Mayo, love or loathe?

No you’re not a freak. If you don’t like something, you don’t like it I feel the same way about barbecue sauce. I ordered a pasta dish in a French restaurant and it came drizzled all over with barbecue sauce. To be fair they did replace it.

I love mayo but I, too, loathe barbecue sauce - revolting, craggy stuff.

I typed claggy not craggy!!

I don't think you are being silly, mind you I am not a foodie.

I ordered, what on the menu appeared to be, a plain bacon sarnie the other day and it came oozing with brown sauce. I hadn't touched it as I could see the sauce oozing out of it there was so much of it. I sent it back and shortly after it was returned to me after some, but by no means all, the sauce had been scraped off. As I had bitten into it before realising, I had to pay.

Why can't these food outlets just listen or ask before serving
food to a paying customer.

Rant seconded!

I eat mayo but there are other things added to meals which spoil them for me - too much salt, sweetcorn added to tuna, chilli, pickle and salad dressing. These are mostly things that upset my stomach. Other people, such as diabetics, have to be careful what they eat.
Sandwiches nowadays seem to mostly have several ingredients and often ones you like mixed with ones you don't like.
Why do Italian restaurants add chilli to so many pasta dishes?
Mollygo - I don't like barbecue sauce either.

I absolutely adore it.

I don’t like it in most sandwiches, where butter is IMO much nicer. Exception is the homemade egg and cress or lettuce sandwiches I often make if we’re going a long distance by car. But then I butter the bread too.

I’m happy with it in coleslaw or potato salad - as long as it’s only just enough to bind it, and not swimming in the stuff. Which is why I never buy coleslaw - I make it.

I thought this was going to be about Co Mayo which I love.

I do quite like mayonnaise but only occasionally and in small quantities.

@baubles I love Co Mayo too, it’s the only Mayo I do love! 😂

I dislike mayo with a passion along with maryrose sauce,even the smell puts me off. Trying to buy a shop bought sandwich is very hard as most have mayo. My idea of hell is a tuna and mayo sandwich.

I love it - but I love most sauces, to be honest. I'd be a very boring old world if we all liked the same things.

Agree! I have a nasty reaction to yoghurt, sour cream etc. Apparently it's something to do with the culture formed in making it. Harmless but uncomfortable and from the chest up I start to look like a beetroot!

I'm always careful in Indian restaurants and they're usually spot on about ingredients if you ask.

But these days so many things described as cream or creamy, are not cream at all, it's creme fraiche or fromage frais.

And a salad which comes with the dressing already poured over them (unless stated on the menu) is just wrong.

Horrible stuff!

rafichagran

I dislike mayo with a passion along with maryrose sauce,even the smell puts me off. Trying to buy a shop bought sandwich is very hard as most have mayo. My idea of hell is a tuna and mayo sandwich.

I usually don’t buy sandwiches, is a nightmare, even a ploughman’s now has Mayo on it which is just wrong, it has to be branston or nothing. So if I am going out anywhere I pack a sarnie and pop it in my bag. Some outlets do sandwiches without mayo but there are very few options and usually without salad or anything else as well.

I read somewhere they spread mayo in shop/cafe bought sandwiches as unlike butter it stops the bread becoming soggy from the filling. For me I love mayo but rarely buy shop bought sarnies.

I love mayo on sandwiches, with salad , with everything. If your curry is too hot and spicy, add a tablespoon of mayo, not only does it tone and down, it also gives the curry a lovely creamy feel

Not at all. You must eat what suits you. I can eat Hellman's Light mayo but cannot tolerate their Vegan or Seriously Good. They make me feel really quite ill.

I dislike mayonnaise as well, they always put such liberal amounts on as well.
I also dislike having ketchup or brown sauce added to a sandwich, if I want that I will ask for it.

My DD doesn't like mayo either so she tends to avoid pre-packaged sandwiches. We went into a rather snooty, quite pricey cafe recently and there were prawn mayo sandwiches on the menu so she asked if she could have one without mayo. The women serving us replied "Sorry, that's the way it comes". We made our apologies and left.

Presumably their sandwiches came readymade from somewhere, despite the price.

I love it, probably a bit too much. I’ve tried the low fat, reduced salt variety but it’s just not the same. When I mentioned that to my daughter she said because I’m only eating occasional small amounts I should just buy the full flavour variety and enjoy it.

I suspect she wouldn’t have said that if she saw the size of the dollop I enjoy 😋

I also love county Mayo 😊

I love mayonnaise, I cannot stand BBQ Sauce.

I also like Wilkin & Son’s Brown and Tomato Sauce.

Also doesn't help that tastes change as you get older (either that or they are changing the recipes).

I used to love HP sauce and Heinz tomato sauce! Can't stand them now. I'm VERY partial to Heinz Sweet Chilli sauce, I even Amazon subscribe/saved it. But then that got stopped. Several others tried, yuck!! (I went through lots to find one!) Sainsburys own brand, very nice! Also was in Aldi the other week they had the big bottle Heinz version in stock for £2 each (I bought several.......)

Mayo? Yes, I love it! BUT, not enough to scoff a.big bottle or a.big jar. Before Covid, they used to do the small 200g size, Hellmans and Tesco, but no longer. I can use a 200g jar in days,.but somehow the big bottle stuff I can't it and it.all goes lumpyfied inside!

I'm careful these days regarding sauces, bought a garlic mayo squeasy pot, opened, ate, enjoyed! It was still open a week late, this time I didn't enjoy it as I was On the toilet within minutes. Whatever didn't come out I barfed up a few minutes later. I haven't had an garlic mayo since!

It never ceases to amaze me how the human body knows bad food even if the taste buds dont!

Babs03

This is a big beef for me. I hate Mayo, the cheap the stuff and the home made better quality stuff, cannot stand it. And of course every cafe/restaurant/sandw outlet, slathers it on my food without even asking if I want it. It is very rarely supplied in sachets or in a separate pot. So of course I always say I don’t want it but more times than I care to mention the food comes back covered in it anyway as if staff in the kitchens cannot help dribbling it on everything regardless.
The number of times I have been made to feel like a fussy/faddy eater I cannot possibly count.
Do they shove Tommy K on food -no.
Do they splash brown sauce on your food - no.
But hey with Mayo it’s dump a bucket load on your food every time.
Rant over.
Deep breaths.
So am I a total freak for feeling like this or do others feel likewise, or love the stuff so much they can eat it from the container like my DH, yuk!
Didn’t post this on ‘food’ because are some serious foodies over there and they might think I’m being silly.

What would concern me are staff who although being told you do not want any mayo, add it anyway. What if you were severely allergic to it? They should do as you ask.

I used to loathe Mayo, now I have a penchant for garlic mayo.