Chicken salad: discuss

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Anonymous wrote:I’m in my early 30s and love chicken salad. I’d be happy to be served chicken salad sandwiches at someone’s house if I were invited to lunch.

That said, please do not put curry powder or fruit or nuts in it! Celery and herbs and finely diced pickles is the way to go.

^ this is the other problem with chicken salad. There are a million ways to prepare it. That's why this dish is a loser. Make it for your own family the way you like it and don't serve to guests.

There's a million ways to prepare eggs.

I have never seen anyone, put chutney, celery, mayonnaise, or relish in eggs!

Plenty of people put all those things in deviled eggs or egg salad.

And it’s yummy.

Yes and those 2 things are as sick as chicken salad. Those are not eggs.

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Chicken salad, deviled eggs, egg salad 🥗 ---> gag reaction

Such a sensitive Sally!

Actually it's a common response.

She says, scientifically.

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I make a hot chicken salad (really it's a misnamed casserole) but people love it. People were taking fourth helpings at a potluck I took it to in May. Sure, it's retro but it's delicious. I would probably not serve it as the ONLY item for someone I didn't know though - it could be one element, as others have said. I also make and enjoy many cold chicken salads too.

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I love chicken salad, but only eat chicken breast, so I'm very picky about eating a chicken salad that I don't personally make. I'd recommend making sure your guests are comfortable with however you make your chicken chicken salad or at least have some other option to choose from.

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Anonymous wrote:Sure. Serve with fruit, rolls and dessert. I make a version with grapes, celery, mayo and curry.

This +1

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of people have a mayo aversion

OP said in her second line NO restrictions and NO allergies. If they had such an aversion they could have voiced that.

Aversion is not the same as restriction/allergy. I strongly dislike mayo, mushrooms, and nuts in food -- but I'll begrudgingly still eat them if they're in front of me, ex. chicken salad, mushrooms on a supreme pizza, nuts on top of a green salad or walnuts in chicken salad.

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I like chicken salad, but it's not what I'd serve if I were hosting a work colleague for lunch. I might make it for multi-day houseguests or something, but not for somebody coming over specifically for lunch. I think I'd make a panzanella or fattoush salad and grilled chicken.

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Anonymous wrote:I make a hot chicken salad (really it's a misnamed casserole) but people love it. People were taking fourth helpings at a potluck I took it to in May. Sure, it's retro but it's delicious. I would probably not serve it as the ONLY item for someone I didn't know though - it could be one element, as others have said. I also make and enjoy many cold chicken salads too.

Could you post the recipe? I've never heard of hot chicken salad.

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Happy to share:

Hot Chicken Salad [u]

1 cup chopped almonds
2.5 cups chopped cooked chicken (I use rotisserie)
1.5 cups chopped celery
1 chopped shallot
1/2 tsp each salt & pepper
2 TBSP lemon juice
1 tsp mustard (I like Dijon)
1 TBSP chopped fresh tarragon
1 cup mayo
1/2 cup shredded cheese (pre-shredded is fine)

Preheat oven to 375.

Stir all ingredients together and transfer to a baking dish (9x9 will work) sprayed with cooking spray.
Once the chicken mixture is smoothed out, top with crushed up potato chips (I like onion flavoured ones, or plain, but anything that isn't a corn chip or strongly-flavoured will work).

Bake uncovered until bubbly ~ 20 minutes.

I know some people will be horrified but it's not like we eat this all the time, it gets made maybe twice a year. And it's delicious. And if you use the Ninja to do all your chopping, it's quite fast and easy.

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Anonymous wrote:Happy to share:

Hot Chicken Salad [u]

1 cup chopped almonds
2.5 cups chopped cooked chicken (I use rotisserie)
1.5 cups chopped celery
1 chopped shallot
1/2 tsp each salt & pepper
2 TBSP lemon juice
1 tsp mustard (I like Dijon)
1 TBSP chopped fresh tarragon
1 cup mayo
1/2 cup shredded cheese (pre-shredded is fine)

Preheat oven to 375.

Stir all ingredients together and transfer to a baking dish (9x9 will work) sprayed with cooking spray.
Once the chicken mixture is smoothed out, top with crushed up potato chips (I like onion flavoured ones, or plain, but anything that isn't a corn chip or strongly-flavoured will work).

Bake uncovered until bubbly ~ 20 minutes.

I know some people will be horrified but it's not like we eat this all the time, it gets made maybe twice a year. And it's delicious. And if you use the Ninja to do all your chopping, it's quite fast and easy.

Rotisserie chicken. Gross.

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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.

The entire salad is not BASED on mayo. Mayo is a binder to hold the ingredients together. The first get together I had at my house where I invited the neighbors, I made the curry powder, grape, cashew chicken salad and it was the bomb. It was devoured before the pizzas, and club sandwiches, subs and charcuterie and everyone talked about it. If the grapes are perfectly ripe, it makes it incredible.

Also will the weirdo with the obsession with disease being spread by chicken salad leave the room? Chicken, in and of itself, is a meat that needs to be handled with care but putting it in a salad doesn't make it more dangerous. Also mayo no longer has anything in it that makes it a danger.

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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

THIS. The most benign threads can draw the most vehement crazies.

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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.

The entire salad is not BASED on mayo. Mayo is a binder to hold the ingredients together. The first get together I had at my house where I invited the neighbors, I made the curry powder, grape, cashew chicken salad and it was the bomb. It was devoured before the pizzas, and club sandwiches, subs and charcuterie and everyone talked about it. If the grapes are perfectly ripe, it makes it incredible.

Also will the weirdo with the obsession with disease being spread by chicken salad leave the room? Chicken, in and of itself, is a meat that needs to be handled with care but putting it in a salad doesn't make it more dangerous. Also mayo no longer has anything in it that makes it a danger.

Let it go. The recipe above calls for 1 CUP of mayonnaise for 2.5 cups of chicken. That's a lot. It's a mayo based salad. Not everyone likes mayonnaise salads with fruit, nuts, and other things in it, so a lot of people would not serve this to a guest they don't eat with often.

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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

THIS. The most benign threads can draw the most vehement crazies.

The crazies are the extremely passionate chicken salad devotees. Most people would just go out to lunch with a colleague. Even OP isn't making chicken salad for this guest because she knows its ridiculous.

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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.

The entire salad is not BASED on mayo. Mayo is a binder to hold the ingredients together. The first get together I had at my house where I invited the neighbors, I made the curry powder, grape, cashew chicken salad and it was the bomb. It was devoured before the pizzas, and club sandwiches, subs and charcuterie and everyone talked about it. If the grapes are perfectly ripe, it makes it incredible.

Also will the weirdo with the obsession with disease being spread by chicken salad leave the room? Chicken, in and of itself, is a meat that needs to be handled with care but putting it in a salad doesn't make it more dangerous. Also mayo no longer has anything in it that makes it a danger.

Let it go. The recipe above calls for 1 CUP of mayonnaise for 2.5 cups of chicken. That's a lot. It's a mayo based salad. Not everyone likes mayonnaise salads with fruit, nuts, and other things in it, so a lot of people would not serve this to a guest they don't eat with often.

NP. The recipe that calls for it to be baked? That’s not chicken salad.

But I agree that “let it go” is great advice. Try it.

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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.

The entire salad is not BASED on mayo. Mayo is a binder to hold the ingredients together. The first get together I had at my house where I invited the neighbors, I made the curry powder, grape, cashew chicken salad and it was the bomb. It was devoured before the pizzas, and club sandwiches, subs and charcuterie and everyone talked about it. If the grapes are perfectly ripe, it makes it incredible.

Also will the weirdo with the obsession with disease being spread by chicken salad leave the room? Chicken, in and of itself, is a meat that needs to be handled with care but putting it in a salad doesn't make it more dangerous. Also mayo no longer has anything in it that makes it a danger.

Let it go. The recipe above calls for 1 CUP of mayonnaise for 2.5 cups of chicken. That's a lot. It's a mayo based salad. Not everyone likes mayonnaise salads with fruit, nuts, and other things in it, so a lot of people would not serve this to a guest they don't eat with often.

NP. The recipe that calls for it to be baked? That’s not chicken salad.

But I agree that “let it go” is great advice. Try it.

Sorry, but the recipe is titled "chicken salad". Deal with it.