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I love the similarities to IKEA, frankly - I'm a big fan of clean design and simple, straightforward labelling. I also really, REALLY appreciate the fact that unlike Trader Joe's - and this is the only thing I hate about TJ's - every F&E store I've been in is laid out exactly the same. If you know where the cheese is in one store, you know where to find it in any other.

What you need to know about expiration dates is that everything on the edge of its date is marked down 50% - so if you get a loaf of bread whose pull-date is tomorrow, bring it to the attention of an employee. The product should still be usable. I bought a good-sized boneless leg of lamb for $7 under those circumstances, and it was wonderful.

Eagle Rock and Arcadia are my nearest locations for now, so I was delighted to see they're going to put one into the former Wild Oats location on South Lake. That puts it directly into my usual shopping loop with TJ's and Ralphs, and right next door to Peet's. Makes me happy.

Different strokes...and if you dared to serve me Miracle Whip I'd probably have one! We often had MW in our house when I was a kid, just because it was significantly cheaper - and when things got really tight, Mom had a recipe for a "boiled dressing" that was essentially homemade MW. So glad those days are gone for good...

Homemade or Hellman's/Best Foods, that's me. I really like Duke's, too, but it's not available here in SoCal.

Pouring the foaming molasses mixture into the crumbs was the method used by the folks who introduced me to this delightful pie, and this is the first recipe I've read that tells you to do that. The peanut butter, however, I can do without. My taste in molasses runs (slowly, of course) to the heavy and barely sweet, but even when using the lighter stuff I think the molasses flavor should dominate.

@suegsf: i've never made the stuff, but you can buy it at hippie health food stores, whole foods, etc.

my favorite brand lives here: http://www.followyourheart.com/vegenaise.html

I don't care what anyone thinks. I love Miracle Whip.

I can take or leave mayo. It is easy to leave it because it is any easy way to cut the calories out of sandwich. I will risk the calories from Miracle Whip. I like light Miracle Whip just as well.

Tuna recipe: I tablespoon of Miracle Whip per 1 can tuna. Add whatever else you want. Chopped tomatoes are good.

I can't think of a restaurant that offers Miracle Whip. Why?

Miracle Whip is on a list of foods I longed for as a kid: Wonder Bread, Yoo-Hoo, Kool-Aid. Stuff my 70s health-nut mom would never buy. She did buy Hellman's.

Not sure I ever tried MW as an adult but it had such mystique on the rare occasion I tasted some at someone else's house back then.

I had to chuckle as I read the posts. I made some tuna salad for my BFF and she raved as it didn't nearly taste like hers; she wanted to know what I put in it to make it taste so good. I named Hellmann's mayo as the main ingredient (also use white meat tuna-makes all the difference) and she's been using my recipe ever since. I thought everybody on earth used Hellmann's. Of course, my mom always used MW as it was cheaper back during the war years - and I can't stand the stuff. Ewww, but I never told her that - didn't want to get slapped in the mouth (smile).

Hellmans is the only kind I buy. I will eat other kinds of mayo if they are served to me. However, I absolutely cannot eat miracle whip. I can't stand the sweetness.

One of my biggest pet peeves is to ask for mayo on a sandwich at a deli/restaurant and be served miracle whip instead. It can't be scraped off -- the taste is still there. This is a very serious crime. If mayo is not available I would simply choose another condiment (or none.) Do not choose for me. It is not acceptable.

I admit I have very strong feelings on Mayo. I am tolerant of those on the other side of the isle who use MW. We can co-exist. We need to agree to disagree and move on. We live in a free country where people can choose to worship the condiment of their choice. We need to respect each other's differences.