"It don't mean a thang if it ain't got that twang!"
                                        —Duke Ellington (maybe)

I have a longstanding love affair with mayonnaise. It's far and away my favorite condiment. Then I discovered Dutch mayonnaise and things got taken to the next level. Then I started trying to eat more vegan and switched to making my own egg-free mayo. But it never even comes close to what I love about the stuff.

So while I eat considerably less real mayo now-a-days, I do still eat it.

The Dutch mayo I obsess over has gotten very expensive, so I went back to Best Foods (AKA Hellmann's East of the Rocky Mountains). But then one day Duke's mayonnaise somehow showed up at the grocery story. It was on an introductory sale cheaper than Best Food's and so I gave it a shot.

When I got home, I saw that the jar said It's Got Twang! on the lid.

And, sure enough, it does. Duke's doesn't have any sugar and includes a hit of apple cider vinegar, and that's where the "twang" comes from.

I was not a fan.

At least not immediately.

The "twang" was competing with the other flavors on my sandwich or burger. So I decided to use up the jar in potato salad where I could adjust the ingredients to offset it. Problem solved.

But then... I ended up using it in other places from time to time until I started... enjoying it?

And now it's my go-to mayo. Unless it's not on sale and Best Food's is cheaper. Because given the INSANELY FUCKING HIGH PRICE OF GROCERIES, the only thing that tastes better than "twang" is savings.