• ladicius@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    1 个月前

    Serve with mayonnaise.

    😂 There’s a kind of innocent madness in this “recipe” that makes me happy.

    • gid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      1 个月前

      This absolutely screams “I was zooted on lithium when I came up with this” 🫤

      • _stranger_@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        1 个月前

        Keep in mind, some dude in the 50’s probably came home to this expecting meat and potatoes. Say what you will about “traditional marriage”, but I’d only wish this travesty on the worst of the worst.

  • gid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    1 个月前

    I love how fast and loose this plays with the definition of “salad”.

    • scrion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      36·
      1 个月前

      Right? Cover a fucking donut with mayonnaise, serve it on a single leaf of lettuce - boom, salad.

      • kalpol@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 个月前

        Ah no. A salad was anything combined with anything else but not cooked (again). This led to some true abominations at the table. Too often, mayonnaise (and not even mayonnaise but Miracle Whip) served as the binder.

    • sneekee_snek_17@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 个月前

      My wife’s grandma makes “pretzel salad”, which is crushed pretzel sticks that are tossed with a mixture of margarine and cream cheese, I think, then baked until crispy then crumbled.

      In the meantime, cream cheese, maybe whipped cream?, sugar, a few other onesies and twosies, and canned shredded pineapple are mixed into an unholy slop.

      Then, when is time to serve, the crumbles are mixed in with the slop and there you go. Salad.

      • PapaStevesy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 个月前

        Mmm, interesting. Pretzel salad for me is the layer of crushed pretzel and melted butter (no cream cheese here) baked, like you said, then a layer of a cream cheese frosting, then a layer of strawberries in strawberry jello. All separate layers, no unholy slop, and it’s sooooo good. But no, it’s not salad.

    • Canadian_anarchist@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      1 个月前

      It used to mean any meal served cold. Later versions were encased in gelatin for better preservation, which contributed to the later post-war jelly salad recipes.

  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    411·
    1 个月前

    The recipe actually started off halfway decent until the donuts and mayonnaise lol

    It definitely sounds like some classic 1950s cooking… The only things missing are maraschino cherries and cut up hot dog weiners

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20·
        1 个月前

        My Silent Gen mom was an awful cook. Casseroles every damned night, same shit over and over again, zero tolerance for creatively changing a recipe. I could see her finding this recipe and serving it over and over again.

        • cerement@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
          4·
          1 个月前

          took me a LONG time to recover from high school cafeteria’s Friday tuna casseroles (complete with canned peas)

  • Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
    21·
    1 个月前

    Well I think I can confidently speak for all “meat and potatoes” men when I say that not only would this not change my mind, I think I’d never be able to look at a prune in the same way again after eating this

    • Comment105@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 个月前

      This is how I wish we served Brevik, considering we’ve resolved to “take the high road” and keep him around.

  • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
    17·
    1 个月前

    I’ve had a little theory that post war American food is universally terrible due to everyone smoking and destroying their taste buds. Stuff starts getting better in the mid 90s when smoking rates start noticeably dropping.

    Especially with coffee. People used percolators for years. You know how bad percolator coffee is? So bad that when Mr Coffee came out, it sold for about the same inflation adjusted price as a modern entry level espresso machine. It went into high end restaurants and people thought it was amazing.

    I don’t know if this fully works, though. Much of Western Europe had higher smoking rates for longer, and the food isn’t so shit.

  • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.netEnglish
    17·
    1 个月前

    Adding lettuce does not a salad make. If I chop up some tomatoes and cover a cheesecake in ranch dressing, is it a salad? No, it’s a crime against God and man, and restitution must be made.

  • Chris@feddit.ukEnglish
    16·
    1 个月前

    This is just an episode of Can’t Cook, Won’t Cook Ready Steady Cook, where one of the contestants has brought in some prunes, cottage cheese, donuts and a lettuce.

    I can already hear Ainsley Harriott getting unnecessarily excited.

    (Edit: sorry, got my Ainsley Harriott cooking shows muddled up!)

  • rbn@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    9·
    1 个月前

    If I drive home from the supermarkt with some baby leafs in the trunk, does that qualify as a human-car-salad? And would that be still be legal or count as attempted (self-)cannibalism?