This has to be fake. No one would combine these.
Post war cooking was wild.
My Silent Gen mom was an awful cook. Casseroles every damned night, same shit over and over again, zero tolerance for creativity changing a recipe. I could see her finding this recipe and serving it over and over again.
took me a LONG time to recover from high school cafeteria’s Friday tuna casseroles (complete with canned peas)
The “Serve with mayonnaise” got me at the end… I held it together until that point. Why was everything served with mayonnaise?
Shit like this is why meat eaters are not convinced going vegetarian isn’t a conspiracy.
That has to be parody. “Serve with mayonnaise” is too perfect a what-the-fuck ending.
You don’t want to know how deep the rabbit hole goes. Babish did a mayonnaise cake.
Yeah, but… we know what he’s into.
Somebody alert Dylan Hollis.
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
No one mentions how most of the bored housewives used drugs back then. This recipe is missing jello!!
Shoot to thrill!
And still not a salad lol, more like a dessert.
“then cover everything in aspic”
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 put the whole thing in a jello mold.
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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
3 random ingredients on a lettuce leaf: SALAD!
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.
Are you shitting me???
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 a prune in the same way again after eating this
It would change my mind about ever spending time with this person ever again.
No, in fact this was NOT a good meal. You get no points, and may god have mercy on your soul!
“Eating this”?
I would possibly examine, dissect and document this. But eat?
I love how fast and loose this plays with the definition of “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
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.
In the 70s salad was any sort of combination of plant material and sauce
Yes! Throw some crap in jello, serve on a lettuce leaf, SALAD!
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.
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.
You watch, Dunkin’ Donuts will feature this next month as “healthy”.
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.
