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Originally Posted by ceptimus
I looked up the Wikipedia entry on Mayo and was surprised at how recent an invention it is.
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Oh. My.
This inspired me to check the Hilobrow series De Condimentis to see if it covered mayonnaise, and holy mackerel did it ever:
Salsa Mahonesa and the Seven Years War | HiLobrow
Mayonnaise is also a mother sauce, so it's covered in a few other installments in the series as well, but I especially like the palpable rage and salmagundi facts in the one about salad dressing:
De Condimentis (14): Dress My Salad | HiLobrow
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So here we are today, oppressed by our salad dressing “choices.” Stand in the salad dressing aisle at the grocery store and tell me you don’t feel oppressed — watched, even. Salad dressing, once a way for humanity to control our salad is now controlling us, bossing us around. Where did the bourgeoisie put all that coercion? Just follow the money and pour it on — you don’t even have to shake it.
It will be a long road back, but every time you pour some fish sauce on a green salad, shake some oil and vinegar together with whatever happens to catch your eye in the spice cabinet, every time you make some mayonnaise, mix it together with some ketchup, some hot peppers and garlic and say “take that Stalin, you bastard,” you reclaim just a little of what was stolen from us and thrown down that yawning chasm at the crossroads of democracy and capitalism.
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