So, what are you eating right now?

ribbons · 07-19-2022, 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by music_collector

Last night, I was at a family restaurant with my wife and kids. I ordered a club, as I had trouble deciding on what to eat. I asked the server to hold the mayonnaise. It wasn't noted in the menu, but I knew it was going to be there.

Like many restaurants in the area, this one was short staffed. It took a while for our plates to arrive. When my plate arrived, I could tell that the slices of bread were doused in the white crap. Lots of the lettuce and chicken were too. Sigh.

It was getting late, and it was almost past my kids' bedtime. I let out a groan. I dissected my sandwich and ate what wasn't tainted. My wife told me I should have said something. It took a while for our plates to come out. I wasn't going to subject the kids to that. I left a decent tip (20%).

What would you have done in my situation?

You were thinking of the kids, and that's always OK.

Mayonnaise, on the other hand, is not OK. I've always disliked mayo and can't even touch a sandwich or what-have-you if it has mayo on it. At least you tried to eat the sandwich - I would have gone hungry rather than eat the mayo.

Plankton · 07-19-2022, 09:53 AM

I have a friend who's a great chef and he's obsessed with mayo so much it's kind of a running joke in our small group of people, but he also puts Ketchup on his steak. I'm still trying to process that info and I've known him for decades.

ribbons · 07-19-2022, 10:22 AM

Since he's a chef, maybe he makes his own mayo (which would be a superior version at least). Ketchup on steak I can understand, since it's often an ingredient in steak sauces.

There's a place I frequent here that has premade vegetarian sandwiches, and lately they've taken to adding mayo to nearly all of them - ugh! Only 1-2 sandwiches there are now made without mayo. Why, oh why?

Plankton · 07-19-2022, 10:37 AM

I'll eat anything, but I won't put ketchup on steak or hotdogs. To each their own.

Mayo is food glue.

music_collector · 07-19-2022, 01:58 PM

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Mayo is food glue.

Perhaps you're right. I just can't do it.

One lunch pre-covid, my friends and I hit up the local deli. They make amazing sandwiches the size of US footballs. The one time they mistakenly put mayo on my sandwich, it was drenched. I gave it to a coworker. He couldn't eat it either. He likes mayo, but the sandwich was beyond saturated.

White sauces and I don't agree in a number of ways. My father loves telling me about the time he met my mom's folks. Their idea of a salad dressing was milk. I come by my dislike of white sauces honestly, because my mom hates them.

Mayo in any form, I won't touch. Whether it's aioli, mayo, tartar sauce, etc, no thanks.

I'll put ketchup on hot dogs, but that's it. I won't put any sauce on a steak, unless it's been burned beyond recognition.

Plankton · 07-19-2022, 02:11 PM

Oh, aioli is the bomb, so's tartar. Dayum. Thats alright, more for me.

...also:

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Originally Posted by music_collector

I'll put ketchup on hot dogs, but that's it.

music_collector · 07-19-2022, 02:42 PM

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Thats alright, more for me.

I'm willing to share. Sharing is caring.

I used to be a ketchup snob. There are two French Canadian things ketchup doesn't belong on, in my opinion. Those two dishes are shepherd's pie (aka pâté chinois) and tourtière (meat pie). To each their own now.

Oh, and Ryan started the fire!

The Batlord · 07-19-2022, 03:21 PM

I'm no ketchup snob but it's not even good on a hotdog. Or any pork.

**Marie Monday** · 07-19-2022, 04:16 PM

ketchup isn't good on anything but I'll turn this place into a pro-mayo forum if I have to ban each and every one of you

ribbons · 07-19-2022, 04:25 PM

I'm sorry, Marie, but mayo makes me physically ill. Maybe you should create a mayo poll.

I can't believe that some people even put mayo on chips (or french fries, as we call them here). ***shudder**

Ketchup is only good on chips/fries, and sparingly. I don't eat hot dogs any more, but never understood ketchup on them. Red on red, lol.

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I'm no ketchup snob but it's not even good on a hotdog. Or any pork.

I have a friend who eats ketchup on eggs - the height of yuck!

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07-19-2022, 10:22 AM	#2633 (permalink)
ribbons Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,265	Since he's a chef, maybe he makes his own mayo (which would be a superior version at least). Ketchup on steak I can understand, since it's often an ingredient in steak sauces. There's a place I frequent here that has premade vegetarian sandwiches, and lately they've taken to adding mayo to nearly all of them - ugh! Only 1-2 sandwiches there are now made without mayo. Why, oh why?