To be fair as someone from Louisiana… All of you should be banned from making food
I’m from Louisiana/Texas with family in the Midwest. When we’d visit for the holidays, it was some disgusting shit. Green, opaque jello molds with random foods suspended in it, pickles and cream cheese on toothpicks, and random “salads” like the ones above. My mom (from the south) made macaroni and cheese casserole one year up there and everyone was floored
Were the pickles with cream cheese wrapped in ham or some other deli meat? Because those are delicious.
I’m not going to lie, yes they are, but they’re not Thanksgiving food, dammit!
Don’t even pretend like y’all don’t have some weird shit on your menus.
Cheesecake is a bit of a misnomer. It’s more like an etouffee in a crust.
Gesundheit
I’m from small-town Iowa originally. My grandma made many of these “Midwest Salads”.
I went back for a funeral a few years ago. The was a reception/lunch at our old church. I got a serving of something that looked like jello with cream cheese on top, seemed interesting. But no, it was jello with mandarin oranges in it, and it wasn’t cream cheese, but about a quarter-inch of Miracle Whip on top, sprinkled with grated carrots. I took a bite, smiled, turned to my wife, and said, “I’m home again!”
I mean jello with fruits and whipped cream doesn’t sound offensive? I guess just calling it a salad could be.
Unfortunately miracle whip is more like an odd tangy mayonnaise and it has no business in a dessert
My joke about being from Iowa is that you could have a salad potluck without ever seeing a piece of lettuce! My family’s wildest is Snicker Salad, Tapioca Salad (marshmallows and mandarin oranges), and Cranberry Salad.
what in the actual fuck
Weirdly, while Snicker salad does have Snickers in it, the base is chopped green apples. (At least when I have seen it.)
you’re fucking kidding me right?
Snickers, green apples, and cool whip
and it’s fucking delicious. Just had it at Thanksgiving.
That’s because it’s mostly fuckin sugar mate fuckin hell 😂
So what does the word salad actually mean then? So far it appears to be a mix of anything, served in a large bowl.
That’s pretty much it, it’s not far removed from Jell-O salads with other unhealthy crap added to them.
Ahhh, Mom’s pineapple cheese salad. Reminds me of when she used to handcuff us to the chairs and tell us to go ahead and scream while spooning it down our gullets. I miss her every day since the hay baler accident. Dinner just isn’t the same.
