I have no use for mayo as a condiment on a sandwich, let alone a filling in it. I will admit that the stuff has its uses in aggregates like potato salad and macaroni salad to hold them together - it’s not a food, it’s mortar.
My mom used to make mayo (or maybe Miracle Whip, IDK) sandwiches. It was kind of a comfort, snack food. Or maybe when times were hard, she was doing a good job of concealing it from me. I’ve eaten them a couple times as an adult, nostalgically. Not bad actually. Actually about the only time I ever use mayo other than a BLT, or a couple recipes, (like catfish Allison, yum!).
FTR, I am white, at least mostly, and I have always passed for white. I am a bit darker than most whites, and in the southern white community I grew up in, if there were any nonwhites in our ancestry it would likely have been covered up if possible.
And as for the European idea of putting the stuff on fries …
THAT is deserving on derogatory stereotype-hood.
Yes, this is the only reason I know of that people I’ve encountered ate them.
White people love mayo because mayo is fucking delicious.
Bernie Mac had a similar bit:
“When white people go on break at their job. 15 minutes. They go to their desk. They eat their cheese sandwich. Drink their God damn tea. 15 minutes they’re back on the fucking job.”
That’s essentially Russian dressing without the pickles. My favorite condiment combo for burgers.
As a kid I was known to eat a mayo sandwich when I wanted a snack and the larders were bare. Still love mayo, although not on its own, but white bread is gross to me now.
Well that and because we can afford them beyotch, unlike our spectrally challenged bretheren.
Opps.
Realized it might look like I was calling someone a beyotch. Just using a slang word for effect in a so so joke line. No insult intended.
Sorry about that.
Mayo there is not like mayo here, and it’s great on fries. At least the fries in Belgium were. In England they slog vinegar all over them which just makes them soggy.
I do have to say, as much as I wanted to be disgusted by greasy fries being dipped in, what in effect is emulsified oil with vinegar, and all that being a fat overload, yes, they are a treat. But I do like the English malt vinegar method, too.
I had never heard of anyone actually eating mayo sandwiches prior to this thread, and I am a very white white person both in terms of complexion and culture. “Stuff White People Like” is basically a list of things that I like. FWIW I hate mayonnaise.
My best guess as to the origins of this joke is that it’s either based on a mayo-and-Wonderbread sandwich being the palest sandwich one could make, or its an exaggeration based on the perception that white people in general/WASPs in particular use mayonnaise on their sandwiches more often than other races/ethnic groups. I learn towards the former, as I believe similar jokes and urban legends exist about dark foods turning someone’s skin darker. For instance, the title of the novel Coffee Will Make You Black refers to a warning that the young African-American heroine hears in the 1960s about why she shouldn’t drink coffee. Now that I think of it, when I was living in Japan there were at least two times when teenage girls asked me if I thought they could make their complexions lighter “like yours” by either drinking milk or eating white bread – two items that are both pale in color and consumed more frequently by Westerners than by the Japanese.
The comedian Martin Mull built a whole act around this idea.
Done that as well. Also made catsup ‘tomato soup’ as well.
Woody Allen used this in *Annie Hall *to depict white-as-white-can-be, where Annie Hall orders a pastrami on white with mayo in a deli. I seem to remember another scene where Woody was trying to identify with this for the sake of the relationship and came home with a grocery bag with mayo and white bread.
Yes.
I didn’t eat it because I was poor, though (I am now, however); I really loved it as a kid. Just Miracle Whip on some white bread. Loved it! Isn’t Miracle Whip a sort of pricey item to buy when you’re poor? Although, I guess it lasts for quite awhile; maybe that’s it. For the cheapness/nutritional value, though? Beans and rice.
For some strange reason, the food pantry by us ALWAYS has Miracle Whip. I wonder if there’s a local supplier who makes frequent donations.
Beans. Oh, ugh, beans. I haven’t made them since I got a job, except for New Years! There’s a thread around here somewhere were I wrote about 3 gazillion ways to season beans.
My Dad’s SO uses the term ‘Mexican mayonnaise’ (sp?), in reference to refried beans. 
JSYK, she is a ‘native’ Mexican with dual citizenship. (Mex. & USA)
Thank you for the valiant effort required to drag this thread back on track. And, :D!