Favorite Thing - Gallon o' Mayo

As a child, I ate a lot of Miracle Whip.  Sometimes, though, Mother would squeeze a jar of Hellman's mayonnaise out of her tiny, household allowance, especially in the summer months, when she was grilling chicken, and potato salad wasn't potato salad, unless it was made with mayonnaise.

I bought a jar of Miracle Whip once — for old times sake — and my children started looking for suitcases.  No aspersions cast upon the lovers of Miracle Whip, for ya gotta eat what ya like, but we're a mayonnaise family.  And I've learned I prefer the creaminess of Kraft, so it's my mayo of choice.  It gets even better, though...

Kraft offers its creamy goodness in a sturdy, gallon jug, and that's the best of the best!


Now watch that unit pricing when you're selecting size at the grocery store, because we baby boomers were trained to buy "family size" or "bulk" or "economy size," which offerings began appearing on grocery store shelves when we were kids.  Imagine my surprise, when a few years ago I discovered many companies have made a switch, and economy size often isn't the most economical size to buy.  But the gallon of Kraft mayonnaise has the lowest unit pricing, AND (*drum roll*) when you're finished eating the creamy goodness, you have a gallon storage container for your forever use! 

They recently redesigned the label, and now it's ugly, but you're going to scrub that off anyway, so don't twitch too much.  [Taste of Home magazine recently changed their font, aesthetically ruining the magazine, but we can abide that; don't scrub your magazine, or you won't be able to read the tasty recipes.]  A clean gallon jug can receive a strip of Scotch tape with marker scrawl identification of the contents — bread flour, frosted flakes, pancake mix — and be changed with a flick of the fingers.

Favorite thing — Gallon o' Mayo


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