Chit-Chat: What's On Your Mind Today?

[JTMacc99]

34 minutes ago, oliviabenson said:

Since you live with other people it most likely got misplaced/thrown out.

Did you check the freezer?

I did check the freezer. Nope. And it's just my kids, and one only goes in the fridge to get salsa and the other one doesn't use mayo. So it wasn't them.

23 minutes ago, annzeepark914 said:

It's cuddled up with that missing sock, so it's up to you, JT, to find them.

OMG! The installers finally came yesterday with my new dryer. After they hauled out the old one, I grabbed my vacuum cleaner and quickly sucked up any dust/lint that was in the closet before they brought in the new one. As I poked the nozzle around the back of the washer, I heard a FLOOP sound. I looked in the vacuum and sure enough, it was a missing sock!

Maybe I should stick vacuum hose around the back of the fridge and see if sucks up a jar of mayo.

[oliviabenson]

1 hour ago, kristen111 said:

In other words you don’t have to use oil or water on the bottom for baking.  You put whatever in dry  and the air cooks it.  Right?   I don’t have anymore room for that.  My new grill cheese maker was used once.  Too dry.  I rather fry in butter.  I need a new kitchen with a big island and lots of cabinets.  A big pantry too.  I had all this in Florida for 18 months, but moved back to N.Y.  Can’t have everything.

When I didn’t use cooking spray on my nuggets, tempura shrimp etc it got burned. I usually use cooking spray. If using a cake pan to roast chicken/potatoes I use regular cooking oil or water. 

36 minutes ago, annzeepark914 said:

It's cuddled up with that missing sock, so it's up to you, JT, to find them.

I’m picturing human sized jar of mayo and a sock cuddling on the couch watching Netflix. 

[Laura Holt]

1 hour ago, JTMacc99 said:

As I poked the nozzle around the back of the washer, I heard a FLOOP sound. I looked in the vacuum and sure enough, it was a missing sock!

Must have been a prisoner of war that made it back!

 

[theredhead77]

14 hours ago, annzeepark914 said:

I'm rethinking this air fryer. I love tempura and fried chicken. Can I get crispyness in an air fryer? It's such a PITA dealing with deep frying and then safely disposing the oil. So a small 2 qt air fryer might be nice.

I had a Ninja air fryer and it was amazing. I found it was very similar to oil fried food. I regret getting rid of it in lieu of an multi-function device. I'm going to buy another on black Friday or when I find a good deal. 

[EtheltoTillie]

Mayonnaise Mystery:  Don't forget to look on the floor under something else.  That's where I keep finding my missing glasses. 

 

When I worked in publishing, our magazine got sold by one medium sized NYC company to a large one with offices in the Midwest.  You can guess.  Anyway, the new company gave out hams for Christmas.  This went over really well with the Jewish employees, not to mention just being derided by everyone in general. 

Edited October 3, 2023 by EtheltoTillie

[shapeshifter]

49 minutes ago, theredhead77 said:

I'm going to buy another on black Friday or when I find a good deal. 

I probably shouldn't encourage anyone to shop, but if you're going to anyway, FYI, Amazon Prime deals are coming up on Oct. 9.

[peacheslatour]

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Mayonnaise Mystery:  Don't forget to look on the floor under something else.  That's where I keep finding my missing glasses. 

Also try the drawer where you keep the foil, Zip-Locs, etc. My son once left  a brand new ball of mozerella in the wrapping drawer after he made his sandwich he put the cheese in a Zip-Loc and threw the whole thing in the drawer. I was going crazy looking for the new cheese I had just purchased.

[Mondrianyone]

And I'd suggest trying the bedroom, but that would be vulgar.

[JTMacc99]

21 minutes ago, Mondrianyone said:

And I'd suggest trying the bedroom, but that would be vulgar.

First suggestion so far that I did NOT check. 

[kristen111]

Mayo Mystery .. On top of refrigerator.  In back of cereal boxes.

[shapeshifter]

1 hour ago, JTMacc99 said:

1 hour ago, Mondrianyone said:

And I'd suggest trying the bedroom, but that would be vulgar.

First suggestion so far that I did NOT check

1 hour ago, peacheslatour said:

Also try the drawer where you keep the foil, Zip-Locs, etc. …

Maybe the bathroom?
And/or wherever you keep the toilet paper?

Of course, it may have gone in the garbage.🙁

If it was a lost library book, “I’d bet dollars to donuts” that it was either under the bed or in the trunk of the car. 
But those places do not apply to the likely location of a jar of mayonnaise.

Nevertheless, as a retired librarian who had tremendous success helping students and patrons locate overdue library books — including those books they sincerely swore they returned — and even though it’s not a library book, this technique usually works if you are the person who misplaced the mayonnaise or anything else:

1. Recall the last time you can remember that you had [the jar of mayo] in your hand.
2. Go to that place (if possible), and (or) stand (or sit) facing the same direction as you were when you had [the jar of mayo].
3. Close your eyes, and picture that moment.
4. Now:
   What did you do next?

Edited October 3, 2023 by shapeshifter

[SoMuchTV]

@JTMacc99 like others here, I am now very invested in your missing mayo saga, and I was getting ready to post something similar to what @shapeshifter did - what else were you doing as you were making this sandwich?  Where do you keep your bread?  Your plates...?

But then I remember you said you have kids at home, and they're the ultimate wildcard, so I have to ask - have you grilled them yet?  Because I can easily imagine "Oh I needed a jar for a school project and it was almost empty" or "uggh, you told me to clean up and take out the trash, and it was out on the counter so I assumed you were done with it uggh [eye roll]"

Or “my friend was over while you were at work and she wanted mayo on her [sandwich fries taco whatever]. Weird, right? Anyway we used it up but I know you have more in the pantry so I didn’t think it was a big deal.”

Edited October 3, 2023 by SoMuchTV
More speculation about your children and their possible culpability

[shapeshifter]

24 minutes ago, SoMuchTV said:

…But then I remember you said you have kids at home, and they're the ultimate wildcard, so I have to ask - have you grilled them yet? 

While I really do appreciate what @SoMuchTV's post lends to solving our Mystery Of The Missing Mayo, I can't resist 😆 noting: 
Grilled cheese sandwiches are much better than grilled kids.
🤣
Okay. 
I'm still chuckling, but give your kids a hug for me, @JTMacc99.

[SoMuchTV]

1 minute ago, shapeshifter said:

Grilled cheese sandwiches are much better than grilled kids.

And grilled cheese sandwiches with mayo are the best yet so I think we’re all in agreement here. 

[shapeshifter]

4 minutes ago, SoMuchTV said:

so I think we’re all in agreement here. 

So long as you don't edit your post for clarity (something I would probably do if it were mine).
I really need to read stuff that makes me smile.😄

[SoMuchTV]

1 minute ago, shapeshifter said:

So long as you don't edit your post for clarity (something I would probably do if it were mine).
I really need to read stuff that makes me smile.😄

I stand by what I said!  Anyway you already quoted it so as the kids say you have receipts. 

[annzeepark914]

Grilled kids? No thank you.  Grill cheese with mayo? An even bigger no thank you.  Gotta have some Dijon inside that sammy.  Y'know, JT...if you ever move out of your home, you'll probably find that jar of Hellmann's so maybe it's time to start downsizing in preparation (I guarantee you'll find it then!)

[EtheltoTillie]

We should call this "Only Mayos In the Building." 

[Trini]

Re: Missing Mayo Mystery: I'd also recommend going back to the kids; or have them search also.

In our house, this would be probably a case of the item being pushed behind/hidden by other stuff somehow.

[Bastet]

1 hour ago, annzeepark914 said:

Grill cheese with mayo? An even bigger no thank you.  Gotta have some Dijon inside that sammy.

It doesn't go on the inside, it's used in place of butter on the outside of the bread.  (I make it with butter, but have eaten it with mayo.)

[ABay]

It probably is with the platoon of missing socks as suggested above, but it could also be with those pet toys that mysteriously vanish. When I finally move, I expect to find at least a dozen toy mice.

[theredhead77]

@JTMacc99 look under the couch and anywhere it could have rolled under or in between (side of refrigerator), is there space next to the stove? 

Look in the bread bag, in the produce drawer, in the lettuce bin. Look in your work laptop bag, in your car (under the seats), wherever the dog food or treats is stored.

[emma675]

And definitely check the trunk of your car, if that's how you brought your groceries home. It's a stinky lesson to learn, take it from me.

[athousandclowns]

On 10/2/2023 at 3:46 PM, Lisa418722 said:

I had a job where for 10 years I got one crystal candlestick holder for a taper candle.  It's beautiful, but I always think of a set of two and put on a dining room table.  If it had been for a pillar candle I could use it.  Instead, it's in a box in the closet.  

 

I have the other by its lonesome because I broke the other during my  last move… or was it the move before  the year before? 
 

I was a designer  at a very successful upscale floral shop and the spoiled son who was running it gave us one wine glass with the stores name on it for Christmas  .  One wine glass.  I was participating in one of the first walks for AIDS at Stanford and asked him to sign( sponsor  )  my donation sheet  according to miles I would walk . He said he didn’t want to get involved in “that stuff “. so I told him I’d wear the company T-shirt and he relented. That shirt was probably another Christmas gift. I left that job with a note on his desk on a Friday saying I wouldn’t be back. 
 

My late  husband had one of this catalogs for his 15 year and didn’t see anything he wanted so we got our grown son a Snoopy watch. 

[JTMacc99]

I do have a jar of store brand mayonnaise in the fridge, like $3 cheaper than the good stuff, for uses such as grilled cheese and for when I mix in some chipotle pepper for spicy may purposes. That mayonnaise is still right where I left it.

It's like why I have $3 laundry detergent for the dog blankets. No reason to use the tide for dog blankets. Sorry Norman.

I mentioned above that I was sure that my children were not the mayo thieves. My son doesn't really go in the fridge for anything but the salsa I made a gallon of in September with all of my excess heirloom tomatoes and serrano peppers. And my daughter has an OCD thing about the fridge and only uses things that are on "her" shelf. And while she does like mayonnaise, I get her "her" own bottles of Heinz Spicy mayo. She likes the siracha blend.

So like any good mystery, they had rock solid alibis...

Cut to the 52nd minute of this hour long episode of the MaccMayoMystery hour:

I bring home an Impossible Whopper with fries and pink lemonade for Miss OCD last night. (It's her birthday, so I'll allow that junk food.) I then go through my routine of unpacking my stuff from work as she goes ahead and puts the whopper on a plate, compliments the lemonade's thirst quenching powers, and gets out a small bowl for the dipping sauce for her fries.

I notice that she has the store brand mayo on the counter, along with some ketchup and seems to blending up her own rather than using the Heinz bottle on "her" shelf.

I say to her: "Hey, do you know what happened to the other bottle of mayo?" And she answers, somewhat confused by my interrogation, "We ran out."

I replied, "DUDE. I've been telling everybody for the last 24 hours that I lost a jar of mayo and I think I'm going crazy!"  She giggled and told me that she needed the mayo-ketchup blend for her tater tots that she's been craving.  

I was relieved that I am not going crazy (yet), and I decided not to even bring up the fact that she is using things from the "dirty" shelves in the fridge. Apparently tater tots out rank OCD in her world, which is a big win to be honest.

So there you have it. I went ahead and put a new jar of the good mayo back in the fridge (after making a tomato sandwich from one of the last ones of the season), comfortable that if it starts getting empty faster than I expected, I now know what is happening.

[EtheltoTillie]

Wow, what a satisfying ending.

[JTMacc99]

Just now, EtheltoTillie said:

Wow, what a satisfying ending.

You're not kidding. I was concerned this was going to be like Netflix's Making a Murderer, where the ending was "I don't know. YOU figure it out."

[annzeepark914]

From now on, keep a jar of Hellmann's in the pantry as your back-up in case you can't find the open one in the fridge. That's been my way of handling "missing" jars of mayo, sweet chili sauce, Maille Dijon mustard, etc. 😁

[EtheltoTillie]

I use the $3 laundry detergent for everything.  It works fine. 

[shapeshifter]

9 minutes ago, JTMacc99 said:

...I say to her: "Hey, do you know what happened to the other bottle of mayo?" And she answers, somewhat confused by my interrogation, "We ran out."

👏
And now I will share my very expensive, current go-to mayo: 
Wegmans Mayo Made with Avocado Oil

I am obsessed with not buying food whose ingredients include the vaguely worded "and other natural ingredients."

Primal Kitchen Mayo is even more expensive.

Somewhat less expensive is Wegmans Organic Mayonnaise, but it has the vague "Organic Natural Flavor," which could be sugar, pepper, and other ingredients I try to avoid.

Some years ago (but also after the kids were gone, and I was only buying groceries for little old me), when I would buy the large jars of Hellmans or generic to save money (when all the individual ingredients were still listed) I'd wind up having to throw away half of it because I used so little. 
So at least I'm not wasting anything now. 

[JTMacc99]

27 minutes ago, EtheltoTillie said:

I use the $3 laundry detergent for everything.  It works fine. 

It could be my well water, but I get distinctly different results with tide for my laundry and cascade for my dishes than I do with the off brand detergents. I just suck it up, wait for sales and coupons. 

[SoMuchTV]

56 minutes ago, JTMacc99 said:

I say to her: "Hey, do you know what happened to the other bottle of mayo?" And she answers, somewhat confused by my interrogation, "We ran out."

Called it!  (sort of)  Grilled kids for the win!

[shapeshifter]

Just now, SoMuchTV said:

Called it!  (sort of)  Grilled kids for the win!

Best Unintentional Pun Award 

[StatisticalOutlier]

2 hours ago, JTMacc99 said:

She giggled and told me that she needed the mayo-ketchup blend for her tater tots that she's been craving. 

That's fry sauce in Mormon country.  Ketchup can be overpowering to me, so I make up my own fry sauce whenever I'm having french fries (I don't use it on tater tots--I like them plain). 

I keep individual packets of mayo in the glove compartment in case wherever I'm eating doesn't have mayonnaise (like In-N-Out, which doesn't have it at all, or Whataburger, which puts a "side" of mayonnaise in a styrofoam cup--ugh). 

For fry sauce, even Sysco or Heinz mayo is kind of okay, but Jimmy John's has individual Hellman's packets available--the online order form has a box to check if you want them.  They used to have them near the drink machine, but not all locations have resumed putting them out there after Covid.  But they have them if you ask, and it's nice to have the "good stuff" in the glove compartment.

 

[oliviabenson]

I knew one of the kids ate it 🤣

[kristen111]

20 minutes ago, oliviabenson said:

I knew one of the kids ate it 🤣

Last night in bed, I figured someone in the house used it all then threw the jar in the pail.  Something we all do everyday not thinking twice about it.  I can’t count the times I’ve looked in the pail for my keys, glasses, etc.

Edited October 4, 2023 by kristen111

[kristen111]

51 minutes ago, StatisticalOutlier said:

That's fry sauce in Mormon country.  Ketchup can be overpowering to me, so I make up my own fry sauce whenever I'm having french fries (I don't use it on tater tots--I like them plain). 

I keep individual packets of mayo in the glove compartment in case wherever I'm eating doesn't have mayonnaise (like In-N-Out, which doesn't have it at all, or Whataburger, which puts a "side" of mayonnaise in a styrofoam cup--ugh). 

For fry sauce, even Sysco or Heinz mayo is kind of okay, but Jimmy John's has individual Hellman's packets available--the online order form has a box to check if you want them.  They used to have them near the drink machine, but not all locations have resumed putting them out there after Covid.  But they have them if you ask, and it's nice to have the "good stuff" in the glove compartment.

 

I Love Burger Kings “zesty” sauce in the little packet.  Seems to me it’s mayo, ketchup and horseradish.  I’ll have to try that myself.  I also love Tiger Sauce in the bottle.  It’s a little sweet.

Edited October 4, 2023 by kristen111

[Mondrianyone]

I like a mix of mayo and sriracha.

I don't know if this is common, but I used to hate spicy things, and now I love them. I've read that your sense of taste gets duller as you age, so I guess that's the conventional explanation. But I don't feel as if I taste other things less acutely, just that I like heat in a way I didn't before. Anyone else experience this?

[peacheslatour]

Can we talk about something else? Mayo make s me nauseous. 

[oliviabenson]

Anyone try these?

[kristen111]

7 minutes ago, oliviabenson said:

Anyone try these?

Did you?  There are so many in the aisle, I don’t know which to choose.  Too many.

[oliviabenson]

17 minutes ago, kristen111 said:

Did you?  There are so many in the aisle, I don’t know which to choose.  Too many.

 I don’t remember 🤣

[Bastet]

3 hours ago, Mondrianyone said:

I like a mix of mayo and sriracha.

Same here (but sambal oelek in my case).  But I like it with just about anything, which is why this:

5 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

when I would buy the large jars of Hellmans or generic to save money (when all the individual ingredients were still listed) I'd wind up having to throw away half of it because I used so little. 

does not happen to me.  I buy the big jar (of Best Foods, which is what Hellmann's is called west of the Rockies) at Costco.

[stewedsquash]

@oliviabenson   @kristen111 I got the mayochup one for my grown son because he and I are the ketchup/mayo mixers. It was awful and I threw it away. It tasted like it was made with Miracle Whip and not mayo.

eta I got it because I am exclusive to using Heinz ketchup so it was really disappointing

Edited October 4, 2023 by stewedsquash
Wonky

[JTMacc99]

Well, it's Heinz ketchup mixed with Heinz mayo.  We know which one is the guilty party in this product. 

[Browncoat]

My luck has run out.  I got my first summons for jury duty today.

[annzeepark914]

3 hours ago, Bastet said:

I buy the big jar (of Best Foods, which is what Hellmann's is called west of the Rockies) at Costco.

Aren't those "jars" enormous?  The ones I've seen at Costco I figured are for cafeterias, restaurants, etc. Or do they also sell a bit "smaller" containers?

[Bastet]

14 minutes ago, annzeepark914 said:

Aren't those "jars" enormous?  The ones I've seen at Costco I figured are for cafeterias, restaurants, etc. Or do they also sell a bit "smaller" containers?

I mean the largest (2-qt) jar for regular use, not the gallon jar for professional kitchens!  I've never seen those at Costco (then again, I wouldn't be looking for them, so maybe they're down below "my" mayonnaise). 

Update: I got curious and checked online for my Costco, and they don't carry those gallon jars in the store, only have them available for ordering via their Costco Business Delivery site. 

Edited October 4, 2023 by Bastet

[kristen111]

1 hour ago, Bastet said:

I mean the largest (2-qt) jar for regular use, not the gallon jar for professional kitchens!  I've never seen those at Costco (then again, I wouldn't be looking for them, so maybe they're down below "my" mayonnaise). 

Update: I got curious and checked online for my Costco, and they don't carry those gallon jars in the store, only have them available for ordering via their Costco Business Delivery site. 

I used to love Costco,but I haven’t the room anymore.  My freezer isn’t big enough.  Just walking around in there was a treat, especially around the holidays.

[meep.meep]

8 hours ago, Mondrianyone said:

I like a mix of mayo and sriracha.

My son came for a visit and bought a bottle of Kewpie sriracha mayo.  Me and my daughter are now hooked on it and it has become a staple.