Recently I have made 2 fatal errors- on two occasions while at the grocery store I accidently purchased “salad dressing” instead of mayonnaise. I know some of you are thinking, “how do you mistake miracle whip for mayo?” well it’s easy when you buy the store brand and you want to leave the mayo aisle as quickly as possible because just buying that stuff gives you the creeps (seriously it IS fat in a jar!). Anyway so over the last month in my haste to quickly leave that aisle I ended up with two jars of “salad dressing”. Brian is the one in our house that uses mayonnaise and has on multiple occasions informed me that “salad dressing” is disgusting and that he will NOT be eating it. So the other morning I found myself with two unopened jars of salad dressing and no mayo- okay to be fair that is what Brian found himself with, I just happened to be in the room. After he discovered this little issue I had a brainwave- what if I return the wrong stuff and buy the right stuff. When I suggested this to Brian he looked at me like I was insane- return mayo, who does that? I figured since I had purchased the fat in a jar from Walmart that I might be able to return it. The $3 wasn’t a big deal, it was just the principle of the thing- I didn’t want to throw it away but I would NOT be eating it, and I needed the other stuff. I packed the mistakes up into my car and we headed to wally world. I went to customer service and explained my predicament to the sales associate who kindly agreed to exchange the wrong stuff for the right stuff. Brian was so embarrassed he wouldn’t even come to customer service with me. Anyway I exchanged the salad dressing for the mayo as I was leaving I though “now I have officially become white trash”. Looking back I am wondering why I spent so much time and effort thinking about mayo and salad dressing- I don’t even eat the stuff! What can we learn from this? In the future if you ever find yourself needing to exchange miracle whip (or salad dressing as the gv brand calls it) for mayo it is possible, and the cashier probably wont even laugh at you (even though they should).
I know have 2 jars of mayo on my shelf- life is good!
I have to ask what is the difference between miracle whip and mayo? Is there a difference, they both make a gross sound when you try to get them out of the jar/squeeze bottle so I wont EVER be eating them but I would like to know if there is a difference.
1 comment:
You're hilarious.
Miracle Whip has a different flavor and is supposed to be healthier in some way or another (less cholesterol or something). And actually, I like it better than mayonnaise(most people don't).
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