A jar of mayo I put on a fridge shelf, not in the door and not by the hob

The salad is already dressed — and the mayo jar is still on the table, lid beside it “I’ll put it away now”. Easy to shove it into the fridge door: by morning the jar has been knocked, the rim is smeared, and the spoon is already wrong. I shut the lid and put it on a shelf in the cold — where it is not shoved every time someone opens the milk.

A jar of mayo I put on a fridge shelf, not in the door and not by the hob. Opened mayonnaise is not forever is another note; Dijon its own; tomato paste another story. Here it’s the place of the jar: shelf, lid on — not the door and not the ring by the hob.

A clean spoon, not the one that was in the salad. If it has already split and smells sharp — I don’t stir “it’s still all right”. I don’t keep a bucket “for Olivier and another month”. I’m not choosing a new brand with a review in this note — it’s about the jar that already stands in our fridge.

I don’t need a jar that falls in the door every morning. I need a spoon of mayo from the shelf that still smells of egg and oil. At yours does mayo live on a shelf — or already in the door and on the table until midnight?