SC - Miracle Whip OOP (was Re: Sweet and Savory)

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Nicholas Sasso wrote:
> 
> >>> Lee-Gwen Booth<piglet006 at globalfreeway.com.au> 9/14/00 1:03:44 PM >>>
>  She goes for serious sandwiches!
> 
> (BTW, what is this "Miracle Whip"?)
> Gwynydd  >>>>>
> 
> This spreadable white goo is a truly insipid sort of boiled salad dressing that is sweet/tart made by Kraft.  It is white and fairly creamy, and marketed as "The Bread Spread" (even has this prominantly on the label) in the US in the late 70's and 80's through to this century.  It is used as alternative to mayonnaise in many households across the United States for salad dressing, dip, potato salad, tuna salad and sandwich spread.  It is rather loaded with sugar, somewhat less oil than mayonnaise thickend with gums and starches more so than eggs, IIRC, and even comes in 'light' version.  Their are numerous store brands and small producer brands of this sort of condiment available as well, but Miracle Whip is the King of this genre.  A far cry for the remoulade you grandmother made :o)
> 
But probably not too far from some of the commercially available salad
creams in your area, except perhaps thicker and less pourable? Its been
a long time since I've encountered salad cream. A classic American
boiled salad dressing (at least I _think_ it's American) starts out life
as a thick white sauce, usually thickened with starch of some kind,
maybe flour, but it may also contain egg yolks and/or cream, into which
salad oil is beaten, just as you would beat oil into diluted yolks for
mayonnaise. It may or may not be sweetened. Miracle Whip is sort of a
mad scientist's answer to boiled dressing. 

> It is an interesting dichotomy, really.  Often those who eat one will not consider even having the other in their house . . . a Swiftian story in the making.  I'll be glad to post tonight the ingredients list and other label markings of interest iof anyone wants them.  Run a search on the Web for interesting sites.
> 

I have a niece who was born and raised for her first six years in the
New York City area, who then grew up (in theory) in Valdosta, Georgia.
She has gone over to the dark side, and has joined the Miracle Whip
Reactionary Terrorists. When she comes up to visit my mom, the jar of
mayonnaise has to be artfully concealed in the back of the fridge, and a
jar of Minimal Wimp substituted. She also informed a restaurant waiter,
in my presence, that she could not (i.e. was physically incapable) eat a
sandwich unless it was on a croissant, at which point I had to inform
her, as politely as I possibly could, that in years of dealing
professionally with nasty and ignorant food cranks, I had never come so
close to smacking anybody for their food preferences as I did at that
moment, for her insult to both the bakers and the sandwich cooks of the
world. Oh, and then I told her sandwiches on croissants were fattening.
I think she had the duck salad ;  )

But yes, the dichotomy discussed above does indeed exist, and probably
will until more such people get smacked ;  ) . Help end this madness in
your lifetime! Smack a Miracle Whip lover today!

Adamantius, who is opposed to gratuitous acts of violence, unless
they're necessary for th' plot
- -- 
Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com