![]() ![]() Mayo is basically eggs, oil and vinegar, some salt and maybe some sugar, and it’s whisked together in a process called emulsion. Is hollandaise gross? Is aioli gross? Call it by whatever you name you want, but both are still just fancier forms of mayo. Mayo is gross and I hate it, but if you throw it on something and I pretend it’s not there, I’ll eat it. ![]() Yes, the mayonnaise salad deserved to die and i’m glad my generation did it. If Millennials really did kill mayonnaise, they are truly the greatest generation. ![]() But maybe mayo deserves to die because it’s a gross, greasy trash food whose time is up. Sure, some said, it’s tiring to finger millennials for every flailing industry. That set off a “fun” Twitter debate about mayo. “It just makes everything better,” Hingston writes. As Philadelphia writer Sandy Hingston notes, mayo has a long history of both disguising flaws of less-than-stellar foods, and being, as chef Scott Jones once said, “the perfect flavor carrier.” There are more and healthier-seeming condiments out there. It turns out that young people aren’t gulping this stuff down like they used to. The perp, according to Philadelphia magazine: millennials. So as you can imagine, I was saddened to hear that mayonnaise was declared dead this week. To tart this stuff up, we flavored every vegetable with lard, and we put mayo on every sandwich. But we had to use food stamps for everything else, which means I also ate a lot of dog-shit food: Vienna sausages, bologna cups, fried-egg-and-tomato sandwiches, BLTs and anything else you could cobble together with the cheapest bread, meat, produce and dairy available. Like most poor, farm-descending people I knew, we were always growing, or related to someone growing, a garden full of tomatoes, corn, okra and green beans. I grew up eating a lot of incredible produce in rural Tennessee. ![]()
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