# Miracle Whip or Mayo **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 26, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-whip-or-mayo/572719 "2011-02-26T18:25:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-whip-or-mayo/572719/41 "2011-02-27T20:05:59Z")
IMO Miracle Whip is a children’s condiment, like ketchup. If I ordered a BLT and it came with MW I would leap over the counter and strangle someone. Maastricht, I’m trying to think of a standard frituur saus that resembles it and I’m coming up blank. I don’t recall ever having a sauce this sweet, I don’t think. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-whip-or-mayo/572719/42 "2011-02-27T20:11:48Z")
I don’t like Miracle Whip–too sweet for me. My main use for mayonnaise is on the turkey/bacon/veggie sandwiches I make for dinner about once a week. For my wife and me, I mix the mayonnaise with lots of Sriracha so the sandwich has a nice burn; for my toddler, the mayo goes on straight. ---
**Author:** ![Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ian_D.Bergkamp)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-whip-or-mayo/572719/43 "2011-02-28T00:33:43Z")
I like both, but prefer mayonnaise for most things, especially tuna. I once made a quick tuna salad for lunch (just canned tuna, mayo, salt, and pepper) and accidentally used Miracle Whip instead of mayo, because the two jars look similar and I wasn’t paying attention. That first spoonful was so awful I had to toss the rest out. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-whip-or-mayo/572719/44 "2011-02-28T02:03:39Z")
I don’t like either, but if I have to pick one, it’s mayo. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-whip-or-mayo/572719/45 "2011-02-28T03:03:53Z")
I like miracle whip for some things, mayo for others. I oscillate between the two. Is this supposed to mirror the current Are you MW? love it or hate it [vote/campaign](http://www.youtube.com/miraclewhip)? ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-whip-or-mayo/572719/46 "2011-03-01T00:26:01Z")
I like Miracle Whip, but I hate their “attitude” style advertising. It’s a condiment, not a lifestyle. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-whip-or-mayo/572719/47 "2011-03-01T00:37:41Z")
I go both ways. Depends on the sandwich. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-whip-or-mayo/572719/48 "2011-03-01T02:47:54Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Quarter cup of olive oil, one and three quarter cups vegetable oil, two egg yolks, one whole egg, a tablespoon of yellow mustard, five tablespoons of lemon juice, pinch of salt, grind of pepper. Pour one quarter cup of oil in a blender, followed by the rest of the ingredients except the oil. Start the blender on “blend”. Let run for a minute, then start drizzling in the rest of the oil very slowly. This sounds amazing. I hate miracle whip. I’m typically not a huge fan of mayo, either, but I love tuna salad, which has to be made with mayo. If I were to rule the world, making tuna salad with miracle whip would be an offense punishable by bitch-slap. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-whip-or-mayo/572719/49 "2011-03-01T05:13:38Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > Mayonnaise always seems pretty tasteless to me. Miracle Whip at least adds a distinct flavour. +1 ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-whip-or-mayo/572719/50 "2011-03-01T07:44:31Z")
When I was a freshman in college, I ran out of spread for my sandwich one weekend. I walked to the Coop lobby store, which sold a few food items, and found all they had was Miracle Whip. I went back and made a sandwich. The horror or that moment I will never forget. It’s been over 40 years, and I’ve never had that crap again. Hellman’s (or Best Foods) or nothing. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-whip-or-mayo/572719/51 "2011-03-01T07:55:12Z")
I eat BLT’s and Tuna Salad interchangeably. I use both toppings… and actually prefer it for the BLT… but I am not an orthodox Miracle Whippite. I am afraid to reveal my ordinaton on this board for total misundrstanding and contrarieness. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2011, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-whip-or-mayo/572719/52 "2011-03-01T09:03:20Z")
I was brought up on Miracle Whip. Now that I buy my own, it’s mayo. ---
**Author:** ![bahimes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bahimes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bahimes)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-whip-or-mayo/572719/53 "2011-03-01T10:53:45Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > All commercial mayo that I have been able to find has completely unnecessary sugar as an ingredient. That’s why I make my own, and it is the tastiest mayo I’ve ever had. > > Quarter cup of olive oil, one and three quarter cups vegetable oil, two egg yolks, one whole egg, a tablespoon of yellow mustard, five tablespoons of lemon juice, pinch of salt, grind of pepper. Pour one quarter cup of oil in a blender, followed by the rest of the ingredients except the oil. Start the blender on “blend”. Let run for a minute, then start drizzling in the rest of the oil very slowly. > > This technique has never failed for me. Cleanup is the blender, the tablespoon measure and a two cup measuring cup. Forget all that nonsense about whisks and chilled bowls, this works and works perfectly. The cost of it is a fraction of what commercial mayo costs as well. This. Leave out the mustard, use only EVOO add fresh garlic or garlic juice and we have my award-winning aioli! ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-whip-or-mayo/572719/54 "2011-03-01T13:59:12Z")
I usually skip the mayo due to the fat and go with mustard – but if I need it I use real mayo all the way. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2011, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-whip-or-mayo/572719/55 "2011-03-01T14:10:02Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > I am not an orthodox Miracle Whippite. Does an orthodox flagellant use a Miracle Whip? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-whip-or-mayo/572719.md?page=2)