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.

[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.

[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.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

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

[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!

[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 :-)

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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... :)