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[+] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 112 points 1 year ago (29 children)

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

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    64 fluid ounces = 128 servings of 1 Tablespoon = 11,520 total calories, if you use a child-cheater to scrape out every drop.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)
  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Oh sorry, family word maybe? A child cheater is a flexible spatula (rubber or silicone) rounded on one side, that scrapes all the yummy cake batter out of the bowl and into the baking pan, leaving not enough to lick.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Kinda dumb that these two are called the same thing. They're for very different use cases.

    The "child cheater" is sometimes referred to as a rubber spatula to differentiate it.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (15 children)
  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    For anyone unaware, the gallon size of condiments (mayo, ranch dressing, hot sauce, etc) is typically for food service. IOW, restaurants and the like.

    That said, there's nothing stopping individuals from getting it, so the point is still valid.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I worked prep at a buffet, and there was a salad that we made in bulk that used exactly one full gallon of mayo. i got really good at scooping it all out with a spatula in one fluid spiral.

    just one of many otherwise completely useless skills i developed in foodservice lmao

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    I worked at a pizza buffet when I was in high school. The ranch dressing, made in 5 gallon buckets, called for multiple gallons of mayo and buttermilk. I too got far too skilled at getting it all out in one go.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Worked at a seafood restaurant and we made coleslaw in basically a 40 gallon trashcan. Even had this auger that you attacked to the top to make it a huge food processor. It would use multiple gallons of mayo.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    600g? Those are rookie numbers. You call that American size? Our smallest jars are 390 (15 oz) grams. Regular and large jars are 780 (30 oz) and 1248 grams (48 oz). And they do have ridiculously big jars too, 1 gallon jars, i.e. 128 oz and 3328 grams, for, like, restaurants and doomsday preppers... or dudes that just really love mayonnaise, I guess.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    There's also the family that uses mayo and only goes shopping once a month or whatever. Some of those bigger jars are something like two normal sandwiches a day for a month, which is totally possible if you're packing lunch for two kids.

    Some of our preposterous containers of food are because some people decide to live unreasonably far from a grocery store, or just go shopping infrequently and buy huge amounts of food.
    (This has the side effect of making them buy bigger cars to hold the groceries and family that now has to come along because it's such a long trip, and that makes it miserable so they try to do it as infrequently as possible, so they need to buy a lot of groceries to hold them over. )

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Maybe don't eat the mayo in the doomsday prepper bunker.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You leave me and my gallons of bunker mayo alone.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Restaurants use a 10 gallon bucket (37.8 liters).

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    That's not big enough.

    It should be the 2 gallon Costco-sized jug to truly be 'Merican.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Are all your jars made from plastic?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    For most things where dropping it is likely and would definitely break it. It also lines up with the cost change for glass going up as the container gets bigger.

    I figure part of it is people having a preference for the lighter jar for big quantities, and liking the rigidity of glass for the smaller ones.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    600 grams?

    You could make maybe two sandwiches with that.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (28 children)

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

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (14 children)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year 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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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Every barrel you see on TV or in a movie is 55 gallon or 42 gallon.
    Other sizes exist but those two are so prevalent that you really only see those. The size comes from the oil industry where it's a standard unit. It's common to sell oil in different units, but the barrel size is so common that everyone just uses the same container and maybe just rounds the units.
    Can't use a 42 gallon barrel , has to be the metric 160L, or the 200L 55 gallon drum.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    55 gallons is about the size of the average American, or something in the neighborhood of 200kg.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    You’re mixing up weight and volume measurements, and everyone knows an average American is a lot of decibels.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Nah, the ounce is a unit of weight and volume. 55 gallons = 7040 fl oz ~= 7040 oz ~= 440 lbs = 200kg.

    Aren't American units great? Here's a nice converter for various things, including mayo, which is ~0.94 oz per fl oz. But generally speaking, a fluid ounce is roughly the same as a weight ounce, kind of like how a milliliter is roughly the same as a gram (exactly equal for water, while a fluid ounce isn't exactly equal to a weight ounce for water).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Because that all makes perfect sense.

    Well, the kg bit does anyway.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yup, the average American certainly is 200kg. 😀

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I have absolutely no idea how big 55 gallons would be

    Something a bit larger than 200l... I think an oil barrel is around that size (and yeah, it's "the standard unit" for that).

    In all seriousness, if the GP said it was a 2 gallon container I would honestly not know if it was true.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    https://www.unileverfoodsolutions.us/product/hellmann-s-extra-heavy-mayonnaise-4-gal-1-pack-1-EN-639543.html

    https://www.webstaurantstore.com/hellmanns-real-mayonnaise-24-gallon-drum/125HLMN8828.html

    https://www.unileverfoodsolutions.us/product/hellmann-s-extra-heavy-mayonnaise-tote-2300-pound-pack-of-1-1-EN-1210411.html

    The largest sold to consumers through normal channels is a gallon. Typically used by people who are feeding a lot of people, like making a dish for a large family gathering, or by people who only go shopping once a month or less. Some people live an hour from the store, so they just buy an excessive amount of food and shop infrequently.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year 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'...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I prefer the 300 gallon IBC tote. Then I can unload it from my pickup truck with the pallet forks on my skid-steer and put it straight into the mayo door on the side of my house.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I just converted it. It's more than 200kg! Does the whole family drink a glass of it everyday? How in the world are you finishing that in a month?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Real American Mayonaise , nearly 2 litres each, comes in a 2 pack....

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    That is for restaurants lol don't worry

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    My family of 4 goes through that much in about 6 months.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't know how okay I am with keeping mayo for 6 months

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    PH is 3-4, nothing wants any of that action.

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  • There's a reason ketchup and mayonnaise are the classic American condiments, that being that they are acidic enough to remain shelf stable for years. I ain't even joking pre refrigerators that was a massive boon and fridges didn't become common for house holds until the 1950s ice boxes not withstanding.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ridiculous excess. Probably also has three times the ingredients.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    To be fair, it's a bulk club; they're designed to service businesses, but price-wise to value we go through that much in a year and they have great expiration dates. My pantry exceeds the stock of a small European market :)

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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

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