Mayonnaise in New Zealand

[Pixie]

Fuckme.

Just mixed some Eta Mayonnaise with tuna to put in a baked potato. Took a mouthfull and thought WTF?

I hate sugar and sweet things and this tasted like a fishy dessert. I mean your tomato sauce is bad enough (I have sourced HP sauce and REAL Ketchup finally) Now where in Invercargill can I buy Helmans?

Kiwis need to learn food appreciation.

Rant over

When they taylor a food product for the NZ market,the first thing they do is triple the sugar content

[Pussy]

Next there will be a thread complaining about NZ beer being too cold, and our pies too warm.....

[MisterD]

and our pies too warm.....

I shall merely note that cheese is no substitute for kidney...

[Bass]

Ahem. Needs to learn to swallow then doesn't he? Mayonnaise should be savoury - not sweet. 'sall.

You may have cause for a real complaint.
I used to work for ETA. I spent weeks upgrading their mayonnaise production line. Back then, my understanding was that in NZ, as in the USA, anything marketed as mayonnaise could contain only oil, egg and a limited number and proportion of flavourings. In the case of the ETA mayonnaise, the flavouring was mustard oil - lethal stuff, gives off phosgene - has been used as a chemical weapon.
Certainly, sugar was not on the ingredient list, nor was sweetening in any form. If this was not the legal requirement, it was most certainly the recipe.

However Heinz-Watties (now a pommie owned company) bought both the ETA mayonnaise name and also the production plant. If they now add sugar and other shit to mayonnaise, well they come from your side of the world and so you only have yourself to blame

[george formby]

Fuckme.

Just mixed some Eta Mayonnaise with tuna to put in a baked potato. Took a mouthfull and thought WTF?

I hate sugar and sweet things and this tasted like a fishy dessert. I mean your tomato sauce is bad enough (I have sourced HP sauce and REAL Ketchup finally) Now where in Invercargill can I buy Helmans?

Kiwis need to learn food appreciation.

Rant over

Best Foods is the same thing, made in the same country & the same factory. Same jar different label! If it's not available in Invercargill, move.

[Beemer]

You buy mayonnaise??? Make your own! Vinegar,oil,sugar and milk.I use cider vinegar,honey and soy milk....but I'm a bit wierd.I have never bought mayonnaise in my life,my mother always made her own,and so do I.

Same here - an egg, two tablespoons of vinegar (I use spiced vinegar), 1/2 a teaspoon each of salt, sugar and dry mustard, 1/2 to 1 cup of oil (I use a lemon infused olive oil).

Put all except oil in small bowl of a food processor (I have one of those stick blenders with a bowl attachment) and blend, adding oil slowly until it thickens.

I also add fresh parsley to mine and it's delicious - I use this for potato salad too as the bought dressings aren't that great - too acidic.

[george formby]

Looks like Mr t is choking on a hagis

You can get proper Haggis in Devonport, never had it with mayonnaise though.

[george formby]

Same here - an egg, two tablespoons of vinegar (I use spiced vinegar), 1/2 a teaspoon each of salt, sugar and dry mustard, 1/2 to 1 cup of oil (I use a lemon infused olive oil).

Put all except oil in small bowl of a food processor (I have one of those stick blenders with a bowl attachment) and blend, adding oil slowly until it thickens.

I also add fresh parsley to mine and it's delicious - I use this for potato salad too as the bought dressings aren't that great - too acidic.

Add a skerick of washed, chopped capers & horseradish for you tattie salad, put a big lump of smoked fish on the side. It's definitely lunch time.

[Beemer]

Add a skerick of washed, chopped capers & horseradish for you tattie salad, put a big lump of smoked fish on the side. It's definitely lunch time.

Yum, now I'm hungry!

[dogsnbikes]

Best foods and pams american style mayonnaise perfect for your "pomme frits" and bacon buddies
As for eta,kiwi,and others they look like something thats been ejaculatered and just dont do it for me as for condense milk dressings far too sweet......

[george formby]

Best foods and pams american style mayonnaise perfect for your "pomme frits" and bacon buddies
As for eta,kiwi,and others they look like something thats been ejaculatered and just dont do it for me as for condense milk dressings far too sweet......

Their has to be a sick joke here somewhere.

[ManDownUnder]

Fuckme.

No - but enough of that silliness

Kiwis need to learn food appreciation.

Yup! Kiwis visiting anywhere that appreciates fine dining are in for an education all right. Take France for example... I dare anyone tosend a steak back to have it cooked a bit more... go for Medium Well done and see what happens...!

[MikeL]

Traditional kiwi mayonnaise: can of sweetened condensed milk, some malt vinegar, salt and pepper to taste. The taste of summers long past... ... and now I wouldn't touch it. Absobloodylutely disgusting.
A real mayonnaise, made with good quality oil, is the only way to go. Once you've made it, then add fresh garlic (not that awful pulped stuff in jars) to make aioli. Divine!

[scracha]

Next there will be a thread complaining about NZ beer being too cold, and our pies too warm.....

Has to be cold to substitute for the $hit taste.

Apart from the Bacon and Egg ones, Kiwi pies are greasy $hite.

[Pussy]

Has to be cold to substitute for the $hit taste.

Apart from the Bacon and Egg ones, Kiwi pies are greasy $hite.

Clearly, you haven't sampled Mac's Gold, nectar of the gods....

Cold pork pies? Puhlease!!