Is putting mayonaise on a hamburger a lower class thing?

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Anonymous wrote:Putting mayonnaise on anything is low class.

Cool. Tell us more food signals of the low class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Putting mayonnaise on anything is low class.

No, but waiting this sentence 9 pages later certainly is.

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Anonymous wrote:Putting mayonnaise on anything is low class.

Cool. Tell us more food signals of the low class.

Honestly. And anyone bringing up French or Spanish mayo is clearly confused. Those mayos were made with olive oil and fresh eggs, not seed oil garbage on the shelf of Walmart.

[Anonymous]

Burgers are low caste peasant food. They only became trendy because outside of soda pop, they're the highest margin thing on a menu. 10 cents of artery clogging mystery meat, American cheese, and mayonnaise sauce for $12.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Burgers are low caste peasant food. They only became trendy because outside of soda pop, they're the highest margin thing on a menu. 10 cents of artery clogging mystery meat, American cheese, and mayonnaise sauce for $12.

What is high-caste food?

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Anonymous wrote:Putting mayonnaise on anything is low class.

Cool. Tell us more food signals of the low class.

Lol, this is DCUM. This is an inexplicably regular thing around here. There is special hatred for chicken salad and pasta salad. It's totally made up. Of all the things people around here can call "low class" they fixate on something like chicken salad instead of, oh, I don't know -- ho ho's or canned Hormel chili, or fried bologna sandwiches.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Burgers are already so rich and the trendy buns are buttery brioche style. Who clamors for extra fat from mayo? Acidity from a little mustard and pickles is really all a rich burger needs. Onions, tomato and lettuce if you want, I guess. I genuinely don't understand how mayo elevates a burger in any way.

Asking because we ordered an office lunch and all the burgers arrived with a mayo-based sauce on them as standard. Uh, why?!

Hey nutjob. Burgers are one of the great foods that can be adapted to any flavors. There is no low class or high brow with almost anything but certainly not burgers. Stop looking at things through class glasses. It is low class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Burgers are low caste peasant food. They only became trendy because outside of soda pop, they're the highest margin thing on a menu. 10 cents of artery clogging mystery meat, American cheese, and mayonnaise sauce for $12.

There is no such thing as peasants in America. No burgers are not low class food in 2025. And your math is quite off.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Putting mayonnaise on anything is low class.

Cool. Tell us more food signals of the low class.

Lol, this is DCUM. This is an inexplicably regular thing around here. There is special hatred for chicken salad and pasta salad. It's totally made up. Of all the things people around here can call "low class" they fixate on something like chicken salad instead of, oh, I don't know -- ho ho's or canned Hormel chili, or fried bologna sandwiches.

First of all, fried bologna sandwiches are oddly delicious. Which chicken salad is not--it's pretty revolting. Why would you take tasteless chicken, add fruit, and plunk it in mayo? shudder

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Anonymous wrote:Julia Child like mayo as a base for her burgers. She had some good tips for how to make a good hamburger. I personally like very good high fat ground beef on the grill, and then build it with a good melted cheese - maybe aged chedder, swiss, provolene, gouda - mayo at the bottom, then burger, add lettuce, a slice of summer tomato, sliced pickles, and mustard on the top bun. When its quality ingredients, that is a solid burger. So count me among among the lower class for my preferences.

Sweetheart, Julia Child has been dead over over 21 years! Her TV cooking in the 1960s, 70s and 80s is not in any way relevant to modern grocery stores, modern tastes, and modern cuisine.

But good food is good food. Go back to your little tiktok trendy things. We are discussing mayonnaise on hamburgers. As grownups do.

Burgers were peasant blue collar food when Julia was on TV. The burger fad and professional and home chefs perfecting them didn’t happen until the 90s and 00s. Julia’s views are not relevant at all to this dialogue.

You must be young. They were doing that in the 80s too.

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Anonymous wrote:Julia Child like mayo as a base for her burgers. She had some good tips for how to make a good hamburger. I personally like very good high fat ground beef on the grill, and then build it with a good melted cheese - maybe aged chedder, swiss, provolene, gouda - mayo at the bottom, then burger, add lettuce, a slice of summer tomato, sliced pickles, and mustard on the top bun. When its quality ingredients, that is a solid burger. So count me among among the lower class for my preferences.

Sweetheart, Julia Child has been dead over over 21 years! Her TV cooking in the 1960s, 70s and 80s is not in any way relevant to modern grocery stores, modern tastes, and modern cuisine.

But good food is good food. Go back to your little tiktok trendy things. We are discussing mayonnaise on hamburgers. As grownups do.

Burgers were peasant blue collar food when Julia was on TV. The burger fad and professional and home chefs perfecting them didn’t happen until the 90s and 00s. Julia’s views are not relevant at all to this dialogue.

Julia and Jacques Pepin made burgers together and she put mayo, salt and pepper on hers along with butter on her bun. I’ll take her advice any day over an internet troll.

I'm fairly convinced this may have been the first time either of them had ever had a hamburger. Julia especially seemed to be laughing to herself at the thought of eating the American peasant food. And Jacques bite reaction didn't seem to be one of genuine enjoyment. It looked like he wanted to spit it out after the scene cut.

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Eating hamburgers in general is 😁

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Burgers are low caste peasant food. They only became trendy because outside of soda pop, they're the highest margin thing on a menu. 10 cents of artery clogging mystery meat, American cheese, and mayonnaise sauce for $12.

What is high-caste food?

Peasants.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Burgers are low caste peasant food. They only became trendy because outside of soda pop, they're the highest margin thing on a menu. 10 cents of artery clogging mystery meat, American cheese, and mayonnaise sauce for $12.

There is no such thing as peasants in America. No burgers are not low class food in 2025. And your math is quite off.

The peasant spoke without being spoken to!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Julia Child like mayo as a base for her burgers. She had some good tips for how to make a good hamburger. I personally like very good high fat ground beef on the grill, and then build it with a good melted cheese - maybe aged chedder, swiss, provolene, gouda - mayo at the bottom, then burger, add lettuce, a slice of summer tomato, sliced pickles, and mustard on the top bun. When its quality ingredients, that is a solid burger. So count me among among the lower class for my preferences.

Sweetheart, Julia Child has been dead over over 21 years! Her TV cooking in the 1960s, 70s and 80s is not in any way relevant to modern grocery stores, modern tastes, and modern cuisine.

But good food is good food. Go back to your little tiktok trendy things. We are discussing mayonnaise on hamburgers. As grownups do.

Burgers were peasant blue collar food when Julia was on TV. The burger fad and professional and home chefs perfecting them didn’t happen until the 90s and 00s. Julia’s views are not relevant at all to this dialogue.

Julia and Jacques Pepin made burgers together and she put mayo, salt and pepper on hers along with butter on her bun. I’ll take her advice any day over an internet troll.

I'm fairly convinced this may have been the first time either of them had ever had a hamburger. Julia especially seemed to be laughing to herself at the thought of eating the American peasant food. And Jacques bite reaction didn't seem to be one of genuine enjoyment. It looked like he wanted to spit it out after the scene cut.

Jacques worked as chef at Howard Johnsons. Yes, I know HoJo was famous for its haute cuisine.

https://www.westword.com/restaurants/the-most-famous-line-cook-at-hojos-jacques-pepin-5770968