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

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

That's like a week's worth at best.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I saw this several times when in Finland. I thought it was hilarious (I'm American).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I mean, isn't that just shelf-stabilized 'Murican pulmonary fluid?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

They dip their fries in mayo over there and put it on hot dogs, gotta get the big jars for that.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 days ago (12 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (13 children)

The real worse thing is I have absolutely no idea how big 55 gallons would be, or how big the one in the photo is.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The average family size is shrinking. I've seen my neighbors stretch 55 gallons to 6 or even 7 weeks.

The times, they are a changin'...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Ain't no folks enjoy a good ol' mayo slip'n'slide no more

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago (2 children)

600 grams?

You could make maybe two sandwiches with that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

To be fair you could make three grilled cheese sammiches with that

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (3 children)

There is a lot of truth to the big in America stereotype. Big country, big cities, big roads, big cars, big buildings, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

gotta fit all these big fat people...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

And a lot of those are related. Big country means that our cities can sprawl. Big (low-density) cities mean that our roads can be wide. Big roads mean that our cars can be big.

Big country also means that there are a lot of people, and sooner or later a good percentage of them want to live close together, so they build big (dense) cities, which means big buildings.

And the sprawl leads to the part about big containers of unhealthy food, too. If you live more than an hour away from the nearest grocery store, you're unlikely to get groceries more than every other week or so, which means you need to buy larger, more shelf-stable containers of food.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I believe (based on nothing but a whim) that us shopping culture is based on buying supplies (shopping for a week or more) while the European shopping culture evolved more from daily supplies from the market. Rural Europe would be the same i guess, but old cities was made for daily commerce

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

As an American I approve this image

[–] [email protected] 113 points 6 days ago (10 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago (11 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Psh! Nobody could take a bath in a tub that small.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago

To be honest, I think all Finland did was translating that saying to Finnish lol

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