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Skriven 2013-07-31 20:10:11 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 2981 av Dave Drum (68860.cooking)
Ärende: Mayo
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Hi Dave,

 RH> I couldn't even get it in TX, had to go with Hellman's or Best Foods.

 DD> I was a little surprised when I discovered it here. Duke's/Sauer isn't
 DD> that big a company. Not nearly as big as Best Foods.

 RH> You're not even southern Illinios. (G) Must be somebody with some
 RH> influence has enough "pull" to get Duke's stocked in your area.

 DD> Well, being as they are carried at Nieman Stores (Sav-A-Lot, County
 DD> Market and Cub Foods) their reach is a lot farther west and north than
 DD> just central Illinois. Like Missouri, Iowa, southern Wisconsin, etc.

I'll take your word for it--must have been some southern transplants who
missed it. (G)

 DD> Apparently someone at Nieman ran across Duke's/Sauer at a food show
 DD> somwhere and placed a "trial" order. The stuff seems to sell fairly
 DD> well - especially the *small* (about 1/5 the size of a McCormick's
 DD> container) size packages of spices/herbs - which knowing cooks
 DD> understand that they will be able to use before it goes stale.

Sounds reasonable. I keep a number of my green herbs in the fridge, and
those I've extras of, in the freezer. We bought some spices in 8 oz bulk
at Penzey's a few months ago, filled jars and put extras (double sealed)
in the deep freeze.


 DD> Grocers (Cub Foods and County Market). It's an OK mayo ... but, I like
 DD> Hellman's/Best just as well. Both are better than Kraft.

 RH> Just as long as I don't have to use Miracle Whip.................

 DD> Miracle Wimp isn't really mayonnaise - even if the uninformed
 DD> Walmartians refer it as mayonnaise. It's a sort-of salad dressing.

 RH> They did run some cute commercials for a while tho.

 DD> I haven't watched TeeVee for some time - but, I don't remember any
 DD> Miracle Wisp commercials. Not like the dancing Kool Aid pitcher, or
 DD> Mayor McCheese for McDonald's, etc. Or the Stan Freberg series of
 DD> commercials for Chun King.

Some featuring a dog--one I recall is the dog going into the kitchen to
make up a sandwich for his master. He puts together a great Dagwood
sized one, goes to add the MW and finds the jar is empty. Sandwich gets
tossed into the cat's dish (cat gives it a puzz;ed look) to voice over
of MW's tag line "A sandwich just isn't a sandwich without MW>".

 RH> I was brought up on salad dressing (the A&P or Victory Markets house
 RH> brands) but switched to mayo when I got married and moved to NC. After
 RH> label reading the various ones on the market at the time, I went with
 RH> Duke's. Label read when we went to a Whole Foods and chose their 365
 RH> (house brand) as an alternative; both are equally good.

 DD> We doan gots no Whole Foods. Or World Market or even a Trader Joe's.
 DD> Fracking stick-in-the-mud marketers. I gave it the old college try to

Food desert out there. (G)

 DD> get Costco to come to town - including getting the ball rolling on a
 DD> Tax Increment Financing boondoggle for their benefit. But, Hy-Vee
 DD> glommed the location and the TIF deal - which isn't bad but not what I
 DD> was trying for.

Bummer! You got a grocery store but just a run of the mill one.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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