Poll Time:. Mayonnaise or Miracle Whip

[Painted Calls]

Japanese mayonnaise. It's commonly used in spicy mayo when making sushi. I also use it to make kani salad. It's definitely mayonnaise, but it's not your regular helmann's.

"Kewpie is a little different than American mayo, because it's made with only egg yolks—not whole eggs—and with rice or apple vinegar and no added salt or sugar. It's bottled in a slim red-and-clear container, with an emblematic baby for its logo. But the real secret to Kewpie's cult-following is a healthy dose of MSG."

Sounds yummy!

 

[Everose]

Canned tomato products are always so powerfully acidic and the sugar mellows that out.

I LOVE classico sauce, I buy it in bulk. But honestly if I'm gonna have tomato sauce I just cut up a tomato add oregano, garlic and cook it in a pan with butter and spam or sausage (low sodium will make it less bitter), pour it over noodles and voila! Dinner

 

[RUNuts]

Sounds yummy!

MSG = Migraine.

I'll disagree. Thanks for the warning.

 

[BantyChooks]

Takes one to know one.

I thought you said I was paranoid, not a psychopath.

 

[R2elk]

I thought you said I was paranoid, not a psychopath.

I am guessing that there are even more P words that apply to you.

 

[Painted Calls]

MSG = Migraine.

I'll disagree. Thanks for the warning.

I honestly don't know a lot about MSG. Though my mother I think has a bottle labeled MSG in her spice cabinet. I feel like it's for a certain cookie recipe.

 

[Conan]

I'm wondering where Kewpie is on the poll.

I love Kewpie, but I usually just buy the big tub of best foods at Freddie's.

 

[BantyChooks]

I am guessing that there are even more P words that apply to you.

Proper? Pleasant? Positive? Phenomenal?

 

[SarahLadd]

Sounds yummy!

I always keep some around. I cook a LOT of ethnic food. It's my way of exploring the world without actually going anywhere. I started with Thai cooking when I dated a boy after high school who was Thai and tried his mother's cooking. My parents are both German immigrants, raised in Iowa as older children, and my mother's cooking ended up being that typical midwestern bland spiceless tasteless meat-always-shoe-leather-overcooked blaaaagh stuff. After Thai I moved on to other things. Covid furlough helped me really explore more cultural cooking. Japanese, Indian, French, South African, Creole, I've been getting my hands into all of it.

Kewpie is good. If you don't have the fortune of living within walking distance of an asian grocery like I do, there's always handing money over to Bezos and getting it thrown unceremoniously at your door.

 

[Conan]

Cilantro soap gene sisters!

@Conan also shares this gene.

Yes! My dad is a soap person too.