Aibu to prefer salad cream to mayo in a sandwich?

[Butterfly98]

Which do you prefer to add to your sandwich, is it salad cream or mayo? For me it's definitely salad cream (has to be Heinz) as it has a tangy flavour and feels light compared to mayo which I think is heavy, with not much flavour just eggy really. A lot of sandwich shops / cafes still don't have salad cream, such as today the guy making my chicken and salad sandwich said I was the only regular customer who asks for salad cream as 'everyone' prefers mayo! As an aside can anyone tell me if I can buy little individual packets of salad cream anywhere to put in my handbag so I can stop hassling sandwich guy? So I need this very important question answered please!

Salad cream is splendid!
On eggs, ham and cheese
Horseradish with anything is amazing (been known to grab a teaspoon full...)
Tongue and anything is amazing as long as it's on white with lurpak
Oh, god, I want all of it. With piccalili

I wish this was a poll .

I loathe salad cream, it's absolutely putrid. Mayonnaise, on the other hand, was made by the Gods.

Salad cream. Especially good on mashed potatoes

FFS now I want salad cream all over warm new potatoes...

I like it mixed with pasta, cucumber & tomatoes - I ate that a lot as a student!

@Pinkmouse6 if this thread was a poll then you're outnumbered 🤣

In 1999 Heinz announced that they might be discontinuing Salad Cream, they said that there were no plans to promote it and they were losing market share. There was outrage, I remember it clearly. It was all over the press and people were horrified that Heinz could even think of dumping Salad Cream. Obviously Heinz backtracked, it could have been a marketing manoeuvre though.
I can't stand it and much prefer mayonnaise

I remember the outrage when it was announced that salad cream might be discontinued, I was one of the outraged
Heinz salad cream is wonderful stuff, can't stand mayonnaise.

Amazon sell sachets. I’ve started having salad Cream again, on old style salads like my grandad used to make.

If it’s a fish finger sandwich, it must be salad cream.
I like both salad cream and mayo, but there’s place for both of them.

As for getting the individual sachets, have you tried Amazon? They seem to stock just about everything. Or do you know anyone that shops in a wholesale type warehouse that would pick you up a catering pack?

YNBU, I prefer salad cream as well.

I’ve gotten used to mayo, I couldn’t eat it a few years ago. I buy the light version and it’s not too claggy

Salad cream is pure 80s and it reminds me of my mum making lettuce and cucumber sandwiches when I went home for lunch in primary school

Fish finger sandwich has to be either pickled beetroot (oddly delicious) or tartare sauce.

I always use salad cream for egg or tuna ‘mayo’, it is so much nicer

I adore mayo HOWEVER tuna or cheese savoury demands salad cream.
Tuna/grated cheese, red onion, red pepper, grated carrot, chopped apple, mayo and a dollop.of salad cream. On a baked potatoes as I hates sandwiches :-)

Thank you @NannyRed good idea I will have a browse on Amazon....
Does anyone remember the outrage last year when Heinz was considering changing the name from salad cream to sandwich cream?! Outrageous but luckily it didn't happen due to the backlash!

When I was pregnant there was nothing I loved more than the following sandwich; bread (granary/seedy type), buttered, iceberg lettuce especially the crunchy centre bits, fish fingers and salad cream. Amazing, sometimes is have tomatoes in there too or mini picked cucumbers, but the classic hit the spot

Also really like salad cream!! It's a bit common though, I think salad cream is the working class condiment to middle class mayo.

I had a JP today with butter, salt, cheese and sliced roast chicken then with a load of salad cream on top. Yum!

I missed out toasted! The bread must be toasted!

Salad cream is always better than mayo.

@imamearcat how can salad cream be described as common? Someone else said that earlier in the thread too 🤔

I went through a phase of having Italian dressing on salad, the posh leafy sort, but went back to having normal lettuce with salad cream on...has to have springers or red onion as well though

@imamearcat - what is a JP?

salad cream is what we had before we realised Mayo existed.

YANBU I love salad cream on warm new potatoes too! Also on jacket spud instead of butter, as well as tuna and egg mix for sandwiches. Crisp sandwiches are amazing with the bread spread with salad cream

And it's really nice with quiche

ahh JP = jacket potato, silly me!

I don’t eat sandwiches (too many years of them at work), but salad cream is gorgeous when mixed with fresh dill weed and put on warm potato salad with chopped rollmop herrings, hard boiled egg and raw onion slices. I’ve never liked mayo on anything.