Mayo, love or loathe?

Back in the day was mainly salad cream, but it wasn’t slathered over everything, and sarnies weren’t covered with it. My fav sarnie from back then, though was not shop bought, was corned beef or spam with piccalilli, on a buttered oven bottom - the name for a big rather flat bap made in Lancashire. My old dad loved beetroot sarnies that we called blood butties.

I’m rather fond of Heinz salad cream and make potato salad just the way my Mum made it. New potatoes with the skin on, chopped spring onions and salad cream 😋

If we’re having a family buffet my son in law always makes a request for it.

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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’d have thought it was the other way around! I’m sure butter would have more soggy-preventing qualities than mayonnaise! I dare say mayo is cheaper and quicker to use.

The only sandwiches I ever buy are M&S, which IMO are a cut above anyone else’s.

It is mayonnaise, not mayo; I hate that term.

Salad cream? Ulghhh!
Mayonnaise? Gorgeous. I eat far too much of it but it is the food of the Gods for me.
I remember first tasting it on holiday in Spain- it changed my life.
Usually only Helmanns of course!

I generally like mayonnaise but I've stopped ordering chips when eating out because of the way, in so many places, they arrive at your table smothered in salt.
Why? Surely it's not beyond the wit of anyone who likes salt to add their own?
I always send them back and request fresh ones without salt but that's awkward if I'm eating with friends - they've all finished before I get started.
The most inane response I ever got when sending salty chips back was, "Oh. Sorry. Most people like it". For once, I was speechless!

I like mayo but can imagine it’s quite challenging if you don’t

I remember my mother in law looking down her nose at her daughter’s boyfriend because he didn’t like mayonnaise and preferred salad cream. She made derogatory comments in his absence and said he was common as muck. His preference for salad cream was the best she could come up with 😆

I spread the outside of sandwiches with mayo and then cook in a dry frying pan. Cheese, ham and thinly sliced red onions - fabulous.

I like Mayo but I ve never had food in a cafe or restaurant ‘slathered in it’ as original post says I always have to ask for it and usually get a couple of sachets or a little pot given me
As for sandwiches it does say on the packet what is in it so just avoid those with mayo in them and don’t tell me there are none I sometimes buy a lunch time sandwich from a nearby Coop and they sell egg mayo and salad with it in but none of the cheese fish or meat sandwiches seem to have it added
Scribbles instead of sending your chips back when they ve already arrived why not say no salt please when ordering I ve never been served pre salted chips just shows how different areas can be

I like it, but it has to be deep yellow for me with plenty of mustard.

I am odd in I like a little mayo mixed in with tuna and egg in sandwiches but hate it in anything else. I rarely buy shop sandwiches as they are plastered in it!
I like my food served plain, no sauces added and am embarrassed in always having to ask in restaurants etc please no sauces! I always feel like an awkward & fussy customer! I don’t like dressings on salads either!!

I love it, have it with lots of things, especially like it on bread , instead of butter, for salad fillings. My favourite though, the mayor you get when visiting relatives on the continant. Pommits mit mayo, super lecker!!

Ha mayo, not mayor!!!

We do use Mayo in limited quantities one day we ran out and my wife said I’ll make some, which we liked much better than bought.
Dead easy with a hand blender, so now it tastes just how we like it

I like mayonnaise mixed with tuna and sweetcorn in a sandwich but my out and out favourite is bacon, lettuce and tomato in a toasted panini with lashings of mayonnaise. Food of the gods! I tried to make my own once in a blender and it was awful so I only buy Hellmans now, but the best mayo I’ve had was from a tiny stall in St David’s selling home made condiments of various sorts. It was a cut above anything I’ve ever bought in a supermarket.

Thought this was going to be about Simon Mayo! Luckily I like both. Can sympathise with Babs03 though. Luckily we all have different tastes. Only recently discovered mayonnaise with sriracha, which I had never heard of before. We live and learn..

I agree with David that homemade mayonnaise is the best and knocks spots off others mentioned here.
The food processor works wonders, must be on the highest possible setting.

While staying at a BiL’s huge place in France, I was once making an ample potato salad for a big alfresco lunch party he was holding. There was hardly any mayonnaise, so I said I was nipping to the local supermarket for some.

Another BiL, a very Francophile foodie, honestly nearly had a heart attack at the idea of bought mayonnaise! He insisted on making some instead, and I don’t know what he did or didn’t do (he’s usually a very accomplished cook) but it was horrible, just oily and tasteless, and so much of my potato salad* which usually vanishes PDQ, was left and ultimately thrown away.

I usually add a little lemon juice, plus S&P and snipped chives or the green of spring onion, with any good quality mayonnaise - and only just enough to bind it.

Needless to say, another time I’d insist on doing it my way, whether he threw a fit or not!

I don't mind mayo occasionally and I do like brown sauce but I don't think anyone should presume and put it on or in food.

The other day I had a salad with lunch when we were out and it was smothered in a dressing made with balsamic vinegar. There was far too much of it.

Your poor potato salad Witzend.
I think he might have used the wrong oil or added it too quickly. Vegetable oil is best, though it is also good with avocado oil. I find olive oil makes it taste bitter. A Dijon mustard is the best emulsifier.

I don't care for mayo or salad cream and I'm someone who usually likes condiments, e.g. tomato sauce with bacon sandwiches, apple sauce with pork, horseradish with beef and a good salad dressing on my salad.

I rarely buy shop bought sandwiches but if I ever do you can guarantee that, no matter what the filling, it involves mayo. I think it's yet another Americanisation where they use mayo on their sandwiches instead of butter.

I do like mayonnaise and have made my own in the past, but it's a bit of a faff. Garlic mayonnaise is wonderful. I haven't had salad cream for years and I believe it's had a resurgence. The one condiment I cannot abide is ketchup. I have no idea why, but I won't eat anything with it on.

I like mayonnaise , OH prefers salad cream on a plated salad. In my case it is a small portion on one side, in his it's slathered all over.
If I'm making sandwiches with tuna I use a little mayonnaise to bind it as I would with hard boiled egg - lots of black pepper too.
I do remember the salad cream we had at junior school which was more the consistency of mayonnaise and was delicious - apparently the cook used to make it and I never did manage to get the recipe.

DH likes salad cream (I don't) but will eat Hellman's mayonnaise if there is no salad cream available.