Blue Plate Mayonnaise is a brand of
mayonnaise
Mayonnaise (; ), colloquially referred to as "mayo" , is a thick, cold, and creamy sauce or dressing commonly used on sandwiches, hamburgers, composed salads, and French fries. It also forms the base for various other sauces, such as tartar ...
owned by
Reily Foods Company, headquartered in
New Orleans, Louisiana.
Blue Plate was created by the
Wesson Oil & Snowdrift Company in 1929 and founded by Charles A. Nehlig, chief operating officer of subsidiary company Gulf and Valley Cotton Oil Company.
One of the first commercially prepared mayonnaise brands in the United States,
it was produced in
Gretna, Louisiana until 1941 when production was moved to the
Blue Plate Building in
Gert Town, New Orleans. Reily Foods purchased Blue Plate in 1974 and continued to use the same factory until production was moved in 2000 to the Reily Foods factory in
Knoxville, Tennessee.
The Blue Plate Building has since been converted into the Blue Plate Artist Lofts and is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places. In 2018, Epicurious listed Blue Plate as "the best mayonnaise you can buy in a grocery store."
See also
*
List of mayonnaises
References
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Food manufacturers of the United States
Manufacturing companies based in New Orleans
Condiment companies of the United States
Mayonnaise
1929 establishments in Louisiana
American companies established in 1929