this one is my gran’s. i love frog eye salad
thing you got to remember is, before like the 70s, good fruit was canned
Two non-vegetable “salads” at every holiday gathering in my childhood in southern Illinois in the '80s were Waldorf Salad and Watergate Salad.
Watergate salad sounds pretty disgusting.
You gotta deepthroat it.
This whole thread is just more evidence for why Americans aren’t allowed to make fun of Brits for our food.
my favorite part of my british heritage is seeing other cultures’ foods and saying “i’ma cook that now”
This should make any Brit feel good about American food. May I present to you another holiday treat? The Wisconsin Cannibal Sandwich, which is made from raw hamburger. (link1, link2)
This is real. I remember it being served at a friends party when I was little… and my mom making sure I didn’t eat any.
Many cuisines have a version of eating raw beef: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_tartare
If done correctly it is perfectly safe and incredibly tasty.
That’s a mettigel. Used to be popular in Germany.
Many people still like mettbrötchen, which is basically what you describe. Should definitely be fresh though, but they usually are.Tartare sandwich? I’m French and approve, provided there some appropriate aromates in there.
Well, in the Christmas spirit, my family’s version of these, courtesy of a century spent in Nebraska.
Line the bottom of a cake pan with pretzels, mix up mixed berry jello, with or without the true berries inside, and add whipped cream to the top. Let it set in the fridge before serving. Adds a nice bit of sweet and salty, and an appreciable crunch.
In Canada with Irish Canadian friends, my favourite was always … JELLO SALAD … basically a bowl of coloured jello with its of fruit in it. The bowl was usually set alongside all the turkey, potatoes, vegetables and stuffing.
Every other time of the year, it’s called a children’s dessert … at Christmas time, it’s known as an adult’s gourmet salad.
Never understood it.
I’ve eaten many a dish with a combination of fruit, marshmallow and some kind of fluff.
Hmmm, I loved Heavenly Hash growing up…
That sounds pretty great actually
I was laughing at all these weird dishes when it occurred to me that the fruit-based ones sound a lot like a dish here in Denmark with fresh fruit and ‘råcreme’ which is egg yolks and sugar whipped with vanilla, then gently mixed with whipped cream.
It’s delicious.
That lookw waaaaay better than ambrosia salad…shits gross.
Sure, but you can see how they’re vaguely related, right?
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Can confirm. I’ll be bringing Marshmallow Salad (a sacred family tradition) to Christmas dinner this year.
In case you’re curious, here’s the recipe:
- 1 big bag of mini marshmallows
- 1 large can of fruit cocktail
- 8oz tub of sour cream
Mix them together in your potluckiest bowl and let it sit overnight.
And yes, it’s delicious.
Have you tried this with full fat, tangy yogurt instead of sour cream? I bet it would be better. Sour cream and fruit just sounds… Awful.
The sour cream has some sort of interaction with the marshmallows that makes it work with the fruit. Not sure if yogurt would do the same. In any case, this is a midwest recipe, and that means it involves either mayo or sour cream.
I’m from the south. Our stuff always has butter. Every dessert has vanilla flavoring, too.
I, personally, just dont like sour cream and replace it with tangy, full fat yogurt when baking. Hasn’t done me wrong so far.
Fair enough. I do typically use plain yogurt in place of sour cream for lots of things. Usually works fine.
And yes, it’s delicious.
No it’s not. Atrocious. Source: was forced fed this abomination in PA one time.
I like them depending on the fruit used
Y’all wouldn’t know majesty if it came up and threw sour cream on your face.
Growing up in Oklahoma there were two dishes that confused me as a child.
Cranberry salad was a bowl of strawberry jello with cranberries and pecans with a layer of cool whip on top.
There was also always sweet potato casserole which was a tray of thick slices of sweet potato covered in maple syrup, sprinkled with brown sugar, and marshmallows placed on top before baking the entire thing.
And yes both were served with the savoury food, and yes there was always 10 different pies, ice cream, an assortment of cookies, and homemade caramels for dessert afterwards.
Looking back, it explains why every single male in the family was overweight.
Cranberry salad was a bowl of strawberry jello with cranberries and pecans with a layer of cool whip on top.
The variation of that I’ve had involved strawberry jello, whole berry cranberry sauce and canned pineapple tidbits with the pineapple juice from the can replacing the water in the jello. No nuts or fake whipped cream, though.
There was also always sweet potato casserole […]
Having had the “pleasure” in the 90s to have my host family mum serve one of those as a special homemade dinner because I mentioned I liked sweet potatoes on a previous visit to the States, I just had a bad flashback… I didn’t finish even my first serving and I felt so bad because she had made this for me especially. But… marshmallows! How can people mistake those for something edible???
what…
I live in the midwest and collect old cookbooks. Every “salad” section is about half recipes comprised of mixed vegetables and the like, and half recipes that sound like someone took all the desserts in their house and mixed them in a big bowl with some whipped cream and jello.
I was browsing the local thrift store for 70s-90s cookbooks and in several of them there were fruit soups which were just blended fruit cocktail recipes. I’ll post a picture after work. My favorite was cantaloupe soup.
Be glad. I have my grandmother’s cookbooks. She had one, that I only keep for proof, comprised entirely of mayonnaise recipes. I think it was published by Hellmans. It is full of some of the worst atrocities to food I have ever read about.
I know I don’t really like everything I’m served, but I swear this cookbook is like for a black-site prisoner encampment that gets deliveries twice a year.
EDIT: found it.
Now imagine you’re the guy whose job it is to come up with these recipes
The worst dish my mom ever made (besides meatloaf of course) was “BBQ” chicken which is just cooked in a pot of coca cola and ketchup.
https://www.instagram.com/marcosfunhouse/reels/ this guy does Vintage Recipes Gone Horribly Wrong. He attempts to make vintage recipes and eats them. You should make a submission :)
“Pink Cloud Mold”
🤒
This could be edible if it weren’t for the random unholy addition of mayonnaise
Just makes the mouth water, doesn’t it?
“Oh, that’s my mom’s pink mold recipe!”
shudder
Oh my god that’s amazing. I think you might not know how valuable that is to those of us under the spell of God’s cream.
Allow me to whet your appetite once more, that you may be fulfilled.
Oh that’s the good stuff right there!
The salmon flounder roulades sound pretty good actually
Even better in the microwave
I need to know what the closest dish in that image is! (Presuming the furthest back is Pink Cloud Mold, and the middle is the Salmon-Dill Mousse)
Tri-color vegetable mold.
Thank you, king. My curiosity is satisfied. :-)
An actual recipe I grew up having in Minnesota and still occasionally make for events.
Cookie Salad
Pot-Luck, Salads Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients:
- 2 (3.4 ounce) packages instant vanilla pudding mix
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 12 oz whipped topping, thawed
- 2 (11 ounce) cans mandarin oranges, drained
- 1/2 (11 1/2 ounce) package fudge stripe cookies
Directions:
- In a large bowl, mix together the pudding mix and the buttermilk.
- Fold in the whipped topping.
- Mix in the mandarin oranges and optional pineapple chunks.
- Crush cookies and mix in.
- Chill until ready to serve.
- Decorate with any remaining cookies.
Notes: French Vanilla pudding is especially good Some like to add 1 ( 20 ounce) can pineapple chunks, drained as well
Is it only half a package of fudge stripe cookies because part of the process is eating the other half?
The other half of the package is for decoration on the top. You break the cookies in half and try to put them in a decorative manner.
That sounds like a much better version of banana pudding.
Love how you’re using buttermilk instead of sour cream for salad healthiness!!
If you really hate yourself, you could swap it out with plain Greek yogurt. It wouldn’t be good, but you could do it.
Gack blargh yes indeed
I don’t think swapping out buttermilk for Greek yogurt on this recipe would change all that much, maybe a bit more firm? I mean if you left out the pudding mix and just used plain Greek yogurt sure.
I’ve lived my entire life in the South, but growing up we’d occasionally visit extended family in the Midwest for a holiday. Regarding holiday meals, what the fuck is wrong with you people
Sorry, next time we’ll deep fry it for you.
jk, I also grew up in the South but currently live in the Midwest.
Deep fried hotdish
Pretty sure I had this at the fair this summer
Hotdish on a stick, it’s been there every year for a while now.
Deepfried green jello containing pickles and cherries
On a stick
I’d be more offended if this weren’t coming from the land of sweet tea. Understatement of the millennia twice running. Tried some once, grew a Wilford Brimley moustache within ten minutes.
And it will inexplicably have peas in it as well
that’s very accurate. btw, do you happen to have the recipe for the gummy bear casserole?
Gummy bear casserole (healthy)
- 1 cup of sugar
- 2 tubs of cool whip
- 3 bags gummy bears
- A can of mandarin oranges in light syrup
- Brick of low fat philadelphia cream cheese (room temp)
- teaspoon of vanilla extract
Directions:
- Combine the cream cheese and sugar with a mixer until fluffy
- Add cream cheese mixture, gummy bears, 1 tub of coolwhip, mandarin oranges (drained), and vanilla into a casserole dish, mix until homogenous
- Top with remaining tub of cool whip
- Chill in the fridge overnight (optional, you’re gonna throw this together an hour before the party)
- enjoy
Source: my family is from Iowa
I gotta know… What is the unhealthy version? Haha
Full fat cream.cheese and oranges in regular syrup lol
Im from the Midwest and never heard of this dish but i know how “Midwest Healthy” works. So I’m willing to bet in the “unhealthy version” you basically double the sugar and possibly also the cream cheese. Oh and switch to full fat creme cheese.
Sometimes you do something outrageous like serve it ontop of a banana split and/or add copious amounts of chocolate syrup.
Substitute gummy orange slices for the mandarin oranges?
