Chicken salad: discuss

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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 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.

That is sarcasm, right?!

[Anonymous]

Funny how so many people go on about the horrors of Mayo, which is oil and eggs, yet think lobster rolls soaked in warm butter are healthier.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Wrong!! Start a thread about quiche and it will not have so many people talking about how disgusting it is as opposed to all these mayo lovers. Are they from the mayo lobby? Why are there so many threads here about mayo?

[Anonymous]

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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.

This is why normal people take their colleague out to lunch. Not bring them home for the wife's homemade chicken salad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Funny how so many people go on about the horrors of Mayo, which is oil and eggs, yet think lobster rolls soaked in warm butter are healthier.

It’s white and jiggles and cannot be more disgusting.

[Anonymous]

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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.

This is why normal people take their colleague out to lunch. Not bring them home for the wife's homemade chicken salad.

+1 having someone over to your house for lunch is a very intimate experience. So odd just go out.

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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.

I'm not OP, but I don't shred the chicken for my salads, and I don't use random ingredients. I use ingredients that are chosen to make the chicken salad delicious.

I usually like some kind of seedy multigrain bread, and also serve a green salad so people can have a sandwich and a salad, or a scoop of chicken salad on the salad, or just the salad if it turns out they don't like chicken salad. I might also do another side, with something in season.

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Tons of people love chicken salad. It’s the first to get depleted in the deli at the grocery store.

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Anonymous wrote:Tons of people love chicken salad. It’s the first to get depleted in the deli at the grocery store.

Not at my store. It gets dried out on top from sitting there so long.

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Anonymous wrote:Funny how so many people go on about the horrors of Mayo, which is oil and eggs, yet think lobster rolls soaked in warm butter are healthier.

I’m amazed that people that picky would even eat lobster in the first place. I would have assumed chicken nuggies with ketchup were more their speed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Funny how so many people go on about the horrors of Mayo, which is oil and eggs, yet think lobster rolls soaked in warm butter are healthier.

I’m amazed that people that picky would even eat lobster in the first place. I would have assumed chicken nuggies with ketchup were more their speed.

What? Chicken nuggets are the same level as nasty mayo salads!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Funny how so many people go on about the horrors of Mayo, which is oil and eggs, yet think lobster rolls soaked in warm butter are healthier.

I’m amazed that people that picky would even eat lobster in the first place. I would have assumed chicken nuggies with ketchup were more their speed.

You think chicken salad is the food for adventurous eaters? It's the exact opposite. That's why it's old fashioned and declining in popularity.

[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 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.

That is sarcasm, right?!

Not at all.

I love chicken salad, and enjoy tasting different variations of it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Funny how so many people go on about the horrors of Mayo, which is oil and eggs, yet think lobster rolls soaked in warm butter are healthier.

I’m amazed that people that picky would even eat lobster in the first place. I would have assumed chicken nuggies with ketchup were more their speed.

You think chicken salad is the food for adventurous eaters? It's the exact opposite. That's why it's old fashioned and declining in popularity.

If you can’t possibly eat mayo or aioli or whatever because it’s “yucky” then yeah, you’re a toddler

[Anonymous]

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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.

This is why normal people take their colleague out to lunch. Not bring them home for the wife's homemade chicken salad.

+1 having someone over to your house for lunch is a very intimate experience. So odd just go out.

It’s intimate to eat chicken salad at someone’s house for lunch??

This thread is cuckoo bananas