Grape mixed with mayonnaise? Disgusting. |
Wait but you said it was cheap and that’s why people buy it? I don’t care if it’s a person or a business trying to use up food waste I’m for it. I personally don’t buy premade chicken salad but if other people do, great! |
PP was implying that Croque Madame and Salad Nicoise were old-fashioned dishes. That they are on menus across Paris today proves PP wrong. Keep up. |
It certainly doesn’t prove that they aren’t old fashioned. People can enjoy old fashioned foods, that doesn’t mean they aren’t classic, retro, nostalgic, or old fashioned. Not sure what point you are trying to make. The curry chicken salad was served at Queen Elizabeth’s coronation luncheon in 1953. It’s not a brand new food. |
No it absolutely does not sound vile. It sounds amazing! I love chicken salad and will definitely be trying this. |
And so there is no reason to diss Croque Madame and Salad Nicoise, or chicken salad, as that poster was seeking to do. |
Yeah, well they eat all kinds of old-fashioned things in Paris. The fact that some PP ate a croque madame in Paris last week doesn't make it any less of mid-20th century food. |
So, again, it is popular. No need to disparage. |
Do you know that popular and old fashioned mean different things? And chicken salad is certainly old but not as popular as it used to be. Again. |
Why are you taking this so personally? It’s not a diss to point out a fact. |
Well, I have the answer on this. At least for me personally.
Was out to dinner last night with the most unsophisticated annoying boomer I know, at a mall restaurant known for it's vast menu, and they ordered ... wait for it ... a chicken salad sandwich. Before that, I was on the fence with this, leaning toward it being fine for OP to serve chicken salad for lunch. Now? Nope. Stay away from it, lol. Although for the record, this person did proceed to complain that the chicken salad wasn't any good. |
I'm a 30-year-old millennial and ordered a chicken salad sandwich over the weekend from a restaurant on the Jersey Shore. I'm a good home cook and enjoy a variety of foods, but chicken salad sounded good to me so I got it. Anecdotal evidence doesn't really say much. |
It cinched it for me. This "I'm a millennial on the the Jersey Shore and I ordered it!!!!!" helps cinch it for me as well. |
TBH, you lost us when you said you went to the Jersey shore. Armpit lunch for an armpit area. |
I’m late to this thread but just want to say that the Ina Garten chicken salad is so good and I feel like anything Ina makes must be socially acceptable at all levels. I think it does have red grapes, which I would think I would hate but somehow manages to be weirdly delicious.
I like chicken salad in part because I hate rewarmed chicken — it gets a weird taste when it is reheated. So if I make a roast chicken, it’s a great way to use the leftovers. I don’t use grocery store rotisserie because that always seems to have that weird taste that reheated chicken does. Also the Panera Napa chicken salad is one of their best menu items and is also one of their lowest cal menu items. So I sometimes get it if I have to eat lunch at Panera. |