Potato salad, coleslaw, macaroni salad

[Anonymous]

I like vinegar based coleslaw and potato salads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not surprising that the first 3 posters did exactly what OP asked not to do and extolled their disgust over Mayo.

In the context of the post, I would choose the cole slaw. Store bought potato and macaroni salad fare worse than basic cole slaw from the grocery stores.

Most people these days do not like mayo. If you had a choice of eating mud, a slug or bird poop - which would you choose? Probably none because the thought disgusts you. There is no such thing as YOU MUST choose one. We aren't 5 playing would you rather.

That's hardly true, that most people don't like mayo. It's hidden in a lot of things people eat all the time. Dips, spreads, crab cakes, etc.

Exactly. Real mayonnaise is just egg, oil, acid (often lemon juice), and salt or pepper as desired. Just natural whole ingredients, other than the lemon is just juice (not fiber).

It's not trashy. I mean, maybe not to your taste, but the whole faux-horror over "nasty" mayo is just peculiar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's with the mayo hate? It's eggs and oil? So weird.

It’s wild to me too.

Italian cold cut with no mayo?

My homemade tomato pie, mayo… yum

Tartar sauce in a fried fish sandwich, now grant it I only get one of these a year but yum,

Mexican street corn

No mayo. It is revolting.

[Anonymous]

The danger is real. Two deaths in 40 years. It's just not worth the risk.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6429a6.htm

[Anonymous]

When I was a kid, I loved the deli macaroni salad, so I'll say that.

As an adult, much prefer vinegar-based potato salad or cole slaw. Mayo is totally fine for sandwiches and tuna/chicken salad, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The danger is real. Two deaths in 40 years. It's just not worth the risk.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6429a6.htm

DP. And also in that case, it was traced to the potatoes, not mayonnaise.

The attendee who prepared the potato salad with home-canned potatoes reported using a boiling water canner, which does not kill C. botulinum spores, rather than a pressure canner, which does eliminate spores (2). In addition, the potatoes were not heated after removal from the can, a step that can inactivate botulinum toxin. The combined evidence implicated potato salad prepared with improperly home-canned potatoes, a known vehicle for botulism (3).

For all of you that like to point to mayonnaise as a botulism source, it really isn't. Talk to a microbiologist. The biggest dangers are meats (often chicken or ground beef) and rice (Bacillus cereus). Mayo is almost never the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not surprising that the first 3 posters did exactly what OP asked not to do and extolled their disgust over Mayo.

In the context of the post, I would choose the cole slaw. Store bought potato and macaroni salad fare worse than basic cole slaw from the grocery stores.

Most people these days do not like mayo. If you had a choice of eating mud, a slug or bird poop - which would you choose? Probably none because the thought disgusts you. There is no such thing as YOU MUST choose one. We aren't 5 playing would you rather.

That's hardly true, that most people don't like mayo. It's hidden in a lot of things people eat all the time. Dips, spreads, crab cakes, etc.

Exactly. Real mayonnaise is just egg, oil, acid (often lemon juice), and salt or pepper as desired. Just natural whole ingredients, other than the lemon is just juice (not fiber).

It's not trashy. I mean, maybe not to your taste, but the whole faux-horror over "nasty" mayo is just peculiar.

I'm someone who doesn't like mayo. It has nothing to do with it not being healthy. I mean, I'll happily devour all sorts of unhealthy things. I just don't happen to like the taste of mayo.

Now, mayo in something where the taste is hidden? Sure! I have even made my own mayo (vegan and regular) to use as an ingredient in things where it makes sense. But mayo in the three salads OP listed isn't hidden, they all three taste and feel very much like mayo.

[Anonymous]

I'm a mayo lover but these store bought salads can be pretty meh. Potato salad is usually good, but the other two...not so much. I also love vinegar based potato salad and coleslaw but don't necessarily prefer them. Depends on the meal.

[Anonymous]

Coleslaw. I love all 3, but only homemade versions of potato or macaroni salad. I can add some extra vinegar to store bought coleslaw and liven it up a bit and enjoy it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's with the mayo hate? It's eggs and oil? So weird.

After heart disease, cancer, and automobiles, it kills the most people that go to outdoor events.

You forgot drowning, diabetes, anaphylaxis from bees/foods and anything else, and just about everything else. People are dying from macaroni salad at outdoor events.

You forgot guns

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's with the mayo hate? It's eggs and oil? So weird.

It’s wild to me too.

Italian cold cut with no mayo?

My homemade tomato pie, mayo… yum

Tartar sauce in a fried fish sandwich, now grant it I only get one of these a year but yum,

Mexican street corn

No mayo. It is revolting.

It’s sound like you have an eating disorder

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a mayo lover but these store bought salads can be pretty meh. Potato salad is usually good, but the other two...not so much. I also love vinegar based potato salad and coleslaw but don't necessarily prefer them. Depends on the meal.

It’s really the amount of sugar they use that bothers me not the mayo That they do use too much of that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The danger is real. Two deaths in 40 years. It's just not worth the risk.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6429a6.htm

DP. And also in that case, it was traced to the potatoes, not mayonnaise.

The attendee who prepared the potato salad with home-canned potatoes reported using a boiling water canner, which does not kill C. botulinum spores, rather than a pressure canner, which does eliminate spores (2). In addition, the potatoes were not heated after removal from the can, a step that can inactivate botulinum toxin. The combined evidence implicated potato salad prepared with improperly home-canned potatoes, a known vehicle for botulism (3).

For all of you that like to point to mayonnaise as a botulism source, it really isn't. Talk to a microbiologist. The biggest dangers are meats (often chicken or ground beef) and rice (Bacillus cereus). Mayo is almost never the problem.

Even one death in 40 years is too much risk. I can avoid this risk by never eating mayo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh h*ll no to all of them, especially if it’s some Costco trash in a plastic tub.

I’d eat coleslaw if it was freshly homemade and not from bagged-pre shredded cabbage and bottled dressing.

I’d eat potato salad if it was the German kind where it is dressed with a vinegar dressing and not mayo.

I would never eat a macaroni salad

Go back to Kaleland. Nobody is impressed with your snobby tastes. You’ll die a painful death just like the rest of us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The danger is real. Two deaths in 40 years. It's just not worth the risk.

So you’re more likely to die from getting between Oprah and a German Chocolate Cake than you are from mayo? Please pass the Hellman’s.