On 2014-11-13 4:57 PM, Kalmia wrote:
> My mother put Miracle Whip in the same category as margarine and
> Frostee-freez - poor man's food. I'd never tasted it til I visited
> somewhere. We weren't rich, but she didn't like to set a pauper's
> table.
>

My mother preferred Miracle Whip. We had that because she did not like
Mayonnaise. She used margarine in some of here cooking and for things
like grilled cheese not just because it was cheaper but because she did
not like butter. We had to have butter on the table. My father had
grown up on a farm and would not accept a substitute for butter.

When my parents went on a trip to Denmark in the late 1960s she did not
have very positive comments about the food. Her main complaint was that
everything was smeared with butter. My wife, OTOH was quite impressed
with the quantity and quality of butter used there.