Fresh fruit and...um.......Mayonnaise?

[amadoj0nes.livejournal.com]

Why?

Did people just not think at all back then, when it came to food?



A plate full of fresh fruit with cup of mayonnaise makes about as much sense as a salad with can of motor oil on the side.

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[dominoep.livejournal.com]

I don't know but tuna and olives with asparagus over rice followed up by a bowl of fruit drowning in mayonnaise sounds pretty good right about now...

[ladyjaye75.livejournal.com]

Fruit salad and mayo? Ewwwwwww! Now, fruit salad and yogurt: that's good! :)

And who the heck takes time to slice up strawberries like that, like they're a precious, hard-to-find fruit?

[amiga500.livejournal.com]

I'm just going to pretend that this was before they'd invented yogurt, or custard, or sour cream, and had to use mayonnaise and cream-of soup as sauce/dip for everything.

Also, the pink hat looks like a jello salad.

[7ofclubs.livejournal.com]

This was WAYYYYYY before health-consciousness made yogurt the "default" dipping base. Everything was sour cream or mayo.

[janenx01.livejournal.com]

>And who the heck takes time to slice up strawberries like that, like they're a precious, hard-to-find fruit?

I confess, I do. I like pretty fruit. Not with mayonnaise, though.

[telesilla.livejournal.com]

And who the heck takes time to slice up strawberries like that, like they're a precious, hard-to-find fruit?

At the time? Unless you lived in California, they were, particularly out of season.

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

Well mayo and fruit is better than just eating spoonsfuls of mayo on white Wonder Bread, neh? Cause people used to eat that and think nothing of it. Or just eat a spoonful of mayo, hold the fruit.

And those strawberries WERE precious, because at that time you only had them when they were in season, ie, for about 12 minutes once a year.

[7ofclubs.livejournal.com]

I can't quite imagine *dipping* fruit in mayonnaise, but side dishes of fruit and mayo were quite a staple of when I was growing up (e.g. a split banana w/ mayo and sometimes peanut butter as well). Might be a Southern thing.

[crumblingmoon.livejournal.com]

Er. actually, I think it makes waaaaaaay more sense to eat mayo than motor oil.

[joiseyguy.livejournal.com]

The Dutch eat their french fries with mayo. My sisters dipped their french fries in chocolate milk shakes. Elvis ate grilled peanut butter & banana sandwiches. Mom had her banana & miracle whip on wonder bread sandwiches. Lots of fruit salad recipes call for mayonnaise or salad dressing...Waldorf salad, Ambrosia etc. The seafood pizza from the Bangkok Pizza Hut has shrimp and little octopus legs as toppings. Just because a food item is weird or unpalatable or unknown to you doesn't mean that there's something wrong with it and that it's alright to mock it.

[poofy-boy.livejournal.com]

I don't want to live in a world where it's not alright to mock others preferences. 'Cause damnit, that just sounds so bleak.

[teaspoons.livejournal.com]

So that's where my grandma gets this notion from.