Miche wrote:
> In article
> >,
> aem > wrote:
>
>> It's easy to believe that our way of doing things is universal even if
>> it really isn't. This week a casual friend dropped by just when I was
>> making a tuna sandwich. I spread the mayo on the bread and he was
>> genuinely startled. Why do you need extra mayo when the tuna salad is
>> already mayo-based? But you always put mayo on the bread, I said.
>> Not when you're using tuna or egg salad with its own full ration of
>> mayo, he said. Everyone knows that, we both said, meaning opposite
>> things.
>>
>> So, do you 'dress' the bread/toast first or just spread the tuna/egg
>> salad on directly?
>
> The very thought of tuna salad or egg salad, especially in sandwiches,
> gives me the dry heaves. I'm not a mayo fan.
>
> In fact, American sandwiches often appear "drippy" or messy to me
> because of the mayo or other dressing and stuff leaking out. Ew.
>
>> What other 'everyone knows that' things have you discovered to be less
>> than universal?
>
> Mayo in sandwiches at all! Blech!
>
> Miche
>
Just as sandwiches from YOUR neck of the woods sound oddly dry to me!

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Jean B.