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Julie Bove[_2_] Julie Bove[_2_] is offline
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Default Recipe: Vinaigrette, was: Hampton Creek "Recall"


"Roy" > wrote in message
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> On Thursday, June 29, 2017 at 4:18:27 AM UTC-6, Julie Bove wrote:
>> "Doris Night" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 18:31:12 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >>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.

>
> Julie...PLEASE GET OFF THE "ME" PROBLEM. We DON'T care about your dislikes
> as we
> have heard them for years. Get onto problems with food in general.


Gee Roy. Did someone die and put you in charge? The original post was about
what Target is calling a recall for Just Mayo. It's not a real recall. But
for some reason, Target is refusing to sell any of the Hampton Creek brand.
And then we had thread drift.