On Sun 29 Jun 2008 12:44:54p, sf told us...

> On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:50:55 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
>>Oh, you poor dear. Until middle age, did you simply avoid foods prepared
>>with either mayo or MW? Just curious.
>
> I avoided it as much as possible... which wasn't perfect by any means.
> I always specified no mayonnaise on restaurant sandwiches and we never
> used mayo on sandwiches at home. As a kid I preferred German potato
> salad to the stuff made with mayo. But if Mom made potato salad with
> mayo for dinner, I ate it - or else.
>
> It took marrying a mayo loving man (he even puts it on hamburgers
> <shudder>) - and many years of constant exposure for me to come
> around. However, it's still not an area where I can discern the fine
> differences. It all tastes the same to me.

I can certainly understand that since it was, for whatever reason, an issue
from early childhood. I don't know what causes it, but we all seem to have
some food averesions since birth. Even though I have always liked
mayonnaise, I do remember not liking larger amounts of it when I was a
child, though I liked the flavor.

I remember not liking Miracle Whip as a young child, which is what we
originally had at home. When I discovered the taste of mayonnaise, my
mother began buying both. There are a handful of things where I do like MW
over mayo, but by and large I prefer mayo.

Funny you should mention mayo and hamburgers. Growing up at home, we
always had lettuce, catsup or mustard, slice of onion, and hamburger dills
or relish on our burgers, sometimes a slice of cheese. When I was 10 or 11
we moved to Memphis and my parents joined a country club there. The
hamburgers served there always had lettuce, slices of tomato, thin slice of
onion, and mayonnaise. No catsup, mustard, pickle or relish in sight! It
seemed strange to me, but I immediately liked the combination and for years
ate them that way. Somehow, over time, I reverted to my favorite
combination of lettuce, onion, mustard and pickle, although I sometimes
make the mayo version.

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Wayne Boatwright
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