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Julie Bove > wrote:
>
> "Roy" > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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.
>
>

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