Oh sorry, family word maybe? A child cheater is a flexible spatula (rubber or silicone) rounded on one side, that scrapes all the yummy cake batter out of the bowl and into the baking pan, leaving not enough to lick.
I worked prep at a buffet, and there was a salad that we made in bulk that used exactly one full gallon of mayo. i got really good at scooping it all out with a spatula in one fluid spiral.
just one of many otherwise completely useless skills i developed in foodservice lmao
I worked at a pizza buffet when I was in high school. The ranch dressing, made in 5 gallon buckets, called for multiple gallons of mayo and buttermilk. I too got far too skilled at getting it all out in one go.
Worked at a seafood restaurant and we made coleslaw in basically a 40 gallon trashcan. Even had this auger that you attacked to the top to make it a huge food processor. It would use multiple gallons of mayo.
Liter? Americans aren't even consistent with their weird systems of measurements. Why is it not marked as 568.3844 fl oz? Or 0.244 football fields or 38.38383 yards or smth
We had a big push to try to adopt metric for a bit. It stalled out for various reasons, but it ended with metric units being required on food and stuff, metric being the official system of the government, and new things introduced in that period being referred to in metric.
So beverages come in 8, 12, 16, and 20oz, 1 liter, 2 liter, and gallon.
We also print both units on just about everything.
600g? Those are rookie numbers. You call that American size? Our smallest jars are 390 (15 oz) grams. Regular and large jars are 780 (30 oz) and 1248 grams (48 oz). And they do have ridiculously big jars too, 1 gallon jars, i.e. 128 oz and 3328 grams, for, like, restaurants and doomsday preppers... or dudes that just really love mayonnaise, I guess.
There's also the family that uses mayo and only goes shopping once a month or whatever. Some of those bigger jars are something like two normal sandwiches a day for a month, which is totally possible if you're packing lunch for two kids.
Some of our preposterous containers of food are because some people decide to live unreasonably far from a grocery store, or just go shopping infrequently and buy huge amounts of food.
(This has the side effect of making them buy bigger cars to hold the groceries and family that now has to come along because it's such a long trip, and that makes it miserable so they try to do it as infrequently as possible, so they need to buy a lot of groceries to hold them over. )
I haven't seen anything under 20oz in my supermarket, but I'm not buying the fancy "organic" stuff, just the squeeze things for picnics and the larger jars for home.
For most things where dropping it is likely and would definitely break it. It also lines up with the cost change for glass going up as the container gets bigger.
I figure part of it is people having a preference for the lighter jar for big quantities, and liking the rigidity of glass for the smaller ones.
The largest sold to consumers through normal channels is a gallon. Typically used by people who are feeding a lot of people, like making a dish for a large family gathering, or by people who only go shopping once a month or less. Some people live an hour from the store, so they just buy an excessive amount of food and shop infrequently.
Nah, the ounce is a unit of weight and volume. 55 gallons = 7040 fl oz ~= 7040 oz ~= 440 lbs = 200kg.
Aren't American units great? Here's a nice converter for various things, including mayo, which is ~0.94 oz per fl oz. But generally speaking, a fluid ounce is roughly the same as a weight ounce, kind of like how a milliliter is roughly the same as a gram (exactly equal for water, while a fluid ounce isn't exactly equal to a weight ounce for water).
Every barrel you see on TV or in a movie is 55 gallon or 42 gallon.
Other sizes exist but those two are so prevalent that you really only see those. The size comes from the oil industry where it's a standard unit. It's common to sell oil in different units, but the barrel size is so common that everyone just uses the same container and maybe just rounds the units.
Can't use a 42 gallon barrel , has to be the metric 160L, or the 200L 55 gallon drum.
I prefer the 300 gallon IBC tote. Then I can unload it from my pickup truck with the pallet forks on my skid-steer and put it straight into the mayo door on the side of my house.
For those in less free areas, that's about 3x the size as the one in the picture. Regular grocery-store mayo (in a jar) is about half the Costco size (something like 850 grams?), and mayo in a squeeze bottle is about the size of the jar picture above.
1/2 cup mayonnaise (may substitute sour cream, but i can't remember what it tastes like)
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
1 can water-packed artichoke hearts
1 T minced garlic (when cooking for normal people, just use 1 t but i go to the garlic festival and like those quantities)
1/4 t red pepper flakes
paprika (garnish)
drain artichoke hearts, cut into small pieces.
Mix all ingredients together except paprika.
Put into souffle dish and sprinkle paprika on top for color.
Bake at 350 degrees f for 20 minutes or until golden and bubbly.
My shortcut is that i throw all the ingredients (except the paprika) in the food processor instead of cutting anything myself, then let it do the shredding. The recipe originally didn't have garlic or red pepper flakes in it, so you can add your own variations if you'd like.
We do grilled cheese with it. spread both outsides of the cheese sandwich with mayo, fry it lightly in a pan with butter, the pull the sandwich out and throw down a couple tablespoons of shredded cheddar/jack and throw the sandwich back on top the cheese, cook until crunchy, do the same on the other side.
There's a reason ketchup and mayonnaise are the classic American condiments, that being that they are acidic enough to remain shelf stable for years. I ain't even joking pre refrigerators that was a massive boon and fridges didn't become common for house holds until the 1950s ice boxes not withstanding.
Don't know what you're talking about. As an American, I have one in my fridge. And I carry one to work. To add to my lunch, my coffee, of the sun is too hot and might burn my skin...
To be fair, it's a bulk club; they're designed to service businesses, but price-wise to value we go through that much in a year and they have great expiration dates. My pantry exceeds the stock of a small European market :)
I had to look it up because I hardly ever actually buy mayonnaise, but I’ve walked down the mayonnaise aisle at the supermarket… What’s funny is that your 600g “50% more: American size” is actually a tweener size here.
The standard small jar here is 15 Floz (about 400g; we sell mayo by volume here apparently). The standard large jar is double that. And of course we have less common, but not uncommon, 48 Floz for “family size” and larger still in bulk.
We do have containers that are between or smaller, but the those are usually specialty containers (mainly squeeze bottles), specialty types (such as avocado oil based or flavored/blends), or just less common in general.
Yes. Mayo is a key ingredient in so many picnic dishes. Dishes that people regularly prep for BIG family gatherings where everyone brings home leftovers. Potato salad, coleslaw, and pasta salads made by the gallon. Sure, some people eat way too much, but sharing and sharing big is kind of the whole point. If someone shared food with you in a park, you're family now and will be expected to bring your weight in your other family's traditional recipe of something next time.
As an American, that's a normal small size of mayo. Most of our "regular" sizes are almost double that, this is about the size of those smaller squeeze bottles:
This bottle design is an utter bastard. You simply can't get the last bits out of there no matter how much you wait or bang or make it cough and splutter to your food.
I'm sure someone has actually designed it that way as opposed to designing it in a way that would be best for the consumer.
Yeah don't do that multiple times. One or two times isn't going to kill you but if you did it for years and had pieces of ancient mayo in there that sounds like a health concern.
I'll go get a new knife if I have to open up a new jar to finish something.
Well then it's not a terrible solution, sure, but if you're going through the trouble already, why not use one of
These. They're practically free, way better shape, easy to wash, and prolly easier to fill given the whole size on those small bastards.
Also making your own mayo / sauces is something I'm kinda used to doing nowadays. I used to think it takes a lot of effort but nah, just mix some mayos/sauces/spices/herbs/garlic, give a tiny blend if there's hard parts and that's it. Sometimes I fluff it up by gently adding Turkish yogurt after squeezing it out of the bottle (the yogurt loses consistency if you blend it, so I blend everything else, put it in a squeezer, than lightly mix that with the yoghurt)
Oh yeah I do, like a silicon scraper. But one of those wouldn't fit into one of those tiny shop mayo squeezer bottles.
The openings on these generic mayo bottles is like 3cm, whereas on the squeezer mayo bottle, it's like less than one.
But aye, the silicon scrapers "mini-spatulas" are great at scraping anything. Saves me like 5% of loss on with my blender, lol. Also really goot when you're prepping things for freezing.
I think the standard for squeeze bottles are 3cm. That's what 99% of ketchup bottles I have ever seen are.
Just measured my Kraft squeeze mayo in my fridge and it's 3cm.
I use my mini spatulas to clean my ketchup containers
Personally I don't use enough Mayo to run out before I need to replace the bottle. If I got the same size jar it would be the same thing, I'm not scraping out the last bits of months old mayo either way. Doesn't sound appealing.
You made me get up to look for a tape measure. Couldn't find one. 2e coin will have to do.
The Hellmans mayo bottle is definitely not 3cm. The other one is way wider but the Hellmans is barely the size of a 2e coin, a 2e coin not fitting in it and a 2e coin being roughly an inch (25.75cm as opposed to an inch which is 2.54cm)
Look at this
Idk of any inch wide mini spatulas. Could be useful but I've not seen any.
My ketchup bottles are also probably closer to 2" than 1"
Oh and I'm not gonna use the bottle I had the coin on, it was on sale but I didn't like it so I'm just waiting to throw it away.
Also I don't ever scrape bottles of month old mayo, if I make my own I use it like at least within a week. Even if it's mixed from mayo and other premade sauces that have long shelf lifes. I just use the bottle as a sort of medium. I make a mix of sauces, because the ketchup isn't tasty enough, but the mayo ain't hot enough, and the mustard isn't sweet enough. So I mix a bit of all in decent relations, then throw in a bit of garlic, spices, jalapeño relish. Then blend and put in the squirter.
And a lot of those are related. Big country means that our cities can sprawl. Big (low-density) cities mean that our roads can be wide. Big roads mean that our cars can be big.
Big country also means that there are a lot of people, and sooner or later a good percentage of them want to live close together, so they build big (dense) cities, which means big buildings.
And the sprawl leads to the part about big containers of unhealthy food, too. If you live more than an hour away from the nearest grocery store, you're unlikely to get groceries more than every other week or so, which means you need to buy larger, more shelf-stable containers of food.
I believe (based on nothing but a whim) that us shopping culture is based on buying supplies (shopping for a week or more) while the European shopping culture evolved more from daily supplies from the market. Rural Europe would be the same i guess, but old cities was made for daily commerce
I lived in a couple of countries on Europe and the daily and bi-daily shopping is only really for people who live in big cities and commute by public transport and will pass by a small grocery shop on their way home from work.
As far as I can tell most people do a single weekly shopping generally by driving to a supermarket or even hypermarket either on the weekend or at the end of a working day, hence the popularity of such large surfaces.
Even in places like The Netherlands people have side bags on their bicycles and can just cycle to a supermarket once or twice a week if they don't feel like driving there and bring the shopping on the side bags.
From my own experience with my grandparents (farmers in Portugal), rural food planing timeframes are even longer than a week, as people relied (at least 50+ years ago) on preserved meats and longer duration things like dried pulses, certain fruits, and staples like potatoes for months or even a whole year and then add in season fruits and vegetables and even just go outside and pick up whatever was ripe then from a plot next to their home (so, for example, make soup with some salted pork bellies and chipeas from their food stores and some spinach and carrots picked up from from a farming plot near the house).
Anyways, even in Europe doing a weekly shopping is generally more convenient.
Mind you, it's great when you live inside a big enough city and you can just hop out of the tram a stop or two early on your way home and go by a mini-market to buy, say, some milk and fresh vegetables, but that's not how it generally works for most people, mainly because even in a big city, unless you live right by the store it's more time efficient to do one big grocery shopping a week were you can go to bigger places with more selection.
That is pretty much exactly 1/3 of the size we usually buy in the US. I think it's a little over 21 oz, I always buy the 64 oz size. Our family goes through it pretty quickly.
Maybe American ant size. Costco sells a lovely 1.9L jar.
Even the jar looks like it needs to be on a diet
Almost enough for a regular Midwestern salad.
64 fluid ounces = 128 servings of 1 Tablespoon = 11,520 total calories, if you use a child-cheater to scrape out every drop.
A what??
Oh sorry, family word maybe? A child cheater is a flexible spatula (rubber or silicone) rounded on one side, that scrapes all the yummy cake batter out of the bowl and into the baking pan, leaving not enough to lick.
Definitely a local thing, I've never heard of it, and I'm a born and raised bowl licker.
That makes sense!
Kinda dumb that these two are called the same thing. They're for very different use cases.
The "child cheater" is sometimes referred to as a rubber spatula to differentiate it.
Agreed, although I prefer silicone rather than rubber these days, it holds up better with heat.
Yep, silicone spatulas are also a thing.
I found a 128 ounce (3.758 litre) jar at Walmart.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Hellmann-s-Extra-Heavy-Mayonnaise-Jar-4800126540-2218/10291785?classType=VARIANT
It's called a tub of mayonnaise thank you very much.
Psh! Nobody could take a bath in a tub that small.
Wow, only 100 calories!
For anyone unaware, the gallon size of condiments (mayo, ranch dressing, hot sauce, etc) is typically for food service. IOW, restaurants and the like.
That said, there's nothing stopping individuals from getting it, so the point is still valid.
I worked prep at a buffet, and there was a salad that we made in bulk that used exactly one full gallon of mayo. i got really good at scooping it all out with a spatula in one fluid spiral.
just one of many otherwise completely useless skills i developed in foodservice lmao
I worked at a pizza buffet when I was in high school. The ranch dressing, made in 5 gallon buckets, called for multiple gallons of mayo and buttermilk. I too got far too skilled at getting it all out in one go.
Mayo and sour cream are like 80% of the sauces in most restaurants.
Worked at a seafood restaurant and we made coleslaw in basically a 40 gallon trashcan. Even had this auger that you attacked to the top to make it a huge food processor. It would use multiple gallons of mayo.
The 10 gallon size is for food service. The gallon size is for large families. I knew a couple with ten kids who would kill a gallon of mayo quickly.
those are for "restaurants"
In the way a family size is for a "family"
Hell yeah, save by buying a 4-pack.
That seems kind of expensive. The Costco 64oz variety is often on sale for <$10.
Liter? Americans aren't even consistent with their weird systems of measurements. Why is it not marked as 568.3844 fl oz? Or 0.244 football fields or 38.38383 yards or smth
It's 64oz, or a half gallon, i.e. the smallest unit of milk anyone would buy.
All food and drinks are sold in metric amounts which typically are also very close to an imperial measure.
America labels things in freedom and metric. What doesn't make sense to be is using volume and not weight.
Yeah, I had to look up a converter to figure out how many grams a mayo-ounce is.
We had a big push to try to adopt metric for a bit. It stalled out for various reasons, but it ended with metric units being required on food and stuff, metric being the official system of the government, and new things introduced in that period being referred to in metric.
So beverages come in 8, 12, 16, and 20oz, 1 liter, 2 liter, and gallon.
We also print both units on just about everything.
That's nothing compared to Slavic-sized!
600g? Those are rookie numbers. You call that American size? Our smallest jars are 390 (15 oz) grams. Regular and large jars are 780 (30 oz) and 1248 grams (48 oz). And they do have ridiculously big jars too, 1 gallon jars, i.e. 128 oz and 3328 grams, for, like, restaurants and doomsday preppers... or dudes that just really love mayonnaise, I guess.
Maybe don't eat the mayo in the doomsday prepper bunker.
You leave me and my gallons of bunker mayo alone.
That sounds like how the zombie apocalypse starts.
Zombie or no zombie, it's how I'm going out.
Out of curiosity, I just checked my pantry. I have two 30 ounce jars (1400+ grams), sitting in reserve.
This genuinely represents a failure to comprehend the scale of American food products.
Bro, stop. I can only laugh at Americans so much. And with your fascist leadership I now feel kinda bad for laughing at you.
Rookie numbers. We get the 64oz Costco size.
You know it's nice to be seen
They're not lieing... this is literally the first thing that comes up if you search mayonaise in the US.
Restaurants use a 10 gallon bucket (37.8 liters).
So does my homemade mayo shower.
Why did you DIY? I thought those came standard...
There's also the family that uses mayo and only goes shopping once a month or whatever. Some of those bigger jars are something like two normal sandwiches a day for a month, which is totally possible if you're packing lunch for two kids.
Some of our preposterous containers of food are because some people decide to live unreasonably far from a grocery store, or just go shopping infrequently and buy huge amounts of food.
(This has the side effect of making them buy bigger cars to hold the groceries and family that now has to come along because it's such a long trip, and that makes it miserable so they try to do it as infrequently as possible, so they need to buy a lot of groceries to hold them over. )
I haven't seen anything under 20oz in my supermarket, but I'm not buying the fancy "organic" stuff, just the squeeze things for picnics and the larger jars for home.
That's not big enough.
It should be the 2 gallon Costco-sized jug to truly be 'Merican.
Are all your jars made from plastic?
90%
For most things where dropping it is likely and would definitely break it. It also lines up with the cost change for glass going up as the container gets bigger.
I figure part of it is people having a preference for the lighter jar for big quantities, and liking the rigidity of glass for the smaller ones.
Nearly. The exceptions would be for pasta sauce, pickled or fermented things. An even some of those are plastic.
The cheap stuff is. If you get the avocado mayo, it generally comes in a glass jar and is about the size of the OP.
In America the family sized mayo comes in a 55 gallon barrel. That'll last for about a month.
The worst thing is... I don't know if I laugh or if I believe this.
The real worse thing is I have absolutely no idea how big 55 gallons would be, or how big the one in the photo is.
The explodey barrels in fps games are typically 55 gallon drums
Something a bit larger than 200l... I think an oil barrel is around that size (and yeah, it's "the standard unit" for that).
In all seriousness, if the GP said it was a 2 gallon container I would honestly not know if it was true.
Yup, a gallon is about 3.75 times the size of a liter, or multiply by 4 and round down.
https://www.unileverfoodsolutions.us/product/hellmann-s-extra-heavy-mayonnaise-4-gal-1-pack-1-EN-639543.html
https://www.webstaurantstore.com/hellmanns-real-mayonnaise-24-gallon-drum/125HLMN8828.html
https://www.unileverfoodsolutions.us/product/hellmann-s-extra-heavy-mayonnaise-tote-2300-pound-pack-of-1-1-EN-1210411.html
The largest sold to consumers through normal channels is a gallon. Typically used by people who are feeding a lot of people, like making a dish for a large family gathering, or by people who only go shopping once a month or less. Some people live an hour from the store, so they just buy an excessive amount of food and shop infrequently.
55 gallons is about the size of the average American, or something in the neighborhood of 200kg.
You’re mixing up weight and volume measurements, and everyone knows an average American is a lot of decibels.
Nah, the ounce is a unit of weight and volume. 55 gallons = 7040 fl oz ~= 7040 oz ~= 440 lbs = 200kg.
Aren't American units great? Here's a nice converter for various things, including mayo, which is ~0.94 oz per fl oz. But generally speaking, a fluid ounce is roughly the same as a weight ounce, kind of like how a milliliter is roughly the same as a gram (exactly equal for water, while a fluid ounce isn't exactly equal to a weight ounce for water).
Because that all makes perfect sense.
Well, the kg bit does anyway.
Yup, the average American certainly is 200kg. 😀
Every barrel you see on TV or in a movie is 55 gallon or 42 gallon.
Other sizes exist but those two are so prevalent that you really only see those. The size comes from the oil industry where it's a standard unit. It's common to sell oil in different units, but the barrel size is so common that everyone just uses the same container and maybe just rounds the units.
Can't use a 42 gallon barrel , has to be the metric 160L, or the 200L 55 gallon drum.
The average family size is shrinking. I've seen my neighbors stretch 55 gallons to 6 or even 7 weeks.
The times, they are a changin'...
Ain't no folks enjoy a good ol' mayo slip'n'slide no more
Eh, I think the overall size is about the same, but the number of people is reducing.
I prefer the 300 gallon IBC tote. Then I can unload it from my pickup truck with the pallet forks on my skid-steer and put it straight into the mayo door on the side of my house.
I heard the Rivian comes w/ an air compressor. Maybe consider using that to spray the mayo straight from the truck so you don't need the fork lift.
Maybe if you're Mormon or bathing in it
¿Por que no los dos?
I just converted it. It's more than 200kg! Does the whole family drink a glass of it everyday? How in the world are you finishing that in a month?
I think they were exaggerating for comedic effect. I hope..
One glass? Do you want to get dehydrated?
They are exaggerating. The foodservice packs top out at 10 gallons/37.85 liters as it becomes too heavy.
For a family on a diet maybe
That MIGHT last my wife a single week.
How does it compare to amateur mayonnaise?
Amateur mayonnaise practices until it gets it right.
Professional mayonnaise practices until it does not get it wrong.
Sips from mayonnaise bucket
Slurps from Coke bucket
Sticks entire head into KFC bucket
Rinse and repeat until coronary arteries are plugged shut
"Murica"
You didn't even microwave it first.
600 grams?
You could make maybe two sandwiches with that.
To be fair you could make three grilled cheese sammiches with that
Found the american!
Am Statesian. That's a medium here
Costco size in the US:
For those in less free areas, that's about 3x the size as the one in the picture. Regular grocery-store mayo (in a jar) is about half the Costco size (something like 850 grams?), and mayo in a squeeze bottle is about the size of the jar picture above.
We, uh, kinda like mayo here...
here's my go-to dip
1/2 cup mayonnaise (may substitute sour cream, but i can't remember what it tastes like)
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
1 can water-packed artichoke hearts
1 T minced garlic (when cooking for normal people, just use 1 t but i go to the garlic festival and like those quantities)
1/4 t red pepper flakes
paprika (garnish)
My shortcut is that i throw all the ingredients (except the paprika) in the food processor instead of cutting anything myself, then let it do the shredding. The recipe originally didn't have garlic or red pepper flakes in it, so you can add your own variations if you'd like.
I will always approve of adding garlic. 😀
Thanks for the recipe!
We do grilled cheese with it. spread both outsides of the cheese sandwich with mayo, fry it lightly in a pan with butter, the pull the sandwich out and throw down a couple tablespoons of shredded cheddar/jack and throw the sandwich back on top the cheese, cook until crunchy, do the same on the other side.
$5, it would cost me more than that just to get the eggs to make it.
It's also from 6 years ago...
Ahhh
I think the Costco size is 1.15L can check when I get home
The one in the picture is 1.9L.
Real American Mayonaise , nearly 2 litres each, comes in a 2 pack....
That is for restaurants lol don't worry
My family of 4 goes through that much in about 6 months.
I don't know how okay I am with keeping mayo for 6 months
PH is 3-4, nothing wants any of that action.
There's a reason ketchup and mayonnaise are the classic American condiments, that being that they are acidic enough to remain shelf stable for years. I ain't even joking pre refrigerators that was a massive boon and fridges didn't become common for house holds until the 1950s ice boxes not withstanding.
Don't know what you're talking about. As an American, I have one in my fridge. And I carry one to work. To add to my lunch, my coffee, of the sun is too hot and might burn my skin...
Ridiculous excess. Probably also has three times the ingredients.
To be fair, it's a bulk club; they're designed to service businesses, but price-wise to value we go through that much in a year and they have great expiration dates. My pantry exceeds the stock of a small European market :)
The bigger a container I buy, fewer resources are wasted on packaging and transport
Wow, this made me realize I haven't seen mayo in a glass jar in years.
I picked up one last month. Organic. Hated it...
Avocado mayo comes in a glass jar in my area.
Same.
I've been loving Kewpie squeeze bottles and Truff mayo.
Well Finland has the saying "Everything is big in America"
...good and the bad, triumphs and fuck-ups.
To be honest, I think all Finland did was translating that saying to Finnish lol
Everything is bigger
I had to look it up because I hardly ever actually buy mayonnaise, but I’ve walked down the mayonnaise aisle at the supermarket… What’s funny is that your 600g “50% more: American size” is actually a tweener size here.
The standard small jar here is 15 Floz (about 400g; we sell mayo by volume here apparently). The standard large jar is double that. And of course we have less common, but not uncommon, 48 Floz for “family size” and larger still in bulk.
We do have containers that are between or smaller, but the those are usually specialty containers (mainly squeeze bottles), specialty types (such as avocado oil based or flavored/blends), or just less common in general.
1.3L "family size"... Family size what? Pool?
Yes. Mayo is a key ingredient in so many picnic dishes. Dishes that people regularly prep for BIG family gatherings where everyone brings home leftovers. Potato salad, coleslaw, and pasta salads made by the gallon. Sure, some people eat way too much, but sharing and sharing big is kind of the whole point. If someone shared food with you in a park, you're family now and will be expected to bring your weight in your other family's traditional recipe of something next time.
Sauces, too. You want a fat as a base in many of them, and mayo is a pretty good way to get it.
When I worked in foodservice, we bought it by the gallon. People would ask for it as a dressing on their salads. Gross.
Typical South Eastern US.
In Brazil the "American cup" is the smallest size of cup and I'm always found that hilarious.
Could that be from an "americano" coffee?
If it holds soda, then it makes no sense at all, because a small is larger than many areas' "large" (sometimes 16oz, or almost 500 ml).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copo_americano
Ah, makes sense, we had more reasonable portions back then.
That's like a week's worth at best.
For a baby maybe
Woah woah, it's American size, not Wisconsin sized. I based my estimate on the usage of average Americans, not outlier groups.
Finland is in the top 10 of the most mayo consuming countries, so they could just as well call it "save a trip" size.
Mayo tanker truck waiting patiently for the BBQ sauce and Pepto Bismol tanker trucks to depart...
As someone who lives in Utah, there better be a ketchup truck pulling up soon because I have a hankering for fry sauce!
That's just silly, its not even that big. That's a normal big jar of mayo.
With chocolate bars, premade meals, drinks, ect, its a "size" that works as a gimmick but mayo?
As an American, that's a normal small size of mayo. Most of our "regular" sizes are almost double that, this is about the size of those smaller squeeze bottles:
This bottle design is an utter bastard. You simply can't get the last bits out of there no matter how much you wait or bang or make it cough and splutter to your food.
I'm sure someone has actually designed it that way as opposed to designing it in a way that would be best for the consumer.
I don't need to worry about that because I just refill it from a larger container
Yeah don't do that multiple times. One or two times isn't going to kill you but if you did it for years and had pieces of ancient mayo in there that sounds like a health concern.
I'll go get a new knife if I have to open up a new jar to finish something.
Got to clean your containers and not just top them up, lol
Well then it's not a terrible solution, sure, but if you're going through the trouble already, why not use one of
These. They're practically free, way better shape, easy to wash, and prolly easier to fill given the whole size on those small bastards.
Also making your own mayo / sauces is something I'm kinda used to doing nowadays. I used to think it takes a lot of effort but nah, just mix some mayos/sauces/spices/herbs/garlic, give a tiny blend if there's hard parts and that's it. Sometimes I fluff it up by gently adding Turkish yogurt after squeezing it out of the bottle (the yogurt loses consistency if you blend it, so I blend everything else, put it in a squeezer, than lightly mix that with the yoghurt)
Get yourself some long mini spatulas. Amazing for cleaning out jars.
Oh yeah I do, like a silicon scraper. But one of those wouldn't fit into one of those tiny shop mayo squeezer bottles.
The openings on these generic mayo bottles is like 3cm, whereas on the squeezer mayo bottle, it's like less than one.
But aye, the silicon scrapers "mini-spatulas" are great at scraping anything. Saves me like 5% of loss on with my blender, lol. Also really goot when you're prepping things for freezing.
I think the standard for squeeze bottles are 3cm. That's what 99% of ketchup bottles I have ever seen are.
Just measured my Kraft squeeze mayo in my fridge and it's 3cm.
I use my mini spatulas to clean my ketchup containers
Personally I don't use enough Mayo to run out before I need to replace the bottle. If I got the same size jar it would be the same thing, I'm not scraping out the last bits of months old mayo either way. Doesn't sound appealing.
You made me get up to look for a tape measure. Couldn't find one. 2e coin will have to do.
The Hellmans mayo bottle is definitely not 3cm. The other one is way wider but the Hellmans is barely the size of a 2e coin, a 2e coin not fitting in it and a 2e coin being roughly an inch (25.75cm as opposed to an inch which is 2.54cm)
Look at this
Idk of any inch wide mini spatulas. Could be useful but I've not seen any.
My ketchup bottles are also probably closer to 2" than 1"
Oh and I'm not gonna use the bottle I had the coin on, it was on sale but I didn't like it so I'm just waiting to throw it away. Also I don't ever scrape bottles of month old mayo, if I make my own I use it like at least within a week. Even if it's mixed from mayo and other premade sauces that have long shelf lifes. I just use the bottle as a sort of medium. I make a mix of sauces, because the ketchup isn't tasty enough, but the mayo ain't hot enough, and the mustard isn't sweet enough. So I mix a bit of all in decent relations, then throw in a bit of garlic, spices, jalapeño relish. Then blend and put in the squirter.
Use for a day or a couple. Then get rid.
Then rinse and repeat.
Mayo squeeze bottle, the best thing since sliced bread, especially when it's used on said sliced bread 🥪
Can you fit your fist through the top? Can you scoop out a handful easily and leave fingertrails in the bottom? Then it's just normal sized IMO.
In Europe it's code for "fatlards".
Hey we aren't the weirdos who dip our fries in it.
Oh wait that does sound pretty good actually
I wouldn't want to dip my fries in Americans.
Is the American mayonnaise even as real as this real American mayonnaise??
Mayo is the same color as the Constitution of the United States. It's more really real than l̶̶e̶̶g̶̶a̶̶l̶̶l̶̶y̶̶ ̶̶ ethically allowed possible.
https://www.webstaurantstore.com/hellmanns-real-mayonnaise-24-gallon-drum/125HLMN8828.html
Pretty normal. See "California king size bed".
This is smaller than a medium size jar in Canada (890 mL). Large is 1.4 L.
Hell yeah.
As an American I approve this image
There is a lot of truth to the big in America stereotype. Big country, big cities, big roads, big cars, big buildings, etc.
And a lot of those are related. Big country means that our cities can sprawl. Big (low-density) cities mean that our roads can be wide. Big roads mean that our cars can be big.
Big country also means that there are a lot of people, and sooner or later a good percentage of them want to live close together, so they build big (dense) cities, which means big buildings.
And the sprawl leads to the part about big containers of unhealthy food, too. If you live more than an hour away from the nearest grocery store, you're unlikely to get groceries more than every other week or so, which means you need to buy larger, more shelf-stable containers of food.
I believe (based on nothing but a whim) that us shopping culture is based on buying supplies (shopping for a week or more) while the European shopping culture evolved more from daily supplies from the market. Rural Europe would be the same i guess, but old cities was made for daily commerce
I lived in a couple of countries on Europe and the daily and bi-daily shopping is only really for people who live in big cities and commute by public transport and will pass by a small grocery shop on their way home from work.
As far as I can tell most people do a single weekly shopping generally by driving to a supermarket or even hypermarket either on the weekend or at the end of a working day, hence the popularity of such large surfaces.
Even in places like The Netherlands people have side bags on their bicycles and can just cycle to a supermarket once or twice a week if they don't feel like driving there and bring the shopping on the side bags.
From my own experience with my grandparents (farmers in Portugal), rural food planing timeframes are even longer than a week, as people relied (at least 50+ years ago) on preserved meats and longer duration things like dried pulses, certain fruits, and staples like potatoes for months or even a whole year and then add in season fruits and vegetables and even just go outside and pick up whatever was ripe then from a plot next to their home (so, for example, make soup with some salted pork bellies and chipeas from their food stores and some spinach and carrots picked up from from a farming plot near the house).
Anyways, even in Europe doing a weekly shopping is generally more convenient.
Mind you, it's great when you live inside a big enough city and you can just hop out of the tram a stop or two early on your way home and go by a mini-market to buy, say, some milk and fresh vegetables, but that's not how it generally works for most people, mainly because even in a big city, unless you live right by the store it's more time efficient to do one big grocery shopping a week were you can go to bigger places with more selection.
gotta fit all these big fat people...
They dip their fries in mayo over there and put it on hot dogs, gotta get the big jars for that.
Americans don't dip their fries in mayo. Thats a Dutch/Belgian thing
Mayo on fries and hotdogs slaps, though I prefer cream cheese on dogs for a similar but better experience
That’s not American enough, should be a bucket of Duke’s.
I mean, isn't that just shelf-stabilized 'Murican pulmonary fluid?
That is pretty much exactly 1/3 of the size we usually buy in the US. I think it's a little over 21 oz, I always buy the 64 oz size. Our family goes through it pretty quickly.
...and that's an accurate adjective
Our country itself is also just large