"mayonnaise" news and stories

Miracle Whip is going after Stephen Colbert, after the Comedy Central star made fun of its "Don't Be So Mayo" ad campaign.

The condiment company has purportedly purchased every commercial during Thursday's "Colbert Report" and taken out an open-letter newspaper ad to Colbert saying "we will dominate the airspace on your show ... we will own you."

This comes after Colbert "pop[ped] open a jar of mayo whup-ass" during his Oct. 15 show.

General Mills announced this week it would drop "Smart Choices" labels from its products, including cereals.

The company planned to put these labels on up to 67 items including General Mills cereals such as Chocolate Lucky Charms and Cheerios, but bowed to public pressure after the Food and Drug Administration said the labels misled consumers, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports.

Food companies created the labels as an easy way to find healthy foods in the grocery store, but drew criticism when it appeared on mayonnaise and Froot Loops, the paper said.

[Via Minneapolis Star-Tribune]

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I was around five years old the first time I had a steamed artichoke for dinner. They were a favorite of my parents' and so we'd often eat them for dinner, dipping the leaves in melted butter and then finishing the meal up with some salad. However, sometime around my high school years, they fell out of favor (I think my mother couldn't handle the volume of butter our family of four required to make them palatable).

While I was in Portland last week, I picked up three nice looking artichokes and took them back to my parents' house, in order to re-live old times and satisfy a longtime craving. We steamed them for about forty-five minutes, until they were fork-tender at the stem. While they cooked, I stirred a few tablespoons of Best Foods (Hellman's on the east coast) Mayonnaise together with a pressed garlic clove and some lemon juice, in place of our traditional butter dip.

Sitting around the dining room table, we quietly ate our artichokes, scraping the tender bits at the bottom of the leaves off with our lower front teeth and commenting occasionally on how good they tasted (we all determined that the mayo sauce was far tastier than the old butter dip). My parents both reminisced about their first artichokes (my mom was in high school, while my dad grew up eating them) and we ate them down to the stem (scraping out the prickly bristle under the leaves).

I've been thinking about artichokes since I got back to Philly and I do believe that they'd make a perfect starter to a mellow New Year's Eve meal. They're easy (steam in a pot with a couple of inches of water until they're tender), they're delicious and you get to eat with your hands. Add some bread, a light soup or salad and a simple dessert and your dinner is complete.

Don't have enough mayonnaise in the refrigerator for a recipe you're working on right now? Don't fret. Check out these easy substitutions that you probably have on hand!