LOL!!!

You are expletive funny.

So, the real question is does your brother still make minipizzas for crawdad bait?

MW has 40 calories to Mayo's 100 per serving.

Yes, but where I see people taking a blob at the end of a knife of mayonnaise, they take a big spoonful of Miracle Whip, so doesn't it come out the same in the end?

That's so funny marymd7 - I have the same reaction. I can still, 60 years later, vividly remember the first time I tasted MW. My mom was babysitting some neighbor kids and so I went with to their house. She fixed tuna sandwiches and when I bit into mine, I literally gagged because they only had MW to mix with the tuna - so she'd used that. I'd never had it before and couldn't eat my sandwich. I do almost gag thinking about how horrible it tasted.

Oh, me too! I don't remember the circumstances, but I was at someone's house and given a sandwich with MW and spit it out. I was little. I think the mom was kind and gave me something else to eat because the details are so hazy. But I fully uphold the rights of those who like MW to use it with great abandon!

We never used MW....my mother said it was for "poor people" because it cost half what mayo cost. My grandmother on my father's side never bought mayonaise..."too dear" she said, so her egg salad and tuna salad always tasted odd to me.
When we were first married, my mother in law used to make a boiled dressing....flour, vinegar maybe an egg...bacon grease....cooked up like a pudding....ti was pretty good.

I never tasted mayonnaise, real butter or sour cream until I moved away from home and I can remember each encounter with them all.

Just one more way to prove that taste is subjective and not objective, LOL.

I remember making tuna salad with homemade mayonnaise. Ashley loved it. Until she went to school, and came home telling me that the tuna fish sandwiches at school were better than mine. I chuckled and told her to "ask for the recipe". Turns out they used Miracle Whip. Go figure, and she wouldn't eat homemade mayo with her tuna ever again.

Annie

Poor girl :o(

Just the opposite with me, Annie. Mom always made tuna salad with Miracle Whip. The first time I tasted tuna salad made with mayo--I was probably 9 years old--mayo is the only way that I've ever made it.

We did have mayo in the refrigerator. I don't know what Mom used it for other than mayonnaise cake; she made that cake a lot.

DSII is flexible; he makes tuna salad both ways--mayo & onion or MW and sweet relish, depending on what he fancies at the time, I guess.

Personally, I like the flavour of Miracle Whip. I find plain mayonnaise too bland. I wonder if there's a difference between American and Canadian Miracle Whip, like there is in our ketchups? Our MW is tangy and zippy.

I prefer making my own mayonnaise/miracle whip, which is perfect for egg salads and coleslaw.

No, it's the same horrific (to those of us who hate it) stuff on both sides of the border.

My mom used mayo for most things, but she did use MW for a few of those disgusting depression-era things that she and my dad liked from their childhood, like a salad consisting of a canned pear half on a bed of lettuce with a big blob of MW on top. Gah!

I will never forget the time I inadvertently used MW when making tunafish as a child. Never. At least it taught me an ineradicable lesson in the difference between MW and mayo.

Jasdip, I wonder if the difference is the mayonnaise rather than the MW? The mayonnaise I like has spices and vinegar and is zippy. :) I'm surprised that the ketchup is different, unless it's the specific type. Simply Heinz tastes like it's supposed to (used to), whereas the one under the regular label tastes more like ketchup candy. I wonder if you have the better one. I know the "plain" tea is (or was) different. When I was travelling in my teens, I'd realized we'd come back over the border at the first stop where the (nothing in it) tea didn't taste sweet. Someone once said what kind of tea it was in Canada that tasted sweet, as opposed to the black tea blends I was used to, but I forget.