Chicken salad: discuss

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I eat pretty much everything, but I dislike mayo based foods. I would grit my teeth and politely eat the chicken salad. It’s a somewhat old fashioned dish that I’m sure your in-laws love, but it’s not as universally loved these days. Did your husband request a jello salad as well?

The cafe in my office has chicken salad available every day for lunch. They've scaled down for service a lot since most of the office went remote but clearly enough people like it if they keep making it (and most employees are <40). It's my go -to sandwich if I don't like the day's hot entree options.

It's a perfectly reasonable summer lunch, served cold, of course.

I would think if OPs husband is inviting a coworker to his home for lunch he knows him enough to decide what to serve.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I live in the south and we have a “fast food” place that is all chicken salad all the time, I think they have something like 12 varieties.

Chicken Salad Chick

I heard one is coming to Tysons near Whole Foods at Idylwood.

I plan to protest outside it! What a waste of a nasty restaurant for a good location.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Chicken salad is gross (as is egg salad, potato salad, etc.) and I would neither make nor eat it.

Would you eat a lobster roll

Without mayo, yes. I have a lobster shack in walking distance of my home and get that every time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yall are bizarre. Who cares this much about chicken salad?

You would care if you were forced to eat it at lunch with no other options because you were a guest. I would be so offended if this was served.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Chicken salad is gross (as is egg salad, potato salad, etc.) and I would neither make nor eat it.

Would you eat a lobster roll

Without mayo, yes. I have a lobster shack in walking distance of my home and get that every time.

+1 lobster roll with butter only. Never mayo what a way to ruin lobster.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I eat pretty much everything, but I dislike mayo based foods. I would grit my teeth and politely eat the chicken salad. It’s a somewhat old fashioned dish that I’m sure your in-laws love, but it’s not as universally loved these days. Did your husband request a jello salad as well?

The cafe in my office has chicken salad available every day for lunch. They've scaled down for service a lot since most of the office went remote but clearly enough people like it if they keep making it (and most employees are <40). It's my go -to sandwich if I don't like the day's hot entree options.

It's a perfectly reasonable summer lunch, served cold, of course.

I would think if OPs husband is inviting a coworker to his home for lunch he knows him enough to decide what to serve.

Then why is OP asking? Why didn't she hop to it and run into the kitchen to prepare this lunch?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For all the people saying no and gross, what do you serve guests for lunch? There is no single food that pleases everyone. There’s a good chance that those who are in the chicken salad camp wouldn’t like what you like. And that’s fine. As a host, you do your best to please your guests but you’re not operating a restaurant.

First of all, serving a guest for lunch is weird. It’s a weird time of day.

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Anonymous wrote:Yall are bizarre. Who cares this much about chicken salad?

You would care if you were forced to eat it at lunch with no other options because you were a guest. I would be so offended if this was served.

Such a child.

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Anonymous wrote:Man or woman? I don't know many men who eat chicken salad.

So stupid. Men eat chicken salad.

Did I say no men do? It's 2 sentences, how did you get so confused?

NP. Your comment definitely implied that most men don’t eat chicken salad, so you can drop the shocked pikachu reaction.

The ones I know don't. Can you read at all? When there's a sandwich spread almost zero men I've known grab the chicken salad. Some may go for tuna salad. Now tell us about allll the men in your life who just love chicken salad? How old are they first of all?

DP. My husband, age 55, almost always orders the chicken salad if it’s on a menu. Loves it. (I don’t.)

Coworker, late 30s, loves the restaurant Chicken Salad Chick so much, he felt the need to tell us all about it during a staff meeting.

When I was in college, I worked at a cafe where the chicken salad was by far the most popular thing on the menu, and lots of men ordered it.

Cool. I'm glad some men love it. The ones I know less than 50 tend to care a lot about health and diet and would never eat a fat laden salad on a croissant for a meal. OP needs to know her audience which is why I asked on page one for more info.

Oh, now you’re making it all about the fat content? Sure, totally a man thing.

Lol. There are tons of reasons to not eat chicken salad. These are just two. But if you think it's the bestest meal in the whole world nobody is going to stop you from serving it. Just accept it can be polarizing.

Polarizing to whom? I am not aware of any chicken salad controversy in the general public.

It's hysterical how out of touch people on here are.

And yet there’s still not a single non-chicken salad recommendation given in this entire thread, except for avocado toast, which I’m pretty sure was a joke.

And yet OP didn't ask for a menu or other recommendations. OP asked to discuss this as an option. My guess is OP knew exactly how this would go over on here, like other mayonnaise based salads and dip suggestions go. Because apparently it is news to some that not everyone likes mayo.

About 1 in 5 don't like it. So, statistically, it's the safer choice.

https://www.popsci.com/mayonnaise-disgust/

To be clear, a mayo-based salad would be acceptable to most people.

So, to be clear, you posted an article that says "Mayonnaise is disgusting, and science agrees" in the title and you're like, that's definitely what I plan to serve!

Science found 20% don't like it. So, while the title is stupid, the results are clear. People like mayo.

This article is from 2017. And for some, having an entire salad based on mayonnaise might go beyond the amount of mayonnaise they are willing to tolerate.

Any decent chicken salad is not BASED on mayo. It's based on chicken and the mayo acts as a binder.

It’s still shredded chicken mixed with random ingredients. Served on white bread or some fatty croissant. Such a low class I can’t believe people would serve this to a guest. The only thing worse would be tuna salad.

[Anonymous]

OP just make a damn quiche with a side salad and call it a day!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yall are bizarre. Who cares this much about chicken salad?

You would care if you were forced to eat it at lunch with no other options because you were a guest. I would be so offended if this was served.

LOL you have a pretty low bar for being offended. You could reasonably be disappointed that you didn't like the food choice and make do with any side dishes. But to be offended suggests you think the host was deliberately trying to make you uncomfortable, insult you, etc. Just because he couldn't read your mind that you have different food preferences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in the south and we have a “fast food” place that is all chicken salad all the time, I think they have something like 12 varieties.

Chicken Salad Chick

I am so glad to learn about this restaurant! I am going to look for it when traveling, and will hope that it opens up closer to home.

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Anonymous wrote:Man or woman? I don't know many men who eat chicken salad.

So stupid. Men eat chicken salad.

Did I say no men do? It's 2 sentences, how did you get so confused?

NP. Your comment definitely implied that most men don’t eat chicken salad, so you can drop the shocked pikachu reaction.

The ones I know don't. Can you read at all? When there's a sandwich spread almost zero men I've known grab the chicken salad. Some may go for tuna salad. Now tell us about allll the men in your life who just love chicken salad? How old are they first of all?

DP. My husband, age 55, almost always orders the chicken salad if it’s on a menu. Loves it. (I don’t.)

Coworker, late 30s, loves the restaurant Chicken Salad Chick so much, he felt the need to tell us all about it during a staff meeting.

When I was in college, I worked at a cafe where the chicken salad was by far the most popular thing on the menu, and lots of men ordered it.

Cool. I'm glad some men love it. The ones I know less than 50 tend to care a lot about health and diet and would never eat a fat laden salad on a croissant for a meal. OP needs to know her audience which is why I asked on page one for more info.

Oh, now you’re making it all about the fat content? Sure, totally a man thing.

Lol. There are tons of reasons to not eat chicken salad. These are just two. But if you think it's the bestest meal in the whole world nobody is going to stop you from serving it. Just accept it can be polarizing.

Polarizing to whom? I am not aware of any chicken salad controversy in the general public.

It's hysterical how out of touch people on here are.

And yet there’s still not a single non-chicken salad recommendation given in this entire thread, except for avocado toast, which I’m pretty sure was a joke.

And yet OP didn't ask for a menu or other recommendations. OP asked to discuss this as an option. My guess is OP knew exactly how this would go over on here, like other mayonnaise based salads and dip suggestions go. Because apparently it is news to some that not everyone likes mayo.

About 1 in 5 don't like it. So, statistically, it's the safer choice.

https://www.popsci.com/mayonnaise-disgust/

To be clear, a mayo-based salad would be acceptable to most people.

So, to be clear, you posted an article that says "Mayonnaise is disgusting, and science agrees" in the title and you're like, that's definitely what I plan to serve!

Science found 20% don't like it. So, while the title is stupid, the results are clear. People like mayo.

This article is from 2017. And for some, having an entire salad based on mayonnaise might go beyond the amount of mayonnaise they are willing to tolerate.

Any decent chicken salad is not BASED on mayo. It's based on chicken and the mayo acts as a binder.

It’s still shredded chicken mixed with random ingredients. Served on white bread or some fatty croissant. Such a low class I can’t believe people would serve this to a guest. The only thing worse would be tuna salad.

NP. What would you serve?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yall are bizarre. Who cares this much about chicken salad?

You would care if you were forced to eat it at lunch with no other options because you were a guest. I would be so offended if this was served.

LOL you have a pretty low bar for being offended. You could reasonably be disappointed that you didn't like the food choice and make do with any side dishes. But to be offended suggests you think the host was deliberately trying to make you uncomfortable, insult you, etc. Just because he couldn't read your mind that you have different food preferences.

I bet you bring Jell-O molds to Thanksgiving!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP just make a damn quiche with a side salad and call it a day!

Ugh! Eggs mixed with random ingredients! So gross! I'm totally offended that you would serve that

Not really, I love quiche and I love chicken salad. But quiche is no more likely to be uniformly loved than chicken salad.