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Family always used Miracle Whip.  For *years* I didn't realize the difference between it and mayonnaise.  Us kids sometimes ate "mayonnaise" (Miracle Whip) sandwiches as a junk-treat ... rarely do that now (but suddenly have a hankering, LOL).  Generally now buy GV, occasionally Hellman's or Kraft.
 
Mayonnaise with fries

I used to hate that until I finally tried it with the right mayo. Of course it was made from scratch by a local diner, it had a very light clean taste. The mayonnaise off the shelf has too much of a taste to really go with the fries all that well. I also just don't like mayo with any tang or a heavy flavor (probably from the oil or fat)
 
I have tried many off brand maynoaise and none tasted right.. I used to eat only hellmans and a couple years ago, something changed and i could no longer eat it..

BTW has any one here ever used the cheap "Heavy Duty" Mayo they sell in the 5 gallon buckets at costco
 
I am curious about something. I know that Hellmann's and Best Foods are considered the same. One looks at the web site for either, and sees in that small print that credit card companies love that that brand is known as the other brand on the other side of the Rockies. For example: "Best Foods® is known as Hellmann's® east of the Rockies."

This does raise the question: what brand do people get in the middle of the Rockies? LOL

I wonder...are they absolutely identical? As in if I had a mayonnaise tasting one night, would both brands be deemed exactly the same?

One assumes that since they are marketed as they are that the recipes would be the same. But...perhaps the recipe varies slightly. Perhaps there could be different factories, and some quirk in one factory makes a difference.

Another observation: why did WE get stuck with the boring name here?!? Hellmann's has a certain something. Best Foods almost sounds like a mass market supplier specializing in serving cafeterias.

I once actually had a chance to buy Hellmann's... No, they didn't let Lord Kenmore loose long enough so he could travel east of the Rockies. They'd never be that irresponsible. LOL But some store out here had Hellmann's for whatever reason. I should have bought some just to do it.
 
Interesting question - I would assume they are identical but unless you hold a side by side label reading and taste test, no real way to know. I guess you could call the company....

Not to change the thread - but this is kind of like the liquid starch thing - the old Purex Vano vs. Dial (which acquired Purex) Sta-Flo. For a while after the companies were merged, both brands co existed - Vano out west and Sta-Flo here. However having had the opportunity to use both during their co existence, I noticed that the Vano was more concentrated and I needed to use less to achieve the same result. Also, Vano was colored a light aqua blue and had a pleasant but clean fragrance. Sta-Flo was white and had a sweeter slightly heavier fragrance. Oh, well we won't ever know the answer for that one since Vano no longer exists.

Anyway, off to the store to scope out the mayonnaise offerings - I breezed by McCormick's brand today - but didn't read the label and also noticed another brand I never paid attention to - Cain's...
 
When I was a kid we almost always used Miracle Whip. Then later, about the time I graduated from H.S., my mom started to buy Hellmann's. Since then I have used that or Kraft, but recently have been buying Heinz or Duke's - both of which I seem to like better. I also like Blue Plate, as that is what my Aunt Julie in MS always gets. May bring a jar of it back next time I'm down there.
 
Today we only really use Mayo on hamburgers and cold cuts when we make them! In our family we grew up with Hellmans, but my brother would scream bloody murder if he didn't have his Miracle Whip. My mother always kept a small jar of it just for him. What a brat we used to think! My father was the "You'll eat whats put in front of you and like it!" type of guy. How my brother escaped we'll never know.
 
Interesting find today. Happened to go to the Duke's Mayo website and discovered that it is supposedly available at Fresh Market Stores in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Was at the Fresh Market in Westport, Ct, yesterday but wasn't looking at mayo so now I have to wait until next weekend to see if this is true...
 
Being a native Californian the only good mayonnaise that we have really ever had is Best Food's. But I do agree that it is not the same as it used to be. I think they are using a different kind of oil that is inferior to what they used to always use before. I really like mayo now, but until I was about 13 or 14 yrs. old I couldn't stand it.

I used to love Miricle Whip though. My paternal grandparents always had Miricle Whip and whenever I was at their house during lunch time we would have Pickle and Pimento Loaf sandwiches on fresh, soft Wonder bread with Miricle Whip. Oh I was in heaven! We always had Best Foods at home and my Mom thought Miricle Whip was low rent.

I did use Kraft mayo for a while about 10 yrs, ago, but went back to Best Foods.
Eddie
 
So I've only been a Miracle Whip guy until recently. I'm starting to enjoy mayo more and more... I think partly because they opened a JimmyJohns here..

Anyways, I've also started buying eggs from a friend that has chickens. I've never really been an egg person but I find my self going through about 3 18 packs a months.

I am wanting to make more egg-based things like hollandaise (eggs Benedict), mayo etc... I just can't get over the flavor these fresh eggs have.

Anyways, the reason for my reply:

Go make a grilled cheese. Don't use butter. Use whatever brand mayo (not miracle whip) you prefer. Just spread it on like you would the butter and grill away.

Also, I've noticed the Yellow velveeta has changed flavors.. I've been using the white lately because it tastes more original now.

But, anyways, if you guys like a good grilled cheese, try making them with mayo. Just a thin spread of mayo on the outside surfaces of the sandwich. It give such a wonderful texture and color. I guess the best way I've explained it to get people to try it is mayo is made of vegetable oil so you've got the fat, and the egg acts like an egg wash so you get the color.

I saw the tip on facebook, tried it and was instantly taken back to grilled cheeses that my grandma made for me all of my life. I asked her about it and she said any grilled sandwich we've ever eaten has always been grilled with mayo. She said homemade mayo is always better, but store bought still makes a good sandwich.

Have a good night everyone!
 
I hate the stuff..but

I will use it to make tuna salad, potato salad and deviled eggs. Only buy Helman's but I really dont have a problem with Kraft. I've tried Dukes, Blue Plate, Hinez and the Kroger brand but they are [too me that is] way to sweet.
 
Blue Plate fan here

I have tried Hellmanns, Kraft Mayo, Miracle Whip, and even make my own for certain occasions but I keep coming back to having Blue Plate on hand. No longer being made in New Orleans, their only plant is in Memphis.
 
Miracle Whip here, liked it much more before they "improved" the formula about a decade ago.  Still hate mayo, way too bland.

 

Now, a turkey sandwich with big slab of Vidalia onion on it has to have Miracle Whip - nothing else will do.  And it can't be processed turkey, needs to be home roasted...
 
I've never tried Miracle Whip. I remember when I was a kid, seeing it advertised on TV, and asking my mother about it, and she got sort of irritated and said it was a waste of money. That said, she was extremely sparing with the real mayo. I don't recall her ever using it on sandwiches, but I guess she used it in tuna salad.

 

I happen to love real mayo. Especially after reading Adelle Davis in the 70's; she enthused about how much healthier mayo was than margarine or butter. Well, she was right about the margarine. As was Julia Child.

 

I have made mayo. It's not difficult if you have a blender or Cuisinart. That little hole in the bottom of the Cuisinart food processor pusher is for dribbling oil in at the correct rate.

 

I studied nutrition for a while at Cal and the fears about mayo being unsafe are largely unfounded. The acid (vinegar) in mayo is bacteriostatic. It actually helps keep foods mayo is mixed with stay safe longer. Of course if you mix spoiled tuna or chicken in with mayo, the mayo won't kill what's already there. Same with making mayo from spoiled eggs. I figure the stuff on the shelf in the store is pasteurized and as safe as any.

 

Mayo on fries... can't say I've tried it or want to. Sounds a bit like poutine, lol.

 

Oh, and Best Foods here is more or less the gold standard. Recently I read a review, Consumer Reports, I think, and Costco's house brand mayo came in equal rating with Best Foods. I get the Costco version because I like the jar shape better.
 
Mixing Mayo and Ketchup for Fries or Chips! We called it "Neptune Sauce" as a kid. Tasty.

Kind of like mixing peanut butter and jelly and stirring it up. Some how it tasted different. Or even more sweeter.
 
Went to Fresh Market in Westport Saturday and in addition to a sale on Graeter's Ice Cream for $4.99/pint (not widely available in the northeast since Graeter's is a regional producer based in Cincinnati) I found Duke's Mayonnaise for $3.99/32 ounce jar. So bought one to try and will be opening it later this week as soon as I finish the open jar of Hellman's currently reposing in the refrigerator and will report back. I guess it makes sense that they would carry this since they are a North Carolina based company.

Also noticed in Shop Rite this week that their brand of Miracle Whip is made with sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. Might have to give that a try as well since I occasionally like Miracle Whip for certain things.
 
Reily Foods--Location

Thank you for that information, Knoxville is some considerable distance away from Memphis. I used Swans Down Cake flour from them for years! I just bought some King Arthur cake flour to try for the first time, plan to see how it compares soon after I deplete my old stock. Lots of great recipes on their website! Not planning to defect my brand loyality but have to see for myself.
 
Miracle Whip?

I'll never understand why Miracle Whip is included in those "What's the best Mayo" ratings posts. Miracle Whip is not and never has claimed to be Mayonnaise. I grew up with Miracle Whip until one day our family visited my grandmother who sent us with a bag of sandwiches for the trip home. I mentioned how good it was over Miracle Whip and Mom started buying Mayo for sandwiches (probably a generic brand, I can't remember.) I've used Burman's for years because it is half the price and tastes good to me. But if I'm bringing a dish to a party I will splurge for the real Hellman's (called Best Foods when I lived in California but now I'm back in Wisconsin.) I made a potato salad with Duke's lately on the exuberant advice from a friend, but I thought my Hellman's potato salad was better. Anyway for me it's Burman's 99% of the time because I can afford it and my wife and I like it. Still I pick up Miracle Whip once in a while for a few things Mom made when I was a kid. Something you haven't tasted in a long time sure can bring back some happy nostalgia! :)
 
I grew up on Hellmann's, and so did the wife. So, needless to say, that's all we ever buy.
I wouldn't be opposed to trying other brands. But, since we know we both like Hellmann's, I'd hate to buy a whole jar of something different, and end up hating it.
I think I've tasted Miracle Whip, the un-mayonnaise, at someone else's house, but probably not since childhood or something. I have no recollection of what it tastes like.

Barry
 
Miracle Whip isn’t mayonnaise, its salad dressing.  I has more vinegar and sugar giving it a distinct sweet sour flavor.  Its great for Cole Slaw because you can use it straight out of the jar and really not need to add much else to the shredded cabbage.

 

My paternal grandparents used it instead of mayonnaise, and when I was little I loved it, because I equated it with visiting my beloved grandparents.  They made us delicious sandwiches on fresh white Wonder bread with bologna or pickle and pimento loaf and Miracle Whip.  To me these were heavenly!

 

 Until I was about 11 or 12 I hated mayonnaise.  My Mom always bought Best Foods, the West of the Rockies equivalent of Hellmans.  And thats all I buy too.  I have noticed for about the last year or so that Best Foods has a less firm consistency than it used to.  It tastes the same, but its definitely not the same consistency. 

 

Eddie
 
 

 

We were always a Hellmann's household, until I tried Dukes. Now it's always Dukes. On occasion my husband will whip up some homemade mayonnaise. It's part of his Catalan background. It's quite common to make your own in Spain.
 
I don't believe I've ever had Miracle Whip. At least I've never bought the stuff.

I like Mayo. Back in the 70's I started reading Adelle Davis' books on nutrition, starting with "Let's Eat Right to Get Fit". At the time I hadn't a clue and was thin as a rail. Her books helped me up my game considerably. Anyway, she sang the praises of mayo because it has unsaturated oils etc. But where I disagreed with her was when she also pushed margarine.

Like Eddie, we've got Best Foods out here, and that's usually what I buy. I think I bought some health food versions of mayo back in the day, but haven't seen those on market shelves. But really, any mayo made traditionally will do, IMHO. Recently got a jar of Best Foods made with EVOO. Haven't tried it yet, but it should be good.

When I run low on mayo I've been known to use Hidden Valley Ranch dressing instead. It works, although it's sort of runny.

YMMV
 

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