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.
(Excerpt) Read more at phillymag.com ...
Miracle Whip
Made from recycled milk jugs (shredded and macerated) and artificial flavorings, I think.
I think it’s a jokey article, she says they are wrong at the end I think?
Freegards
Most mayonnaise is made with soybean oil, a particularly unhealthy “food”. The rise in the use of liquid vegetable oils parallels the rise of obesity. These oils are used because they’re cheap. They will also seriously harm your health.
The French love it on their fries.
My mother has been making stuff with Hellman’s all her life, she’s 94 and hasn’t ANY health problems.
I’ve seen the french fry mayo thing in rural lower class areas too. I’ve seen that in urban upper class areas as well, but they call it aioli. Which is basically mayo seasoned with something, usually garlic. I dig mayo but I don’t dip fries into it.
freegards
Hellmann’s.
That is all.
Mayo killed itself. Disgusting stuff.
Mayonnaise, loosely defined, is an emulsion of neutral-flavored oil like canola, egg yolk, vinegar and/or lemon juice and sometimes a dash of powdered mustard to bring out the flavor and help the emulsion stay together. Aioli, on the other hand, hails from the southern French region of Provence, and begins not in a blender but with a mortar and pestle and several cloves of garlic. When the garlic is pounded to a paste, it’s whisked into the traditional preparation of egg yolk, lemon juice, mustard and olive oil instead of canola (which adds olive oil’s fruity aroma into the mix).
Aioli is typically served as a dip for vegetable crudité, boiled eggs and shellfish, while mayonnaise is more widely employed in a variety of ways. But now that you know all about aioli, it might be hard to go back to Hellman’s.
I also put mayo on my avocados.
Ditto that. I put mayo on my mayo. Don’t touch my mayo
What’s wrong with Taylor Swift?
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She’s too white.
You guys would probably love mayo made with avocado oil.
“I use olive oil mayo now.”
even tastier and just as healthy if not more so is Avocado oil mayo ... our Colorado Costco stores carry it at a fraction of the price of other stores ...
I don’t dig Hellman’s. I dig Duke’s.
https://www.southernliving.com/dukes-mayo-southern-food
Freegards
“Most mayonnaise is made with soybean oil, a particularly unhealthy “food”.”
indeed. Colorado Costco stores carry Avocado oil mayo, which is very tasty ... has a bit of a nut flavor to it ...
OK. Let’s see a showing of hands. WHO else (besides me) used to eat MAYO SANDWICHES as a kid ?
I couldn't read it after this.
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