Duke's Mayonnaise is a

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created by Eugenia Duke in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1917. Duke's Mayonnaise is the third-largest mayonnaise brand in the

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(behind Hellmann's and Kraft), however its popularity was at first largely limited to the South."Duke's Mayonnaise: The Southern Spread with a Cult Following"
''The Washington Post'', November 5, 2013. It is used in regional favorites such as

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, tomato sandwiches,

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, and

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. Duke's Mayonnaise contains more egg yolks than other mayonnaise products and no added sugar.

Early history

In August 1917, Eugenia Duke and her daughter Martha began selling sandwiches at

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-run Army canteens to help make money for her family. Due to requests from soldiers at nearby Camp Sevier which was a

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training camp and other customers (she had quickly expanded the places to which she sold her sandwiches), she started bottling her mayonnaise around 1923. Unable to keep up with demand, she sold it to the

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in 1929.

With C. F. Sauer

In 1929, the

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in Richmond, Virginia, purchased Duke's products and Duke's Mayonnaise became the company's flagship product. The plant is located in

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which is southeast of Greenville. The facility was featured in a ''

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'' episode about mayonnaise in 2011. In 2017, the

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legislature recognized the centennial of Duke's. Duke's Mayonnaise was available throughout the

, as well as in

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, Australia and the

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. In 2017, Sauer announced that it was also starting sales to

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. In 2019, Falfurrias Capital Partners acquired C.F. Sauer and the Duke's brand. Also in 2019, Duke Foods went to court seeking a restraining order trying to "keep former executive Wyatt Howard from using the purloined paperwork to help a competitor." The paperwork referred to included "recipes, formulas, pricing information and other proprietary trade secrets ownloadedto his personal email account when he was fired in May (2019)."

Eugenia Duke

Eugenia Thomas Slade Duke (October 1881 in

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–1968) created Duke's Mayonnaise in 1917, in Greenville, South Carolina. When Eugenia Duke was 18, she married Harry Cuthbert Duke in 1900 and moved to Greenville. She was active in working towards passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution granting women the right to vote. After the sale of the company, Eugenia Duke followed Martha to

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and opened the Duchess Sandwich Company as well as the Duchess Catering Company.

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* {{portal bar, Food Brand name condiments Mayonnaise 1917 establishments in South Carolina Companies based in Greenville, South Carolina American companies established in 1917

Early history

With C. F. Sauer

Eugenia Duke

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