# Where does "Black people don't eat mayo/Mayonnaise is a white people food" come from?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-black-people-dont-eat-mayo-mayonnaise-is-a-white-people-food-come-from/852662>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 27, 2020, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-black-people-dont-eat-mayo-mayonnaise-is-a-white-people-food-come-from/852662 "2020-04-27T10:24:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 23

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-black-people-dont-eat-mayo-mayonnaise-is-a-white-people-food-come-from/852662/23 "2020-04-27T20:07:24Z")

</div>

> [@Colibri](#):
>
> The stereotype is for WASPs and others of northern European extraction. It wouldn’t apply to Italians, for example.
> 
> My sister-in-law, who is of German/English ancestry, refuses to eat any food with even a hint of spiciness.

When deciding what restaurant to eat at, I have had a Lithuanian from Lithuania tell me she did not like spicy food and that Lithuanian cuisine was not really spicy. And an Indian from South India complain that various dishes were not spicy enough. But I would have thought that a stereotypical American would have grown up exposed to a lot of (regional) American food no matter what their “extraction”.

PS stereotypical English food is chicken tikka masala and vindaloo, right? 🙂

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-black-people-dont-eat-mayo-mayonnaise-is-a-white-people-food-come-from/852662)._