Re: [tied] Mayo

--- In cybalist@... s.com, Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@ ...> wrote:

>
> Since it seems that we're looking for people's opinions on
> mayonnaise, I will add that I hated mayonnaise from the time it was
> first introduced to me as a child. But my mother bought Miracle
> Whip which had more sugar added and that made it especially
> repulsive for me, so perhaps I had an inaccurate

impression of

> mayonnaise in general. My mother also had a recipe for a chocolate
> cake that used mayonnaise instead of butter, and this was
> horrendous and unbelievable to me, so I blacked out the mayonnaise
> from the recipe, to no avail since she knew it was mayonnaise that
> was blacked out from the recipe anyway. Now as an adult I tolerate
> it, and will add it to tuna, but otherwise never choose it.

My own most lasting memory of mayonnaise is the three half-gallon jars
in various state of full- or emptiness I saw in the fridge of a
relative of the girl I hitchhiked through America with, whom we
visited in Oakland, and you could tell she ate them, maybe to ease her
nerves over the career of her husband, who told me in a late night
conversation, among other things, that he knew where thirteen people
lay buried in the Berkeley Hills but he wasn't telling. Americans are
weird.

> I can't

understand how many Europeans will eat their french fries

> with mayonnaise. To me that's like eating fat with some oil added
> for flavour.

That is an incorrect claim, since only the 10.5 million Belgians have
that custom. The rest of us Europeans don't get it either. Didn't you
watch 'Pulp Fiction'? Tarantino wrote it in Amsterdam.

Torsten

Oh.  I really didn't know it was only the Belgians.  I thought it was popular in France too, and then I generalized.  I actually went to see Pulp Fiction and the first time I saw it I really couldn't follow it, it had too much violence for me.  Since then it's been on TV but I've only seen about 5 minutes at a time, so I don't know of any mayonnaise scene.  Let me guess, he covers his girlfriend/mistress in mayonnaise and licks it up in a bizarre sexual act?  Oh and I really don't know how anyone, including that American who had three jars of it, can eat mayonnaise by itself.  That sounds just too disgusting to believe.  But as a child I wrote a short story about a troll who used to squeeze his pimples and boils and collect the pus in jars, and sell it as mayonnaise.  You can tell I really was prejudiced against mayonnaise.

I wonder what the relevance of this thread is to Indo-European studies.

Oh, and yes, a lot of Americans are weird, but really I think everyone is weird, myself included of course.  (I hope that doesn't mean we're all Americans, as George Bush said after Sept. 11, didn't he?)

Andrew