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

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    20·
    6 days ago

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

      • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        6 days 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…

            • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              6 days ago

              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.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        7·
        6 days 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 :)

      • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        6 days ago

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

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      6 days ago

      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…

      • LousyCornMuffins@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        here’s my go-to dip

        1/2 cup mayonnaise (may substitute sour cream, but i can’t remember what it tastes like)
        1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
        1 can water-packed artichoke hearts
        1 T minced garlic (when cooking for normal people, just use 1 t but i go to the garlic festival and like those quantities)
        1/4 t red pepper flakes
        paprika (garnish)

        1. drain artichoke hearts, cut into small pieces.
        2. Mix all ingredients together except paprika.
        3. Put into souffle dish and sprinkle paprika on top for color.
        4. Bake at 350 degrees f for 20 minutes or until golden and bubbly.
        5. Serve with crackers or baguette thins. Our local bakery does this great crusty pugliese with a wonderful crumb.

        My shortcut is that i throw all the ingredients (except the paprika) in the food processor instead of cutting anything myself, then let it do the shredding. The recipe originally didn’t have garlic or red pepper flakes in it, so you can add your own variations if you’d like.

        • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          We do grilled cheese with it. spread both outsides of the cheese sandwich with mayo, fry it lightly in a pan with butter, the pull the sandwich out and throw down a couple tablespoons of shredded cheddar/jack and throw the sandwich back on top the cheese, cook until crunchy, do the same on the other side.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

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

  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
    101·
    6 days 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.zoneEnglish
    101·
    6 days ago

    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·
      6 days ago

      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·
        6 days ago

        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.

          • Dasus@lemmy.world
            1·
            6 days ago

            Oh yeah I do, like a silicon scraper. But one of those wouldn’t fit into one of those tiny shop mayo squeezer bottles.

            The openings on these generic mayo bottles is like 3cm, whereas on the squeezer mayo bottle, it’s like less than one.

            But aye, the silicon scrapers “mini-spatulas” are great at scraping anything. Saves me like 5% of loss on with my blender, lol. Also really goot when you’re prepping things for freezing.

            • Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
              1·
              6 days ago

              I think the standard for squeeze bottles are 3cm. That’s what 99% of ketchup bottles I have ever seen are.

              Just measured my Kraft squeeze mayo in my fridge and it’s 3cm.

              I use my mini spatulas to clean my ketchup containers

              Personally I don’t use enough Mayo to run out before I need to replace the bottle. If I got the same size jar it would be the same thing, I’m not scraping out the last bits of months old mayo either way. Doesn’t sound appealing.

              • Dasus@lemmy.world
                1·
                6 days ago

                You made me get up to look for a tape measure. Couldn’t find one. 2e coin will have to do.

                The Hellmans mayo bottle is definitely not 3cm. The other one is way wider but the Hellmans is barely the size of a 2e coin, a 2e coin not fitting in it and a 2e coin being roughly an inch (25.75cm as opposed to an inch which is 2.54cm)

                Look at this

                Idk of any inch wide mini spatulas. Could be useful but I’ve not seen any.

                My ketchup bottles are also probably closer to 2" than 1"

                Oh and I’m not gonna use the bottle I had the coin on, it was on sale but I didn’t like it so I’m just waiting to throw it away. Also I don’t ever scrape bottles of month old mayo, if I make my own I use it like at least within a week. Even if it’s mixed from mayo and other premade sauces that have long shelf lifes. I just use the bottle as a sort of medium. I make a mix of sauces, because the ketchup isn’t tasty enough, but the mayo ain’t hot enough, and the mustard isn’t sweet enough. So I mix a bit of all in decent relations, then throw in a bit of garlic, spices, jalapeño relish. Then blend and put in the squirter.

                Use for a day or a couple. Then get rid.

                Then rinse and repeat.

        • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

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

          • Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
            2·
            6 days ago

            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.

          • Dasus@lemmy.world
            1·
            6 days ago

            Well then it’s not a terrible solution, sure, but if you’re going through the trouble already, why not use one of

            These. They’re practically free, way better shape, easy to wash, and prolly easier to fill given the whole size on those small bastards.

            Also making your own mayo / sauces is something I’m kinda used to doing nowadays. I used to think it takes a lot of effort but nah, just mix some mayos/sauces/spices/herbs/garlic, give a tiny blend if there’s hard parts and that’s it. Sometimes I fluff it up by gently adding Turkish yogurt after squeezing it out of the bottle (the yogurt loses consistency if you blend it, so I blend everything else, put it in a squeezer, than lightly mix that with the yoghurt)

  • nthavoc@lemmy.todayEnglish
    8·
    7 days ago

    Should call that classic American Size. Today the standard container size measured in American comes half filled at twice the price.

  • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
    3·
    6 days 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.