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I'm sad that I missed posting this on the 4th

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Real American Mayonaise , nearly 2 litres each, comes in a 2 pack....

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That is for restaurants lol don't worry

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

Don't know what you're talking about. As an American, I have one in my fridge. And I carry one to work. To add to my lunch, my coffee, of the sun is too hot and might burn my skin...

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My family of 4 goes through that much in about 6 months.

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know how okay I am with keeping mayo for 6 months

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

PH is 3-4, nothing wants any of that action.

There's a reason ketchup and mayonnaise are the classic American condiments, that being that they are acidic enough to remain shelf stable for years. I ain't even joking pre refrigerators that was a massive boon and fridges didn't become common for house holds until the 1950s ice boxes not withstanding.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ridiculous excess. Probably also has three times the ingredients.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

The bigger a container I buy, fewer resources are wasted on packaging and transport

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

To be fair, it's a bulk club; they're designed to service businesses, but price-wise to value we go through that much in a year and they have great expiration dates. My pantry exceeds the stock of a small European market :)

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey we aren't the weirdos who dip our fries in it.

Oh wait that does sound pretty good actually

[–] dumptruck@lemmings.world 2 points 1 day ago

I wouldn't want to dip my fries in Americans.

[–] Undisputedscoop@discuss.online 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is the American mayonnaise even as real as this real American mayonnaise??

Mayo is the same color as the Constitution of the United States. It's more really real than l̶̶e̶̶g̶̶a̶̶l̶̶l̶̶y̶̶ ̶̶ ethically allowed possible.
https://www.webstaurantstore.com/hellmanns-real-mayonnaise-24-gallon-drum/125HLMN8828.html

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

Can you fit your fist through the top? Can you scoop out a handful easily and leave fingertrails in the bottom? Then it's just normal sized IMO.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's just silly, its not even that big. That's a normal big jar of mayo.

With chocolate bars, premade meals, drinks, ect, its a "size" that works as a gimmick but mayo?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

As an American, that's a normal small size of mayo. Most of our "regular" sizes are almost double that, this is about the size of those smaller squeeze bottles:

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This bottle design is an utter bastard. You simply can't get the last bits out of there no matter how much you wait or bang or make it cough and splutter to your food.

I'm sure someone has actually designed it that way as opposed to designing it in a way that would be best for the consumer.

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Get yourself some long mini spatulas. Amazing for cleaning out jars.

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[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't need to worry about that because I just refill it from a larger container

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah don't do that multiple times. One or two times isn't going to kill you but if you did it for years and had pieces of ancient mayo in there that sounds like a health concern.

I'll go get a new knife if I have to open up a new jar to finish something.

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Mayo squeeze bottle, the best thing since sliced bread, especially when it's used on said sliced bread 🥪

[–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How does it compare to amateur mayonnaise?

Amateur mayonnaise practices until it gets it right.

Professional mayonnaise practices until it does not get it wrong.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sips from mayonnaise bucket

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Am Statesian. That's a medium here

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Costco size in the US:

For those in less free areas, that's about 3x the size as the one in the picture. Regular grocery-store mayo (in a jar) is about half the Costco size (something like 850 grams?), and mayo in a squeeze bottle is about the size of the jar picture above.

We, uh, kinda like mayo here...

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

$5, it would cost me more than that just to get the eggs to make it.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's also from 6 years ago...

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[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 107 points 2 days ago (23 children)

Maybe American ant size. Costco sells a lovely 1.9L jar.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago (9 children)
[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago

Almost enough for a regular Midwestern salad.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 52 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

That's not big enough.

It should be the 2 gallon Costco-sized jug to truly be 'Merican.

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago (14 children)

600g? Those are rookie numbers. You call that American size? Our smallest jars are 390 (15 oz) grams. Regular and large jars are 780 (30 oz) and 1248 grams (48 oz). And they do have ridiculously big jars too, 1 gallon jars, i.e. 128 oz and 3328 grams, for, like, restaurants and doomsday preppers... or dudes that just really love mayonnaise, I guess.

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[–] klemptor@startrek.website 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Wow, this made me realize I haven't seen mayo in a glass jar in years.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Same.

I've been loving Kewpie squeeze bottles and Truff mayo.

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[–] Zezzoz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

In Europe it's code for "fatlards".

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 3 points 1 day ago

That is pretty much exactly 1/3 of the size we usually buy in the US. I think it's a little over 21 oz, I always buy the 64 oz size. Our family goes through it pretty quickly.

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