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It's weird these jello things are "salads" in the US.
Like, sixty years ago
My great aunt put them on a bed of lettuce with a layer or cottage cheese.
We didn’t touch them either and always laughed at calling them salads too.
But-but-but America bad!
Seriously though, are Europeans so desperate to stroke their egos that they need to make fun of a trend so old it's slipping from living memory?
https://lemmy.ca/comment/8745479
I feel like a thing isn't "slipping from living memory" when it's still being used to the extent that non-nationals even know the usage.
Why does saying that 'calling Jello a "salad" is weird' mean "America bad"?
Seems like you're a bit sensitive about this topic...
Are... are you aware of exactly how fucked up Utah is?
Probably something to do with the great depression and needing to make cheap foods interestingSomething to do with women having to make things look less lazy/not just serving ready made things, and like they put work into making food in the post ww1 period. Recipe books tended to have the crazier stuff trying to get you to use more of their other products
I think people forget how much MRE style preserved food drove the nation for a bit and why a lot of good cooking was lost for a period.
Than maximalist cooking using all theass produced food followed and it's all atrocities for a while.
Salads are just cold foods chopped up and mixed together with some kind of dressing. I.e. fruit salad, caprese salad, egg/chicken/tuna salad, etc.
Using gelatin as the "dressing" is a regional thing. This would be called strawberry cumfart jello here, not strawberry cumfart salad.
I also think only very old people still eat this shit. Gelatin in general is much less popular among young people, who want their food to vaguely resemble food.
"Salad" doesn't mean healthy, it just means "item + goo." Sometimes it's veggies and dressing. Sometimes it's fruit and their own juices. Ham, tuna, egg or chicken salad is just those items plus mayo. Add relish, celery and onions if you're fancy. Sweet jello salads are jello chunks mixed with cool whip, fruit and nuts if you're fancy. In a savory jello salad the jello is the goo and random bits of what ever veg and/or meat was in the fridge are the item.
"Salad" doesn't mean healthy, it just means "item + goo
Yeah apparently we're using very different definitions on this side of the Atlantic.
a cold dish of various mixtures of raw or cooked vegetables, usually seasoned with oil, vinegar, or other dressing and sometimes accompanied by meat, fish, or other ingredients.
The Midwest US is pretty well known for their "salads" of whatever the fuck gelatinous mess they want to throw together. It's a loose definition of salad.
I mean, they're only calories, not much else. Why would you eat that as main dish?
What...?
My problem isn't whether it's s main dish or not (and are you not aware salads can be main dishes?), my problem is that it's sugary jell-o in cake form. Sort of the opposite of a salad.