Sandwiches, pasta, potato, & egg salads all with MW. Retch. Then there was the fruit salad dressing she made where she mixed equal parts of MW with Cool Whip. Omg, what a wretched way to ruin watermelon! I almost gag thinking about it.

I was 8 before I discovered I loved mayo!

Mom liked MW, and one of the first things I did when I got my own place was get a real jar of mayo! Today, we mostly use Kraft or Hellmann's, but I'd like Duke's. My significant other doesn't like the twang, though.

except a few Indian relishes

But that fruit salad dressing sounds hideous! Omg!

Love it!

That's what I buy and use at home, but I'll eat either.

The difference has never been a big deal to me.

what is miricale whip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Whip

what is mayonase ( wikipedia, long read)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayonnaise

i agree with poster # 6.

sweet tang, I don't like that tang. I don't like it on sandwiches but I never thought to get some MW for other things. Hmmmmm.

so I basically never ate anything at their place that should have had mayo in it.

Since they were the part of the family that sorta' struggled economically, I'd made a stupid assumption that they couldn't afford real mayo and wondered why we didn't include real mayo in any food offerings we brought when we visited. Never occurred to me that people would eat MW by choice. I hope I've managed to not make so many stupid assumptions but not really sure I have.

observation.

It's Duke's or it's nothing!

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I'm with you for Duke's

Tartar sauce: Duke's, dill relish and. touch of Wasabi

MW uses soybean oil.
It has a higher iodine value than most other food oils, except for sunflower, which is about the same.
It's also quite high in monounsaturated fats, which is slso healthier.
So, less oil & a somewhat healthier variant.

Duke first, then Hellman's. Never that nasty Miracle Whip... as someone up-thread said.. it is the Devil's spawn.

Is the only thing my wife allows in the house. I think it’s very good.

sweet tang.

what's the difference in taste if you can describe it? 👍

Best Mayo I've ever tasted.

it uses apple cider vinegar which probably is it biggest distinctiveness.

My brothers use MW as our Mom did; my sister won't touch any version of it
So when I make tuna salad when she is here, I mash avocado & mix it with the tuna. Surprisingly avocado is a good binder for tuna, celery, onion & hard boiled eggs.

However for egg salad only, the greenish yellow color is kinda off putting the first time.

not look right at all. MW goes in my egg salad.

and I'm sure all good and true Americans will back me up ..
Miracle !!

( and even the dog had a jaundiced opinion of anything made with Mayo ... although he was known to eat ...
under duress! )

enjoy.

Hubby loved Miracle Whip, so I always had a jar for him.

And for your next million dollar burger? Mix a good dollop of Hellmann’s with a generous dose of VERY coarse cracked pepper and a lot of finely minced red onion. It needs to be a thick mixture and the pepper should be very visible. Melt Habanero Cheddar cheese slices (……we get this from our grocery deli sliced on a 4 so pretty thick…..) on your well salted medium rare to rare grilled burgers, slather both sides of each grilled bun with a dose of the Mayo/Pepper/Red Onion, assemble the burgers and serve. That’s it!

Total crowd pleaser!! Even friends who “shy away” from anything hot , or friends who don’t like mayo, ask us to make these again and again. And everyone always wants the “recipe”, although there really isn’t one. Just mix it up the way I described to your preference and you are good to go!

So yes - - MAYO for the win!!! LOL

has that red onion and coarse cracked pepper in it. It sounds wonderful

And it's gotta be JFG or Duke's. Nothing else will do.

We were both raised on it.

My grown kids, however, think it's absolutely disgusting.

Another ding in a Boomer's decision-making.

If you don't use Mayonnaise, then my dear, you're just uncivilized!
Any kind of whip is barbaric.

Keep your Miracle Whip.

Mayo in dips and casseroles

Not at the same time though.🤣 Some things seem to need that tangy zip, others need the blandness of mayo.
But I will often use more than one type of mustard at a time. I make cheese sandwiches using a cheddar with mustard seeds in it, then I put yellow mustard on one bread slice and brown or Dijon on the other.

I don't use mayo, but my wife does on sandwiches & the like.
I do like the Hellman's Spicy mayo on BLTs though. I usually use creamy garlic dressing but I tried the spicy mayo & liked it.

Both can substitute for each other.

I've been known to scrape it off sandwiches. It's nasty. The spooge of Satan.

I'm a northern girl, so Dukes tastes "off" to me. Sorry, Deb, but Miracle Whip is vile.

Can we still be friends?

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