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Well, and most HN readers would know "salad cream" as the genericized trademark "Miracle Whip". :-) One of my favorite memories as a kid was being at my grand

• pbhjpbhj 13y ago
  I always assumed "miracle whip" was like a synthetic whipped cream or sweet mousse, never imagined it was salad cream?
  • Schwolop 13y ago
    I'm an Australian born in England - what on earth is salad cream? Let alone "Miracle Whip"!?!?! I'm going to assume this is some form of mayonnaise until told otherwise.
    • bglazer 13y ago
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Whip http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Whip It's fake mayonnaise essentially. From Wikipedia: "Current primary ingredients are water, soybean oil, vinegar, sugar, modified corn starch, eggs. Ingredients making up less than 2% of product include salt, mustard flour, paprika, spice, natural flavor, potassium sorbate, enzyme modified egg yolk, and dried garlic."
      • mjn 13y ago
        That sounds vaguely like what I know as "light mayonnaise", essentially mayo cut with more oil & water and some emulsifiers, and less egg. Is it a matter of degree, e.g. some proportion is "light mayo" and another proportion is "salad cream" or "miracle whip"?
        • gcb0 13y ago
          I call it cheapo mayo with just enough corn stash to benefit from government invectives on corn products.
          • gcb0 13y ago
            incentives... phone keyboard and all that.
    • derleth 13y ago
      > I'm going to assume this is some form of mayonnaise until told otherwise. Indeed it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad_cream https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad_cream
      • Nursie 13y ago
        Well, kinda. It's got a strong vinegarish flavour and some mustard to it. I'd say it's more of a mayonnaise-based salad dressing than an actual mayo.
        • derefr 13y ago
          It's basically weak, pickle-less tartar sauce.
    • MartinMcGirk 13y ago
      I live in Scotland - What on earth is salad?
      • willyt 13y ago
        I suggest you ask a Russian to make you a salad. It would break you in gently to the world of salad eating, I think you would enjoy it :]
      • teh_klev 13y ago
        I live in Scotland too, what's this toasting thing? Is it the same as deep fat frying my bread?
  • joshu 13y ago
    i thought it was mayonnaise?
    • virtualritz 13y ago
      Yeah, it is, essentially. But then, if you call a slice of toast between two slices of "bread" a sandwich, I can imagine how you would think that mayonnaise is something that should be put on a salad. ;) Local view: The sort of bread I've seen people abroad use for toast sandwich, is essentially what we call "toast" in Germany too. Specifically, "toast", in Germany, refers to mostly pre-cut, soft bread with a squarish cross section so bland in taste and so deprived of nutrient content that only toasting will turn it into "food". Nutrient content is just as absent, after toasting, but at least the burned parts help digestion. :] So here, a toast sandwich is a slice of (toasted) bread between two untoasted slices of the same bread, more or less. I've never seen any native eat sth. like this, in Germany. On the other hand, we do have gustatorially misguided contemporaries here, too, that do think that mayonnaise-derived stuff belongs on a salad.
  • jlees 13y ago
    I'd made the same assumption, and even complained about the lack of salad cream in America. I'm sure there is a synthetic whipped cream, though...
  • dazmax 13y ago
    You're thinking of Cool Whip
    • martypitt 13y ago
      You mean Cool wHip?
      • kbenson 13y ago
        Now you're just acting hweird.
  • cbhl 13y ago
    "Cool Whip" is synthetic whipped cream, "Miracle Whip" is indeed a synthetic mayonnaise-like dressing.