Mayo, love or loathe?

I don't like salad cream or much commercial mayo. Homemade I can tolerate a bit of. But much prefer to add sauces myself

ferry23

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.

Totally agree Ferry. My allergy/intolerance is to the bacterium that changes milk into cheese, crème fraiche, yogurt etc. If I inadvertently consume the smallest amount I will have severe tummy trouble for up to a week thereafter. Although I am not lactose intolerant I often choose lactose free things to be on the safe side.

I can safely eat coleslaw& mayonnaise but don't like them - my home made salads have only a squirt of lemon juice

I also dislike mayo intensely. Why oh why do so many sandwiches come slathered with the stuff? It is so difficult buying a sandwich when out as there are so few without it. Like a poster above the egg ones are not too bad as the egg hides the taste.

I like mayo with mustard, common in Françe, but salad cream too, particularly on a fish finger sandwich. But it must be very annoying for those who don’t, I rarely buy a sandwich so haven’t noticed.

I like salad cream being brought up with it to go on my dad’s home grown salads in the summer time. Mayo is a bit too gloopy for me. It has its place in small amounts imo added to mashed potatoes or some sauces.
I go to a few favourite cafes for a sandwich where I know it’s freshly made. I would not eat a sandwich from any shop, I watched a foodie programme a while ago. It was based at a food processing plant where sandwiches for all of the supermarkets are prepared. It was not a pleasant watch it was very off putting.
I don’t like being served a dressed salad when eating out it makes the salad soggy. We are all different and have our favourites so it’s a good job there is so much choice.

That sounds nice!

I absolutely LOVE mayo, preferably the garlic flavoured and am happy to scoff it on sarnies etc. but worry not, you're not a freak! We all have our own tastes!

However, I agree that most eateries do smother food with it which is unfair on those that don't like it!

Is the simple fact that mayonnaise is used so much on all kinds of foods without there being a choice. If people like my DH love mayonnaise and salad cream then it should be supplied separately like other sauces, not added in the kitchen. And please God don’t use it on every single shop bought sandwich. I make my own sarnies because I have to, but would be nice to sometimes not have to do this and be able to choose a nice sandwich from a shop.
Surely this us not too much to ask. Thing is the dreaded sauce wasn’t used so much in days gone by, where has this awful trend come from?

Aldi do black pepper and garlic mayo 💋

Re salad cream, a sister who’s lived in the US for 40 years, still loves it! She’s otherwise an incredibly fussy eater - everything organic/super healthy/hardly any meat - but the first thing she ever wants when visiting in summer is new potatoes with salad cream! I have to buy it specially, and she always takes some home.

As a super-fussy child, potatoes and salad cream were about the only things she would willingly eat.

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

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

Ha mayo, not mayor!!!

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!!

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