It’s a commercial product that appears to fill a similar niche to Miracle Whip - that is, as a cheap-to-manufacture mayo substitute incorporating water. Originally a Heinz product, but also produced in many other brands and supermarket own-brands.
Miracle Whip is noticeably sweet - not candy sweet, but much sweeter than mayo. It is not noticeably sour.
It’s made with vinegar/water more than oil, and it’s lovely.
See also Heinz sandwich spread (a blend of salad cream and relish), which goes
very well with haslet, which is another pork luncheon meat type thing.
Salad cream is definitely quite vinegar-forward.
You know what that reminds me of? Actual mayonnaise— I assume we all know what it is— versus what the Dutch call Fritessaus. Miracle Whip may be a local brand name, that’s all.
I’m guessing that some potato/pasta salads I’ve eaten had Miracle Whip as their base, because they were ridiculously sweet.
Miracle Whip is a brand name - but it’s not mayonnaise and I don’t know if any other company makes a comparable product. The FDA defines certain foods and Miracle Whip doesn’t contain enough oil to be mayonnaise. Mayonnaise also must have eggs, but I think Miracle Whip also does.
I mean I don’t know if any other company in the US makes a comparable product - that Dutch one seems to be similar in that it doesn’t have enough fat to be called mayonnaise.
Thanks. I thinking that product couldn’t be called “salad cream” in the U.S. due to the lack of dairy cream.
I just stumbled across a reddit thread where English and American folks appear to be arguing about the name for the # symbol, with confused assertion on both sides, it seems.
As I understand it, in the USA, that’s called pound, octothorpe or hash.
Here in Britain it’s called hash (and octothorpe too apparently but I’ve not encountered that often), but it’s not called pound, because ‘pound symbol’ (more commonly ‘pound sign’) refers to £ - the symbol for our currency, which is called the pound.
Interestingly, on UK keyboards, the £ (pound) symbol is in the same place as the # symbol on an ANSI keyboard (shifted symbol on the 3 key on the numeric row)
Many American supermarkets have an “English” section tucked into the International aisle, which is where I go to pick up Birds custard, digestive biscuits (I’m obsessed), and Bisto gravy granules (super handy—and the beef flavor’s actually vegan, which my daughters appreciate). I wonder, do British stores have an American section in their International aisles?
I noticed that on Amazon UK, you can find things like Newman’s Own Ranch dressing (along with a few other brands I don’t recognize) and, oddly enough, American hot dogs in a can, which I’d definitely be wary of! 
Over here, hot dogs usually come cellophane-wrapped in packs of eight—though buns, naturally, come in tens 
. I’m partial to Nathan’s All Beef hot dogs, especially with toppings like Coney Island chili, New York onion sauce, Chicago pickles, Carolina slaw, Seattle cream cheese, Baltimore fried with bologna or bacon, or just the classic yellow mustard and relish. Nothing beats a good dog! 
You can make it. It was a popular salad dressing for decades before it was available commercially.
Here’s a recipe from Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management:
Not that I’ve noticed but it wouldn’t surprise me. As you might expect, they tend to be focused on any communities local to the area, so where I used to live there were for example Polish and Portugese sections, amongst others.
I imagine there definitely were American foods available during the cold war given the number of USAF bases around in Suffolk.
Oh and there seem to be loads of ‘American Candy Stores’, they just pop up in empty units all over the place. One I saw recently was a mixture of ‘candy’ and vapes. Pretty cynical and a blatant ploy to attract young or underage people to start vaping.
That’s almost as bad as an Adult & Kid toy store.
“there seem to be loads of ‘American Candy Stores’”
Believed to be a money-laundering or tax fiddle.
My local Tesco in Epping has an american section. It’s really just an aisle end, but it’s full of Hershey bars and peanut butter and other American treats. Not sure why, as I haven’t really noticed a lot of Americans in the area. If they had a section dedicated to food for former Eastenders actors it would make more sense.
Yes, although you might be disappointed by what appears in such sections. A lot of it is snack foods that we have heard of from American media - so, twinkies, red vines, various Hershey & Reeses confectionery items, plus additionally some things that are supposedly USA-style, but may not actually resemble anything that exists in the USA - jumbo hot dogs in brine in a jar, for example
Here is a brief tour of the ‘American’ section in a large Tesco supermarket here in England:
Yeah, that part of the video caused me pause. It feels like something you might find in a bar deep in Wisconsin, along with the jars of pickled eggs and turkey gizzards (yes, that’s a thing up there.) Never seen full-sized dogs like that. And whoever told you that the only authentic dogs are all beef are incorrect. There’s plenty of great pork-beef mixes and even all-pork. But the two big hot dog towns, Chicago and New York, focused on all-beef. (May have had something to do with the Jewish population, I don’t know.) My wife is from Buffalo and my favorite hot dog may just well be Ted’s Hot Dogs (made by Sahlen’s), and they use a pork-beef mixture (although all beef is available, too. The standard one is pork-beef and I feel tastes better grilled up over charcoal than the all-beef dog.)
That happens quite a lot. America is too big to know itself and it frequently happens that someone asserts the conventions or quirks of their home state as universal to the country.
My favourite example of that phenomenon was on one of my budget challenge videos, someone from the states commented to say I cheated because I didn’t include the tax on the groceries that is added on at checkout.
In the next video, I thought it would be helpful to explain that, unlike some parts of the USA, we don’t have taxes on the vast majority of unprepared food, and if we did, it would just be included in the price shown on the shelf edge.
Someone from the states commented to say that I was an uninformed idiot, because they don’t have taxes on food either.
Reality: it varies by state and a lot of Americans don’t realise this.
(the USA isn’t the only place this happens - I think it’s a ‘large country’ phenomenon - I’ve also had Polish people tell me that my kielbasa sandwich was the exact thing their town is famous for, while others confidently told me that nobody in Poland eats anything like that)