# That stupid Miracle Whip ad. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 9, 2009, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-stupid-miracle-whip-ad/509380 "2009-09-09T03:03:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-stupid-miracle-whip-ad/509380/21 "2009-09-09T12:39:19Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > [snip]It’s like something created by a middle aged man who thinks he understands young people.[/snip] My guess is that’s the hook. The group shown in the commercial isn’t the target audience. Their target audience is middle agers who will identify with wanting to be rebellious and young. It’s exactly what the middle agers imagined themselves doing when they were young. Notice that there’s nothing going on in that commercial that couldn’t be applied to the 60’s and 70’s. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-stupid-miracle-whip-ad/509380/22 "2009-09-09T13:07:35Z")
> [@Trick\_Rider](#): > > Frankly, I don’t want a self aware hive mind on my sandwich. That’s just disgusting. Not as disgusting as Miracle Whip, though. Miracle Whip tastes like mayonnaise six months past its “best by” date. I know this from personal experience. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-stupid-miracle-whip-ad/509380/23 "2009-09-09T13:10:00Z")
Somehow in the back of my mind I hear David Cross yelling, “Squagels! These aren’t your old man’s bagels!” ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-stupid-miracle-whip-ad/509380/24 "2009-09-09T13:13:42Z")
Miracle Whip gives you wings! ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-stupid-miracle-whip-ad/509380/25 "2009-09-09T13:22:56Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Miracle Whip is the pus from boils on the devil’s ass. “A sandwich isn’t a sandwich without the tangy zip of the pus from boils on the devil’s ass!” Nah, it doesn’t rhyme. ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-stupid-miracle-whip-ad/509380/26 "2009-09-09T13:58:22Z")
Moved from The BBQ Pit to Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share. **Gfactor** Pit Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-stupid-miracle-whip-ad/509380/27 "2009-09-09T14:09:45Z")
On the corner from where I work, Miracle Whip covered a building three stories high with an ad saying, “WE WILL NOT TONE IT DOWN!!” I considered it visual assault. Mercifully, the ad is gone now. ---
**Author:** ![Fell\_through\_the\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9adbd/32.png) [@Fell\_through\_the\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fell_through_the_Ice)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-stupid-miracle-whip-ad/509380/28 "2009-09-09T14:12:42Z")
I never understood why MW is labeled “salad dressing”. Salad Dressing? Do people actually pour that vile goo on a salad? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-stupid-miracle-whip-ad/509380/29 "2009-09-09T14:15:29Z")
> [@Fell\_through\_the\_Ice](#): > > I never understood why MW is labeled “salad dressing”. Salad Dressing? Do people actually pour that vile goo on a salad? 😕 I think they mean more like tuna, egg, chicken salads, rather than the definition of greens and veggies. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-stupid-miracle-whip-ad/509380/30 "2009-09-09T14:16:52Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > On the corner from where I work, Miracle Whip covered a building three stories high … I wanted your sentence to end right there. A three-story building covered in Miracle Whip? COOL!! ---
**Author:** ![nikonikosuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-stupid-miracle-whip-ad/509380/31 "2009-09-09T14:20:20Z")
The commercial annoys me, too. Aside from the fact that I dislike Miracle Whip (it just tastes like mayo that somebody dumped a cup of sugar into and left out in the sun for a few hours), I thought the whole commercial where everybody parties due to a sandwich condiment was stupid, especially with the “Hey! I’m unique, just like everyone here! I am defined by what I put on my sandwich and it. is. AWESOME!!!1!” theme. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-stupid-miracle-whip-ad/509380/32 "2009-09-09T15:02:03Z")
Any young people I know pour hothothot hot sauce on things, and none of them would feel edgy putting Miracle Whip on stuff. No matter how loud those people on the commercial bray their defiance to the world, I mean…it’s Miracle Whip! It’s what gives that vat of potato salad from Walmart that unique CHEAP and artificial taste. Sorry, the young will remain indifferent to MW unless they find out a way to get high on it. Didn’t Hellman’s mayo have a similar commercial a few years ago? Like a shaky home-movie thing featuring kids knocking themselves out running around like idiots, riding piggy back - all that energy for a commercial about mayonnaise??? ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-stupid-miracle-whip-ad/509380/33 "2009-09-09T15:09:13Z")
When that commercial comes on, the kids and I start jumping around the room like we’re in a mosh pit screaming MAYONNAISE in death metal voices. I’m not sure why, but we do… ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-stupid-miracle-whip-ad/509380/34 "2009-09-09T15:16:09Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Miracle Whip gives you wings! I was under the impression it HAD wings…you know…like for those extra heavy sandwich days? ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-stupid-miracle-whip-ad/509380/35 "2009-09-09T15:36:30Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > And caffeine. And made it acai-pomegranate flavoured. EXTREME acai-pomegranate flavoured, that is. (obligatory [movie reference](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCNk9u2p3PI)) ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-stupid-miracle-whip-ad/509380/36 "2009-09-09T15:48:11Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > I was under the impression it HAD wings…you know…like for those extra heavy sandwich days? Have a _happy_ BLT! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-stupid-miracle-whip-ad/509380/37 "2009-09-09T16:01:16Z")
Point the first: I love Miracle Whip and also Mayonnaise. I use MW more often because it’s lower calorie. Point the second: When I was in high school I worked in the kitchen of a retirement home. Folks who could no longer live on their own, and needed assistance in meals, laundry, cleaning, etc, but didn’t need high-level medical care. Anywhoozles, when we would make potato or egg salad for these folks, we were always supposed to use half Miracle Whip half mayonnaise because full strength Miracle Whip was just too much for the elderly folks to handle. This is 100% true. ---
**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-stupid-miracle-whip-ad/509380/38 "2009-09-09T16:15:26Z")
Some people can only deal with so much tangy zip. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-stupid-miracle-whip-ad/509380/39 "2009-09-09T16:26:11Z")
Mayo is disgusting. It’s one of those things that leaves me wondering what’s wrong with people. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-stupid-miracle-whip-ad/509380/40 "2009-09-09T16:35:48Z")
I haven’t purchased MW in decades. Home made mayonnaise is so much better tasting, and it can be tweaked in many directions. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-stupid-miracle-whip-ad/509380.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-stupid-miracle-whip-ad/509380.md?page=3)