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Thursday, 16 August 2018

Reports of the death of mayonnaise have been greatly exaggerated | Adam Liaw

Did millennials really kill mayonnaise? The answer is obviously no, but also I don’t care

Over the weekend an article by Sandy Hingston from the August edition of Philadephia Magazine titled “The White Stuff” (oh boy) was published online, with the headline: “How Millennials Killed Mayonnaise”.

Writing about millennials online is like a red rag to a bull – a bull that specifically loves to procrastinate by getting angry with strangers. And this one blew up. The articleis the perfect storm of boomer porn that flits between nostalgia, racial politics, culture wars and the interesting boomer take on what constitutes satire. Combine that with a zealous headline writer, and you’ve got a recipe for viral success.

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