Here’s a tip for Sam Cam after that Hellmann’s gaffe at No 10

Interesting things you find out when flicking through The Oxford Companion to Food, number 843: apparently, it is widely agreed that the word mayonnaise, whose original French spelling was mahonnaise, meant literally “of Mahon”, and that it was so named to commemorate the taking of Port Mahon, the capital of Minorca, by the Duc de Richelieu in 1756 (presumably the duke’s chef invented it). The English borrowed the word in the 1840s, and its first recorded user was the novelist and noted gastronome, William Makepeace Thackeray.

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