<p>My brother just arrived for a visit, carrying with him much-welcomed authentic Kosher Deli items (kind of scarce around here). Now, I grew up finding it a little <em>odd</em> that anyone would want mayo on a pastrami, salami or corned-beef sandwich. I still cringe if seated with someone who orders such a combo at a real deli. If they want lettuce on it, I really feel they should just have turkey or a BLT :p.</p>
<p>Yet, today, I decided to have a salami and mortadella (admittedly, this is an Italian deli, not a Kosher deli item) sandwich. Something possessed me to want to put mayo as well as mustard on the sandwich.</p>
<p>Am I the only one who thinks this is a sacrilege? Are there further depths to which I can sink, or have I hit rock bottom?</p>
<p>I’m with ya, jmmom, sacrilege indeed. Mayo on deli sandwiches is just… well, there’s something not-right about it. (Then again, I grew up in NJ eating Italian subs, and to my taste, there’s nothing one should put on a sub but oil and vinegar and salt and pepper, yet people still put mayo and mustard and even BUTTER on those, too. Never will understand that…)</p>
<p>What I could use right about now in sunny CA is a good NY bagel and some REAL NY PICKLES, maybe even some pickled tomatoes. Did he bring you some pickles, too, I hope?</p>
<p>And, yes, mootmom, mayo and mustard on a sub is also in my book of venial sins. Butter??! Butter!!!?! That rises to the level of mortal sin, I would say.</p>
<p>My father – God rest his soul – used to put butter on peanut butter & jelly. And part of the family lore is the story of how he received a pound of butter for Christmas during WWII.</p>
<p>My father - God also rest his soul - put peanut butter and mayonnaise on saltine crackers. It is a taste I have inherited. There are a few of us weird souls on the face of the earth, but just a few.</p>
<p>My mom puts margarine on everything–drives me nuts! She has gone one step below putting butter on everything with margarine. She puts in on tuna sandwiches, saltines, peanut butter sandwiches, BLT—every kind of sandwich. Her fiance is at least trying to get her to switch to butter as he says “margarine is so bad that you can open it up, set it outside and even the flies hate it”. GROSS</p>
I just laughed so much that I just about choked, not kidding. </p>
<p>JMMom, when I grew up, where kosher delis were a plenty (and the opposite of where I live now), I don’t recall ever having mayo on deli sandwiches. However, my hubby only uses mayo. Actually, to appease Robert E. Lee, I will mention he makes his deli sandwich at home every day and takes it to work, but I digress. </p>
<p>So, you might be sacrilege but hey, nobody in your neck of the woods will likely notice, lol. </p>
<p>And about those tomato pickles (which my dad who is no longer living also liked), every time I go back home and to the deli, I like to get those as I have never seen them here in VT. A funny thing…last month we were on vacation on our favorite island, Anguilla. If you don’t know Anguilla, it is not very developed. Well, lo and behold in this third world sort of place, a kosher deli opened and we just could not believe it. So, we went and picked up food for the beach and I got an entire container of those tomato pickles. It was so funny to be getting this on Anguilla of all places which is far far far less developed than my rural town in VT where no way could I ever find kosher deli!</p>
<p>While I am on a roll (no pun intended)…I will add that Anguilla is known for its fine dining and we love it. Going out to eat every night on vacation there at a different fine restaurant is our evening’s “entertainment” (or part of it, lol) and Robert E. Lee would croak if he knew that a typical tab for dinner there runs about $150/two.</p>
<p>When I married my husband, we had a real laugh the first time we had both sets of parents over for a deli lunch. My parents wanted pumpernickel or rye shmeared with horseraddish or mustard; my in-laws wanted white bread lathered with butter or mayo. Oy! Somehow, we’ve survived 30 years of marriage, and our two families are very close.</p>
<p>Btw, my hubby “saw the light” and now has a kosher stomach - we go through the mustard and horseraddish like there’s no tomorrow, but a jar of mayo expires before we use it up. </p>
<p>It will be interesting to see how our DS fares gastronomically - he’s a CT Yankee (and die-hard Yankees fan) who will be going to a southern school. At least they’re opening an Einstein bagels place on campus this year.</p>
<p>“Any time a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread with mayo, somewhere a Jew dies.”</p>
<p>This saying was frequently heard in the kosher home I grew up in, and mostly by my great-grandmother!! She’d say it with such depth and meaning that all heads would bow for just a moment. I miss her and her junk drawer!</p>
<p>I am one of those other “weird souls” and am glad to finally meet another one My mom used to make peanut butter, mayo and lettuce sandwiches and I love them…daughter and husband think I’m weird.</p>
<p>Relish, ketchup and mustard on a hot dog is very normal. I like chili on my hot dogs, but I also love Chicago style. I’m puckered for one right now.</p>
<p>Mustard (definately not Dijon) and sauerkraut on a hotdog, period. Wash it down with Dr. Brown’s Celray tonic. </p>
<p>When I was growing up, my after school snack was usually a couple of pieces of rye bread slathered with some of the melted chicken fat that was always sitting in a glass on top of the stove. Mayo or butter on rye bread still seems wrong to me.</p>
<p>Now don’t get me started about chocolate or blueberry bagels…</p>
My mom used to make peanut butter, mayo and lettuce sandwiches and I love them…daughter and husband think I’m weird.</p>