Salad Cream, as the name might suggest, is a cream that one could, if one wished, pour over,stir in, or otherwise add to, a salad, in order to enhance the flavour thereof, to the increased gastronomic enjoyment of the partaker.It is probably unknown by that nomenclature in The Americas, where it is, in all probability, referred to , incorrectly, as Mayonnaise, although, to be fair, Mayonnaise IS one of the major constituents of the prandial delight in question. It would seem that Mr Heinz,however, in his appreciation of English culinary and comestible preferences, was one shrewd cookie .