It might be down in Limerick town, it might be in Mayo

[venta]

Right, it's important...

[Poll #1832883]

Please note that this is a preference... if you love mayonnaise but it makes you ill, then go ahead and check the box.

If you have any further thoughts on such salad condiments, you can put them in the comments. None of this "but there isn't a box to check if I only like tartare sauce" rubbish.

Comments

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

I'm not honestly sure I've ever tasted salad cream. I didn't really experience mayonnaise until well into my 20s.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Gosh... and here was me thinking you such a gourmet :)

There are plenty of things I might put mayonnaise in if I were making, but for a condimental accompaniment to (say) cold pie you just can't beat salad cream.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Nooo! The best accompaniment to cold pie has got to be pickle.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Who said I was only allowed one accompaniment!?

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Oooh yes. I used to love mayo and Branston mixed together, with cold turkey and chips on Boxing Day. Yum yum.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I'm not quite convinced by the "mixed together" aspect, but I'd be willing to give it a whirl :)

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Very limited appropriate context for either; in most cases, neither. (I can eat both, I don't actively dislike either, but I really can't see the point 95% of the time.)

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Salad cream is the work of Satan.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Mmmm... tasty, vinegary Satan :)

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I disliked salad cream but then somebody gave me a bottle that had dill and cucumber in it, and it was nice.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I did get a free sample of Heinz lemon and cracked black pepper salad cream through the letterbox a while back. Which sounded rather like Heinz trying to make the salad cream market a bit more upper class :) It was surprisingly nice in a fishfinger sandwich (which sounds like me trying to make sure the salad cream market stays right where it is :)

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Simon's parents have salad cream and they're quite posh...

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Oh, and The Blarney Roses (Trad), for a point, please!

[venta.livejournal.com]

One kudo for you :)

[nalsa.livejournal.com]

I can make mayo with eggs, oil, salt & pepper and a little bit of mustard. I cannot make salad cream without the contents of a chemical supplies company. Ergo, mayo wins.

[lnr]

Salad cream is occasionally the right thing, but mayo is much more my usual preference - so I figured I'd tick that rather than both. Mmmm chips and mayo!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Chips and mayo? Silly foreign ideas. What's wrong with chips and brown sauce :)

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

Chips and *gravy* ftw!
Why, yes, I am northern.

[lnr]

Nowt. Or mustard, or ketchup, or curry sauce, or gravy or sweet chilli sauce or just good old salt and vinegar. Versatile things chips.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

I'd rather neither, or better still, just oil and vinegar or oil and lemon juice, un-emulsified.

[al-fruitbat.livejournal.com]

Isn't salad cream the margarine to mayo's butter? Okay as a substitute, but you wouldn't want to cook with it :-)

[venta.livejournal.com]

No, I admit I wouldn't cook with salad cream. I was asking the question purely in a condimental capacity :)

[stegzy.livejournal.com]

Salad Cream on bacon sandwiches ftw!

[sammason.livejournal.com]

Er... why do you ask?

I'll tell you the tale of my one batch of home-made mayo, though. I was 15 and a Young Farmer entering a class at an agricultural show 3 miles from where I lived then. That showground is the same one at Stoneleigh where the Royal Show was held until it stopped being held anywhere. The class was entitled '8oz of coleslaw'.

I made the mayo myself, carefully mixed it with cabbage and carrots, presented it in the best bowl I could find and cycled to the show. I forget how I got my entry there but somehow it ended up on the competition table looking a bit boring because I hadn't realised you could use garnishes, doilies etc to present such a food in competition. But my coleslaw looked all right, I thought, albeit there was a little bit too much mayo on the veg.

Judging happened. How nerve-racking! I didn't win the class but the judge's comment was all right. 'Quite a good flavour but very moist.'

Then... er... I had a bowl containing 8oz of very moist coleslaw and I needed to cycle 3 miles. Throwing it away didn't even cross my mind. So what was a girl to do? I ate the lot, rinsed out the bowl in the Ladies' handbasin, and cycled home.

Oddly enough this didn't put me off mayo or coleslaw. And the nausea faded after a while.

What I don't get, though, is how come this girl got labelled as 'the difficult one'. At 15 I could have been taking drugs, shagging boys, stealing cash... but no. I was making coleslaw and being too conscientious to throw it away.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Why do I ask? Sheer nosiness and curiosity :)

I was dishing out cold stuff the other day and (unusually) we have both Hellmann's mayonnaise and Heinz salad cream open at present. (Ordinarily, if I want mayo I'll make it but I was making an industrial quantity of sarnies for 9-10 people in a hurry last weekend. As nalsa observers above, you can't make salad cream ;) )

Anyway, I asked t'other half which he preferred, assuming it would be mayonnaise because that's the proper, right answer. Only common northerners (like me) like salad cream. Actually he turned out not to have very much opinion, but was surprised that I viewed mayonnaise as the expected answer. So I thought a highly scientific survey was called for.

Presumably parents have a well-rehearsed (or, at least easily-learned) script to deal with people who are shagging drugs and stealing boys. If you're going to go round being all conservative with your salad produce then there simply isn't a good, well-worn parental groove to drop into. Perhaps if you'd put amphetamines in the mayonnaise you'd have won the class and everyone would have been happy...

[sammason.livejournal.com]

Laughing out loud at your final paragraph!

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

Mayo in sandwich fillings, or maybe a little on an otherwise too dry sandwich - but I'd usually prefer relish!

[snow-leopard.livejournal.com]

Grew up with Salad cream. Mayonnaise was strange posh stuff you get in restaurants!
As a result I still prefer Salad Cream!

[venta.livejournal.com]

I note that the only four people who've opted for salad cream in my poll are you, me, stegzy and bondagewoodelf. That's three hardened northerners and... um, I think BondageWoodElf might be Dutch so I think they're an anomaly!

[snow-leopard.livejournal.com]

Heinz's new advertising campaign "Heinz Salad Cream! Because Mayonnaise is for Southerners!"

[venta.livejournal.com]

It'll be a winner!

[hjalfi.livejournal.com]

I very nearly ticked the 'salad cream' box (the radioactive yellow food glue of the gods!) but mayonnaise is pretty good too, so I went for both.

...you did mean 'both' in different contexts, right? Not, like, on squirt of salad cream and one of mayo on the same sandwich?

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

I was surprised when Tesco's 79p "Tuna Crunch" sandwich claimed to contain both mayonnaise and salad cream. To the best of my knowledge, this is the only time I have eaten them both together. Good sandwich at a good price in my view, FWIW, so this argues against my prior presupposition that they wouldn't work together.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

The words 'tuna' and 'crunch' should not be in the same phrase.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Can't argue with the general sentiment, but - for completeness - the crunch came from red pepper and sweetcorn on this occasion.

[lnr]

Actually a mix of half salad cream and half mayo makes for much better coleslaw than neat versions of either.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Oh, and as a wee 'un, I went through a short "salad cream sandwich" phase. I was young.

[ao-lai.livejournal.com]

Definitely neither.

I realise that I'm coming to this poll almost a week late, and very rarely actually post anything, but both of them are so horrible I felt that I had to comment anyway... :)