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MAULDIN, S.C. — The South has a penchant for odd loyalties, which goes a long way toward explaining why a man from North Carolina last year ordered a customized Duke’s mayonnaise jar in which to store his remains. The Southern-made mayonnaise, a creamy spread rich with egg yolks and tart with...

On a cool night in early 1931, J.D. Holland parked his car near the Farmers’ Café in Statesville, North Carolina, and went inside to eat dinner. He walked back to the vehicle no more than twenty minutes later to discover that a thief had broken in. As Holland took stock...

A tomato and mayonnaise sandwich on store-bought white bread is the finest sandwich known to mankind.This is not up for debate, and the ingredients are not negotiable. Salt and pepper are permissible, but if you try to get schmancier than that, you’ll screw it all up, and your sandwich should...

A 67-year-old man loves mayonnaise so much that he wants to be buried in a jar of it when he dies. Larry Clinton of Bessemer City, North Carolina, told WBTV that he will put Duke’s Mayonnaise on a “bologna sandwich or banana sandwich, I put it on peaches and pears and cheese.” And...

Once again, South Carolina favorite Duke’s mayonnaise is in the news. According to the Washington Post, it has a cult following. And it’s a pretty large cult: Duke’s ranks third, behind Hellman’s and Kraft. As a South Carolina native, I weep for the rest of the nation, especially those who...

I showed up at the gate of the C.F. Sauer Co. in Richmond this past summer pronouncing myself something of a mayonnaise scholar: “I wrote my master’s thesis on pimento cheese,” I told Erin Hatcher, who oversees the company’s Duke’s Mayonnaise label. As any Southerner knows, mayonnaise is perhaps pimento...

I didn’t know that I could feel this way about mayonnaise. Collectively, we at HuffPost Taste absolutely believe that there are foods to carry flaming torches for. For some of us, it’s green chile. For others, avocados. We all have pretty special and important feelings about cheese. Until recently, mayo...

When we dropped the results of a very impromptu mayonnaise taste test last month, we got some comments on Facebook and Twitter. First, there were the mayonnaise haters — who we quickly dismissed for their lack of condiment common sense. Who are you people? The second, third, fourth and fifth comments? We heard...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. RUSTY HAMLIN, a sunburned bear of a chef, held out a fragrant bowl of liquid and waved his hand over it theatrically, in the universal gesture for “take a whiff of this, pal.” “Moonshine vinaigrette,” he said. Even though Mr. Hamlin was in the midst of preparing...

From potlucks to lunch pails, pimento cheese is the stuff of everyday Southern life. Doesn’t matter whether their first taste came from the local grocer or Grandma’s kitchen, most Southerners are attached to their ’menta cheese memories, and Sarah O’Kelley, co-owner and co-chef of the Glass Onion in Charleston, South...