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.

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[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!