Mayo, love or loathe?

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I love mayonnaise on chips and certainly on fish and chips .
I find salad cream too sweet .

Granmarderby10

My grumble is unseasoned sandwiches. If I was making sandwiches at home say egg mayo with cress ( one favourite) the egg mayo would be lightly seasoned with salt and black pepper. I know they have to appeal to the masses and for that reason I think they are largely inferior and some not worth the money.
I do though love M&S Wensleydale and carrot chutney 😋

Yes, bought egg sandwiches could nearly always do with a bit of S&P.

I loathe tomato ketchup! Much to my grandchildren’s amusement as they would like to load it onto everything they eat!

I like mayonnaise, but chilli being tossed into everything from shepherd's pie to fishcakes is a pet peeve of mine

Is it just me, or is mayo much more salty these days?

I wish it was routinely for sale in small quantities that are less likely to 'go off' in the fridge. I imagine large sachet packaging would do and not add a lot to the cost.

#Babs03. I obviously eat in the wrong places as I can’t remember ever having mayonnaise slathered on my food .

I love mayonnaise, but I only buy the extra light version from Aldi. It’s the only sauce I use.

Shop bought sandwiches are by and large pretty awful with or without mayo. I remember when I was much younger I would go the bakers nearest to my workplace and ask for whatever I wanted on a sandwich, I believe some still do this, and they would take an oven bottom - a large freshly baked bap - butter it and put the filling inside, no mayo, it wasn’t a option back then. Was delicious. And when we visited New York several years ago, wherever we went for lunch sandwiches would be made freshly for you with loads of choices of bread, sadly they would use mayo rather than butter but am sure the sandwiches were better than the awful shop bought ones on offer over here.

Why don’t places serve sauces of any sort including mayo in a small pot on the side? It would solve all these issues.

My grumble is unseasoned sandwiches. If I was making sandwiches at home say egg mayo with cress ( one favourite) the egg mayo would be lightly seasoned with salt and black pepper. I know they have to appeal to the masses and for that reason I think they are largely inferior and some not worth the money.
I do though love M&S Wensleydale and carrot chutney 😋

I like mayo with chips but my real hate is chilli with everything. I ordered prawn linguini in a Italian restaurant and despite asking if it was spicy and being told no it came out in a chilli sauce. Another one is pepper, everything has “lots of black pepper” yuk.

I am intolerant to egg so always use that as a NO MAYO reason . in restaurants. They have to take notice of allergies.
I have tried vegan and plant based mayo which is not too bad in small amounts

The point is that with other foods that people loathe there is a way to avoid it, for instance coriander isn't shoved onto every shop bought sandwich, and neither are other sauces, also if you don't like tuna or cheese at least there are other options to choose from, but if you don't like mayo, forget it, every sandwich will have it on, with perhaps a solitary 'just cheese' or 'just ham' sandwich which has nothing else on it as well.

I loathe the stuff the sight and smell of it makes me feel quesy. I honestly couldn't eat anything that had it on.

I live to dip chips in mayo .
If I make a prawn cocktail /prawn cocktail based salad -I mix a little tomato ketchup with mayo and a dash of cognac for the Marie Rose sauce .

MissAdventure

I like mayo, but not salad cream.

I particularly like all the flavoured mayos, lately.
We have avocado and lime, and bacon flavoured on the go at the moment.

Another of the GN fancy cooks brigade I see 😁

Desdemona

I love mayo - I would put it on an aspirin!

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I love it too, even with chips, can’t go as far as an aspirin.

I like mayo, but not salad cream.

I particularly like all the flavoured mayos, lately.
We have avocado and lime, and bacon flavoured on the go at the moment.

I have a SiL who shares my disgust of mayo. If we dine out as a family we both have bets on whether something will be served on our plates drizzled generously with mayo despite saying we don’t want mayo. The best example was when we had lovely vegetarian beyond burgers on a bun served with chipotle mayo, sweet potato chips and salad, we told the waiting staff ‘no mayo’ despite the member of staff saying it was actually chipotle mayo, we didn’t engage in a discussion about the virtues of one type of mayo compared to another and so waited with trepidation to see if the burger would arrive sans mayo. It did. Thank goodness. But we both had to laugh when we saw that the salad was drizzled liberally with mayo. Tbh at that point we just decided to not eat the salad, and thankfully it wasn’t touching any of the other food.

Love mayo but it must be Hellman's.

I can’t stand mayo - the taste & texture.
I loathe it so much it makes me shiver to even spoon it out of a jar! The grandchildren like tuna mayo but my husband has to make it because both elements make me heave.

I was brought up with the ubiquitous salad cream. I discovered mayo (on chips) in Holland when I was 15. I haven’t touched salad cream since. I love it especially egg mayo, tuna mayo, on mashed potato with Branston on the side & on chips. It has to be Hellmans, although I hate it on salad. Has to be vinaigrette! The whole family is addicted. One of my daughters recently asked for it on roast beef. I was a bit put out but, sucked it up, as she so delicately put it 🙄. I’d be lost without the 2 Ms. Mayonnaise & Marmite 😋

My complaint is with chilli. The vegetarian options in restaurant meals nearly always contain chilli - as if the taste of vegetables is just too bland without it.