In Finland, they advertise the largest container of mayonnaise as "American Size"

Real American Mayonaise , nearly 2 litres each, comes in a 2 pack....

That is for restaurants lol don't worry
- Don't know what you're talking about. As an American, I have one in my fridge. And I carry one to work. To add to my lunch, my coffee, of the sun is too hot and might burn my skin...
- My family of 4 goes through that much in about 6 months.
Ridiculous excess. Probably also has three times the ingredients.
- To be fair, it's a bulk club; they're designed to service businesses, but price-wise to value we go through that much in a year and they have great expiration dates. My pantry exceeds the stock of a small European market :)
- The bigger a container I buy, fewer resources are wasted on packaging and transport

Can you fit your fist through the top? Can you scoop out a handful easily and leave fingertrails in the bottom? Then it's just normal sized IMO.

That's just silly, its not even that big. That's a normal big jar of mayo.

With chocolate bars, premade meals, drinks, ect, its a "size" that works as a gimmick but mayo?

As an American, that's a normal small size of mayo. Most of our "regular" sizes are almost double that, this is about the size of those smaller squeeze bottles:
- This bottle design is an utter bastard. You simply can't get the last bits out of there no matter how much you wait or bang or make it cough and splutter to your food.
  I'm sure someone has actually designed it that way as opposed to designing it in a way that would be best for the consumer.
- Mayo squeeze bottle, the best thing since sliced bread, especially when it's used on said sliced bread 🥪

Is the American mayonnaise even as real as this real American mayonnaise??

Mayo is the same color as the Constitution of the United States. It's more really real than l̶̶e̶̶g̶̶a̶̶l̶̶l̶̶y̶̶ ̶̶ ethically allowed possible.
https://www.webstaurantstore.com/hellmanns-real-mayonnaise-24-gallon-drum/125HLMN8828.html

Hey we aren't the weirdos who dip our fries in it.

Oh wait that does sound pretty good actually

I wouldn't want to dip my fries in Americans.

That is pretty much exactly 1/3 of the size we usually buy in the US. I think it's a little over 21 oz, I always buy the 64 oz size. Our family goes through it pretty quickly.

Maybe American ant size. Costco sells a lovely 1.9L jar.

Liter? Americans aren't even consistent with their weird systems of measurements. Why is it not marked as 568.3844 fl oz? Or 0.244 football fields or 38.38383 yards or smth
- It's 64oz, or a half gallon, i.e. the smallest unit of milk anyone would buy.
- All food and drinks are sold in metric amounts which typically are also very close to an imperial measure.
- We had a big push to try to adopt metric for a bit. It stalled out for various reasons, but it ended with metric units being required on food and stuff, metric being the official system of the government, and new things introduced in that period being referred to in metric.
  So beverages come in 8, 12, 16, and 20oz, 1 liter, 2 liter, and gallon.
  We also print both units on just about everything.
- America labels things in freedom and metric. What doesn't make sense to be is using volume and not weight.
That's nothing compared to Slavic-sized!
- Even the jar looks like it needs to be on a diet
- Almost enough for a regular Midwestern salad.
- 64 fluid ounces = 128 servings of 1 Tablespoon = 11,520 total calories, if you use a child-cheater to scrape out every drop.
I found a 128 ounce (3.758 litre) jar at Walmart.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Hellmann-s-Extra-Heavy-Mayonnaise-Jar-4800126540-2218/10291785?classType=VARIANT
- That seems kind of expensive. The Costco 64oz variety is often on sale for <$10.
- It's called a tub of mayonnaise thank you very much.
- For anyone unaware, the gallon size of condiments (mayo, ranch dressing, hot sauce, etc) is typically for food service. IOW, restaurants and the like.
  That said, there's nothing stopping individuals from getting it, so the point is still valid.
- those are for "restaurants"
- Hell yeah, save by buying a 4-pack.

600g? Those are rookie numbers. You call that American size? Our smallest jars are 390 (15 oz) grams. Regular and large jars are 780 (30 oz) and 1248 grams (48 oz). And they do have ridiculously big jars too, 1 gallon jars, i.e. 128 oz and 3328 grams, for, like, restaurants and doomsday preppers... or dudes that just really love mayonnaise, I guess.

Restaurants use a 10 gallon bucket (37.8 liters).
- So does my homemade mayo shower.
There's also the family that uses mayo and only goes shopping once a month or whatever. Some of those bigger jars are something like two normal sandwiches a day for a month, which is totally possible if you're packing lunch for two kids.
Some of our preposterous containers of food are because some people decide to live unreasonably far from a grocery store, or just go shopping infrequently and buy huge amounts of food.
(This has the side effect of making them buy bigger cars to hold the groceries and family that now has to come along because it's such a long trip, and that makes it miserable so they try to do it as infrequently as possible, so they need to buy a lot of groceries to hold them over. )
I haven't seen anything under 20oz in my supermarket, but I'm not buying the fancy "organic" stuff, just the squeeze things for picnics and the larger jars for home.
Maybe don't eat the mayo in the doomsday prepper bunker.
- You leave me and my gallons of bunker mayo alone.
Out of curiosity, I just checked my pantry. I have two 30 ounce jars (1400+ grams), sitting in reserve.
This genuinely represents a failure to comprehend the scale of American food products.
- Bro, stop. I can only laugh at Americans so much. And with your fascist leadership I now feel kinda bad for laughing at you.
- Rookie numbers. We get the 64oz Costco size.
or dudes that just really love mayonnaise, I guess.
You know it's nice to be seen
They're not lieing...
this is literally the first thing that comes up if you search mayonaise in the US.

That's not big enough.

It should be the 2 gallon Costco-sized jug to truly be 'Merican.

- Are all your jars made from plastic?

In America the family sized mayo comes in a 55 gallon barrel. That'll last for about a month.

The worst thing is... I don't know if I laugh or if I believe this.
- The real worse thing is I have absolutely no idea how big 55 gallons would be, or how big the one in the photo is.
The average family size is shrinking. I've seen my neighbors stretch 55 gallons to 6 or even 7 weeks.
The times, they are a changin'...
- Eh, I think the overall size is about the same, but the number of people is reducing.
- Ain't no folks enjoy a good ol' mayo slip'n'slide no more
Maybe if you're Mormon or bathing in it
- ¿Por que no los dos?
I prefer the 300 gallon IBC tote. Then I can unload it from my pickup truck with the pallet forks on my skid-steer and put it straight into the mayo door on the side of my house.
- I heard the Rivian comes w/ an air compressor. Maybe consider using that to spray the mayo straight from the truck so you don't need the fork lift.
For a family on a diet maybe
I just converted it. It's more than 200kg! Does the whole family drink a glass of it everyday? How in the world are you finishing that in a month?
- One glass? Do you want to get dehydrated?
- They are exaggerating. The foodservice packs top out at 10 gallons/37.85 liters as it becomes too heavy.
- I think they were exaggerating for comedic effect. I hope..
That MIGHT last my wife a single week.

How does it compare to amateur mayonnaise?
- Amateur mayonnaise practices until it gets it right.
  Professional mayonnaise practices until it does not get it wrong.
Sips from mayonnaise bucket
- Slurps from Coke bucket
  Sticks entire head into KFC bucket
  Rinse and repeat until coronary arteries are plugged shut
  "Murica"
- You didn't even microwave it first.

600 grams?

You could make maybe two sandwiches with that.

To be fair you could make three grilled cheese sammiches with that
Found the american!

Am Statesian. That's a medium here

Costco size in the US:
For those in less free areas, that's about 3x the size as the one in the picture. Regular grocery-store mayo (in a jar) is about half the Costco size (something like 850 grams?), and mayo in a squeeze bottle is about the size of the jar picture above.
We, uh, kinda like mayo here...
- here's my go-to dip
  1/2 cup mayonnaise (may substitute sour cream, but i can't remember what it tastes like)
  1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
  1 can water-packed artichoke hearts
  1 T minced garlic (when cooking for normal people, just use 1 t but i go to the garlic festival and like those quantities)
  1/4 t red pepper flakes
  paprika (garnish)
  drain artichoke hearts, cut into small pieces.
  Mix all ingredients together except paprika.
  Put into souffle dish and sprinkle paprika on top for color.
  Bake at 350 degrees f for 20 minutes or until golden and bubbly.
  Serve with crackers or baguette thins. Our local bakery does this great crusty pugliese with a wonderful crumb.
  My shortcut is that i throw all the ingredients (except the paprika) in the food processor instead of cutting anything myself, then let it do the shredding. The recipe originally didn't have garlic or red pepper flakes in it, so you can add your own variations if you'd like.
- $5, it would cost me more than that just to get the eggs to make it.
- I think the Costco size is 1.15L can check when I get home

Wow, this made me realize I haven't seen mayo in a glass jar in years.

Same.
I've been loving Kewpie squeeze bottles and Truff mayo.
Avocado mayo comes in a glass jar in my area.
I picked up one last month. Organic. Hated it...

Well Finland has the saying "Everything is big in America"

...good and the bad, triumphs and fuck-ups.

To be honest, I think all Finland did was translating that saying to Finnish lol
Everything is bigger

In Brazil the "American cup" is the smallest size of cup and I'm always found that hilarious.

Could that be from an "americano" coffee?
If it holds soda, then it makes no sense at all, because a small is larger than many areas' "large" (sometimes 16oz, or almost 500 ml).
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copo_americano

That's like a week's worth at best.

For a baby maybe
- Woah woah, it's American size, not Wisconsin sized. I based my estimate on the usage of average Americans, not outlier groups.

Finland is in the top 10 of the most mayo consuming countries, so they could just as well call it "save a trip" size.

Mayo tanker truck waiting patiently for the BBQ sauce and Pepto Bismol tanker trucks to depart...

As someone who lives in Utah, there better be a ketchup truck pulling up soon because I have a hankering for fry sauce!

In Europe it's code for "fatlards".

Should call that classic American Size. Today the standard container size measured in American comes half filled at twice the price.

This is smaller than a medium size jar in Canada (890 mL). Large is 1.4 L.

Pretty normal. See "California king size bed".

As an American I approve this image

There is a lot of truth to the big in America stereotype. Big country, big cities, big roads, big cars, big buildings, etc.

And a lot of those are related. Big country means that our cities can sprawl. Big (low-density) cities mean that our roads can be wide. Big roads mean that our cars can be big.
Big country also means that there are a lot of people, and sooner or later a good percentage of them want to live close together, so they build big (dense) cities, which means big buildings.
And the sprawl leads to the part about big containers of unhealthy food, too. If you live more than an hour away from the nearest grocery store, you're unlikely to get groceries more than every other week or so, which means you need to buy larger, more shelf-stable containers of food.
I believe (based on nothing but a whim) that us shopping culture is based on buying supplies (shopping for a week or more) while the European shopping culture evolved more from daily supplies from the market. Rural Europe would be the same i guess, but old cities was made for daily commerce
- I lived in a couple of countries on Europe and the daily and bi-daily shopping is only really for people who live in big cities and commute by public transport and will pass by a small grocery shop on their way home from work.
  As far as I can tell most people do a single weekly shopping generally by driving to a supermarket or even hypermarket either on the weekend or at the end of a working day, hence the popularity of such large surfaces.
  Even in places like The Netherlands people have side bags on their bicycles and can just cycle to a supermarket once or twice a week if they don't feel like driving there and bring the shopping on the side bags.
  From my own experience with my grandparents (farmers in Portugal), rural food planing timeframes are even longer than a week, as people relied (at least 50+ years ago) on preserved meats and longer duration things like dried pulses, certain fruits, and staples like potatoes for months or even a whole year and then add in season fruits and vegetables and even just go outside and pick up whatever was ripe then from a plot next to their home (so, for example, make soup with some salted pork bellies and chipeas from their food stores and some spinach and carrots picked up from from a farming plot near the house).
  Anyways, even in Europe doing a weekly shopping is generally more convenient.
  Mind you, it's great when you live inside a big enough city and you can just hop out of the tram a stop or two early on your way home and go by a mini-market to buy, say, some milk and fresh vegetables, but that's not how it generally works for most people, mainly because even in a big city, unless you live right by the store it's more time efficient to do one big grocery shopping a week were you can go to bigger places with more selection.
gotta fit all these big fat people...

I saw this several times when in Finland. I thought it was hilarious (I'm American).

Hell yeah.

They dip their fries in mayo over there and put it on hot dogs, gotta get the big jars for that.

Americans don't dip their fries in mayo. Thats a Dutch/Belgian thing
Mayo on fries and hotdogs slaps, though I prefer cream cheese on dogs for a similar but better experience