For anyone in the UK looking for the same kind of mayonnaise that you get in Belgium, the closest I've found is this Polish one, available from Tesco or your local Polski sklep.
There are tons of different Polish mustard's that are really nice as well. They are very easy to find in the UK. I'm sure that would be the case in the US as well if you know where to look.
FWIW, I've noticed mayonnaise, even the industrial one, is drastically different between countries (i.e. strong lemon aroma, different consistency etc).
I live in the UK, and the thing I thought summed up the British and Irish obsession with mayonnaise best was when I recently bought a hoi sin duck wrap at the local Tesco and it had "No mayo" in big letters on the front, as if the lack of may was something highly unusual and/or edgy.
Since then I've looked at the ingredient list of every other product with great suspicion, expecting to find mayo everwhere...
True true but we also have things similar to these pastes but they come in tubes and often have mayonnaise. Don't you think that's kind of the same idea?
Are you in US? If so, I'm not sure you've ever tried it - what we have marketed and sold as mayonnaise here is something very different (and indeed, quite disturbing) substance: the color, texture and, obviously, the taste is quite different. I used to think that mustard is absent in US as well, but then I found that it's actually sold as "English mustard" but I haven't found real mayonnaise yet...
I'd be pretty surprised if I bought a product named "Just Mayo" that didn't contain actual mayonnaise, but I guess it fits into the same pattern as American "cheese".
> Good luck finding mayonnaise or ketchup in glass jars now.
I've never seen ketchup in glass, but mayonnaise is sold in glass in all supermarkets in the Netherlands, as well as small aluminium tubes and plastic squeeze bottles.
There are some other ketchups on the market. Stoke's ketchup is available in supermarkets and is delicious and expensive and they have a few different flavours.
I find this very interesting, because Pudliszki is generally considered suspicious around here in Poland because it's laced with sugar.
For generations now children in kindergarten have been repeating the phrase "ketchup Pudliszki przeczysci Ci kiszki"("Pudliszki ketchup will clear out your guts").
Kotlin (no relation to the programming language. Or is there? We may never know) I believe has much less sugar.
Anyway if you ever get the chance go to McDonald's in Italy and ask for ketchup - it's 0,50€ per portion, but the taste is completely different than anywhere in Europe.
Which brand? France has Hellmann's and also tastes very similar to the Hellmann's we have here in the USA. My favorite brand of mayo is Maille, which I have not yet tried here.
Since you mentioned Pudliszki and Kotlin, here's the Polish Map of Ketchup [1]. The Polish ketchup market is quite varied. The map shows where different ketchup brands are produced.
English mustard is great. I'd say export it to Europe, but no one will like it because they consider French (and some, German) mustards superior. It's the cheese and sausage situation all over again :D
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/262110048
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