"Doris Night" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 18:31:12 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>
>>Inedible to us. None of us want to eat something like that. If I am
>>putting
>>mayo into something, I want it to stay in there. Not leave only some of it
>>in there and have the rest drip out. you can't successfully stir it back
>>in.
>>Just leaves it too liquidy.
>
> I like Miracle Whip in some things, but I have found that it will
> separate out when used in tuna salad, potato salad, etc. That's
> because the #1 ingredient in Miracle Whip is water.
>
> When I'm mixing up that kind of stuff, I always use Hellmans mayo,
> because it has no water in it - just basically oil and eggs.
>
> Doris

Yes but I can't eat eggs which is why I use Just Mayo. When I was growing
up, I thought I hated mayo. We used Miracle Whip at home and my mom called
it mayo. She did use it in her potato salad which I also disliked. I found
it to be sweet but otherwise bland. I know that she put eggs and potatoes in
it but likely not much beyond that. For some reason, hers was the only kind
that my dad liked. So any time I made it, he complained that it wasn't right
and lacked eggs.

I only discovered that I did like mayo after we went out to eat and were
pressed for time. I had ordered a sandwich with butter instead of mayo but
they did it wrong. Of course I did not know in those days of my egg problem
or perhaps I didn't actually have the problem until much later. At any rate,
I reluctantly took a bite and liked it. Only then did my mom tell me that
she called the Miracle Whip mayo. She also called the margarine butter.

I do know that the butter/margarine thing is pretty common, but beyond that,
I have no clue why she would do that. She also served us severely overcooked
to the point of being rubbery, scallops, telling us they were white fish. To
this day neither my brother and I have a severe dislike for fish because of
what she did. I will eat occasional fish sticks or tuna. But he won't eat
anything along those lines. My dad was convinced that scallops were really
just halibut cheeks and nothing could convince him otherwise. We even
watched cooking shows together. He would admit that they were cooking
scallops on the show but what was available in the store to us were
mis-labeled halibut cheeks.