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no fewer than four people have cited mayo as their prime weakening agent on the kryptonite thread. a few others go further still, citing white sauces/cream of [x] soups/creamy dressings as personally revulsive.

this does not strike me as uncommon and yet, as phobias go, its pretty fucking weird, no? so: wtf? is this simply a textural bias? is low viscosity somehow less desirable? is it a... sexual thing?

why so uneasy-making? and why only white sauces? freud hats on... now.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Bet you don't like your own cum either.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

YES I CANT SEE HOW MARK COULD HAVE MEANT THAT

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

let the record show it took approximately one minute for us to go... there.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:38 (twenty years ago)

i just don't like the taste! (this only applies to mayo though; other white sauces are fine.)

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:38 (twenty years ago)

I don't like eggs. Creamy sauces in general are fine, I just don't like mayo because it tastes like eggs.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:38 (twenty years ago)

I think it might be because it seems like it could go bad very quickly/easily.

xpost TO ORIGINAL QUESTION THANK YOU

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:39 (twenty years ago)

I think they deport you here in Belgium if you don't like mayonaise. One time some lady asked me if I was making a joke when I asked for french fries and mayonaise. This was in Houston. In the 80s. I hope times have changed.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:40 (twenty years ago)

today you'd get knifed in the parking lot

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:41 (twenty years ago)

I think Pulp Fiction enlightened us on that score, Nathalie.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:41 (twenty years ago)

I know, I know.

http://www.sushifoods.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/AqpmayoLg.jpg

I love Kewpie mayo. Also, wasabi mayonaise.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:42 (twenty years ago)

I don't like eggs. Creamy sauces in general are fine, I just don't like mayo because it tastes like eggs.
?! eggs slathered in mayonnaise perhaps. actually, i guess there is egg in mayo. so maybe you're onto something.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:16 (twenty years ago)

or is egg white in mayo? now i'm just confused.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:16 (twenty years ago)

mayo's good on burgers

― latebloomer: Let's just say I do for bullshit what Stonehenge did for Rocks (lat, Friday, 6 January 2006 22:53 (twenty years ago)

mayo's good on everything

― Rhodia (Rhodia), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:08 (twenty years ago)

Thank you. It's about time someone stood up for mayo.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:39 (twenty years ago)

I know I'm a freak.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:42 (twenty years ago)

I like commerical mayo in tuna salad and on artichokes but otherwise, I've grown kind of leery of it. I like to make aioli sometimes, but not that often. Ranch dressing frankly scares me as does bechamel and bearnaise sauce.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:53 (twenty years ago)

Real mayo is egg yolk, oil of some kind, and lemon juice/vinegar. I don't notice the egg in it, generally just the lemon or oil. But it makes sense that the egg flavor might come through for some people.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:56 (twenty years ago)

M. White, are you having a bad day? First balsa-wood chopsticks hate, and now BEARNAISE??? STEAK-GLOP FROM HEAVEN!!!!!!!!
Are you running a fever?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:01 (twenty years ago)

actually mayo is one of those things that is surprising how widely liked it is

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:01 (twenty years ago)

orange and green sauces are also teh gross. unless they are sweet!

― no bones, Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:02 (twenty years ago)

the green chutney stuff at the indian place is teh awesome though.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:03 (twenty years ago)

All the colors of sauces can come home with me.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:04 (twenty years ago)

what bothers me the most about mayo is spots of it on other peoples faces. and they don't have any idea it is there. and empty ziploc bags with remnants of mayo/condensation left in the bag. another check mark in the childhood horrors department then having to sit there across from these fools every day. the smell of eggs is just wrong, plain and simple. eggs should basically be banned from public display.

xpost: well chutney is relish so yeah i can dig it

― no bones, Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:08 (twenty years ago)

I went to school with a kid who was frightened of mayo. It was definitely the viscousity, for him.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:09 (twenty years ago)

FIGHT THE REAL ENEMY

http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/images/Radios%20Page/radio-miraclewhip.JPG

― Dom iNut (donut), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:42 (twenty years ago)

(also, google the above at your own risk, especially if you're disgusted by Donald Rumsfield photoshop-pr0n)

― Dom iNut (donut), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:43 (twenty years ago)

I am really glad that I don't know whether I am or not.

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:48 (twenty years ago)

i like miracle whip! my condiment tastes apparently stopped evolving when i was 10.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 7 January 2006 01:15 (twenty years ago)

I like it for about the first ten seconds, then not so much.

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 7 January 2006 01:17 (twenty years ago)

M. White, are you having a bad day? First balsa-wood chopsticks hate, and now BEARNAISE??? STEAK-GLOP FROM HEAVEN!!!!!!!!
Are you running a fever?

He also said the forbidden word COMMERICAL!!

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:07 (twenty years ago)

i've always had an irrational problem with Salad Cream. I imagine i would retch if some got on me.

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:08 (twenty years ago)

My theory for the common fear is that all these sauces and creams remind the brain of infection, triggering disgust. you know, because they look like pus.

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:13 (twenty years ago)

i was thinking phlegm, but right, viscous bodily substances

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:28 (twenty years ago)

oh yeh viscous bodily substances: we did one of those bbc.co.uk quizzes about this and apparently anything yellowy/reddy/browny and a certain kind of gloopy makes us think of infected wounds which is why we can't deal. i like mayo though.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:36 (twenty years ago)

mayo is white! and plus it is too nice tasting. If infected wounds tasted like mayo i'd be at war with myself

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:42 (twenty years ago)

PROPAH mayo is YELLOW num num.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:01 (twenty years ago)

yes.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:28 (twenty years ago)

that miracle whip jar looks a little too much like

http://static.flickr.com/41/80469298_8b9c442485_o.jpg

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:24 (twenty years ago)

peanut butter and (white petroleum) jelly

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:57 (twenty years ago)

Together in a sandwich!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 7 January 2006 05:13 (twenty years ago)

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