mayo: the devil's condiment

if I could put italics in my display name I'd be "yo, detergent pods" by now

mayo + french fries is the best argument for mayo

mayo + french fries is the best argument for mayo vinegar

I had some bahn mi fries over the weekend with kewpie mayo on them. I thought of asking them to hold it, but our party had such a huge order I didn't want to be a bother. It didn't kill me.

mayo + french fries is the best argument for mayo

― faculty w1fe (silby), Monday, August 13, 2018 9:57 AM (thirty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

deeply otm

Mayo and chicken or turkey sandwich is the best argument for mayo.

Aïoli ride or die.

yes, it seems like fried food + myriad Aïoli + craft beer is a thriving industry today

most aioli i ever have is basically just mayonnaise

this is the great secret of aioli

also, she notes the popularity of sushi in the article, and I imagine most millennials are eating some spicy tuna or otherwise rolls with mayo. unless they're all eating weekday sugarfish up in the hills like Bosch's daughter.

My aïoli recipe: purée about four bulbs of garlic, a good slug of very green olive oil, teaspoon of both salt and white pepper, and a few heaping tablespoons of Waitrose mayo. Sometimes I add in a wedge of salt-preserved lemon if I want to serve it alongside prawns/squid/fish.

I eat LOADS of this aïoli on rice dishes eg. paella and arroz con pollo. I am also the person who buys Maille hollandaise on spesh and tarts it up with parsley, tarragon and fresh green peppercorns, because this is better than their Bearnaise.

that all sounds great

I scrupulously avoid rolls with mayo whenever I get sushi.

well yeah, because you just get the Trust Me to go and then spend all afternoon worrying about how some mechanism of corrupt LA politics will erase your dad as you bite into your blue crab handroll.

Do other condiments have pale imitators like Miracle Whip and Just Mayo and Vegenaise?

...yes? all of them? I don't know if the author's ever had knockoff sriracha but it is truly unfortunate

Vegenaise is actually pretty good though

^hampton creek agent

veganaise is decent, as is hellman's vegan mayo. i'm being pescatarian now after a few years of veganism and i honestly don't prefer regular mayo over the aforementioned alternatives

I’m going to get all rockist about mayonnaise here but mayonnaise or aioli start with an egg yolk and a whisk, garlic, mustard and salt to taste then whisk and add oil, 5 minutes work at most.

i prefer aioli without egg

og aioli apparently uses garlic as emulsifier (so a lot of it is needed since it's not a v good agent for emulsification) which is pounded with olive oil in a mortar. and salt. in culinary school i recall being told aioli starts with cooked potato being mashed first then garlic and oil added - the tater in this case keeping the mess together. i dunno the derivation of modern day a-holey.

vegan mayo is super easy to make, anyways, this recipe is awesome fwiw: http://veganepicurean.blogspot.com/2009/05/homemade-veganaise.html

og aioli apparently uses garlic as emulsifier (so a lot of it is needed since it's not a v good agent for emulsification) which is pounded with olive oil in a mortar. and salt

this is how i like it best.

need to get a new mortar and pestle

I have never been able to whisk mayonnaise into being.

i have never had real mayonnaise because peasant intuition tells me: eating raw egg yolk will make u die faster than industrially processed 5% pasteurised egg yolk mixed with a load of chemical gack will! In Asda right now they are selling shrink-wrapped duo packs of heinz ketchup/mayo for £2.50. Talk about the fucking Swiss army knife of condiment packages!

from that article upthread: and Red Robin launched a vegan burger. You don’t put mayo on a vegan burger.

Wheres this person been? "accidentally vegan" mayo has been a thing forever, thanks to cheapass food processing meaning a lot of cheaper brand mayos having no eggs in em to begin with.

I recently ordered a steak and cheese from a local sandwich shop

They gave me a steak and mayo

IT WAS REPULSIVE

I've been hearing about this midwest thing called "fry sauce" which is a mix of mayonnaise and ketchup, is this good?

pink-orange mayo is generally good stuff

just ftr

The Utah-based Arctic Circle restaurant chain claims to have invented fry sauce around 1948.

It's also a Puerto Rican thing that's served with tostones

it tastes like mayo combined with ketchup

I didn't anticipate typing this today, but I have only grown to appreciate the flavor and sophistication of mayonnaise over the course of my life

I "invented" mixing ketchup with mayo when I was 7 or so

I would like to reiterate that I was served a steak and mayo sandwich when I was expecting a steak and cheese

There was so much mayo on this thing that I thought it was a steak and cheese until I bit into it

lol xp

Meatloaf? Meh.

Cold meatloaf sandwich with a bunch of mayo and black pepper? Delish.

DJP, that is an actual nightmare

i mean how much mayo are we talking about on this mayo and steak sandwich? if it's a smear then i can't relate but if it's a layer or like a blanket of mayo then yeah that's gross.

I'm picturing visible cords of mayo

ropey strands

Oozing out the sides on each bite. (Though I presume there was just one.)

I'd like to present the worst bakery food I ever found in China, this is from a little bakery on a university campus in an obscure fourth-tier regional capital.

https://i.imgur.com/6gecaIW.png

Pictured: sweet bun, pork floss, eggs(???), frankfurter, congealed mayonnaise

jesus

omg just looking at that 🤢

absolutely vile

I "invented" mixing ketchup with mayo when I was 7 or so

― rascal clobber (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, September 16, 2020 5:27 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Mayo and ketchup seems like a pretty innocuous and predictable mixture but an absolutely disgusting idea for a 7 year old to have

we only had salad cream, but I was mixing that with ketchup from a similar age.
How do mayonnaise-haters feel about salad cream? Think it's probably less offensive.

same damn thing

Chinese cuisine is among the world's most diverse. The high levels of invention and creativity evidenced in CAL's photo are sure to lead someday to new and revelatory dishes such as we cannot yet imagine. But the path to that bright future is not all strewn with rose petals and glory. The path will be strewn also with the wreckage of many failures and mayo may be involved. Charles Darwin would understand.

eating a tuna melt with some kewpie mayo in the tuna and spread on outside of bread before grilling, A+