There has been renewed attention to my now 3 year old post “What Happened to Miracle Whip?” Apparently, it’s the most read post in the last week or so, judging from my Top Posts list. I’m not sure why, so I’ve reopened the comments section, which I closed a while back because they all were beginning to sound about the same.
What’s new?
We got patio tomatoes in early June, which I mentioned in a post on June 2, 2025. We now are getting cherry tomatoes and just recently saw a slicer tomato as well. Sena also has been growing garden oregano and parsley. Sometimes while she’s out there, red-wing blackbirds dive bomb her. It makes me wonder whether there’s a nest under the deck although it’s late in the season for those shenanigans.
The other big surprise is Sena got some Miracle Whip salad dressing for me! OK, the jar is small because she also got two bars of Duke’s Mayo which obviously are the priority around here for a certain somebody.
There’s been this long running joke about Miracle Whip not tasting like it used to years ago. I call it a joke because I think the blog post I wrote about it got more comments than any other (see What Happened to Miracle Whip? Posted 9/3/2022; 16 comments!). I recently closed the comment section on it because they all say the same thing. It was an echo chamber.
They all complain that Miracle Whip is not the same and the company should go back to the original recipe. Conspiracy theorists?
Anyway, Sena made lunch using her home-grown veggies today. It was darn good!
Sena bought a couple of new brands of mayo, or new to us anyway. They were Bama Mayonnaise and McCormick Mayonesa. Sena didn’t much care for Bama Mayonnaise. And that is just her personal opinion; don’t send any nasty letters, please!
On the other hand, we both really liked McCormick Mayonesa. It has lime and sugar in it. It reminds me of Miracle Whip, which as you know, is my favorite (no offense, out there!). Sena really prefers Hellmann’s Real Mayonnaise. But I still love her.
Here’s the thing about my sensitivity about nasty comments. I want to emphasize here that we are not rating any of these mayos we’ve tried. OK, I’ve written a few blog posts about them, but you will not find any numerical ratings about them (I’m pretty sure, though I haven’t checked). I found a web site article by Sean of the South. The title is “Mayo Wars.” He rated the mayos. Big mistake. He got a lot of flak. There are a lot of folks out there who worship their favorite mayos.
Sean tried 73 brands of mayonnaise. I didn’t know there was anywhere near that many brands of mayo! I gather Sean’s ratings made some people stride briskly to their refrigerators, pack their favorite brands lovingly, and ship them to Sean with letters expressing deep devotion to their mayos while advising Sean to watch his step or suffer the consequences.
Anyway, we’re not rating mayos. In fact, we believe that all mayos are created equal. Only, we think you should give the McCormick Mayonesa a try. We think it’s pretty good in potato salad and as a sauce for fish.
Big day of mayo taste testing yesterday. We broke out the Kewpie Mayo, Duke’s Mayo, and Miracle Whip. Actually, we got the two mayonnaise brands out for dishes Sena had planned. We got the Miracle Whip out just to compare the taste of all three.
I thought the Miracle Whip was tangy. Sena actually thought it was pretty good too. Miracle Whip was sweeter than the other two (but not cloying!). Duke’s Mayo was definitely strong on the egg yolk flavor. I also thought it was salty. Kewpie Mayo was very different from the other two but it was difficult to tell just how, exactly.
We tried out the Duke’s Mayo on egg salad sandwiches. Sena’s verdict on Duke’s Mayo is that she doesn’t really like it and prefers Hellmann’s. I’m indifferent to it. I think it makes for a pretty good egg salad sandwich, but I prefer Miracle Whip. And Sena is becoming a little more partial to Miracle Whip.
Okay, so it’s Mayo Wars again at our house evidently. Remember that challenge of Mayonnaise vs Miracle Whip Sena and I had a while ago? Well, now Sena is planning to make a Korean cheddar corn dish. It’s supposed to be made with Japanese mayo, which I gather refers to a product called Kewpie Mayonnaise.
She also ordered a couple of other mayo products: Blue Plate Mayonnaise and Duke’s Mayonnaise. She plans to use them in egg salad and a fish sauce.
All of them use mainly or only egg yolk instead of both the white and the yolk as other mayo makers do. Hmmm. One reviewer says that this avoids the “cloying sweetness” of Miracle Whip.
The nerve!
The other annoying thing is that the Kewpie Mayo took its name from the Kewpie doll. Let’s be clear, the word “Kewpie” is not Japanese. It was coined by an American illustrator, Rose O’Neill. The name comes from “cupid” the name for the rosy-cheeked babies and the Greek god Eros. The Romans called him Cupid. A Japanese businessman shrewdly applied the name to the mayo his company made because kewpieness was getting a lot of attention in America. Kewpie dolls are collectible.
“Cloying sweetness of Miracle Whip” for crying out loud!
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