I'm sad that I missed posting this on the 4th
Maybe American ant size. Costco sells a lovely 1.9L jar.
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Even the jar looks like it needs to be on a diet
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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.
Maybe don't eat the mayo in the doomsday prepper bunker.
or dudes that just really love mayonnaise, I guess.
You know it's nice to be seen
Out of curiosity, I just checked my pantry. I have two 30 ounce jars (1400+ grams), sitting in reserve.
This genuinely represents a failure to comprehend the scale of American food products.
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That's not big enough.
It should be the 2 gallon Costco-sized jug to truly be 'Merican.
In America the family sized mayo comes in a 55 gallon barrel. That'll last for about a month.
The worst thing is... I don't know if I laugh or if I believe this.
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.
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.
The explodey barrels in fps games are typically 55 gallon drums
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.
https://www.webstaurantstore.com/hellmanns-real-mayonnaise-24-gallon-drum/125HLMN8828.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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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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How does it compare to amateur mayonnaise?
Amateur mayonnaise practices until it gets it right.
Professional mayonnaise practices until it does not get it wrong.
Real American Mayonaise , nearly 2 litres each, comes in a 2 pack....
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Wow, this made me realize I haven't seen mayo in a glass jar in years.
Same.
I've been loving Kewpie squeeze bottles and Truff mayo.
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Well Finland has the saying "Everything is big in America"
...good and the bad, triumphs and fuck-ups.
To be honest, I think all Finland did was translating that saying to Finnish lol
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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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In Brazil the "American cup" is the smallest size of cup and I'm always found that hilarious.
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Finland is in the top 10 of the most mayo consuming countries, so they could just as well call it "save a trip" size.
Mayo tanker truck waiting patiently for the BBQ sauce and Pepto Bismol tanker trucks to depart...
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That's just silly, its not even that big. That's a normal big jar of mayo.
With chocolate bars, premade meals, drinks, ect, its a "size" that works as a gimmick but mayo?
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In Europe it's code for "fatlards".
Can you fit your fist through the top? Can you scoop out a handful easily and leave fingertrails in the bottom? Then it's just normal sized IMO.
Should call that classic American Size. Today the standard container size measured in American comes half filled at twice the price.
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