what the heck is wrong with miracle whip?

[Wishing on a star]

Nope, it is not just mayo with sugar...
And, too me... EWWWW!!!!! Just fakey, tart, sweet, gross...

Really it is just NOTHING like a true mayo.

To me it's like the difference between butter and margarine. Both have their uses but only one is the "real" thing while the other is a substitute.

I have to agree..... true dairy butter girl, here.

PS: Even it were just some sugar... That would still be a killer.... IMHO sugar is for desserts... not sandwiches, deviled eggs, etc...

 

[sjs314]

I just do not like the taste of Miracle Whip. Tried it when it first came on the market blah

My oldest DS was a miracle whip fan, my youngest hated it. If we went to picnics at DS#1 we did not eat the potatoe or macaroni salad. DH dislikes both

 

[RadioNate]

Aside from it tasting bad? Nothing is wrong with it.

 

[luvsJack]

There is a salad that my family makes or most holidays and the dressing is mayo and sugar with shredded cheese. It tastes a little like MW but not exactly.

I don't eat either one enough to have a preference but dh does and its Blue Plate Mayo only for him.

If I am making a potato salad for a cook out or gathering, then I buy a small jar of MW and use both mayo and mw in the potatoes. I also use both sweet and dill relish in it. Its really good that way, but its the only thing I use MW in and don't fix that enough to keep it in the house all the time. If I forget the mw, I have simply added sugar to part of the mayo and it does taste similar (but again, not exactly).

Dh is one of those people that puts mayo on everything, his whole family does. So, he is definitely the one with the preference. If I make a sandwich for myself, I put just enough on to make the bread not dry--not enough to taste it.

 

[whatname]

I think it depends on what you ate growing up. I like MW because that is what I had growing up. It's what tastes right to me. I can eat mayo, don't hate it, but I buy MW.

Hmmm, bologna and MW. I was thinking about that the other day. I haven't had that in years and years. Put some potato chips in the sandwich on white bread, and that is a meal!

 

[Acklander]

I think of MW vs mayo as one of those comfort food things so you are drawn to what you know. I have a friend who grew up on powdered milk, so prefers that to regular milk. Go figure. No debates in our household. DH likes hellmans, and I don't like mayo much at all so his brand wins.

 

[Nancy]

I don't see anything wrong with it..it's just personal taste. I grew up with MW..do not use it now because I prefer the taste of Mayo (and Wegmans store brand only). I will eat food if someone makes it with MW since it is edible just not what I prefer now. I honestly don't think my husband would know the difference or even care, he eats whatever I make.

 

[Wishing on a star]

I am just going to throw this out here, based on the 'but it's what I had growing up' thing....

I firmly believe that it is a big overall cultural problem in this country, that our taste-buds are trained and require everything to be so sweet.

I am just being on-point serious about this....

Everything has to be just completely overwhelmed with sugar/HFCS/etc... Both food and drink.

Everything has to be completely and overwhelmingly sweet, salty, spicy.... 'flavor blasted'... Many times, all three in the very same food.

It is just not good.

And, IMHO, the amount of sugar/HFCS/etc. consumed per-capita in this country, and the rate of obesity/diabetes/etc.. are very probably linked.

 

[pryncess527]

yes, the sugar.

I'm sorry, sugar in potato salad is gross!

I don't like sugar in red gravy either (sauce for the rest of you), so that's just me.

Ditto all that.
I don't eat MW, Dukes mayo or Hellmans is my fave. dH won't eat MW or mayo, he hates them both and thinks I'm gross for keeping it in our fridge, lol

Also hate sugar in cornbread (though sweet cornbread is DHs favorite, I always add some to the last bit of batter for his muffins)
And hate sweet pickles
Hate sugar on grits, or syrup on sausage

I love sweets, just not those foods

 

[crz4mm2]

I love miracle whip. I grew up with it too, it was cheaper than mayonnaise so I'm sure that's why we had it

 

[Kimberlyann11]

We grew up with MW - I think because it was cheaper. My mom even called it mayonnaise. I was always excited when we went to my grandparents house because they had the "good" mayonnaise (Hellman's).

I only buy the real stuff now. I don't "hate" MW - I just don't think it's very good.

 

[FayeW]

We are a Miracle Whip family. I despise mayo. I think mayonnaise makes everything taste like a ham sandwich. Fine if you are actually eating a ham sandwich... not so great if it's tuna or egg salad!

 

[WDWJDS]

I love MW, and don't like the taste of mayo on a sandwich, but I grew up with MW.

A co-worker used to make a tuna/macaroni salad that I just loved. She gave me the recipe and I made it and she said mine tastes better than hers (and I'm a terrible cook). We kept trying to find out why she thought it was different/better, when I realized that when she put "mayo" on the list of ingredients, I bought MW, because honestly, mayo was MW to me (I had no idea there was a difference. Thought MW was a brand name for mayo.)

 

[mhsjax]

DH and I both prefer Miracle Whip, as does my whole family. "Real" mayonnaise is just too sweet to me.

Maybe it is because I haven't had my morning coffee yet, but I am totally confused. Miracle Whip has sugar in it, Mayo doesn't, so how is Mayo too sweet? There is no sugar in Dukes Mayo, I just checked the label. And I checked on Miracle Whip and it had hgih fructose corn syrup and sugar listed. Now I am way confused.

Don't get me wrong, there are some things I like with Miracle Whip. My moms Chicken salad was loved by everyone that tried it and she used Miracle Whip is that, so she could sweeten it up.

 

[amber_cntrygrl]

I personally don't like the taste of Miracle Whip, but know a few people who love it. We use Bama mayonnaise. DH won't touch MW or mayo..

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[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

I compared the ingredients in a leading brand of mayo to those of Miracle Whip. They're very similar. Miracle whip was designed during the depression as a cheap substitute for Mayo. However, its price has caught up.
Relative to a leading national brand It has a higher water content, does not have the required amount of vegetable oil to be labelled mayo, has fewer eggs, less vinegar, more sugar, has modified corn starch that this brand of mayo doesn't and does not list lemon juice as an ingredient that the leading national brand did. Both had other natural flavors and spices which were not revealed. I assume there may be differences there as well.

I don't use mayo much. But when I do, I prefer Mayo and don't like Miracle whip much.

 

[Christine]

The "attitude" about MW also comes from a "class" perspective.

MW was invented by Kraft to be an alternative to mayo that was cheaper (developed in the 1930s during tough times). I think back then the connotation was that it was not a product that was on par, qualitywise, with mayo.

 

[Fire14]

I grew up on MW but I honestly prefer Mayo now. My DH hates Mayo/MW so it's me and me only. I rarely have either in house and probably could do side by side blind test and would pick MW over Mayo. Now when you mess with my Coke Cola you will have issues.

 

[M&N]

I thought this was going to be about the stupid MW commercial. I use the light style myself but think comparing a MW user to The Scarlet Letter is just stupid.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I can honestly say I've never had Miracle Whip. Growing up, we always had the store brand or generic of everything because it was cheaper and even now that's what I prefer. We use the mayonnaise from Sav-A-Lot. Portmann's it's called, but it's really a generic.