What? Mayonnaise is absolutely still a thing.
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What is with this constant narrative of us millennials killing shit?
Millennials are brutal murderers
Not the generations before them.
Never considered commercial US branded bastardized mayo “Mayo” or even edible. Euro/Asian versions only, or homemade.
Are they trying to say it’s dead because aioli exists?
Fake news... mayonnaise is still big and enjoyed in many different fishes, and by people in many different places. I love it on several things
That's not mayonnaise. Stop calling it mayonnaise.
What is mayonnaise to you? I thought Hellmans was the mayonnaise?
Of course, I would not know better than most, as I hate mayonnaise and am a 57-year old woman from Vietnam.
I'm a 46 year old French man, and thanks to my family and travels I've tasted a variety of mayonnaises, all across the spectrum and a lot of the industrial stuff just tastes awful. They add so many preservatives in order to make it shelf stable, it completely loses any hint of the original flavour.
You can make fresh mayo with an egg yellow, some oil, a dash of vinegar / lemon juice (something acidic, really) and some mustard. Mostly you beat it until you've the desired texture and that's about it! Even just this, you'll have people arguing endlessly about which oil, which acid, which mustard, which proportions, etc :,D
Hellmann's isn't completely terrible, mind you. I was mostly being facetious with my remark.
It was the usual stuff you'd get in Ireland when I lived there, and it was okay. But there were much tastier brands available. And when I'm in France, even industrial brands, we have much better alternatives :P
I reckon Vietnam must have the same issue as we had in China : it's too damn hot! And since real mayo is uncooked egg yellow it's super bad to keep it at room temperature for too long. I never bought any while living there, because it wasn't in my shops and I just adapt to whatever people eat locally, but sometimes when I ordered pizza they would have "mayo" sprinkled on top and although it was delicious, the fact it was sweet makes me think it had nothing to do with the original stuff :P
I feel like he might be referring to Miracle Whip as it is (or at least was when I was paying attention in the 80s/90s) sold as "salad dressing". No clue why they called it that but it was a cheap alternative to mayonnaise that had a tangy zip.
Now I have real mayonnaise made with eggs in my house (my mom was always weirded out by non-refrigerated egg products).
They called it salad dressing because it is salad dressing. It goes in potato salad, macaroni salad, coleslaw, etc. It's just that most people use it as a sandwich spread today.
That makes sense! I always forget about those types of salads lol. Thanks!
I really like mayonnaise, it makes for good sauces and macaroni salad is just best thing ever
i hate generational propaganda so much lately.
its so stupid.
It comes back everytime there is a lul in the political discourse.
Gotta keep the olds against the youths
Yup.
It's another divide to stop us uniting
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Majonez kielecki.
The inexorable rise of identity condiments has led to hard times for the most American of foodstuffs. And that’s a shame.
My son Jake, who’s 25, eats mayo. He’s a practical young man who works in computers and adores macaroni salad. He’s a good son. I also have a daughter. She was a women’s and gender studies major in college. Naturally, she loathes mayonnaise.
newer generations are refusing to meekly fall in line with a culinary heritage that never was theirs. Instead, they’re gobbling up kefir and ajvar and chimichurri and gochujang again.
Red Robin launched a vegan burger. You don’t put mayo on a vegan burger.
McDonald’s has debuted a Signature Sriracha Burger, joining KFC, Wendy’s, and Subway in signing on to the sizzling Thai sauce’s moment in the sun. You didn’t see Huy Fong Foods start a schmear campaign against the cultural appropriation of that.
Some experts say the dislike springs from the fact that mayo jiggles. [...] This is bullshit. This attitude comes to you from young people who willingly slurp down eight kazillion kinds of yogurt, not to mention raw fish and pork belly and, yo, detergent pods, so don’t talk to me about mayonnaise. The only reason for this raging mayophobia is a generation’s gut-level renouncement of the Greatest Generation’s condiment of choice.
Besides, I’ve got news: That aioli you’re all so fond of? I hate to break it to you, but that’s just mayonnaise.
Sandy Hingston sounds mad.
Also what? Mayo is still super popular, so what is she even on about? Is she hamming this up because she feels like this is what's necessary to make it in journalism these days?
Wait until she hears about sriracha mayo.
I'm sorry, "identity condiments"? The fuck?
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Millenials didnt kill mayonnaise... We might have killed Miracle Whip, but even Miracle Whip would famously claim it isn't mayonnaise.
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