I’ve thought about that off and on for a while. Same with Jello. I think it mostly just coincides with the rise of mass factory food production. Mass chicken farms produce tons of short shelf life eggs that can get easily made into shelf stable mayo. And mayo is part of the pantheon of “things that are difficult to make at home, but I can buy a mass produced version cheaply at the store.” Then aggressive marketing on the parts of Hellman’s and Best Food’s. Probably something to do with refrigerated trucking being more common as well and the general trend towards those “quick and easy for the housewife” recipes.
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Was mayonnaise just discovered in the 50s or something? Every recipe seems to involve mayo, no matter how strange.
Can’t be called a salad if there isn’t oil, salt, and vinegar in it. Mayo is all of those things.
https://www.allrecipes.com/article/what-is-a-salad/
I’ve thought about that off and on for a while. Same with Jello. I think it mostly just coincides with the rise of mass factory food production. Mass chicken farms produce tons of short shelf life eggs that can get easily made into shelf stable mayo. And mayo is part of the pantheon of “things that are difficult to make at home, but I can buy a mass produced version cheaply at the store.” Then aggressive marketing on the parts of Hellman’s and Best Food’s. Probably something to do with refrigerated trucking being more common as well and the general trend towards those “quick and easy for the housewife” recipes.
I think mayo is inevitably american