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I'm sad that I missed posting this on the 4th

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Real American Mayonaise , nearly 2 litres each, comes in a 2 pack....

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 days ago (5 children)

That is for restaurants lol don't worry

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Ridiculous excess. Probably also has three times the ingredients.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago

To be fair, it's a bulk club; they're designed to service businesses, but price-wise to value we go through that much in a year and they have great expiration dates. My pantry exceeds the stock of a small European market :)

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

The bigger a container I buy, fewer resources are wasted on packaging and transport

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 112 points 4 days ago (10 children)

Maybe American ant size. Costco sells a lovely 1.9L jar.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 82 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago

Even the jar looks like it needs to be on a diet

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 46 points 4 days ago (9 children)
[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago

Almost enough for a regular Midwestern salad.

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[–] Penguin_1024@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 4 days ago (11 children)
[–] aphonefriend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 4 days ago (4 children)

It's called a tub of mayonnaise thank you very much.

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[–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How does it compare to amateur mayonnaise?

Amateur mayonnaise practices until it gets it right.

Professional mayonnaise practices until it does not get it wrong.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Sips from mayonnaise bucket

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 7 points 3 days ago

Slurps from Coke bucket

Sticks entire head into KFC bucket

Rinse and repeat until coronary arteries are plugged shut

"Murica"

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 56 points 4 days ago (9 children)

600g? Those are rookie numbers. You call that American size? Our smallest jars are 390 (15 oz) grams. Regular and large jars are 780 (30 oz) and 1248 grams (48 oz). And they do have ridiculously big jars too, 1 gallon jars, i.e. 128 oz and 3328 grams, for, like, restaurants and doomsday preppers... or dudes that just really love mayonnaise, I guess.

or dudes that just really love mayonnaise, I guess.

You know it's nice to be seen

[–] obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Out of curiosity, I just checked my pantry. I have two 30 ounce jars (1400+ grams), sitting in reserve.

This genuinely represents a failure to comprehend the scale of American food products.

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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Maybe don't eat the mayo in the doomsday prepper bunker.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You leave me and my gallons of bunker mayo alone.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 51 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

That's not big enough.

It should be the 2 gallon Costco-sized jug to truly be 'Merican.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Am Statesian. That's a medium here

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Costco size in the US:

For those in less free areas, that's about 3x the size as the one in the picture. Regular grocery-store mayo (in a jar) is about half the Costco size (something like 850 grams?), and mayo in a squeeze bottle is about the size of the jar picture above.

We, uh, kinda like mayo here...

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[–] Undisputedscoop@discuss.online 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is the American mayonnaise even as real as this real American mayonnaise??

Mayo is the same color as the Constitution of the United States. It's more really real than l̶̶e̶̶g̶̶a̶̶l̶̶l̶̶y̶̶ ̶̶ ethically allowed possible.
https://www.webstaurantstore.com/hellmanns-real-mayonnaise-24-gallon-drum/125HLMN8828.html

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hey we aren't the weirdos who dip our fries in it.

Oh wait that does sound pretty good actually

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago

Can you fit your fist through the top? Can you scoop out a handful easily and leave fingertrails in the bottom? Then it's just normal sized IMO.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's just silly, its not even that big. That's a normal big jar of mayo.

With chocolate bars, premade meals, drinks, ect, its a "size" that works as a gimmick but mayo?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

As an American, that's a normal small size of mayo. Most of our "regular" sizes are almost double that, this is about the size of those smaller squeeze bottles:

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (8 children)

This bottle design is an utter bastard. You simply can't get the last bits out of there no matter how much you wait or bang or make it cough and splutter to your food.

I'm sure someone has actually designed it that way as opposed to designing it in a way that would be best for the consumer.

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[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 42 points 4 days ago (14 children)

In America the family sized mayo comes in a 55 gallon barrel. That'll last for about a month.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (14 children)

The worst thing is... I don't know if I laugh or if I believe this.

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[–] klemptor@startrek.website 18 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Wow, this made me realize I haven't seen mayo in a glass jar in years.

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago (2 children)

600 grams?

You could make maybe two sandwiches with that.

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[–] Zezzoz@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

In Europe it's code for "fatlards".

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 14 points 3 days ago (3 children)

In Brazil the "American cup" is the smallest size of cup and I'm always found that hilarious.

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[–] VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Mayo tanker truck waiting patiently for the BBQ sauce and Pepto Bismol tanker trucks to depart...

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[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 15 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I had to look it up because I hardly ever actually buy mayonnaise, but I’ve walked down the mayonnaise aisle at the supermarket… What’s funny is that your 600g “50% more: American size” is actually a tweener size here.

The standard small jar here is 15 Floz (about 400g; we sell mayo by volume here apparently). The standard large jar is double that. And of course we have less common, but not uncommon, 48 Floz for “family size” and larger still in bulk.

We do have containers that are between or smaller, but the those are usually specialty containers (mainly squeeze bottles), specialty types (such as avocado oil based or flavored/blends), or just less common in general.

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[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Well Finland has the saying "Everything is big in America"

...good and the bad, triumphs and fuck-ups.

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