In accordance with Modern Farmer, the historical past of commercially produced mayonnaise begins with one Richard Hellmann, an immigrant from Germany who owned a delicatessen in Manhattan. It was right here that in 1905 he started jarring and promoting his spouse’s signature condiment. It quickly grew to become so fashionable that he left the deli and opened a manufacturing facility devoted solely to producing his mayonnaise. On the opposite facet of the continent in San Francisco, one other firm started manufacturing a jarred model of mayonnaise, generally known as Greatest Meals.
In 1932, Greatest Meals acquired Hellmann’s creating the slogan “one mayonnaise recipe, one mayonnaise model, two distinctive names.” Greatest Meals went on to reign supreme west of the Rockies, whereas Hellmann’s continued to dominate the east coast. Within the Sixties, Greatest Meals made the leap and adopted Hellmann’s signature blue ribbon on its packaging, ceaselessly uniting the 2.
By 2000, the European conglomerate Unilever acquired Greatest Meals for $20.3 billion {dollars}, per AP News. To today, whether or not you name it Hellmann’s or Greatest Meals, this model of mayonnaise is taken into account the gold standard of commercially produced mayonnaise, representing nearly half of all gross sales of the condiment in america yearly.
