The inexorable rise of identity condiments has led to hard times for the most American of foodstuffs. And that’s a shame.
My son Jake, who’s 25, eats mayo. He’s a practical young man who works in computers and adores macaroni salad. He’s a good son. I also have a daughter. She was a women’s and gender studies major in college. Naturally, she loathes mayonnaise.
newer generations are refusing to meekly fall in line with a culinary heritage that never was theirs. Instead, they’re gobbling up kefir and ajvar and chimichurri and gochujang again.
Red Robin launched a vegan burger. You don’t put mayo on a vegan burger.
McDonald’s has debuted a Signature Sriracha Burger, joining KFC, Wendy’s, and Subway in signing on to the sizzling Thai sauce’s moment in the sun. You didn’t see Huy Fong Foods start a schmear campaign against the cultural appropriation of that.
Some experts say the dislike springs from the fact that mayo jiggles. […] This is bullshit. This attitude comes to you from young people who willingly slurp down eight kazillion kinds of yogurt, not to mention raw fish and pork belly and, yo, detergent pods, so don’t talk to me about mayonnaise. The only reason for this raging mayophobia is a generation’s gut-level renouncement of the Greatest Generation’s condiment of choice.
Besides, I’ve got news: That aioli you’re all so fond of? I hate to break it to you, but that’s just mayonnaise.
Sandy Hingston sounds mad.
Also what? Mayo is still super popular, so what is she even on about? Is she hamming this up because she feels like this is what’s necessary to make it in journalism these days?
Because mayo is strongly associated with white people and especially conservatives. There’s the whole meme about not eating any food spicier than mayo.
It’s because mayo is just disgusting. It like 99% fat and tons of calories. People from New generations actually don’t want to look like fat dwarfs. Everyone in the 80s and 90s was fat, and much of this is because they ate mayo and stuff like that, and food that had basically no nutrition so they would eat 5000 calories of food and still be nearly starving.
It’s not though. Maybe miracle whip, but that’s garbage. Not real mayo.
It is extremely high in fat though. But the way Americans eat it is the real problem. You’re supposed to eat a small amount as a condiment to add flavour. Americans treat it like they treat all condiments, the same way Italians treat pasta sauce.
I love mayonnaise but I eat maybe a tablespoon of it at most for an entire sandwich (spread very thinly over the bread) and I use it instead of butter, not in addition to butter.
That’s fine I mean I have to get fast food with no condiments besides cheese and onions because they put so much damn sauce on them. Like if you get a taco bell burrito it will be 50% chipotle. I can’t even eat it. If I forget to ask for no chipotle I have to throw it away lol.
I mean, so are nuts, olives, plenty of foods are high in fat. I don’t think it was mayonnaise making people fat.l, it’s from way before the 80s. (And BTW, people are fatter now, at least where I live.) I can make mayonnaise at home, it’s food, and hasn’t ever made me fat.
The prevalence of obesity in American adults (age 20–74, both genders) rose from 15.0% in 1976–1980, to 23.3% in 1988–1994, and to 30.9% in 1999–2000. 40.3% in 1994.
Guy hadn’t had real aioli. Doesn’t even know what aioli is.
Name literally means “garlic and oil” because those are the only two ingredients you need for it.
It’s very easy to make at home; start with a few toes of garlic and a table spoon on olive oil. Crush and mush them together till it seems like the oil disappeared. Then add another tablespoon of olive oil and repeat till you have this nice, white looking condiment.
Eh easy yes, fast not at all. I only make it for my one other X’er friend who hates, hates, hates may exactly because of Hellmann’s. It traumatized him as a child.
Kenji’s mayo recipe I make literally every week. Easy and fast. Said friend will not even look at it.
This sounds like a bit. Seriously, how do you hit every culture war talking point but make it about mayonnaise? No one has strong feelings about mayonnaise, Sandy. Only you.
It’s like traditional media figured out in 2016 Boomer ragebait is the only thing they know how to do anymore, and just keep doing that when they’re out of ideas.
Article tl;dr “Kids today are traitors to the nation because they aren’t Stephen Miller, drinking mayonnaise by the gallon, because it’s not threatening to people with fragile egos and no sense of curiosity.”
Plus, trashing ajvar and chimichuri? How bold of you, Sandy. How courageous to turn up your nose at flavors that you were not exposed to in some midwest surbabn bubble. When you die and your spirit is flung into the void between lives, where you learn how you’ll be reincarnated as a racoon for 20 lifetimes because of the karma you accrued just from penning this single article, I hope the spirits of your Lithuanian parents remind you that judgement like this poisons the soul slightly more than mayonnaise does.
Sandy Hingston sounds mad.
Also what? Mayo is still super popular, so what is she even on about? Is she hamming this up because she feels like this is what’s necessary to make it in journalism these days?
I’m sorry, “identity condiments”? The fuck?
Naturally? Is it some feminist thing to loathe mayo? Why?
Because it’s hens and cows that are farmed for their products, veganism is a feminist issue.
Feminism is notoriously concerned with chromosomes rather than personhood. /s
Because mayo is strongly associated with white people and especially conservatives. There’s the whole meme about not eating any food spicier than mayo.
It’s because mayo is just disgusting. It like 99% fat and tons of calories. People from New generations actually don’t want to look like fat dwarfs. Everyone in the 80s and 90s was fat, and much of this is because they ate mayo and stuff like that, and food that had basically no nutrition so they would eat 5000 calories of food and still be nearly starving.
It’s not though. Maybe miracle whip, but that’s garbage. Not real mayo.
It is extremely high in fat though. But the way Americans eat it is the real problem. You’re supposed to eat a small amount as a condiment to add flavour. Americans treat it like they treat all condiments, the same way Italians treat pasta sauce.
I love mayonnaise but I eat maybe a tablespoon of it at most for an entire sandwich (spread very thinly over the bread) and I use it instead of butter, not in addition to butter.
That’s fine I mean I have to get fast food with no condiments besides cheese and onions because they put so much damn sauce on them. Like if you get a taco bell burrito it will be 50% chipotle. I can’t even eat it. If I forget to ask for no chipotle I have to throw it away lol.
I can’t even remember the last time I had fast food. Must have been at least 2-3 years ago.
I have had shawarma though. I tell them to put all the sauce on the side and just add what I want.
I mean, so are nuts, olives, plenty of foods are high in fat. I don’t think it was mayonnaise making people fat.l, it’s from way before the 80s. (And BTW, people are fatter now, at least where I live.) I can make mayonnaise at home, it’s food, and hasn’t ever made me fat.
The prevalence of obesity in American adults (age 20–74, both genders) rose from 15.0% in 1976–1980, to 23.3% in 1988–1994, and to 30.9% in 1999–2000. 40.3% in 1994.
Because mayonnaise looks like and is sometimes associated with cum and patriarchy. Is my guess.
Guy hadn’t had real aioli. Doesn’t even know what aioli is.
Name literally means “garlic and oil” because those are the only two ingredients you need for it.
It’s very easy to make at home; start with a few toes of garlic and a table spoon on olive oil. Crush and mush them together till it seems like the oil disappeared. Then add another tablespoon of olive oil and repeat till you have this nice, white looking condiment.
Eh easy yes, fast not at all. I only make it for my one other X’er friend who hates, hates, hates may exactly because of Hellmann’s. It traumatized him as a child.
Kenji’s mayo recipe I make literally every week. Easy and fast. Said friend will not even look at it.
This sounds like a bit. Seriously, how do you hit every culture war talking point but make it about mayonnaise? No one has strong feelings about mayonnaise, Sandy. Only you.
It’s like traditional media figured out in 2016 Boomer ragebait is the only thing they know how to do anymore, and just keep doing that when they’re out of ideas.
Article tl;dr “Kids today are traitors to the nation because they aren’t Stephen Miller, drinking mayonnaise by the gallon, because it’s not threatening to people with fragile egos and no sense of curiosity.”
Plus, trashing ajvar and chimichuri? How bold of you, Sandy. How courageous to turn up your nose at flavors that you were not exposed to in some midwest surbabn bubble. When you die and your spirit is flung into the void between lives, where you learn how you’ll be reincarnated as a racoon for 20 lifetimes because of the karma you accrued just from penning this single article, I hope the spirits of your Lithuanian parents remind you that judgement like this poisons the soul slightly more than mayonnaise does.
2016? Writers complaining about the youth misbehaving is as old as writing itself.
Yeah, this infuriating mayonnaise article is from 2018. Had to backdate a touch.
That read like a shit post. Does Jake drink mayo straight from Sandy’s tit still? Cause something ain’t right there
I’m pretty sure that’s all tongue-in-cheek. Giving people the benefit of the doubt is a good default setting.
Wait until she hears about sriracha mayo.