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Re: Mayo v. Miracle Whip

paintbynumber — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:30:05 -0000

It seems overboard to use terms like "disgusting", and "foul" about food that is neither, and not all that different in content. Mayo has to have 65% vegetable oil, Miracle Whip has less oil, more sugar and spices added. Not a big deal really, is it? Food snobs are just funny to me. I have friends that rave over things just because they think they have passed certain checklists for them, and sometimes they don't really know what they are eating. I have a friend that decries Miracle Whip like it's pureed possum, but she loved her mother's cooking and that's what her mother used in everything. Mine too.

Re: Mayo v. Miracle Whip

omelikhov — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:54:31 -0000

Colbert makes hipster Miracle Whip commercial: http://www.hulu.com/watch/102593/the-colbert-report-thu-oct-15-2009?c=570:749

Apparently, he can't handle Miracle Whip because he thinks we cause too much mayo-ham. So which side are you on, mayo or Miracle Whip?

Re: Mayo v. Miracle Whip

ltieman — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:42:22 -0000

Cain's is a national brand, but its mostly sold in industrial quantities, we used Cain's at the truck stop I worked at in High School in Missouri.

Re: Mayo v. Miracle Whip

lizkdc — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:38:00 -0000

"Like spaghetti-o's but worse. I stick to seafood when I go out there now exclusively."

That's it! It think the old folks were trying to make it taste like canned spaghetti-o's.

Sticking to seafood on the Cape is STILL a good idea.

Milk? In the spaghetti sauce? Oh man, that just doesn't seem right!

Re: Mayo v. Miracle Whip

Eva14 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:37:50 -0000

Exactly.

Re: Mayo v. Miracle Whip

Ulysses (not yet home) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:42:30 -0000

The Miracle/Mayo Mason-Dixon is not racial, but regional/economic. Mayo tended to be somewhat higher priced, and in places where strong regional influences in food prep were in place prior to the invention of MW (1930's?) the unsavory attachment to Mayo has persisted. In other locales (poor, urban, transient, etc) where the cost was the overriding consideration for even things such as condiments, over time, Miracle Whip has become the preferred product.

No one need turn in their respective membership cards for any taste preference accident of birth or for even having embraced the dark side willingly. The exception being lutefisk which is in fact a gift from Satan.

And by the way, EVERYONE can dance, cause "with the rhythm it takes to dance to, what we have to LIVE thru, You can dance UNDERWATER and not get WET..."

Re: Mayo v. Miracle Whip

Jozef — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:43:37 -0000

Down in Texas they eat"

Light Bread and Milk ("light" as opposed to corn bread) = tearing up white bread into a bowl of milk for breakfast, sprikled with lots of sugar, or

Rice and Milk is also a breakfast = White rice, Milk and 2-3 tablespoons of Sugar

This is what country folk eat at least

Miracle Whip is disgusting though

Re: Mayo v. Miracle Whip

henry — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:16:58 -0000

Mayonnaise isn't jewish? Then how are we supposed to make whitefish salad?

Re: Mayo v. Miracle Whip

Mr. Shrimp — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:43:33 -0000

In my Jewish house, we don't eat mayo, since we don't like it (I find it has its place, but my wife hates it), but my mom and stepdad... mayo on everything. All the time. My stepdad introduced me to Miracle Whip. He also is the only person I've ever seen who happily consumes the gel from the gefilte fish bottle, so... his taste is unusual.

Nonetheless, there are Jews that eat the stuff. But I'm a mustard guy all the way. And I'll put olive oil on anything. Of course, I am from California.

Re: Mayo v. Miracle Whip

Andybhoboken — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:52:25 -0000

mmmm... you just sold me on curry chicken salad sandwiches for dinner this week.

Growing up, def no fruit in your salads. Celery was as far as we went. Helmans was all we had. Miracle Whip was an extra special treat(ie once in like 5 years).

Re: Mayo v. Miracle Whip

Andybhoboken — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:50:10 -0000

Lizkdc, As someone who is from an Italian-American background I forgive the New England feeble attempt at sugo/sauce. I remember having amazing pasta as a child in Boston's North End but the cooking skill must have stopped there because one summer out on Cape Cod w/ the family we wanted Italian. It was the nastiest thing I've ever tasted. Like spaghetti-o's but worse. I stick to seafood when I go out there now exclusively. Too afraid to try it again...

I'll probably be struck by lightening for revealing this, but please quit the sugar. Use carrots instead. they add sweetness but give you some body to the sauce as well. Also, you ever find your tomatoes are bitter or give you heartburn? Add milk to the sauce(just a little) will take the edge off and no one will be the wiser.

Re: Mayo v. Miracle Whip

lebecka — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:00:17 -0000

Dave -- good thing you're in texas, far, far from my grandma. Waldorf salad is her specialty. Making it without grapes might just send her into a heart attack.

Re: Mayo v. Miracle Whip

Mathilde — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:21:28 -0000

Really? We used to have sugar bread sandwiches. Same concept except with sugar. Sometimes if we were jiggy and had it, we'd toast the wonderbread with some butter and sugar.

Mmmm-mmm good.

Re: Mayo v. Miracle Whip

Sorn — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:29:42 -0000

@ M.C. It's soaked in lye ashes, and tastes a bit like soap.

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JR — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:16:59 -0000

I feel like I should vote on this crucial issue. I hated mayo as a child, but grew to enjoy it. And I would count myself in the "Miracle Whip = abomination" crowd.

However, I had a friend from school days (same ethnicity, same socio-economic background) who was raised in a Miracle Whip clan and specificially touted the "twang."

It's a mad mad world.

Re: Mayo v. Miracle Whip

FOARP — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:04:31 -0000

You guys have to try Salad Cream (Heinz is best), haven't lived 'till you do.

Re: Mayo v. Miracle Whip

FOARP — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:01:32 -0000

Ate it in China, and the stuff is just revolting, tastes like someone mixed ashes in or something. My preferences are for Mayonnaise with salad/potatoes, and what we call Salad Cream on chips (that's French Fries to y'all).

Re: Mayo v. Miracle Whip

Desidero — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:15:50 -0000

Okay, I didn't vote yet - real mayonnaise, fine (but eat very little of it these days, a bit disgusting in its own way). Miracle Whip? Distasteful, would rather go without anything. Guess I'm an old schooler.

Re: Mayo v. Miracle Whip

msimian — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:32:06 -0000

What, a measly 129 comments on the eternal Miracle Whip vs. Mayo debate?

I grew up thinking Miracle Whip was just a brand of mayo. I never had the real stuff until I was an adult. Now I totally understand when TNC says Miracle Whip has an unpleasant "twang". It does.

Also, as a Minnesotan I must chime in on the lutefisk posters. I've tried it. I've even met people who claim to like it. But I don't believe them.

Re: Mayo v. Miracle Whip

res ipsa loquitur — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:17:18 -0000

Ever go to Corrado's (international foods supermarket) in Clifton, NJ? They have thirteen kinds of mayonnaise, all imported from Poland.

Mayonnaise has not passed my lips in 10+ years. Only time I ever got food poisoning was because of the stuff and I'm never going there again: fever, chills, aches, puking to beat the band. Lost nine pounds in three days. Never liked mayonnaise that much to begin with, anyway. I put oil and vinegar on stuff now.

I can't dance a step, though, so I guess that means i get to keep my White Membership Card.

Re: Mayo v. Miracle Whip

Guest — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:36:02 -0000

I'm late to the party, (not the Miracle Whip party, cause that stuff's been distastefully surprising me at cookouts all my life) - but I worked in the restaurant business for ten years and left still not understanding the well done meat thing. I know it's a bit off topic, but man that's been an open loop in my head forever... somebody put me out of my medium-rarefied misery

By the way, Hellmans changed their recipe a few years back, which ruined my mother's potato salad in the most subversive way - since then I have found that Kraft Real Mayo is now the most authentically mayonnaisey of the available offerings. I learned this from a friend who's from the south tho, because we never touched anything Kraft except Mac & Cheese where I'm from.

I find it deeply ironic that Kraft created the the worst thing to ever happen to mayonnaise, and now they have also saved my mother's potato salad forever...

Re: Mayo v. Miracle Whip

Sweet Jones — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:16:18 -0000

Oh, so now y'all wanna hate on Hamburger Helper, too?

Y'all trippin'!! (:

Re: Mayo v. Miracle Whip

radiofreerome — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:17:54 -0000

"Lutefisk" would be a great name for a Minnesotan rapper.

Re: Mayo v. Miracle Whip

radiofreerome — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:15:05 -0000

I grew up in New Orleans. Creole African American cooks would make their own mayonnaise using oil, vinegar, eggs, and seasonings. They would put two forks together so that the tines faced inward to make a whisk and beat in the oil in a slow stream. There's no such think as too much mayonnaise when it's made that way.

Creole food is best defined by the George Carlin adage that the way to end racism is to f*ck 'til we're all the same color.

Bon Appetit!

Re: Mayo v. Miracle Whip

Desidero — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:34:18 -0000

Hmm, from the black bars I used to go to, there sure seemed to be a lot of brothers who couldn't dance (and had no interest in it). But we can probably find you therapy if it's still troubling you ;-)