I’d like to share that entirely too many people believe mayo to be a dairy product and it irks me no end
That is all.
Thank you for letting me get this off my chest.
I wonder if the confusion comes from the fact that classic mayonnaise contains eggs, and eggs are often lumped in with “dairy” for some reason.
Or maybe people just think that if it’s white and creamy, it’s gotta come from a cow.
p.s. Hamm on five! Hold the Mayo!
Eggs are a dairy product? They were always with meat, nuts, and beans when I was in school in the nineties. Dairy was just milk and all its by-products.
And anyone thinking mayonaise is a dairy product is a moron
I find myself annoyed from time to time when a person speaks ill of mayonnaise. I find that, with surprising frequency, the general public seems to think of mayonnaise as some extremely unstable and dangerous compound that will spoil if you even just expose it to wind coming from the wrong direction. Truthfully, mayonnaise is quite safe and even acts as somewhat of a preservative.
If you are ignorant of the facts related to this much-maligned dressing, please educate yourself. This delicious dressing does not deserve your disdain. For starters, you should review a pamplet entitled Mayonnaise: The Misunderstood Dressing (WARNING: PDF) published by The Association for Dressings and Sauces
I’m not saying that eggs are actually a dairy product. They are just in the “dairy” section of the stupidmarket, so sometimes people think of them as dairy. Even though they come out of the back end of a chicken rather than the back end of a cow.
Ah so!!
So grape juice, sold by the dairies, comes from purple cows…
:eek:
Sorry, Green Bean, I wasn’t trying to imply you thought it was a dairy product… what I was asking is if you had met people that thought it was a dairy product or if it had one time been classified as one. The dietary pyramid’s gone through a bit of revamping over the years so it’s plausible that one time, eggs may’ve been considered dairy.
After all, people back in the Stone Age (people my parents’ age and older ;)) used to believe some strange things.
But mayo is ( in our grocery store ) found with salad dressings and condiments.
My guess is that people ( not us dopers! ) think its a dairy product because it has to be refrigerated after opening it.
Or it may just be a lot of wishful thinking by people who refuse to acknowledge it belongs in the tip of the pyramid.
It’s awfully easy to get mayo and cream mixed up and mistakenly think that one somehow derives from the other.
To me, the difference is that one is 100% fat while the other is merely 35% fat.
It certainly is tasty when stirred into my coffee in the morning.
Just a pet peeve of mine . . . . eggs don’t come out the “back end” of a chicken any more than babies come out of the “back end” of women.
I think maybe some of the association comes from the creaminess of the product.
Did you know mayo was invented by a Russian? Name was Ivan Yankinov.
No, no, don’t shove, I’ll just be going now…
I’ll never look at a porno movie quite the same way again.
Which end of the chicken do you think eggs come out of? Perhaps you don’t realize that chickens (and all birds, for that matter) only have one opening back there.
I was just about to say that. What, you think they come out the mouth?
(Don’t say it…don’t say it…don’t say it…)
Might I suggest you revisit your biology textbook?