Miracle Whip

Barf!

It's as horrible as its natural companion, Velveeta processed petroleum byproduct.

It's made with emulsified soybean oil and high-fructose corn syrup and thus is not healthy calories. Avoid.

Why was there ever a need to create a mayonnaise substitute? Seems like Kraft wanted in on a market that was patented or something way back when.

It's disgusting. My ex ate this crap. Should have taken the cue to RUN.

Hellmann's Mayo for me. No substitutes!!!

Love it!

Kraft wanted it because it's CHEAP to manufacture. Duh. Its one of the harbingers of tasty "crack" junk foods to come.

I don't like the gooey, spray cheese-esque logo

I will get burned alive in here for saying this, but I DO enjoy Miracle Whip, though in only one preparation: summer tomato sandwiches.

When I was a kid, kids whose mothers used Miracle Whip and/or Velveeta were made fun of. It was assumed their families were either poor or stupid. I tried to be nonjudgmental because I had friends I liked who were poor and I knew their parents were doing the best they could.

But yeah. Miracle Whip and Velveeta were embarrassing.

[quote]Its one of the harbingers of tasty "crack" junk foods to come.

Dafuq does this mean?

Utter crap.

Yum!

Oh honey R11. A harbinger is a sign of the future. From the 40's through the 70s was the great advancement in industrial food science in American which created HIGHLY tasty and addictive food "products" out of very industrial, unhealthy ingredients, such as HFCS and hydrogenated oils. Incredibly tasty and very unhealthy. And cheap. Leading us to the obesity epidemics of recent decades.

I think when it came on the market, there wasn't any real mayonnaise available, except that which you made yourself. Or if there was, it was really expensive. Plus women in the 50s and 60s were discovering canned and prepared food, so it was a novelty to just open a can or jar and boil away. I grew-up on Miracle Whip, and have no problem with it as a sandwich spread, or with tuna or chicken salad. I haven't had any in years, since I prefer Mayonnaise, but I'd use it in a pinch.

[quote] "Its one of the harbingers of tasty "crack" junk foods to come."

[quote] Dafuq does this mean?

Miracle Whip was developed in 1933, and the poster was referencing the post-WW2 explosion of convenience foods, saying that the release of Miracle Whip was essentially signaling the approach of that event.

A decade ago, there was much pop psychology discussion about how this sort of tasty yet industrial food is similar to crack.

I like it as long as I don't treat it as a substitute for mayonnaise. I always keep a small jar of it in the fridge. I like bacon sandwiches with Miracle Whip.

I would have WW'd your post but don't want to imply that I'm a Miracle Whip aficionado. I'm not.

I love it too

[quote]It's disgusting. My ex ate this crap. Should have taken the cue to RUN.

You reminded me, I had an ex who thought mayonnaise and Miracle Whip were the same thing—interchangeable!!

My brother loved Miracle Whip and Kraft Singles (they HAD to be Kraft Singles) on Wonder Bread when he was a kid, R20.

R10 I wasn't embarrassed about the crap food my poor friends ate - I was envious because it was all delicious. Delicious crap food was rationed at our house.

Miracle Whip is vile crap that ruins everything it touches.

I refuse to date anyone who love Miracle Whip or hates Mayonnaise.

I've encountered a few of those people myself, R21. It boggles the mind.

Baloney sandwiches demand Miracle Whip. It doesn’t taste right with mayo.

[quote] so it was a novelty to just open a can or jar and boil away.

You have to boil Miracle Whip? Why?

Egg Salad or deviled eggs made with Miracle Whip would be my worst culinary nightmare. Even with regular Mayo those two food items are the worst American-style foods I can imagine being forced to eat.

Wow, the mayo people on here sound like cult members.

I remember going to a classmate's birthday party in grade school.

There was a large red Jello mold (cherry? strawberry?) and in the center was a huge pile of Miracle Whip.

I thought it was whipped cream or Kool Whip or something.

I still have no idea what that was about.

Jello is aspic and aspic was a salad dish. Miracle Whip is "salad dressing". A person with older references and culture could easily still be serving Jello with mayo or miracle whip back when you were in grade school, whether that was the 70s or the 50s.

I only like it in egg salad sandwiches.

I think Miracle Whip is big in the south. My partner loves it, I don't care for it. We always have MW in the fridge, but I prefer Trader Joe's organic mayo.

I crave a bologna sandwich every once in a while (maybe twice a year) and I do like Miracle Whip on it. Mayo pretty much grosses me out so I generally don't buy either.

liked it when younger, but ,now, no. I'm a "Hellmann's only" guy

Miracle Whip wasn't invented by Kraft. It's what your great-grandmother called boiled salad dressing. You can make it at home with water or milk, flour or starch, sugar, salt, mustard, vinegar, and an egg. Mix it up and boil. Cool and use on your salads. You can change the seasoning and thickness for different recipes. Poppyseed, celery seed, black pepper, etc. It has half the calories of mayonnaise.

And people who bitch about Velveeta being poor people food. It was always priced at a premium compared to many cheeses in the supermarket. Velveeta was invented to use up factory cheese scraps. It also had the benefit of being stored before opening without refrigeration.

Miracle Whip is much better than mayonnaise.

R31 YUCK. 🤮

With its transgressive brand built into its name from the start, one wonders why the company hasn't marketed "Miracle Whip" as lube.

R32 Jello is not aspic. Aspic is made with meat stock or consomme and is savory.

Makes for good lube.

they are both made from gelatin was my badly-worded point. sheesh

I would rather drink ink. End of.

R38 = Someone who has only eaten store-brand mayonnaise in her entire life, never realizing that one makes it for oneself.

R38 = 400 lbs.

R38 = MAGA Q person but has never voted.

R38 = Her own dog won't lick her.

R38 = Worse than Eva Braun's knockwurst recipe.

R38 = Felicia.

Bye.

How is the taste different from regular mayonaise?

It's not mayonnaise.

It will forever remind me of pre-school. On nice days we'd go to the park and eat bologna sandwiches with Miracle Whip.

I honestly can tell no difference between Miracle Whip or any brand of Mayo.

R49 That's OK, everyone has their own taste. But no use inviting you to Restaurant de l'Hôtel de Ville de Crissier, is there, dear.

I grew up thinking that this garbage WAS mayonnaise. I could never understand why I liked mayo on sandwiches at restaurants yet hated it when my mom used it at home. No wonder I grew up to have trust issues.

[quote] Miracle Whip contains about half the fat and calories as compared to mayonnaise

Miracle Whip is sweeter than mayonnaise.

I'm a Spin Blend man, myself.

I've been a life-long user of the product, so I never had a non-user perspective upon which to cultivate a snobbish disdain for it. I like it. Earlier today, I had crispy thick-sliced bacon sandwiches made with it.

I didn't try actual mayonnaise until I was perhaps twenty. I didn't care for it, because it was saltier than Miracle Whip, which tasted off to me. Since then, I've developed something of a respect for Blue Plate, which I occasionally use, but never as a replacement for Miracle Whip. Of the sandwich spreads, it's hands-down my favorite.

I can't imagine ever wanting to boil me up some dressing.

i don't and never have had MW in my fridge. however, i will acknowledge that my ex-mother in law made a mean pasta salad with it. it has a tang that regular mayo doesn't have.

my go-to mayo is olive oil mayo.

cool story: when i was a kid, we made our own mayo from eggs, oil, lemon juice and a bit of salt. never bought from the store. eggs from our own chickens, of course. we were the poors. we also grew all our veggies and raised pigs. No, i'm not 60 years old or greater.

R56, R15 was speaking of "canned and prepared food" in general, not of Miracle Whip specifically. I know exactly what he's talking about, since my gram boiled the shit of out of everything that came out of a can, like the SpaghettiOs and Meatballs she prepared for my lunch when I was was five. She poured it up into a thin melamine bowl and handed it to me to take to my TV tray in the living room, only it burnt the fuck out of my hands, and I dropped it in the hallway, for which I was beaten with 'the Spanish belt.'

Mm, mmm. Memories. °–°

Waiting for the lawsuits against the food manufacturers in this country begins

Where is the Duke's mayonnaise troll?

Lol, I never understood why Miracle Whip was called "salad dressing" until my college chemistry teacher told our class (in despair & feeling old, because none of us knew) that mayonnaise = oil + vinegar + egg to bind them together. Ah.

R61 - Hon, please tell me you didn't just equate Miracle Whip with mayonnaise. ;)

r62, I didn't equate them, but...

1. oil + vinegar is the most basic salad dressing

2. oil + vinegar + egg = mayonnaise

3. Mayonnaise is a form of oil & vinegar & by housewife logic, is therefore 'salad dressing'.

5. By definition, 'mayonnaise" has oil, vinegar, and egg. Miracle Whip has emulsifiers equivalent to egg, but no literal egg, so it can't legally be called 'mayonnaise' -- at least, not without additional prominent qualifiers like 'mayonnaise-flavored food spread".

6. By calling it 'salad dressing', Kraft avoids the need to qualify it as anything. They do the same thing by taking advantage of appearance-similarity to call fake margarine "Spread", and call fake American cheese "Singles".

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incidentally... is 'American Cheese' by literal definition, always and inevitably 'processed cheese food"? Or is there actually some commercially-orphaned cheddar-like orange-colored literal 'cheese' called 'American cheese' theoretically "out there" somewhere that's simply been 100% displaced by processed cheese food?

My theory: some guy whose last name was probably 'Kraft' set out to make cheddar with cheaper ingredients & improved unrefrigerated shelf life on industrial scale, called it "American Cheese", then ended up in a catch-22 when the gov't said you can't call it 'cheese' (without additional qualifications)... so now, we have a popular variety of cheese food named after a fictional 'real' cheese.

Alternate theory: There's a real cheese somewhere out there called "American cheese" that was once derived from cheddar, but it's so inferior in terms of taste, texture, shelf life, ability to melt gracefully, etc, to processed cheese food that there's literally no reason to bother with it.

I've also been told that Mexican "queso blanco" is LITERALLY the same thing as "American cheese", minus the orange food coloring, and exists because Mexico didn't allow orange food coloring. Eventually, Kraft marketed it as both 'white American cheese' (when sliced & wrapped as singles) and "queso blanco" (when sold as molded blocks or pre-shredded) to gain shelf space in supermarkets.

It is a salad dressing because it's used in pasta salad, tuna salad, egg salad, potato salad...even without sexist shit like "housewife logic" being used.

Actual mayonnaise is simple and healthful. Raw eggs, oil, a bit of vinegar or lemon juice, salt.

The problem for me with Hellman's and other brands is that they use soybean oil, stabilizers, preservatives and so on and the "natural" brands are crazy expensive. Mayonnaise is easy enough to make but it's a hassle .

There's so much misinformation in R63 I don't know where to begin.

Fuck you, r2.

That’s some nasty assed shit.

Never tried it. I am not a huge mayo fan at all and, if I do use it, only in tuna or eggplant salad. If I am lazy, I used Hellmann's light and, if I am in a good mood and have some time, I make it. Otherwise, it never really enters my mind to use mayo. I surprised on this site how many people use and eat and have feelings about mayo. Seems like an ingredient housewives of the 1950's through the 1970's would worry about. Today, grilled and spices are the main focus.

It was all I ate as a kid. Every day for lunch I had a turkey and cheese or ham and cheese sandwich made with Miracle Whip. I had mayo intermittently like in sack lunches on field trips, and I didn’t really care for it. Then one random day, I had a taste for a sandwich but it had to be made with mayo. I think I had to go buy a jar. I’ve never eaten Miracle Whip again.

It seems like it's for poor people.

Madge R63, but there [italic][bold]are[/italic][/bold] US Federal standards of identity for mayonnaise and for salad dressing. I remember it was in the news last year that food makers want the FDA to drop the standard of identity for French dressing, which by law must be greasy and orange. Miracle Whip does contain eggs. Kraft didn't invent salad dressing; they commercialized it. There seem to be many apocrypha regarding the origins of Miracle Whip, but it is just an ordinary boiled salad dressing that has been around for at least a couple centuries.

Do they still call Kraft American Singles cheese "Kraft Canadian Singles" in Canada?

Miracle Whip is a must when you eat baloney on Wonder Bread.

Miracle Meat Rolls...it's what's for dinner!!

I prefer it to regular mayonnaise. I know this makes me an undesirable. I don't care.

Me too, R75. Mayo is gross.

I wouldn’t have a problem with MW if it didn’t show up uninvited and announced and ruin many a party. I grew up in the Midwest and the old ladies had to substitute MW wherever they could, and they always gave the same ridiculous excuse , “You can’t even taste the difference!” Why must you use it if you can’t taste the difference, Marge?

I hate mayonnaise, won't touch it. It tastes rancid. I had miracle whip when I was a kid (yes, we were poor so, no 'gotcha' there) at my Nana's and only had industrial mayonnaise in macaroni salad, the ingredients all stolen from the nut house my mother's boyfriend worked at. Soupy, gloppy, rancid gallon sized mayonnaise.

As an adult I only buy Miracle whip and only use a tablespoon of it in tuna. If I make chicken salad I use half miracle whip and half plain, drained yogurt. I use mustard or honey mustard in sandwiches. Just the sight of mayonnaise makes me gag.

I prefer Duke’s.

Their new light variety made with olive oil is good.

What is miracle whip and how is it different from mayonnaise?

R46 it had that tangy zip. That’s one of its selling points in the old commercial.

Do you guys remember "Sandwich Spred"? Yes, it was spelled like that. It was made by Best Foods. Best Foods has since "corrected" its spelling to "Sandwich Spread." Anyway, it tasted like a mixture of mayo and pickle relish. IIRC, it was slightly sweet.

No, I did not and do not like Miracle Whip. It's too sweet and is tangy in an unpleasant way.

R51, haha a co-worker's son asked her the other day why the toasted bagels from the donut store tasted so good. She replied "probably because they use butter". She's been giving him margarine all his life. I told her she's a child abuser :)

MW is what they scrape out from the Brits uncircumcised dicks.

Even the tiniest pack of mayonnaise can make or break a sandwich. A turkey sandwich without mayonnaise is vile.

Miracle Whip has a sickly sweet taste.