Serve with mayonnaise.
😂 There's a kind of innocent madness in this "recipe" that makes me happy.
this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2024
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This absolutely screams "I was zooted on lithium when I came up with this" 🫤
making the mayo optional was the only mercy to be found in this recipe.
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.
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.
My guess is a combination of this and all of the lead everywhere
I love how fast and loose this plays with the definition of "salad".
Right? Cover a fucking donut with mayonnaise, serve it on a single leaf of lettuce - boom, salad.
Can't wait to see a black forest gateau salad.
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.
Is this a side for a meal, or a dessert?
I believe it's a dessert
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.
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
And still not a salad lol, more like a dessert.
It started with prunes and cottage cheese. That's already bottom of the barrel right there.
Hey cottage cheese is fantastic. Not as an ingredient though.
"then cover everything in aspic"
Growing up with food ideas like this might explain some things about boomers.
I feel like a lot of postwar US cooking could be explained by the following facts:
- A Americans lived through the great depression
- All Americans lived through world war rationing
- A huge portion of Americans grew up in a world where things like refrigeration, grocery stores, etc didn't exist.
The end result was the food equivalent of giving a thirteen year old from the 1990s a smartphone for the first time. Just pure disgusting excess with no real rhyme or reason.
The "Serve with mayonnaise" got me at the end... I held it together until that point. Why was everything served with mayonnaise?
That has to be parody. "Serve with mayonnaise" is too perfect a what-the-fuck ending.
Shit like this is why meat eaters are not convinced going vegetarian isn't a conspiracy.
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?
I hope that "chef" spent the rest of their life in prison.
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.
I like cheesecake enough that I would wash that off in the sink and eat it.
I'll stick to meat and potatoes, thanks
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!)
Don't forget the mayo mentioned in the last line.
Made me literally wtf out loud...like before that ehhh ok no but then Mayo???? Barf
can't choose the right ainsley meme face.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=ainsley+harriot+meme&iax=images&ia=images
you do it
This one:
3 random ingredients on a lettuce leaf: SALAD!
“Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he’s created? …here on Earth?”
This has to be fake. No one would combine these.
Post war cooking was wild.