Mayo, love or loathe?

I thought it was about Simon Mayo too! 🤣 not fussed about him but I love any and all sauces - condiments are my favourite food group. Salad cream wins over Mayo for me, but I love Crucial Spicy Mayo. Brown sauce with veggie sausage, red with beans on toast, oh, and vinegar with just about everything! As for Tartar sauce 😋

Lizzies, me too with the fresh coriander, tastes absolutely vile to me, musty and soapy. I have to specify no coriander in Indian restaurants. Ground coriander seeds are fine and I use it a lot in cooking, it's just the leaves.

I hate mayo. If I asked for something without and they put it on anyway it would have to go back. Whether they think
I'm fussy or faddy doesn't bother me.
NO TIP !!!

BlueSapphire

*Lizzies*, me too with the fresh coriander, tastes absolutely vile to me, musty and soapy. I have to specify no coriander in Indian restaurants. Ground coriander seeds are fine and I use it a lot in cooking, it's just the leaves.

I love fresh coriander but have a daughter who loathes it, indeed when she was pregnant just the smell of it could make her sick. Is definitely a love or loathe thing.
Is like when my DH tells me to just scrape off the mayo and eat my meal, he just doesn’t get that traces of its sliminess are still there so u really can’t do that.

I love mayo - I would put it on an aspirin!

I like mayonnaise a lot, I'm not snobby about it & having tried many varieties, I usually buy Lidl's own - it might be a brand called Bates or similar. Very good. I'm old fashioned though, I don't like abbreviations . It took me ages to work out what Tommy K was and I don't like mayo!

Tell restaurants that you are allergic to mayo. If your food comes smothered in it you have the right to send it back.

Am I the only person out there who only likes Hellmans?!!!
The disappointment, of buying a tuna sandwich and finding it contains disgusting mayo is something I can relate to.
I've recently discovered M & S Sicilian Lemon Mayonnaise, which I find pretty acceptable though in an emergency.
One of my favourite cheats, if we have people coming in, is to add an egg yolk or 2 to the Hellmans and a bit of olive oil = that always goes down a treat. But I've never been brave enough to try and make Mayonnaise myself.

I hate barbecue sauce too or anything with a smoky flavour. I don't mind mayo in moderation.

I have heard that your DNA can affect whether or not you like coriander.

My complaint is with chilli. The vegetarian options in restaurant meals nearly always contain chilli - as if the taste of vegetables is just too bland without it.

I was brought up with the ubiquitous salad cream. I discovered mayo (on chips) in Holland when I was 15. I haven’t touched salad cream since. I love it especially egg mayo, tuna mayo, on mashed potato with Branston on the side & on chips. It has to be Hellmans, although I hate it on salad. Has to be vinaigrette! The whole family is addicted. One of my daughters recently asked for it on roast beef. I was a bit put out but, sucked it up, as she so delicately put it 🙄. I’d be lost without the 2 Ms. Mayonnaise & Marmite 😋

I can’t stand mayo - the taste & texture.
I loathe it so much it makes me shiver to even spoon it out of a jar! The grandchildren like tuna mayo but my husband has to make it because both elements make me heave.

Love mayo but it must be Hellman's.

I have a SiL who shares my disgust of mayo. If we dine out as a family we both have bets on whether something will be served on our plates drizzled generously with mayo despite saying we don’t want mayo. The best example was when we had lovely vegetarian beyond burgers on a bun served with chipotle mayo, sweet potato chips and salad, we told the waiting staff ‘no mayo’ despite the member of staff saying it was actually chipotle mayo, we didn’t engage in a discussion about the virtues of one type of mayo compared to another and so waited with trepidation to see if the burger would arrive sans mayo. It did. Thank goodness. But we both had to laugh when we saw that the salad was drizzled liberally with mayo. Tbh at that point we just decided to not eat the salad, and thankfully it wasn’t touching any of the other food.

I like mayo, but not salad cream.

I particularly like all the flavoured mayos, lately.
We have avocado and lime, and bacon flavoured on the go at the moment.

Desdemona

I love mayo - I would put it on an aspirin!

😂
I love it too, even with chips, can’t go as far as an aspirin.

MissAdventure

I like mayo, but not salad cream.

I particularly like all the flavoured mayos, lately.
We have avocado and lime, and bacon flavoured on the go at the moment.

Another of the GN fancy cooks brigade I see 😁

I live to dip chips in mayo .
If I make a prawn cocktail /prawn cocktail based salad -I mix a little tomato ketchup with mayo and a dash of cognac for the Marie Rose sauce .

I loathe the stuff the sight and smell of it makes me feel quesy. I honestly couldn't eat anything that had it on.

The point is that with other foods that people loathe there is a way to avoid it, for instance coriander isn't shoved onto every shop bought sandwich, and neither are other sauces, also if you don't like tuna or cheese at least there are other options to choose from, but if you don't like mayo, forget it, every sandwich will have it on, with perhaps a solitary 'just cheese' or 'just ham' sandwich which has nothing else on it as well.

I am intolerant to egg so always use that as a NO MAYO reason . in restaurants. They have to take notice of allergies.
I have tried vegan and plant based mayo which is not too bad in small amounts

I like mayo with chips but my real hate is chilli with everything. I ordered prawn linguini in a Italian restaurant and despite asking if it was spicy and being told no it came out in a chilli sauce. Another one is pepper, everything has “lots of black pepper” yuk.

My grumble is unseasoned sandwiches. If I was making sandwiches at home say egg mayo with cress ( one favourite) the egg mayo would be lightly seasoned with salt and black pepper. I know they have to appeal to the masses and for that reason I think they are largely inferior and some not worth the money.
I do though love M&S Wensleydale and carrot chutney 😋