Nah, Germans have a delicious hot potato salad with no mayo, mayo salads are a North American thing. The French have a potato salad with no mayo as well.
That's a fair point actually, I'm French and do also make potato salad without mayo when I make it from scratch. But here in NL they tend to have mayo-style sauce in them when you get them premade. And I'm still pretty sure you can get similar style ones in the pots from the supermarket in France, maybe also in Germany?
Yes, good points. I didn't mean they were exclusive or invented in north america, more that the concept of viewing mayo as a required part of a meat/starch based salad is a very NA perspective.
Potato salad is a legitimate foodstuff, however- in the United States it is unfortunately a gateway substance- leading to increasingly foamy forms of macaroni-celery salad, and ending ultimately in marshmallow grape walnut kool-hwip jello salad.
Let's be clear: This type of person eats a very specific kind of potato salad that consists only of potatoes, mayo, and the tears of every customer service manager that dares cross her path.
Potato salad is like chili and meatloaf. It's not a recipe so much as it is a formula with many variables. You can make it boring and bland, or you can make it exciting and delicious. There are no rules except for what's in the name.
I love potato salad because I make it how I like it, which includes a lot of spices and vegetables and other stuff. I don't think I've ever made it the same way twice.
35 Comments
SassyRamen@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y
Oh boy, don't show this to the Germans..
Samskara@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y
Zu spät. Kartoffelsalat mit Majo oder ohne?
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
“Too late. Potato salad with mayo or without?”
(Source: Google Translate)
Obi@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
The mayo is what makes it a salad...
Routhinator@startrek.website · 2 pts · 1y
Nah, Germans have a delicious hot potato salad with no mayo, mayo salads are a North American thing. The French have a potato salad with no mayo as well.
https://www.curiouscuisiniere.com/german-potato-salad/
Obi@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
That's a fair point actually, I'm French and do also make potato salad without mayo when I make it from scratch. But here in NL they tend to have mayo-style sauce in them when you get them premade. And I'm still pretty sure you can get similar style ones in the pots from the supermarket in France, maybe also in Germany?
Routhinator@startrek.website · 1 pts · 1y
Yes, good points. I didn't mean they were exclusive or invented in north america, more that the concept of viewing mayo as a required part of a meat/starch based salad is a very NA perspective.
PacMan@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
This sounds really good!
SassyRamen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Als mein Sohn sagt „mit ohne"
darkmogool@feddit.org · 0 pts · 1y
mit!
Obi@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 1y
Mein kartoffelsalat!!
sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 1y
I think it’s overrated, I’d rather take green salad.
blargle@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 1y
Potato salad is a legitimate foodstuff, however- in the United States it is unfortunately a gateway substance- leading to increasingly foamy forms of macaroni-celery salad, and ending ultimately in marshmallow grape walnut kool-hwip jello salad.
whotookkarl@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
The Waldorf salad rises from the depths of its ancient dimension of cosmic horrors
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
How about Jello salad?
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 1y
Potato salad is fucking great you heathen
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Show me your eyebrows
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
I don't get it
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I SAID I LOVE IT
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org · 14 pts · 1y
Potato salad slaps tho.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
You probably have defeat a few of those before you can enter Mega-Karen's lair.
Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee · 14 pts · 1y
Let's be clear: This type of person eats a very specific kind of potato salad that consists only of potatoes, mayo, and the tears of every customer service manager that dares cross her path.
Potato salad is like chili and meatloaf. It's not a recipe so much as it is a formula with many variables. You can make it boring and bland, or you can make it exciting and delicious. There are no rules except for what's in the name.
I love potato salad because I make it how I like it, which includes a lot of spices and vegetables and other stuff. I don't think I've ever made it the same way twice.
weker01@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 1y
What's wrong with potato salad?
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I LOVE POTATO SALAD
Nikls94@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
You just made every potato-European upset.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
But have you tried corn salad?
Fiesta corn
Mayo
Cheese
Chopped pickles
Chopped red onion (not too much)
Spices (salt, pepper, pap, garlic. Etc)
It's something special.
jewbacca117@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Corn intolerance sorry
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 7 pts · 1y
Pasta salad is way better
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
underwire212@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
Potat salad
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Yup
jimmux@programming.dev · 4 pts · 1y
Bake the potato. Add sour cream, chives, and a dash of seeded mustard to the final mix. Bacon bits are optional.
This is how I learned to like a particular subset of potato salad.
drool@lemmy.catsp.it · 3 pts · 1y
It ain't potato salad without raisins! Could go for some cheesy pea salad too
Dick_Justice@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Have some snickers bars with that broccoli!
Thcdenton@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Yakub (peace be upon him) must love tater salad
KombatWombat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Resembles Fetal Alcohol Syndrome to me.