"dsi1" wrote in message
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On Thursday, June 29, 2017 at 10:19:19 PM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> "dsi1" wrote in message
> ...
>
> On Thursday, June 29, 2017 at 12:08:05 PM UTC-10, 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.
>
> That's Usenet for you. People always want to tell others what to post, if
> they should post, how to post properly, etc, etc. My guess is that they
> long
> to speak freely of their wants and desires in real life but cannot, so
> they
> do it here. It's super ironic! What I find fascinating is that mostly it's
> done by people that have been posting for a long time. You'd think they'd
> know better by now. I think their senior status gives them a sense of
> entitlement. The reality is that there is no entitlement on Usenet -
> there's
> only what a person allows another poster to have. My recommendation is
> that
> you don't give these people shit. Hee hee.
>
> ===
>
> Well said!!!
>
> There are no official monitors here. Perhaps those that don't like the
> way
> Usenet operates should go to facebook where it is all controlled.
>
> The complainers need to control themselves, not the poster.
>
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Oh, I can't complain - witnessing a bunch of grownups act like 12 year olds
holds a kind of sick fascination for me.

==

*rolls eyes*

If anybody should be screaming it is me <g>

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