# Mayonnaise **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 3, 2009, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise/512481 "2009-10-03T20:54:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [October 3, 2009, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise/512481/1 "2009-10-03T20:54:39Z")
I’m aware that some people see mayonnaise as the Devil’s jissom. No need for mayo hate in this thread. On my first trip to New Orleans – must’ve been about 16 years ago – we drove by a building with a large lighted sign that said Blue Plate. I assumed it was a restaurant. Turns out it’s where they make Blue Plate mayonnaise. (Heh. Restaurant. ‘Yeah, I’d like a plate of mayo. And can you put some gravy on that?’) I’d never heard of it, nor have I ever seen it since. Never tried it. Someone told me that people tend to be very loyal to their mayonnaise, and some people wouldn’t have anything but Blue Plate. When I was growing up we had Miracle Whip, and my family called it mayonnaise. It isn’t, but no need for MW-hate here either. It has its uses. As a teen, I decided I liked real mayonnaise better and have used Best Foods (known as Helman’s back East) ever since. It wasn’t until I learned of Blue Plate that I thought about brands. I’ve tried Trader Joe’s brand. Not as good. A little too tart. But not bad. I’ve probably tried one or two other brands in my time. So what’s your favourite mayonnaise? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise/512481/2 "2009-10-03T21:00:09Z")
Homemade tastes best (and it can be flavored). Other than that, Hellman’s will do. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise/512481/3 "2009-10-03T21:05:31Z")
My girlfriend considers anything other than Duke’s anathema. I default to Miracle Whip, but will get Duke’s, Hellmann’s, or Kraft, whichever is cheapest. I’ve tried homemade and it didn’t turn out for me, but I’m planning on trying again. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise/512481/4 "2009-10-03T21:06:00Z")
I make home-made because, for some inexplicable reason, every brand of mayo I can find for sale has sugar in the recipe. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise/512481/5 "2009-10-03T21:08:14Z")
Hellmann’s ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise/512481/6 "2009-10-03T21:12:05Z")
Homemade mayonnaise is an entirely different animal. It’s really not the same thing as what we think of as “mayonnaise” that comes in jars. But I always have a jar of Hellman’s/Best on hand. I could eat it with a spoon. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise/512481/7 "2009-10-03T21:32:37Z")
Duke’s. It respects the food. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise/512481/8 "2009-10-03T21:47:28Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > Hellmann’s Ditto. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise/512481/9 "2009-10-03T21:56:17Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > But I always have a jar of Hellman’s/Best on hand. I could eat it with a spoon. _gag_ I mean… You want some gravy on that? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise/512481/10 "2009-10-03T21:58:19Z")
Hellman’s (aka Best Foods where I live). I’ll take Kraft if I can’t find Best Foods. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@Red\_Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise/512481/11 "2009-10-03T22:15:52Z")
I prefer Duke’s, but in the cold northeast I can’t get it so I go with Hellman’s. ---
**Author:** ![Claire\_Beauchamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@Claire\_Beauchamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire_Beauchamp)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise/512481/12 "2009-10-03T22:37:04Z")
Hellman’s seems to be considered “the best” but honestly it’s not that special to me. While we had Blue Plate consistently when I was growing up in Atlanta, one grandmother was partial to Kraft, and to this day that’s what I prefer. It has that little bit of lemony tang that just makes my day. Despite being a Southerner I’d only heard of Duke’s fairly recently and I know some people love it. I keep meaning to try it, but strangely it’s not that common 'round these parts. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise/512481/13 "2009-10-03T22:48:54Z")
Trader Joe’s tastes like Hellman’s used to, back in the sixties. But overall, unless it’s mixed into tuna salad, I find the stuff vile. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2009, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise/512481/14 "2009-10-03T23:27:39Z")
We stock both Best Food’s mayo **and** Miracle Whip. The wife prefers mayo, I prefer MW, and I use both when making macaroni salad or tartar sauce. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise/512481/15 "2009-10-03T23:35:08Z")
I always considered mayonaise a necessary evil. You put it on your sandwich to avoid the dry sandwich syndrome. It makes things slide down easier, but it is not really a condiment or a desirable product. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise/512481/16 "2009-10-03T23:38:01Z")
Other than store brands, I never heard of any other except Hellman’s. Well, there’s Kraft, which is a really poor second. (And that pretty rectangular Kraft container of…something mayonnaise-y? made with olive oil? HORRIBLE HORRIBLE STUFF! AVOID!) There are a couple different types now, made with canola oil (not good), light (will do in a pinch), but only Hellman’s has “it”. A baloney sandwich needs mayonnaise. Shrimp salad needs mayo with a bit of lemon juice and/or dill. Potato salad needs mayo. (I won’t even mention MW except they run a mindbogglingly idiotic commercial for a goo that Walmart uses to mix up 50 gallon drums of cheap tasting macaroni salad.) ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise/512481/17 "2009-10-03T23:41:42Z")
The Hellmans versus Miracle Whip arguments between the wife and I are frightening… ---
**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:** [October 3, 2009, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise/512481/18 "2009-10-03T23:53:33Z")
Best Foods/Hellmans for me for the consistency. Kraft is too. . .creamy. . .and reminds me of unpleasant substances. I wouldn’t eat anything made by Nalley if I was starving. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise/512481/19 "2009-10-04T00:05:24Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Homemade tastes best (and it can be flavored). Other than that, Hellman’s will do. Word. Hellman’s is made with soybean oil and contains sugar. I had no Idea. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise/512481/20 "2009-10-04T00:13:44Z")
Another Hellman’s devotee. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise/512481.md?page=2)