On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 22:08:12 -0700 (PDT), Bobo Bonobo® wrote:

> On Apr 9, 11:02*pm, "Bob Terwilliger" >
> wrote:
>> Bryan wrote:
>>> Jarred mayo is crappy. *I drive a crappy car.
>>
>> To be fair, there are plenty of crappy mayonnaise recipes out there too. I
>> made some of them before stumbling on Alton Brown's recipe, which has never
>> failed me.
>
> There are two things that do not belong in mayo, vinegar (instead of
> lemon juice) and egg whites. All the jarred ones I've seen use one or
> both. I was never a mayo person until my nephew turned me on to the
> fresh made stuff. That kind of parallels my butter experience. When
> I was a kid, I hated margarine, and had never really tasted butter.
>
> In fact, my mom called margarine, "butter." My older hippie sister
> came home for a visit when I was 5, and she brought a new thing into
> the house, Land 'O Lakes butter.

so your issues with 'white trash' cooking are really issues with your
mother. interesting.

blake