Mayo?

Dear Germans,

Covering something in mayonnaise does not make it a salad.

At the supermarket there is potato salad, egg salad, fish salad, meat salad, cheese salad, and so on. I even saw bacon and egg salad once. If you can cut it into chunks and smother it in mayonnaise, then in Germany you can buy it at the supermarket in ready made 'salad' format.

When its not being used as the main ingredient of a salad, mayonnaise can also be found on chips and slathered all over bakery sandwiches. But one time I asked for mayo on the sausage sandwich I'd just bought from a stall, and the woman looked at me like I was crazy, as if I had asked for chocolate sauce or something instead. Maybe if I had asked for a sausage sandwich salad, she would have understood.