To be fair as someone from Louisiana.... All of you should be banned from making food
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.
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
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.
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!”
Ha ha. I had a gf from oklahoma whose mom made an old family recipe, "Pea Salad". Of course I'd never heard of pea salad. It is cubes of cheddar cheese, chopped iceberg lettuce, canned peas, and Miracle Whip.
That must be depression era food because it sounds depressing as hell.
ahhhhhhhh wtf
Seeing these “salads” fills me with the urge to quarantine the area, but also gives me that helpless, defeated feeling that the disease has already spread too far to contain.
Might I interest you in a pizza salad? It's bread or pasta, cheese and tomato sauce for a vegetable (feel free to substitute it with ketchup). There is no escape!
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.)
Midwesterner here. Admittedly, some of these can be... interesting (to be interpreted as passive aggressively as possible). Some can be excellent though. We have a pistachio salad in the family that is a go to, and if I don't control myself I could eat a whole batch.
please elaborate on pistachio salad. why would you not just eat pistachios?
Ingredients include: whipped cream/Cool Whip, pistachio pudding, mini marshmallows, diced pineapple, and of course chopped pistachios. It's obviously more of a dessert/sweet side dish type of thing. Pistachios alone, though delicious, wouldn't fill the same role.
oh no! you're possessed with the cool-whip-marshmallow-and-pineapple contagion! mister tuvok, let us casually discuss this imminent threat!
Pineapple cheese salad
Never heard of this, wonder how it is baked on a pizza crust.
(Yes, everyone’s cries are delicious.)
No you actually made it sound good
"Food"
No.
I postulate an evolutionary "Crabification" of culinary science:
Everything, at the terminus of its evolutionary branch, becomes casserole.
You people are all speaking about food but I don't see any recipe here. I need to taste some of these Midwest or Louisiana cuisine before I have an opinion.
I genuinely want to taste this salad. Also, if it has potatoes in it, it is a salad in my country.
I'm from the midwest. This 'salad' looks to be chunks of cheddar, pineapple, bacon, and marshmallow. If they were feeling particularly spicy, they added some mayonnaise. You honestly have no need to try this.
Tastes like depression.
Both the era and the emotion.
Pizza salad: tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, lettuce, cubed mozzarella, pepperoni slices
Combine ingredients, discard lettuce, spread ingredients over flatbread of your choice, bake
Mother is a nutritionist that used to own a restaurant, girlfriend is a nutritionist that worked 15 years in restaurants. I'm disgusted most times I discover people's family recipes...
You can have my broccoli, bacon, and raisin salad and cookie salad when you pry them from my cold hardened arteries.
Why do all of these mid-west “salad” recipes have a 4-5 ingredients that seem ok, and then one god damn ingredient that is absolutely BONKERS. Like, why on earth does the cookie salad have mandarin oranges in it!? Whhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyy
Sometimes people put pineapple in it too but that doesn’t work as well. It doesn’t sound like it should work but it does. ¯\(ツ)/¯
Any cold food is a salad.
Scotch eggs, sausage rolls. Serve with salad cream if there's any doubt.
What do these people call actual salads? You know, with vegetables.
Rabbit food.
Reminds me of The Gallery of Regrettable Foods.
https://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/bhgsalad/index.html
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