You and Yours, R4 (I think) about a week ago

Here here. Very tasty. Haven't had sandwich spread for years, but used to love it.

I am another who likes sandwich spread.

If anyone thinks salad cream is naf, it says more about them than it does about those of us who prefer it.

A jar of !!

I eat both but must say I do like salad cream . I also have a have of sandwich spread in my fridge , lovely on a beef or ham sandwich!

Are we discussing the price of whether it's naf to eat salad cream? . A wee bit snobby in my opinion.

I find , as I grow older , that I prefer salad cream to mayonnaise which can be a bit bland to my old taste buds.

There is no such thing as an unhealthy food, certainly not an inherently unhealthy one. There are only unhealthy diets.

Salad cream and mayonnaise are not unhealthy foods. Both items are condiments that we add in relatively small amounts to specific foods, mainly raw vegetables and sandwiches.

Some oils aren't inherently unhealthy, especially if eaten in small quantities. Salad cream contains quite a high percentage of carbohydrates, which are unhealthy if you wish to avoid them.

Anything that's only unhealthy if you wish to avoid it is not inherently unhealthy.

I had to find out more-I thought I didn't remember mayonnaise in my youth and it didn't appear in jars until 1961. Salad Cream is traditionally British and the first Heinz version was produced in 1914. but the recipe is much older www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-1308233/Why-DO-Brits-gooey-Salad-Cream.html
Should we link its use to Brexit?

I dislike the taste of mayonnaise and salad cream. The taste and texture are horrible to me.
It is not a essential but why should people not eat things they like.

Petera

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Petera I make my own vinaigrette using organic cider vinegar and organic pure virgin olive oil.

No, I agree with you (and I make mayonnaise with organic eggs and oil). I've also no doubt that your vinaigrette tastes much better.

But my point was really that it's an inherently unhealthy product (whatever unhealthy means) whether carefully and lovingly homemade or mass produced, and in that sense the difference is small.

Some oils aren't inherently unhealthy, especially if eaten in small quantities. Salad cream contains quite a high percentage of carbohydrates, which are unhealthy if you wish to avoid them.

I add salad cream to my lettucey, celery, dried cranberry, cream cheese wrap every day. In that contest I prefer it to mayonnaise. Any snobbery directed at my wrap or me can go take a jump ? ?. It's delicious. Plus celery and lettuce are both quite good gentle diuretics which is good for my slightly high BP.

Mayonnaise with egg, etc.
Salad cream with lettuse.

Which must mean I can't have an egg and lettuce sandwich. Hmm...... ?

nadateturbe

I used to love adding Heinz Salad Cream to sandwiches.

I've just done what FannyCornforth did.
That should actually be "I used to love adding Heinz Sandwich Spread to sandwiches."

I used to love adding Heinz Salad Cream to sandwiches.

I enjoy salad cream occasionally and have always been puzzled by the snobbery surrounding it’s use v mayonnaise.

I remember 40 odd years ago sitting round the table at my ex mother in law’s house. Her daughter had moved back home after a row with her husband. The mother and daughter sat discussing all his faults and failings. One of them was the shocking fact that he preferred salad cream to mayo!

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Petera I make my own vinaigrette using organic cider vinegar and organic pure virgin olive oil.

No, I agree with you (and I make mayonnaise with organic eggs and oil). I've also no doubt that your vinaigrette tastes much better.

But my point was really that it's an inherently unhealthy product (whatever unhealthy means) whether carefully and lovingly homemade or mass produced, and in that sense the difference is small.

Petera I make my own vinaigrette using organic cider vinegar and organic pure virgin olive oil.

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Trisher I’ll tell dh he’s a pleb for using salad cream I hate it myself. No way is it £5 a bottle. If it was the shopper could save herself a lot by making a much healthier vinaigrette instead.

I do like You and Yours.

I don't like it either but is it really less healthy than most alternatives? I've just looked at the ingredient list and, apart from a small amount of colouring and stabiliser; it has the same ingredients that I use to make mayonnaise, admittedly in probably different quantities, and maybe even different quality.

Vinaigrette is mostly oil.

I much prefer salad cream to mayonnaise

I LOVE salad cream on my salad. That reminds me I must get some next time I go shopping!!

Well, I am entirely unapologetic. I like salad cream, I prefer it to mayonnaise any day, and so does almost everyone I know.

If you eat a lot of salad and it is pretty boring without a salad dressing of some kind and a little salad cream goes a long way. It is not an essential, but not a luxury. No different than having some Branston with ham or a pork pie or in a cheese & chutney sandwich.

Hetty that’s a good point - corner shops are exorbitant!
I’ve just checked, and you won’t be surprised to hear that neither Fortnums or Harrods stock it

Maybe she buys it in her corner shop? Hardly an essential, though, is it? Sago, I think food has been incredibly cheap - for a very long time. What's 'expensive' depends on what we choose.

Trisher I’ll tell dh he’s a pleb for using salad cream I hate it myself. No way is it £5 a bottle. If it was the shopper could save herself a lot by making a much healthier vinaigrette instead.

I do like You and Yours.

? trisher.

A younger sister living in the US, who is very fussy about eco- and organic everything, who only shops at much more expensive organic supermarkets - is still addicted to salad cream! As an incredibly fussy-eater child she’d have it on bread instead of butter or margarine - she still loathes all dairy except cheese. And a meal would often consist of just new potatoes - with salad cream.
When she visits, maybe once in 18 months, I have to be sure to get some in - the glass bottle of Heinz of course, none of the dreaded plastic!

The family laugh at me but I love a smear of salad cream in a sandwich. I don't use much so a bottle lasts for ages. Certainly didn't cost £5 though.