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We Can Now Add Mayonnaise To The Never-Ending List Of Things Millennials Have Apparently Killed

Writing for the Philadelphia magazine, Sandy Hingston blames the fall of Mayonnaise on "identity condiments".

Mayonnaise: the weird, creamy, eggy white stuff that somehow just makes sandwiches better. Hate it or love it, it’s everywhere, even in ice cream.

But, according to one opinion writer, Mayonnaise’s days are numbered. In a piece called “How Millennials Killed Mayonnaise”, Sandy Hingston opines over how her kids no longer eat mayonnaise at family picnics.

Hingston writes:

While I wasn’t watching, mayo’s day had come and gone. It’s too basic for contemporary tastes — pale and insipid and not nearly exotic enough for our era of globalization. Good ol’ mayo has become the Taylor Swift of condiments.

First, credit where it’s due: “the Taylor Swift of condiments” is a pretty sick burn.

But really, somehow this writer decided that, because one member of her family has stopped eating the mayo-flavoured dishes her own mum used to make, mayonnaise is now legally dead. Never mind that they may have just gotten tired of the same three dishes again and again. No, it’s the millennials who are wrong!

 

Of course, everyone on social media is now clowning on how stupid the premise of killing mayonnaise is.

Some are even celebrating millennials’ victory over the condiment:

While some took particular note of the phrase “identity condiments”, which has to be at once the best and worst phrase ever written.

 

And as some have pointed out, mayonnaise is not dead at all, especially if you know where to look.