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# The Land of Mayo and Hunting
- URL: https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/the-land-of-mayo-and-hunting/
- Published: 2023-06-28T20:29:08.000Z
- Updated: 2023-06-28T20:29:08.000Z
- Description: Squish. Boom.
- Author: Carla Pettigrew
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1738597973835, #Import 2025-02-03 15:53

I came across this delightful food review posted by , and a phrase in it just tickled my writer brain.

And this was my response:

I am going to write a memoir about growing up on the border of state, county and city in North Carolina; living in Charlotte with the feel of a small city, before the banker/NBA boom; and then having relatives on the noman’sland border of North and South Carolina.

Grandma served halved pears with a mayonnaise blend and shredded cheese in the delicate natural scoop of the pear, and I liked it.

I took ballet classes, was the first to go *en pointe*, and then stared down the giant open mouth of a mounted bass at my uncle’s house.

Thanks to this post, I am going to do this, in the heady fiction/non-fiction style of [Truman Capote](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781400096916), bringing forth the avocado-toned land of the seventies, the land of jars of Mayo large enough to house goldfish, and the land of the serious battle of Miracle Whip v. Hellman’s, and I am going to title it *Insinuated Mayonnaise*. Thank you.

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