Systemic issue in journalism. The actual reporting breaks down to a one liner; “mayonaise less popular with younger generations, increasingly diverse choice of condiments instead”, but that doesn’t generate revenue
stray@pawb.social 1 day ago
The inexorable rise of identity condiments has led to hard times for the most American of foodstuffs. And that’s a shame.
My son Jake, who’s 25, eats mayo. He’s a practical young man who works in computers and adores macaroni salad. He’s a good son. I also have a daughter. She was a women’s and gender studies major in college. Naturally, she loathes mayonnaise.
newer generations are refusing to meekly fall in line with a culinary heritage that never was theirs. Instead, they’re gobbling up kefir and ajvar and chimichurri and gochujang again.
Red Robin launched a vegan burger. You don’t put mayo on a vegan burger.
McDonald’s has debuted a Signature Sriracha Burger, joining KFC, Wendy’s, and Subway in signing on to the sizzling Thai sauce’s moment in the sun. You didn’t see Huy Fong Foods start a schmear campaign against the cultural appropriation of that.
Some experts say the dislike springs from the fact that mayo jiggles. […] This is bullshit. This attitude comes to you from young people who willingly slurp down eight kazillion kinds of yogurt, not to mention raw fish and pork belly and, yo, detergent pods, so don’t talk to me about mayonnaise. The only reason for this raging mayophobia is a generation’s gut-level renouncement of the Greatest Generation’s condiment of choice.
Besides, I’ve got news: That aioli you’re all so fond of? I hate to break it to you, but that’s just mayonnaise.
Sandy Hingston sounds mad.
Also what? Mayo is still super popular, so what is she even on about? It’s she hamming this up because she feels like this is what’s necessary to make it in journalism these days?
Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 day ago
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s the same issue for recipe blogs. Everyone hates all the filler, they just want the recipe. But having a page with just a recipe does not jive with search engines so people will never see your blog unless you write the filler.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It should be, “mayo like all foods in younger generations isn’t as popular because their palates haven’t gotten to that point yet”.
This is the level of journalism now… complete shit. You’re tastes change over time…so this generation magically hates mayo now? Might as well say this new generation hates their greens.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
Millennials are in their 30s. I don’t think it’s due to palates not having developed. I think it’s more to due with just using a more diverse set of condements. I don’t dislike mayo (though I do despise Miricle Whip), but I don’t use it very often. I tend to go for other flavors. If anything, I think it’s the older generations who have an undeveloped palate. They tend to eat a much smaller variety of flavors/styles.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
That article wasn’t about millennials, it was about genz. A lot of condiments have a mayo style base though.
Also hater of miracle whip…shit is terrible. Mayo is king.
falseWhite@lemmy.world 1 day ago
She was a women’s and gender studies major in college. Naturally, she loathes mayonnaise.
Naturally? Is it some feminist thing to loathe mayo? Why?
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Because it’s hens and cows that are farmed for their products, veganism is a feminist issue.
Feminism is notoriously concerned with chromosomes rather than personhood. /s
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Because mayo is strongly associated with white people and especially conservatives. There’s the whole meme about not eating any food spicier than mayo.
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
It’s because mayo is just disgusting. It like 99% fat and tons of calories. People from New generations actually don’t want to look like dwarfs. Everyone in the 80s and 90s was fat as fuck, and much of this is because they ate mayo a stuff like that. Most of the food Americans eat literally has no nutrients. It’s just pleasure. Just something to stuff their mouths with. They eat for hours and are still hungry, because they might as well be eating sand.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
It’s not though. Maybe miracle whip, but that’s garbage. Not real mayo.
It is extremely high in fat though. But the way Americans eat it is the real problem. You’re supposed to eat a small amount as a condiment to add flavour. Americans treat it like they treat all condiments, the same way Italians treat pasta sauce.
I love mayonnaise but I eat maybe a tablespoon of it at most for an entire sandwich (spread very thinly over the bread) and I use it instead of butter, not in addition to butter.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Because mayonnaise looks like and is sometimes associated with cum and patriarchy. Is my guess.
Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Wait until she hears about sriracha mayo.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Guy hadn’t had real aioli. Doesn’t even know what aioli is.
Name literally means “garlic and oil” because those are the only two ingredients you need for it.
It’s very easy to make at home; start with a few toes of garlic and a table spoon on olive oil. Crush and mush them together till it seems like the oil disappeared. Then add another tablespoon of olive oil and repeat till you have this nice, white looking condiment.
RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Eh easy yes, fast not at all. I only make it for my one other X’er friend who hates, hates, hates may exactly because of Hellmann’s. It traumatized him as a child.
Kenji’s mayo recipe I make literally every week. Easy and fast. Said friend will not even look at it.
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This sounds like a bit. Seriously, how do you hit every culture war talking point but make it about mayonnaise? No one has strong feelings about mayonnaise, Sandy. Only you.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s like traditional media figured out in 2016 Boomer ragebait is the only thing they know how to do anymore, and just keep doing that when they’re out of ideas.
Article tl;dr “Kids today are traitors to the nation because they aren’t Stephen Miller, drinking mayonnaise by the gallon, because it’s not threatening to people with fragile egos and no sense of curiosity.”
Plus, trashing ajvar and chimichuri? How bold of you, Sandy. How courageous to turn up your nose at flavors that you were not exposed to in some midwest surbabn bubble. When you die and your spirit is flung into the void between lives, where you learn how you’ll be reincarnated as a racoon for 20 lifetimes because of the karma you accrued just from penning this single article, I hope the spirits of your Lithuanian parents remind you that judgement like this poisons the soul slightly more than mayonnaise does.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
2016? Writers complaining about the youth misbehaving is as old as writing itself.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Yeah, this infuriating mayonnaise article is from 2018. Had to backdate a touch.
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That read like a shit post. Does Jake drink mayo straight from Sandy’s tit still? Cause something ain’t right there
entwine@programming.dev 22 hours ago
I’m pretty sure that’s all tongue-in-cheek. Giving people the benefit of the doubt is a good default setting.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I’m sorry, “identity condiments”? The fuck?