Mayonnaise dip with bread service

Disneygirlxo91

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We just got off the magic for a 5 night cruise and 3 out of 5 nights we were served a flavored mayonnaise with the bread services at dinner. It just doesn’t make sense, has any one experienced this? The food this cruise was not memorable at all was all just okay.
 
Hilarious, only because we were on your sailing (just off the Magic yesterday). And my husband and I had the same conversation! When we sat down on the last night he literally said…I wonder what flavor will be in our mayo tonight?🤣 It was our 5th sailing since 2019 and I don’t remember that being the case before. Also…what was up with the banana soft serve on the ship? More than half of the time it tasted diluted or spoiled. It’s our favorite so we were very disappointed. Nonetheless, we had an amazing time…but we found these two things to be very odd.
 
We also just got off the magic yesterday as well! We had an amazing time despite Mayo with dinner. On night 5 we had dinner at rapunzel‘s in the menu said it would be a mustard dip so we were expecting mustard but we joked it will probably be mayonnaise and sure enough it was Mayo with mustard seeds we both just laughed.
 
Gosh, doesn’t sound like something we will be enjoying in January.
 
Are you sure it was mayo and not aioli ? Not uncommon in fancy land based restaurants.
 
None of the recipes I've used had mayo in them. https://cookieandkate.com/easy-aioli-recipe/
Mayonnaise and aioli are almost exactly the same thing. They're both an emulsion with eggs and oil and an acid. Aioli is just a flavored. The link you showed says that the aiolis made with olive oil but there are mayonnaise is out there that have olive oil in them also. So they're really not different.
 
What it tasted like was Hellman’s with a hint of garlic one night or Hellman’s with a hint of coarse grained mustard mixed in another night. Could it possibly have been an attempt at an aioli with these flavors and not mayo? Sure. But regardless of what they were calling it, it tasted almost the same several nights. I remember more variety in the dips on past sailings, more like hummus one night, then tomato spread, then, olive oil and vinegar, then yogurt dip etc, but this was just one mayo-like dip after another.
 
Mayonnaise and aioli are almost exactly the same thing. They're both an emulsion with eggs and oil and an acid. Aioli is just a flavored. The link you showed says that the aiolis made with olive oil but there are mayonnaise is out there that have olive oil in them also. So they're really not different.
True, but it is different.
 
That depends on where you are. In the US, aioli is usually mayonnaise with garlic or another flavor added to it.
Well, I am in the U.S. Anyone have the menu from the ship? What was it called on the menu. One of the restaurants here specializes in aioli form scratch, no mayo in it. Aioli has no eggs in it.
 
Well, I am in the U.S. Anyone have the menu from the ship? What was it called on the menu. One of the restaurants here specializes in aioli form scratch, no mayo in it. Aioli has no eggs in it.

Again, that depends on where you are. In many places, aioli always has egg. Even a cursory reading of Wikipedia shows this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aioli
 
We just got off the magic for a 5 night cruise and 3 out of 5 nights we were served a flavored mayonnaise with the bread services at dinner. It just doesn’t make sense, has any one experienced this? The food this cruise was not memorable at all was all just okay.
We must’ve been on the same cruise. The only good dip was the olive in olive oil in luminiers. My mom actually got a funky stomach for one night and swore it was the mayonnaise dip and kept her hands away the rest of the trip. She can’t handle heavy things like that. I’m just curious to know who the heck comes up with that mayonnaise bread dip?? Most bread chips I’m aware of are oil or butter based. Seems cheap.
 
Actually this thread got me thinking about future cruises. As Europeans we don’t do bread service at a meal and it was no wonder we were overly stuffed and didn’t feel well after eating our multiple courses plus bread ( I mean seriously if you’re doing appetizers why also then bread?) So I think from now on we’re just going to tell the server is not even to bring the bread service.
 
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Well, I am in the U.S. Anyone have the menu from the ship? What was it called on the menu. One of the restaurants here specializes in aioli form scratch, no mayo in it. Aioli has no eggs in it.

Did you bother reading the link you gave earlier for aioli recipes? The one you used to « prove » that it is different from mayonaisse? The link defines aioli as « raw eggs emulsified with oil ». And the recipe is literally mayo with some additions.

And people aren’t saying that aioli is made from mayo (so, not sure why you keep saying « it has no mayo in it »), they are saying the the ingredients/process are the same.

Well, no one other other than the link you posted I saying that aioli is made from mayo.
 
I also find it strange that they would use either mayonnaise or aioli as a bread dip. Sometimes I think that these places get caught up wanting to use what's trendy and don't really think it through. I still miss the pigeon pea relish that they had on pirate's night.
 
I also find it strange that they would use either mayonnaise or aioli as a bread dip. Sometimes I think that these places get caught up wanting to use what's trendy and don't really think it through. I still miss the pigeon pea relish that they had on pirate's night.
I guess I just don’t see how mayo is really any different from butter or oil—both are just a way of adding some fat to the bread to make it texturally more pleasing than just dry bread on its own. I am glad they are making something flavored rather than just phoning it in with plain butter. Remy does flavored butters with their bread, which I like even better, but I can see how that wouldn’t scale well to the number of people eating in the MDRs. It seems lien DCL is always walking a bit of a fine line in its MDRs between having very basic “meat and potatoes” type food for picky eaters and having something a bit more elevated. I like it when they go a bit more adventurous—I don’t want to have to pay for the upcharge dining to eat something other than food I can make at home.

Wow, that could be dangerous for those with egg allergies if not disclosed.
Disney has allergy friendly menus for those with allergies. Once you disclose your allergy, they are very careful and you order a whole separate meal the day before so it can be made in an allergy safe kitchen. I also frel like if you have an egg allergy, you know to avoid not just eggs but egg-based foods like mayo/aioli, cakes and custards.
 

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