Salad cream

Hallelujah brother! All hail the most magical of condiments

I just used it replace the mayo in an egg mayo butty, though 'egg salad cream' does sound a bit weird.

It has to be Heinz though. The own brand stuff I've tried just doesn't cut it

A cheese salad sandwich with salad cream is one of my favourite things in the world

I once quickly tasted it many years ago. I remember it as an appalling attempt at making mayonnaise using vast quantities of sugar.

Why anyone would want to put it on salads, or sandwiches, or anything else for that matter, remains one of the great mysteries of life for me.

Chopped egg, tomato and salad cream sandwiches.

EDIT: Can we give an honourable mention to Heinz Sandwich Spread?

It's actually pretty good on a bacon buttie too! I was sceptical until I tried it. Also fish finger butties.

Egg mayo usually add a dollop of it with the mayo too.

Salad cream with my sardines on toast. YUM.

I used to love of the stuff, along with Ketchup. Hardly ever use either nowadays, though I still have both around in the house.

Mentioned it on the corned beef thread the other day but theres nothing better than a corned beef and salad sarnie with a load of salad cream on a flour-ey bap. Yum.

I had a horrible feeling that I might be suffering from a progressive degenerative disease a little while ago: all the fun had gone out of my cheese and onion sandwiches. I persevered for a few days but fortunately I spotted I'd inadvertently picked up a bottle of 70% less fat Salad cream. Gawd, it's gruesome stuff. Straight in the bin with it.

Also fish finger butties.

God yes - I'm 55 and have been eating them on and off since I was a young child.

I persevered for a few days but fortunately I spotted I’d inadvertently picked up a bottle of 70% less fat Salad cream. Gawd, it’s gruesome stuff. Straight in the bin with it.

Been there. That stuff needs dyed pink or heavily relabelled to prevent total travestation.

No, not with you at all.

Awful stuff, fish fingers or not! Now chilli jam and fish fingers in a sandwich... that's something else entirely.

Salad cream on fish fingers? Yuk. Tartare sauce surely?

Both wrong. Ketchup and cheese singles

Salad cream and cheese sandwich is rather nice

Have you tried sriracha mayo? Maybe the new king of sauces

Bloody love Salad Cream and we get through loads in our house.

So versatile from on salads to on pork pastry products (sausage rolls, pork pie etc) plus chips etc

It has to be Heinz though. The own brand stuff I’ve tried just doesn’t cut it

Definitely. Gone up a lot in price but haven't deviated to own brand

Nah man. Mayonnaise.

Love it, with chips it is like angels copulating on your tongue.

salad cream sarnies when i was a kid. bread, stork sb and salad cream. perfect.

Salad cream and cheddar, on toasted white bread. Utterly comforting nostalgia on a plate (or rather in my hand).

stork sb and salad cream.

Stork margarine and salad cream?

Just when I thought nothing could be worse than salad cream someone suggests combining it with margarine.

Margarine is another thing which I thought no longer existed.

Salad Cream + Scotch Egg = yumm!

an honourable mention to Heinz Sandwich Spread

This needed a boost

Margarine is another thing which I thought no longer existed.

Unless you use proper butter like what I do isn't all the rest essentially margarine just dressed up and spun to be healthy, healthier or cow friendly?

Rice and soy sauce… Epic.

Eh?

Rice, soy sauce and salad cream?

Salad Cream + Scotch Egg = yumm!

Yes! Also:
- Cheese and salad cream sandwich (with onion is even better)
- Crisp and salad cream sandwich (not had one of those for about 40 years.... heads off to kitchen)

Unless you use proper butter like what I do isn’t all the rest essentially margarine just dressed up and spun to be healthy, healthier or cow friendly?

Nope.

Most modern 'Margarines' are more akin to an oil emulsion, modified for palatability.

They used to use really low grade oils and animal fats that were hydrogenated prior to emulsification.

These days they are slightly better. Slightly.

A slight departure down memory lane, but as a kid did anyone else have dripping sandwiches??

We had a jug from when ever we had roasts for the fat to make dripping. Lard in top and brown juicy goodness below. We'd have it on bread and butter with salt. I think that'd be classed as child cruelty or similar nowadays 😂 Also sugar sarnies and banana sarnies.

Dripping sandwiches no, but do remember banana and sugar sandwiches

but as a kid did anyone else have dripping sandwiches??

Bread and dripping; very much so, yes. And getting back on topic I'm sure I remember pressed tongue sarnies with salad cream as a kid. My grandmother didn't come from properly oop north (she was Cheshire, Bridge Trafford way) but I have a lot to be grateful to her for.

Yes! Hello, I’m Houns and I’m a salad cream addict. There is nothing that isn’t improved by SC.

Now, possibly controversially, I prefer Heinz vegan SC

Bread and dripping - still do.
Whenever I roast meat or poultry I always pour off the pan juices. If I'm not using them to make gravy or a sauce I keep the glass in the fridge. When it's set the jelly at the bottom always gets used, usually added into the boiled up bones for stock. Sometimes - not always - the fat is really tasty so spread a bit on some fresh bread, add a bit of the jelly and a good shake of Saxo white pepper, it's a great breakfast.

EDIT: Can we give an honourable mention to Heinz Sandwich Spread?

Almost deserves its own thread

Eh?

Rice, soy sauce and salad cream?

Yep. Delicious.

Also Chinese takeaway chips with soy sauce and vinegar. Fusion innit

bread and dripping is one of my all time faves. with sliced black pudding and onion.

when i played rugby, the trays of snap with dripping butties and black pudding were the first to be eaten every week.

I do like salad cream, but I have to say do I prefer mayonnaise, I'm sure that make me a heretic.

Prefer both to ketchup though, not sure why...

anyone else have dripping sandwiches??

Dripping on toast with a sprinkling of salt! Salad cream with pork pies, scotch eggs, etc.

Heinz sandwich spread...used to have it loads as a kid, bought some years ago for Fazzini jnr and he threw up 🤣🤣

Home made mayonnaise. Takes a few minutes and is way nicer than anything from a factory.

Home made mayonnaise! We’ve hit peak STW again. 😂

Some of us are scum and prefer something from a factory, hence loving salad cream in all it’s filthy mass-produced, addictive-laden glory

Go 50/50 in your tuna mayo sandwiches.

Thank me later! 😉

Edit - and loads of it in yer cheese, ham, tomato sandwiches!

I used to love of the stuff, along with Ketchup.

I hope to god not in combination 😯

but as a kid did anyone else have dripping sandwiches??

Absolutely and still do when I cook roast pork (belly for the win). Young workmates looked at me like I was insane when I explained.

Home made mayonnaise! We’ve hit peak STW again.

Well it does make sense when you consider that "factory" mayonnaise isn't mayonnaise - mostly rape seed oil and little or no olive oil.

Home made mayonnaise. Takes a few minutes and is way nicer than anything from a factory

Then you can make meringues or pavlova with the egg whites with a huge dollop of whipped cream - another opportunity to clog your arteries up and increase your chances of a heart attack.

Thomas's bakery in Ulversron. They offer a generous squirt of salad cream as an option on every sandwich. Few resist.

Well it does make sense when you consider that “factory” mayonnaise isn’t mayonnaise – mostly rape seed oil and little or no olive oil

You know this is a thread about salad cream, right? And the most contentious issue so far is whether that or ketchup is best on a fish finger butty

It’s fair to say that it’s probably not the place to be getting precious about something’s provenience 😂

When we went on holiday as a kid we always took a roast chicken with us.
First meal on arrival was a brown bread ,chicken ,salad cream and golden wonder cheese and onion crisps sandwich. The crunch of it was a truly wonderful thing.

I don't want to shatter a beautiful childhood memory but I think it was the crisps that were crunchy, not the salad cream.

Fried egg roll with salad cream, heavenly.

Sunday chicken roast with gravy and salad cream

Ham, cheese, mint sauce and salad cream sandwich

Go 50/50 in your tuna mayo sandwiches.

Thank me later! 😉

Ah. I knew this day would come...

Long have kep secret my shame...

But tuna is best with...

A sprinkle of oregano, salt and pepper and lashings of balsamic

Now, this might be controversial, even on this thread.

But.

Salad cream and marmite sandwiches.

Oh yay to the SC.. It is the god of all condiments it goes with everything.

Heinze only - own brand is psih
Full fat only - 50/50 is psih

Back when i was still living at home i used to go through bottles of the stuff, i used to live almost entirely off Jacket potatoes and Chicken Kievs (the cheap Tesco ones were the best) - i was a growing lad so easily 2 x massive Pots. It was the cheapest way to feed me frankly, i loved it, it was easy to cook for mum (whilst everyone else had something a little more fancy) - it was always piled high with cheddar too -then absolutely smothered in SC.

However, one day, mum bought some cheap own brand stuff - i tried it, i said it was shiv and tasted like gandis slipper, so sent it back (not quite like that, but the gist is there). Normal SC service resumed. Until about a month or so later, my favourite dish is served up I liberally coated the Heinze SC and tucked in………………. but no something wasn’t right – essence of gandis slipper was there, but I was holding the Heinze SC bottle.. I protested that this wasn’t normal, but was rebuked with allegations I was being silly..

Anyway, transpired that they’d decanted the contents of Tesco Value to a Heinze bottle thinking they could fool me. I found it in the bin.. fools the joke was on them..

I believe I may also have got a clip round the ear for being a little sod for that episode, but we all learned a valuable lesson- which was to not try and pass off inferior condiments as proper ones..

Very partial to it but only with certain foods. I wouldn’t say it was sweet at all, it’s sharp.

I know the answer in my own experience, but has anyone actually used it with salad? Jacket spud salad garnish doesn't count.

Home made mayonnaise. Takes a few minutes and is way nicer than anything from a factory.

There's always one who has to spoil it...

Sunday chicken roast with gravy and salad cream

Wrong un alert. Salad cream has no place anywhere near gravy. Seek help.

I wouldn’t say it was sweet at all

Your palate has obviously been numbed by the British obsession of adding sugar to everything - beans, tomato puree, soup, and even bread ffs!

Heinz salad cream has more sugar in it than it has eggs, which is astonishing when you consider that it is a cack-handed British/American attempt to replicate mayonnaise. Check the ingredients here:

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/salad-cream-mayonnaise/heinz-salad-cream-285g

TopTip : Try eating desserts or cake if you fancy something sweet.

more sugar in it than it has eggs,

But also more mustard than eggs, and the biggest ingredient is vinegar. How could it not be sharp, no matter how much sugar is in it, when most of it is mustard and vinegar?

Yeah the vinegar might give it a sharpness but all that sugar makes it sweet.

And that's another thing...... vinegar. Why the **** do Brits believe that vinegar is a good substitute for lemon juice??

And it's not even bleedin vinegar! It's "non-brewed condiment" - in other words acetic acid added to water!

It’s actually pretty good on a bacon buttie too! I was sceptical until I tried it. Also fish finger butties.

Fishfinger sarnies with SC are on the plate in front of me right now. Yumm.

And that’s another thing…… vinegar. Why the **** do Brits believe that vinegar is a good substitute for lemon juice??

Lemon juice? What on earth are you blathering on about?

The best smell in the world is when you absolutely drown hot chips in vinegar... FACT!

I challenge anyone to smell that and not immediately start salivating and be completely unable to think about anything else other than chips and how much you suddenly want some

I'm going to make you live out the rest of your days living next to the Sarsons factory in Middleton. I used to ride past it on my commute. Its literally all you can smell for a half mile radius 😀

Oh god... I really, really want chips drowned in vinegar now

See what you've done!!!

That's ^^ not even vinegar!

Brits are so lacking in culinary skills that you don't even understand what vinegar is!

If it wasn't for foreigners Brits would be living on a diet of coal and lard. Or something similar.

Because a lot of us come from very poor backgrounds, where a lemon wasn't just a luxury, it might as well have been unobtanium to our grandparents.
It's the legacy of a poor post-war diet; it became the norm during the war due to rationing of eggs, so like dried peas or basic cheese, for millions of people it became the accepted standard. There were bigger things to be bothered about. The occasional splodge of salad cream is a reminder for a lot of reasons.

The occasional splodge of salad cream is a reminder for a lot of reasons.

Of how shit things used to be?

Sort of. In the same way that riding an old mountain bike when you've got a garage full of of modern full sus rigs can remind you of where you came from.
Or because that 'basic' bike is your thing and you're happy there.

Well as a child me and my siblings had to go to a special centre to receive free meals during the school holidays. However I'm not sure that I want to conjure up nostalgic memories of childhood poverty.

I never ate salad cream mind - it was never that bad!

Ha! Same here with fish paste sandwiches.

Powdered egg and balsamic vinegar?

Brits are so lacking in culinary skills that you don’t even understand what vinegar is!

What a load of bollocks. I know fine well what vinegar is.

I've made mayo it's delicious. My bread I bake has no sugar init unless it's a specific sweet bread. Balsamic on strawberry's is delicious

I grew up on a small holding I've eaten food that was clucking, honking, bah-ing in the field. Fresh tomatoes from the poly tunnel.

Etc etc.

But that doesn't mean that something dirty isn't fantastic. Whether it's a poor imitation of something else or not. Being a snob doesn't make you clever it just means you are missing out.

What a load of bollocks. I know fine well what vinegar is.

Binners obviously doesn't, he thinks the stuff in chip shops is vinegar. Anyone with very basic culinary understanding knows that it's non-brewed condiment.

What he should have said was : The best smell in the world is when you absolutely drown hot chips in non-brewed condiment… FACT!

What he should have said was : The best smell in the world is when you absolutely drown hot chips in non-brewed condiment… FACT!

Except for the issue of Sarsons is a brewed malt vinegar...

So really the question is do YOU know what vinegar is?

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Except for the issue of Sarsons is a brewed malt vinegar…

Only the stuff in chip shops isn't sarsons nor vinegar.

It's a bit patronising to believe that decent food is a class issue and that the proletariat aren't worthy.

One of the central issues of the French Revolution was the belief that even peasants were entitled to decent food.

As a consequence the average French working-class person today has a far greater appreciation of 'haute cuisine' than the average working-class Brit, that's for sure! It's a culture issue not a class issue - don't be such a snob.

Edit: To be clear I'm as working-class as is possible. But for cultural reasons I wasn't brought up on lard and sugar.

That's the buzz killed, lads. Pack up the craic, ernie's arrived.

Put me right off my potted brawn.

Enjoy your potted brawn and salad cream, I'm not sure why everyone should agree that it represents culinary bliss though. Or deny basic facts such as salad cream is full of sugar and non-brewed condiment isn't vinegar.

This is a bad thread for those on a low carb diet currently.😂

I like salad cream but not tried it on most of the things mentioned above. Post diet, perhaps. My oh loves it on chips but I've never tried that either!