# Mayo vs. Miracle Whip **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 22, 2012, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayo-vs-miracle-whip/635473 "2012-09-22T04:42:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayo-vs-miracle-whip/635473/1 "2012-09-22T04:42:40Z")
Not sure this doesn’t belong in Great Debates. 😃 So which do you go for, mayonnaise, Miracle Whip, either, or neither? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayo-vs-miracle-whip/635473/2 "2012-09-22T04:45:16Z")
Most things need mayo, some things need MW. Since ‘Each for its own use’ wasn’t an option, I didn’t vote. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayo-vs-miracle-whip/635473/3 "2012-09-22T04:46:21Z")
“Either” would fit. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayo-vs-miracle-whip/635473/4 "2012-09-22T04:47:46Z")
Mayonnaise is a team player. Miracle Whip is an attention whore. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayo-vs-miracle-whip/635473/5 "2012-09-22T04:48:26Z")
Are you freaking kidding? Mayo and only mayo. Miracle whip is the jizz of Satan. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayo-vs-miracle-whip/635473/6 "2012-09-22T04:56:21Z")
The two are very dissimilar and are meant to be. Miracle Whip is supposed to taste like mayo tastes _after_ sweet pickle relish and other things are added to it, as in tuna or egg salad. Anyway, mayo is terrible as a condiment, although I used to eat it on fast food dollar menu sandwiches. It’s fine as an ingredient sometimes. I used to eat Miracle Whip on bologna, but now I only like it on three sandwiches: Bacon and tomato, leftover turkey thigh meat on whole wheat, and on Hoosier-style pork tenderloin sandwiches. With this out of my system, everybody else may now sing the praises of the salty-sour whipped lard-tasting mayonnaise.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayo-vs-miracle-whip/635473/7 "2012-09-22T04:58:22Z")
Mayo. I don’t need the extra sugar in my diet, and the spice they use in it isn’t appropriate for everything. Also, the reason MW isn’t classified as mayo is because the oil content isn’t high enough to meet the federal standard for mayo. MW ingredients (in order): Water, soybean oil, vinegar, sugar, modified cornstarch, eggs, salt, mustard flour, paprika, spice, natural flavor, dried garlic, potassium sorbate as a perservative and enzyme modified egg yolk Mayo ingredients (in order): Soybean oil, whole eggs, vinegar, water, egg yolks, salt, sugar, lemon juice, natural flavors, calcium disodium EDTA (used to protect quality). Note that sugar is #4 in MW and #7 in mayo. Eggs are #6 in MW and #2 in mayo. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayo-vs-miracle-whip/635473/8 "2012-09-22T05:19:25Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > Are you freaking kidding? > Mayo and only mayo. Miracle whip is the jizz of Satan. I never “plus one.” But I have to “plus one” this. Bingo. My GF and I are diametrically opposed on this topic. Fortunately, our fridge is big enough for a jar of each one. We keep them as far away from each other as possible. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayo-vs-miracle-whip/635473/9 "2012-09-22T05:39:12Z")
MW is vileness that should never have come to be. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayo-vs-miracle-whip/635473/10 "2012-09-22T05:45:34Z")
I put Miracle Whip in all my sandwiches. Mayo is just too bland and tasteless for me. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayo-vs-miracle-whip/635473/11 "2012-09-22T06:04:12Z")
I’ve switched to a non-egg option called Vegenaise. The flavor is somewhere between the two, a little closer to mayo. It’s delicious. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayo-vs-miracle-whip/635473/12 "2012-09-22T06:08:08Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > I’ve switched to a non-egg option called Vegenaise. The flavor is somewhere between the two, a little closer to mayo. It’s delicious. I’m sorry I reject you totally. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayo-vs-miracle-whip/635473/13 "2012-09-22T06:28:34Z")
Either. Since I eat sandwiches that are more than bread and condiment, the slight variance in flavor doesn’t even usually register to me. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayo-vs-miracle-whip/635473/14 "2012-09-22T12:24:08Z")
Mayo. Miracle Whip is just Soylent White. ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayo-vs-miracle-whip/635473/15 "2012-09-22T12:43:42Z")
Miracle whip. Mayo is awful, awful stuff. I just can’t stand the stuff at all. That’s not hyperbole; it literally makes me vomit. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayo-vs-miracle-whip/635473/16 "2012-09-22T13:30:41Z")
They aren’t even remotely the same thing, but I like both. Some things demand one, some the other. Sandwiches get MW, excapt a BLT, which demands mayo. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayo-vs-miracle-whip/635473/17 "2012-09-22T13:37:15Z")
I use both, depending on what I’m using them for. They have very different tastes, and I treat them as two different condiments. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayo-vs-miracle-whip/635473/18 "2012-09-22T14:13:34Z")
Both serve the purpose of lubricating dry ingredients and adding fat, and both work just fine for that purpose. I’m sure I could taste a difference between them, but it’s a difference that doesn’t matter. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayo-vs-miracle-whip/635473/19 "2012-09-22T14:17:28Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > “Either” would fit. 🙂 Not really. To me, ‘either’ implies that they are equivalent and one can be substituted for the other. This doesn’t work for me. Mayonnaise is the default. Miracle Whip _may_ be substituted for bologna sandwiches (especially on soft white bread with French’s yellow mustard), and it might actually be superior on Buddig sliced pressed beef on toast sandwiches; but sandwich-wise, that’s about it. With an avocado, mayonnaise makes it too greasy and salty. Miracle Whip, being a ‘dressing’, compliments an avocado well. Generally speaking, they’re not interchangeable; so ‘either’ doesn’t quite fit. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayo-vs-miracle-whip/635473/20 "2012-09-22T14:28:12Z")
I can tell when somethings been made with Miracle Whip. It doesn’t taste good. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayo-vs-miracle-whip/635473.md?page=2)