As I'm cutting up some leftover barbecue chicken this morning, to make a righteous chicken salad sandwich to have for lunch, I got to thinking about mayonnaise.
In my younger, plumper days, back when I paid little heed to the nutritional content of my meals, I was a user of regular (or non-diet) everything. Coke Classic, the fattiest and tastiest cold cuts (salami), and regular mayonnaise. When I decided to try and slim down from my all time high of 202 lbs., back in 2002, I made a number of changes to my diet. One was to take up the use of diet alternatives to any product for which there was such a choice.
Diet sodas? Fine. Took a little adjustment but nothing taxing.
Lean turkey and roast beef sandwiches? Sure.
Mayo? Just another little change. Went from regular, to low fat, to Kraft Fat Free Mayo. The consistency is different but it still tastes like mayonnaise to me.
What's funny is that how some people are so emotionally attached to their regular mayonnaise. When someone asks me about it, and I mention that I use fat free mayo, I get one of two reactions.
1) Cool (they don't care, and why should they?)
2) Oh, I could never give up regular mayonnaise.
The second answer is amusing to me. Specifically, because anyone whom I've ever heard say that is obese. Only really overweight people maintain such a heartfelt love for their egg and oil based condiment.
I'll take the 152 lb. self and fat free altnernative, thanks.
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