I was watching this Fawlty Towers episode and the little boy mentions, “Salad Cream”
I had never heard of it before. The little boy hates mayonnaise and wants salad cream
So I was wondering how different is it from mayonnaise? Is it akin to Miracle Whip?
Like Miracle Whip but more tangy and runny and green.
Sounds… appetizing?
They’re both fucking disgusting, but having recently made the awful mistake of picking up a jar of MW when I was buying mayo, I’d say that salad cream just has the edge, because it has a slightly higher vinegar content. It’s particularly good if you like your food to look like baby snot.
Runny and* yellow*!
(and I love salad cream…one of my guilty treats is a battered jumbo sausage and chips and a dollop of salad cream to dip it in…oh yeah!)
I’ve no idea what Miracle Whip is, but salad cream is a completely different thing to mayonnaise.
It’s not green, though. It’s yellow.
Miracle Whip is basically the look and texture of mayonnaise, but the taste of… marshmallow? It’s unbearably sweet.
Question for the yanks: has MW got sweeter? I haven’t tasted it for about 15 years and was shocked when I tried it last week. So much so that I spat out what was in my mouth and had to throw my sandwich away.
I am sure salad cream was green when I was a kid. But I guess I was wrong.
I would describe Miracle Whip’s flavor as tangy rather than sweet.
I’m in the Far East so maybe the batch I got was manufactured outside of the US to a slightly different recipe. Or maybe my palate has just changed. Anyway even in the memory of it, it’s not as tangy as salad cream.
Salad cream isn’t a notably different colour to mayonnaise. The main difference is that mayonnaise is made with raw eggs and salad cream is made with cooked eggs. Salad cream is thinner (it comes in a bottle, not a jar) and has a milder flavour. It isn’t sweet. It is delicious.
Salad and cream. Those are two words that just don’t go together. Would that be what we call salad dressing in the US?
Mayonnaise and MW manufactured for much of Southeast Asia is extremely sweet. I bought a jar of some white stuff labeled Mayonnaise and it is disgustingly sweet. It’s just this side of cake frosting.
Mayo shouldn’t have any sugar in it as far as I’m concerned. Miracle Whip’s nutrition label reports 1 gram of sugar for the 32 ouch jar. Mayonnaise nutrition labels in the west have zero sugar.
If I can’t find unsweetened mayo out here, I may have to try making my own.
That’s one gram per one-tablespoon (15 gram) serving.
OK, that explains it: the MW that I got is 16% sugar and either made in Singapore or Malaysia. Fuck that shit, in the bin it goes.
Coincidentally that’s what I bought.
However I can get Hellman’s and Kraft here which seem to taste fine.
Teacake most commercial mayo is coloured like Dulux Pure Brilliant White, whereas salad cream is notably yellow (I stand corrected on the green thing).
Oh right you are. I guess when it’s cut with so much vinegar it doesn’t taste that sweet, but more tangy.
The least sweet mayo I could find in Big C was 3%, but now I need to go back and see what their serving size is.
It doesn’t sound terribly hard, Pat; maybe even easy if you have a food processor.
Alton here does call for sugar.
There seems to be a distinct color difference to me between Heinz Salad Cream on the one hand and Hellman’s Mayonnaise and Kraft Miracle Whip on the other hand.
Home made is of course better than the jar. I don’t use sugar. As long as you’re using a food processor, a garlic clove is a nice addition.
There is no reason at all ever to put sugar in homemade mayo. If you’re making it into a dip, or making it cajun or something I can see that the additions might contain some sweetness but the mayo itself? No no no no. Goddamn it what is wrong with people? Including Alton.
I have both Heinz salad cream and Hellman’s mayonnaise in my fridge. I can assure you that they don’t even vaguely resemble each other in colour, texture, or taste. Totally different products.
Marshmallow? Hardly. The thing to remember is that while MW is used like mayonnaise, it isn’t mayonnaise. It was originally developed as a ‘spread’ that was cheaper than mayonnaise. The jars used to say it is ‘salad dressing’. Now the jars say ‘dressing’. MW is a condiment and a dressing, but it’s not mayonnaise.
I grew up on MW. It wasn’t until my late-teens that I was allowed to add mayonnaise the cart when we went to the market. I rarely buy MW now. I love it on avocados, and sometimes I get a hankering for a ‘kid’s sandwich’ – i.e., a sandwich like I had when I was a kid, like bologna and MW on soft Wonder bread. I haven’t had any in at least a year.
That said, it does seem to taste sweeter than I remember. But then many things seem to taste sweeter now than when I was young. ISTR reading that the tolerance for sweets declines as a person ages. (Now that I’ve typed that, I remember a story on NPR a couple of months ago where a study showed this.) So it may or may not be sweeter now, but I suspect it’s probably just a function of getting older.
