’t think to use it with Monica. It would have saved him a lot of trouble.


14 posted on 08/15/2018 7:14:31 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: Shadow44

oh, and lots of Frank’s Hot Sauce.


15 posted on 08/15/2018 7:14:37 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives. Do nothing, they win and we lose.)
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To: EdnaMode

It ain’t no way dead in my house. We go through lots of it. A cheeseburger or a RB sandwich isn’t complete without lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise, ketchup and bread & butter pickle. We like Miracle Whip too.


16 posted on 08/15/2018 7:16:00 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: EdnaMode

Mayo on toast with a little mustard, fried egg and mild cheddar cheese just melted. Quick hot breakfast sandwich... yum.


17 posted on 08/15/2018 7:17:39 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: EdnaMode

Completely CONFABULATED.

The writer needed some novel theme that would pander to AfroCentrism-derived dreck, and THIS is it.

Sad.


18 posted on 08/15/2018 7:17:55 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: EdnaMode

What’s wrong with Taylor Swift?


19 posted on 08/15/2018 7:18:06 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: EdnaMode

Mayo is white and gross, just like white people. It is micro-aggressing the culinary society.

Do you want mayo with that tuna sandwich?

No, why would I want it to be moist and delicious?

Freegards


20 posted on 08/15/2018 7:18:43 PM PDT by Ransomed
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