You sure you’re not talking about horseradish sauce? That’s sometimes horseradish blended with mayo and used on roast beef.
If not, eewww. I’d return it in a second.
Besides, Brookline is Boston, which is a world away from New York City stereotypes. And the online menu for Rubins doesn’t mention mayo anywhere.
You go to Louisville Community Colle… I mean the University of Louisville. That’s bad enough.
Mayonnaise is vegetarian (not vegan).
Have you tried Hellman’s Dijonnaise? Unfortunately they set their jingle to the tune of “Duke of Earl” so I can never just say “Dijonnaise”. It has to be “Deej, Deej, Deej, Dijonnaise, Hellman’s, Dijonnaise”.
Anyhoo, a side salad for my mom and pop at dinner at home was iceberg lettuce with a dollop of mayo (or Miracle Whip). Why bother.
Mrs. Plant, the Most Jewish Person in the world, from Long Island, eats mayo on roast beef. Mustard is for Hebrew National hot dogs.
What’s the URL for Rubin’s? Haven’t been there in ten years.
Isn’t that a violation of kosher dietary rules (unless the mayo is vegan)?
Mayonnaise is a stable emulsion of vegetable oil and egg yolk, flavored with vinegar or lemon juice and frequently mustard. No milk products in it. So how would it be in violation of kosher dietary laws?
As is obvious from my previous entry, I’m not Jewish. I thought the same prohibition on eating cheese (dairy-based) on, for example, a roast beef or turkey sandwich would also apply to mayonnaise (egg-based) on a roast beef or turkey sandwich. Just out of curiosity, how are the two different in terms of kosher restrictions?
Eggs aren’t made from milk, so they are not dairy.
I just entered Rubins Brookline into Google.
I must concede.
Mrs. Plant while eating mayonnaise on roast beef at home, would have mustard at Rubin’s. She cannot explain why, so it must be a very Jewish thing.
However, it was the whole wheat and not rye on my roast beef with mayo that she says gave me away as a former goy at that famous establishment.
Perhaps I will understand after I get my secret decoder ring and copy of the rotocols of Zion.
So you can’t eat cheese (dairy) on a roast beef sandwich but mayo (egg) is okay. Thanks for setting me straight on that. (Now what about a chicken sandwich with mayo?)
Anyway, getting back on topic, I can’t eat mayonnaise because I’m allergic to it. I don’t really miss it but it does lead to awkward exchanges when I’m ordering in restaurants and have to make sure they hold the mayo. In one particular incident that turned unexpectedly ugly, I forgot to do this and ended up being practically kicked out of the place when I told them I couldn’t eat it. (Sure, you can argue I was to blame for what happened but it was a BBQ beef sandwich for God’s sake! What kind of Philistine automatically puts mayo on a BBQ beef sandwich?)
Can I hijack the mayo discussion with a different Weird Al question?
We love the White and Nerdy song, being white and nerdy ourselves, but my husband thinks it’s a parody of some unknown rap song, and I think it’s original. Which is it?
And, I’m as white as white can be, and prefer Gulden’s Brown Mustard (when I can’t get Grey Poupon) and dislike mayo intensely. Just for data-gathering purposes.
Your husband’s right. It’s a parody of a song called Ridin’ by an artist called Chamillionaire.
“Riding Dirty”, actually.
It’s a parody of Ridin’ by Chamillionaire, which I heard the original for the very first time today. I spent a good thirty seconds trying to figure out why it sounded so familiar before it finally dawned on me 'cause, while I’m white and nerdy, I’m not a fan of Weird Al and had quickly forgotten the song shortly after watching it.
I didn’t even catch the mayo reference in White and Nerdy, but I had a long e-mail correspondence with a girl about it which led to us comparing our nerd-cocks, which started this way:
So mayonnaise can be nerdy.
I’m not sure if you’re using “unknown” in the sense that your husband didn’t know it or if you meant “obscure,” but the song hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, #3 on the Billboard Top 40 Mainstream charts, and the album also placed in the Top 10, so it’s not really obscure, if you meant it that way.