So do I. It's the PA Dutch influence. Or my mom's French Huguenot heritage. Slaw/potato salad/egg salad/macaroni salad--mayo, sugar and vinegar. Tomato sauce--I don't know what that influence that is, but IMO tomato sauce needs a little sugar to cut the acid. It "makes" the sauce.

I don't think it's the lack of sugar that makes Dukes taste better. You can't even detect the taste of the sugar in Hellmans. Dukes is just a great taste. And I was a lifelong Hellmans fan.

Miracle Whip is salad dressing, but Hellmans is mayo, and good. Dukes just edges it out a bit with a je ne sais quoi element. Only my opinion, though.:wave:

Because if you wait for a BOGO its the same price.

I put a little bit of sugar in my sauce and my slaw dressing.

Walmart is the first retailer in history to dictate what they will pay for products. Because they are the biggest they can say jump and manufacturers say how high. That and the fact they treat employees horribly.

Dukes is better than others, even better than Hellmanns

I've never heard of Dukes and will have to try it! We use Kraft here. Mom has psorsiases (sp?) and Hellman's really flares them up!

A bit off the subject but Wal Mart certainly has put a lot of smaller businesses out across the country with their buying power and selling tactics. Bad, good or indifferent each of us probably has an opinion about Wal Mart.

Some think that a company can get "too big". Wal Mart recently has started to struggle with that problem as profits have fallen.

That is true, but you don't get the fuel perks when you do that.
As for mayo, my favorite is New Orleans' own Blue Plate brand.

Yep .... they buy the mayo by the train load (literally) and dictate to the manufactures.

They pay the rank&file worker poverty wages and the Waltons are at the top of the 1%'ers list.

Do you think they pay their employees less than Target, or Kohls or Publix?

Usually pay scale is indicated by the level of expertise and skill not the success of the business..

OK, so why is Hellmans mayo $5.98 at Winn Dixie and only $2.98 at Wal Mart ??

Danged if we know. Why?

Nope, same size. Where did you get your bigger jar information??

Absolutely !!!!! Mini marshmallows in slaw is wonderful. We love having what we call sweet spaghetti and salmon patties. Actually we use elbow macaroni, tomato sauce. a touch of butter and maybe a half cup of sugar.

But double the price is a lot. What about Aldis who is a small chain selling mayo even less than WalMart ?????

I'm telling you. It's because Winn Dixie charges more for that jar of mayonnaise.

Dukes is the one!!!

We have this dish quite a lot. Try our recipe.
4 Sliced cucumbers, 2 sliced onions separated into rings.
cover with cold water, add 1 tbsp. salt, soak 30 minutes, then drain well.

Beat together; 1 cup sour cream
2 1/2 tbsp. cider vinegar
1 1/2 tsp sugar
salt and pepper to taste

Pour over cucumbers and onions. Let marinate at least a day, gets better the longer it marinates

We ordinarily like Aldi's brands very much. That said, we've tried their mayo on two occasions. Both times it separated into its components while in the fridge. It was probably ok to eat, but not very appetizing. Just trying to save you some money here...

This answer is not revelant to the post.

Warren, sadly, most of the responses in this thread are not relevant to the post.

It seems to be the norm around here.

Cheeeeeeees! Lighten up! That's what makes posting on TOTV fun...and I can easily see the humor in Perrjojo's post! I think you and the OP missed the subtlety of it.

:jester:Thanks! I'm glad someone got my humor. Actually WD is still higher......2.99 compared to Walmart 2.98.

I almost always get it...and like it.

I have had two jokey posts removed in the last couple of days. I say if we can't kid around, what's the use of being here?

On this earth?

I would suggest that if you really want a relevant answer you ask the WD store manager. Anything anyone else posts is pure speculation.

Responding to the original question: economies of scale.

Ohhhhhhh! Thanks for the reminder. We used to have that all the time back in the '80s. I sometimes put dill in it.

Sometimes I do that with fresh tomatoes...oil/vinegar/sugar/salt and pepper. Yum.

I don't trust Kraft. I never have.

In this commercial from 1958 they make a meal starting with a hot dog split in half, next it's stuffed with macaroni and cheese and finally smeared with mustard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVSTrHf7h7U

How can you trust a company that thinks that tastes good?

Now that reminds me that some people back in my youth used to put sugar on tomatoes.

Your O/V/S/S/P combo sounds good. Now if we could get some decent home-grown tomatoes around here... (à la Ohio or Jersey or PA).

If you ate a plant-based diet, you could grow all your own food and rarely visit a supermarket. :doh:

You make slaw? Egads, what's next? You going to tell us you cooked something?

It's the pimento garnish that does it.

Gator's Dockside used to have a hamburger covered in mac and cheese.

Have you made a price comparison of all the products you buy between WD, Publix, and Walmart? Every store has loss leaders and then jacks the price up on other items.

Here's what I think about Walmart: I don't know exactly what I think about Walmart.

For me it's a royal PIA to shop there. I'll stick to the smaller, less crowded stores and am very grateful that I can afford to pay higher prices to have a calmer shopping experience. I'm sorry if that sounds snotty, but grocery shopping is actually enjoyable for me--but not at Walmart. And we don't buy enough food to make that big a price difference over a year's time. However, I am glad it is there for the young families and others who absolutely need to or want to get lower prices on the food they buy the most of. The only time we go there is to get something in the non-food area, and if we happen to need groceries, we will get them while there. But generally we avoid the place, especially in the winter season.

I do not like their drive-Mom-and-Pop-businesses-out tactics, nor the fact that they got caught for charging less than break-even prices on things in stores located in areas where they wanted to drive out the competition. They are a prime example of corporate greed in my opinion. BUT, they do employ a lot of people. I don't know if they pay a fair wage equal to other companies equal to the skill level of the job, so I can't comment on that. So there's a lot of contradictions there.

That could have been in a past life.:lipsrsealed:

I cooked twice this week ! It wore me out !! :loco: Mac & cheese Saturday and pork chops Sunday !!
It was a nice thank you to my hubby. He bought me some pretty earrings while we were in St. Maarten for 2 weeks.
Done with that now ! Bye, bye stove ! :wave:

Bonny,you cooked? I'm shocked! Give my wife some lessons-PLEASE!

Dukes vs Hellmans vs Miracle whip
 

So I am a Miracle whip fan, which isn't mayonnaise! I hate Hellmans, so does that mean I probably won't like Dukes? Is Dukes more like salad dressing than mayonnaise? Never tasted it before.

:a20: It doesn't happen often. LOL

Thanks for that tip. Where is the closest store?