Does coleslaw belong on the Thanksgiving table?

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Many Americans are mutts made up of many heritages. There is no one culinary heritage to try to tear down. We all have our own preferences and most people prefer a little bit of this and a little bit of that, not 100% of anything.

What cuisine did you grow up with?

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Anonymous wrote:Gross. How Americans love foods like potato salad, macaroni salad, coleslaw etc. (I.e foods drenched in mayo) is beyond comprehension.

It's pretty uncultured to think that these require mayonnaise. Broaden your culinary scope.

My mother always served german potato salad to cut the heaviness and fat of the turkey and gravy. It has a vinegar base. No mayo.

A lot of German potato salad has bacon and/or bacon fat. Not exactly a low fat side dish.

Also, not mayonnaise.

Bacon grease vs mayonnaise? It's a toss up as to which is worse.

Expand those culinary horizons. I can't think of any German potato salad that has a comparable amount of bacon grease as typical to the amount of mayonnaise in American potato salad, but please feel free to post if you have it.

In fact, a lot of German potato salad recipes just add crumbled bacon as a garnish. But if there is some kind of prejudice or bigotry that underlies this peeve, facts aren't going to matter anyway. So, what's the culinary heritage you come from? Would you like to talk about fried, sugary sweets, or how white rice is one of the worst foods for spiking blood glucose levels, or what?

Honestly I'm just going to pass on all the potato salad. No thank you. Don't care if its loaded with mayo or bacon or hard boiled eggs. Hard pass on all of it.

Way to dodge the question, but sure.

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For anyone interested in German potato salad (not PP, obviously!), there are some classic styles:

Bavarian kartoffelsalat (bacon vinaigrette, about 3/4 of a piece of bacon per serving): https://thegoodheartedwoman.com/oktoberfest-hot-german-potato-salad-recipe/

Specifically Swabian kartoffelsalat (no bacon, but has German mustard): https://www.daringgourmet.com/restaurant-style-schwabischer-kartoffelsalat-swabian-potato-salad/

My objection is purely to potato salad whatever culture it hails from. I don't want a salad of potatoes. Calling it "light" b/c it has bacon grease and not oil and egg based mayonnaise is a distinction without a difference.

What cuisine did you grow up with? Or are you accurate enough to just say there are foods from any cuisine, including yours, that other people find really gross? because that's a given, you know.

Are you dense? Of course all cultures have some questionable foods. We're allowed to have preferences. I take issue with your idea that greasy heavy potato salad somehow cuts the richness of a typically fatty Thanksgiving spread. It's more of the same. Regardless of whatever culture is calming it.

Nobody claimed that. You are arguing with some misinterpretation in your head. However, somebody did claim this, whether you or another PP, and that was what that subthread was about:

Anonymous wrote:Gross. How Americans love foods like potato salad, macaroni salad, coleslaw etc. (I.e foods drenched in mayo) is beyond comprehension.

That's a pretty gross sentiment.

I'm responding specifically to this: "My mother always served german potato salad to cut the heaviness and fat of the turkey and gravy. It has a vinegar base. No mayo."

Potatoes are cheap, filling food. They are by definition heavy. This is just not logical. It's like saying mashed potatoes or macaroni and cheese cut the heaviness of the dinner. That it may be "German" makes no difference here.

Ah. Different conversation, then. I think I muddled the waters with quoting the wrong post at first -- my apologies.

I don't look to potatoes to lighten a meal, either.

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Many Americans are mutts made up of many heritages. There is no one culinary heritage to try to tear down. We all have our own preferences and most people prefer a little bit of this and a little bit of that, not 100% of anything.

What cuisine did you grow up with?

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Anonymous wrote:Gross. How Americans love foods like potato salad, macaroni salad, coleslaw etc. (I.e foods drenched in mayo) is beyond comprehension.

It's pretty uncultured to think that these require mayonnaise. Broaden your culinary scope.

My mother always served german potato salad to cut the heaviness and fat of the turkey and gravy. It has a vinegar base. No mayo.

A lot of German potato salad has bacon and/or bacon fat. Not exactly a low fat side dish.

Also, not mayonnaise.

Bacon grease vs mayonnaise? It's a toss up as to which is worse.

Expand those culinary horizons. I can't think of any German potato salad that has a comparable amount of bacon grease as typical to the amount of mayonnaise in American potato salad, but please feel free to post if you have it.

In fact, a lot of German potato salad recipes just add crumbled bacon as a garnish. But if there is some kind of prejudice or bigotry that underlies this peeve, facts aren't going to matter anyway. So, what's the culinary heritage you come from? Would you like to talk about fried, sugary sweets, or how white rice is one of the worst foods for spiking blood glucose levels, or what?

Honestly I'm just going to pass on all the potato salad. No thank you. Don't care if its loaded with mayo or bacon or hard boiled eggs. Hard pass on all of it.

Way to dodge the question, but sure.

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For anyone interested in German potato salad (not PP, obviously!), there are some classic styles:

Bavarian kartoffelsalat (bacon vinaigrette, about 3/4 of a piece of bacon per serving): https://thegoodheartedwoman.com/oktoberfest-hot-german-potato-salad-recipe/

Specifically Swabian kartoffelsalat (no bacon, but has German mustard): https://www.daringgourmet.com/restaurant-style-schwabischer-kartoffelsalat-swabian-potato-salad/

My objection is purely to potato salad whatever culture it hails from. I don't want a salad of potatoes. Calling it "light" b/c it has bacon grease and not oil and egg based mayonnaise is a distinction without a difference.

What cuisine did you grow up with? Or are you accurate enough to just say there are foods from any cuisine, including yours, that other people find really gross? because that's a given, you know.

Are you dense? Of course all cultures have some questionable foods. We're allowed to have preferences. I take issue with your idea that greasy heavy potato salad somehow cuts the richness of a typically fatty Thanksgiving spread. It's more of the same. Regardless of whatever culture is calming it.

Nobody claimed that. You are arguing with some misinterpretation in your head. However, somebody did claim this, whether you or another PP, and that was what that subthread was about:

Anonymous wrote:Gross. How Americans love foods like potato salad, macaroni salad, coleslaw etc. (I.e foods drenched in mayo) is beyond comprehension.

That's a pretty gross sentiment.

I'm responding specifically to this: "My mother always served german potato salad to cut the heaviness and fat of the turkey and gravy. It has a vinegar base. No mayo."

Potatoes are cheap, filling food. They are by definition heavy. This is just not logical. It's like saying mashed potatoes or macaroni and cheese cut the heaviness of the dinner. That it may be "German" makes no difference here.

Ah. Different conversation, then. I think I muddled the waters with quoting the wrong post at first -- my apologies.

I don't look to potatoes to lighten a meal, either.

Got it. Earlier in the thread I said I was someone who has coleslaw on the table. It's sort of a creamy coleslaw, it might be part vinegar part sour cream. It's my mother's thing. Nobody else cares if it's on the table.

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Many Americans are mutts made up of many heritages. There is no one culinary heritage to try to tear down. We all have our own preferences and most people prefer a little bit of this and a little bit of that, not 100% of anything.

What cuisine did you grow up with?

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Anonymous wrote:Gross. How Americans love foods like potato salad, macaroni salad, coleslaw etc. (I.e foods drenched in mayo) is beyond comprehension.

It's pretty uncultured to think that these require mayonnaise. Broaden your culinary scope.

My mother always served german potato salad to cut the heaviness and fat of the turkey and gravy. It has a vinegar base. No mayo.

A lot of German potato salad has bacon and/or bacon fat. Not exactly a low fat side dish.

Also, not mayonnaise.

Bacon grease vs mayonnaise? It's a toss up as to which is worse.

Expand those culinary horizons. I can't think of any German potato salad that has a comparable amount of bacon grease as typical to the amount of mayonnaise in American potato salad, but please feel free to post if you have it.

In fact, a lot of German potato salad recipes just add crumbled bacon as a garnish. But if there is some kind of prejudice or bigotry that underlies this peeve, facts aren't going to matter anyway. So, what's the culinary heritage you come from? Would you like to talk about fried, sugary sweets, or how white rice is one of the worst foods for spiking blood glucose levels, or what?

Honestly I'm just going to pass on all the potato salad. No thank you. Don't care if its loaded with mayo or bacon or hard boiled eggs. Hard pass on all of it.

Way to dodge the question, but sure.

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For anyone interested in German potato salad (not PP, obviously!), there are some classic styles:

Bavarian kartoffelsalat (bacon vinaigrette, about 3/4 of a piece of bacon per serving): https://thegoodheartedwoman.com/oktoberfest-hot-german-potato-salad-recipe/

Specifically Swabian kartoffelsalat (no bacon, but has German mustard): https://www.daringgourmet.com/restaurant-style-schwabischer-kartoffelsalat-swabian-potato-salad/

My objection is purely to potato salad whatever culture it hails from. I don't want a salad of potatoes. Calling it "light" b/c it has bacon grease and not oil and egg based mayonnaise is a distinction without a difference.

What cuisine did you grow up with? Or are you accurate enough to just say there are foods from any cuisine, including yours, that other people find really gross? because that's a given, you know.

Are you dense? Of course all cultures have some questionable foods. We're allowed to have preferences. I take issue with your idea that greasy heavy potato salad somehow cuts the richness of a typically fatty Thanksgiving spread. It's more of the same. Regardless of whatever culture is calming it.

Nobody claimed that. You are arguing with some misinterpretation in your head. However, somebody did claim this, whether you or another PP, and that was what that subthread was about:

Anonymous wrote:Gross. How Americans love foods like potato salad, macaroni salad, coleslaw etc. (I.e foods drenched in mayo) is beyond comprehension.

That's a pretty gross sentiment.

I'm responding specifically to this: "My mother always served german potato salad to cut the heaviness and fat of the turkey and gravy. It has a vinegar base. No mayo."

Potatoes are cheap, filling food. They are by definition heavy. This is just not logical. It's like saying mashed potatoes or macaroni and cheese cut the heaviness of the dinner. That it may be "German" makes no difference here.

Ah. Different conversation, then. I think I muddled the waters with quoting the wrong post at first -- my apologies.

I don't look to potatoes to lighten a meal, either.

Got it. Earlier in the thread I said I was someone who has coleslaw on the table. It's sort of a creamy coleslaw, it might be part vinegar part sour cream. It's my mother's thing. Nobody else cares if it's on the table.

Yeah, I'd prefer a slaw with the acidity of vinegar and/or sour cream for the Thanksgiving table. Actually, if I'd have my druthers, it would be an extensive relish tray -- but that's a different derailment, and we already have other threads for that.

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Many Americans are mutts made up of many heritages. There is no one culinary heritage to try to tear down. We all have our own preferences and most people prefer a little bit of this and a little bit of that, not 100% of anything.

What cuisine did you grow up with?

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Anonymous wrote:Gross. How Americans love foods like potato salad, macaroni salad, coleslaw etc. (I.e foods drenched in mayo) is beyond comprehension.

It's pretty uncultured to think that these require mayonnaise. Broaden your culinary scope.

My mother always served german potato salad to cut the heaviness and fat of the turkey and gravy. It has a vinegar base. No mayo.

A lot of German potato salad has bacon and/or bacon fat. Not exactly a low fat side dish.

Also, not mayonnaise.

Bacon grease vs mayonnaise? It's a toss up as to which is worse.

Expand those culinary horizons. I can't think of any German potato salad that has a comparable amount of bacon grease as typical to the amount of mayonnaise in American potato salad, but please feel free to post if you have it.

In fact, a lot of German potato salad recipes just add crumbled bacon as a garnish. But if there is some kind of prejudice or bigotry that underlies this peeve, facts aren't going to matter anyway. So, what's the culinary heritage you come from? Would you like to talk about fried, sugary sweets, or how white rice is one of the worst foods for spiking blood glucose levels, or what?

Honestly I'm just going to pass on all the potato salad. No thank you. Don't care if its loaded with mayo or bacon or hard boiled eggs. Hard pass on all of it.

Way to dodge the question, but sure.

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For anyone interested in German potato salad (not PP, obviously!), there are some classic styles:

Bavarian kartoffelsalat (bacon vinaigrette, about 3/4 of a piece of bacon per serving): https://thegoodheartedwoman.com/oktoberfest-hot-german-potato-salad-recipe/

Specifically Swabian kartoffelsalat (no bacon, but has German mustard): https://www.daringgourmet.com/restaurant-style-schwabischer-kartoffelsalat-swabian-potato-salad/

My objection is purely to potato salad whatever culture it hails from. I don't want a salad of potatoes. Calling it "light" b/c it has bacon grease and not oil and egg based mayonnaise is a distinction without a difference.

What cuisine did you grow up with? Or are you accurate enough to just say there are foods from any cuisine, including yours, that other people find really gross? because that's a given, you know.

Are you dense? Of course all cultures have some questionable foods. We're allowed to have preferences. I take issue with your idea that greasy heavy potato salad somehow cuts the richness of a typically fatty Thanksgiving spread. It's more of the same. Regardless of whatever culture is calming it.

DP. If your vinaigrette dressed potato salad is greasy and heavy, you’re doing it wrong.

[Anonymous]

We always have a tray with assorted sliced pickles. I absolutely love coleslaw and would eat it with every meal if I could (weird, I know) but I feel like my guests would side eye
Coleslaw at Thanksgiving.

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Many Americans are mutts made up of many heritages. There is no one culinary heritage to try to tear down. We all have our own preferences and most people prefer a little bit of this and a little bit of that, not 100% of anything.

What cuisine did you grow up with?

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Anonymous wrote:Gross. How Americans love foods like potato salad, macaroni salad, coleslaw etc. (I.e foods drenched in mayo) is beyond comprehension.

It's pretty uncultured to think that these require mayonnaise. Broaden your culinary scope.

My mother always served german potato salad to cut the heaviness and fat of the turkey and gravy. It has a vinegar base. No mayo.

A lot of German potato salad has bacon and/or bacon fat. Not exactly a low fat side dish.

Also, not mayonnaise.

Bacon grease vs mayonnaise? It's a toss up as to which is worse.

Expand those culinary horizons. I can't think of any German potato salad that has a comparable amount of bacon grease as typical to the amount of mayonnaise in American potato salad, but please feel free to post if you have it.

In fact, a lot of German potato salad recipes just add crumbled bacon as a garnish. But if there is some kind of prejudice or bigotry that underlies this peeve, facts aren't going to matter anyway. So, what's the culinary heritage you come from? Would you like to talk about fried, sugary sweets, or how white rice is one of the worst foods for spiking blood glucose levels, or what?

Honestly I'm just going to pass on all the potato salad. No thank you. Don't care if its loaded with mayo or bacon or hard boiled eggs. Hard pass on all of it.

Way to dodge the question, but sure.

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For anyone interested in German potato salad (not PP, obviously!), there are some classic styles:

Bavarian kartoffelsalat (bacon vinaigrette, about 3/4 of a piece of bacon per serving): https://thegoodheartedwoman.com/oktoberfest-hot-german-potato-salad-recipe/

Specifically Swabian kartoffelsalat (no bacon, but has German mustard): https://www.daringgourmet.com/restaurant-style-schwabischer-kartoffelsalat-swabian-potato-salad/

My objection is purely to potato salad whatever culture it hails from. I don't want a salad of potatoes. Calling it "light" b/c it has bacon grease and not oil and egg based mayonnaise is a distinction without a difference.

What cuisine did you grow up with? Or are you accurate enough to just say there are foods from any cuisine, including yours, that other people find really gross? because that's a given, you know.

Are you dense? Of course all cultures have some questionable foods. We're allowed to have preferences. I take issue with your idea that greasy heavy potato salad somehow cuts the richness of a typically fatty Thanksgiving spread. It's more of the same. Regardless of whatever culture is calming it.

DP. If your vinaigrette dressed potato salad is greasy and heavy, you’re doing it wrong.

Actually you're doing it right if you follow the recipes. One says "Oil and LOTS OF IT" and the other includes multiple pieces of bacon. So, yeah, heavy and oily. As the recipes say.

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Many Americans are mutts made up of many heritages. There is no one culinary heritage to try to tear down. We all have our own preferences and most people prefer a little bit of this and a little bit of that, not 100% of anything.

What cuisine did you grow up with?

Sorry, quoted the entirely wrong post.

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Anonymous wrote:Gross. How Americans love foods like potato salad, macaroni salad, coleslaw etc. (I.e foods drenched in mayo) is beyond comprehension.

It's pretty uncultured to think that these require mayonnaise. Broaden your culinary scope.

My mother always served german potato salad to cut the heaviness and fat of the turkey and gravy. It has a vinegar base. No mayo.

A lot of German potato salad has bacon and/or bacon fat. Not exactly a low fat side dish.

Also, not mayonnaise.

Bacon grease vs mayonnaise? It's a toss up as to which is worse.

Expand those culinary horizons. I can't think of any German potato salad that has a comparable amount of bacon grease as typical to the amount of mayonnaise in American potato salad, but please feel free to post if you have it.

In fact, a lot of German potato salad recipes just add crumbled bacon as a garnish. But if there is some kind of prejudice or bigotry that underlies this peeve, facts aren't going to matter anyway. So, what's the culinary heritage you come from? Would you like to talk about fried, sugary sweets, or how white rice is one of the worst foods for spiking blood glucose levels, or what?

Honestly I'm just going to pass on all the potato salad. No thank you. Don't care if its loaded with mayo or bacon or hard boiled eggs. Hard pass on all of it.

Way to dodge the question, but sure.

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For anyone interested in German potato salad (not PP, obviously!), there are some classic styles:

Bavarian kartoffelsalat (bacon vinaigrette, about 3/4 of a piece of bacon per serving): https://thegoodheartedwoman.com/oktoberfest-hot-german-potato-salad-recipe/

Specifically Swabian kartoffelsalat (no bacon, but has German mustard): https://www.daringgourmet.com/restaurant-style-schwabischer-kartoffelsalat-swabian-potato-salad/

My objection is purely to potato salad whatever culture it hails from. I don't want a salad of potatoes. Calling it "light" b/c it has bacon grease and not oil and egg based mayonnaise is a distinction without a difference.

What cuisine did you grow up with? Or are you accurate enough to just say there are foods from any cuisine, including yours, that other people find really gross? because that's a given, you know.

Are you dense? Of course all cultures have some questionable foods. We're allowed to have preferences. I take issue with your idea that greasy heavy potato salad somehow cuts the richness of a typically fatty Thanksgiving spread. It's more of the same. Regardless of whatever culture is calming it.

Nobody claimed that. You are arguing with some misinterpretation in your head. However, somebody did claim this, whether you or another PP, and that was what that subthread was about:

Anonymous wrote:Gross. How Americans love foods like potato salad, macaroni salad, coleslaw etc. (I.e foods drenched in mayo) is beyond comprehension.

That's a pretty gross sentiment.

+1
Would also like this poster to identify themself and their cuisine (so perfect, you) so that we don't have to hate the world--can just hate that one racist poster.

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Many Americans are mutts made up of many heritages. There is no one culinary heritage to try to tear down. We all have our own preferences and most people prefer a little bit of this and a little bit of that, not 100% of anything.

What cuisine did you grow up with?

Sorry, quoted the entirely wrong post.

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Anonymous wrote:Gross. How Americans love foods like potato salad, macaroni salad, coleslaw etc. (I.e foods drenched in mayo) is beyond comprehension.

It's pretty uncultured to think that these require mayonnaise. Broaden your culinary scope.

My mother always served german potato salad to cut the heaviness and fat of the turkey and gravy. It has a vinegar base. No mayo.

A lot of German potato salad has bacon and/or bacon fat. Not exactly a low fat side dish.

Also, not mayonnaise.

Bacon grease vs mayonnaise? It's a toss up as to which is worse.

Expand those culinary horizons. I can't think of any German potato salad that has a comparable amount of bacon grease as typical to the amount of mayonnaise in American potato salad, but please feel free to post if you have it.

In fact, a lot of German potato salad recipes just add crumbled bacon as a garnish. But if there is some kind of prejudice or bigotry that underlies this peeve, facts aren't going to matter anyway. So, what's the culinary heritage you come from? Would you like to talk about fried, sugary sweets, or how white rice is one of the worst foods for spiking blood glucose levels, or what?

Honestly I'm just going to pass on all the potato salad. No thank you. Don't care if its loaded with mayo or bacon or hard boiled eggs. Hard pass on all of it.

Way to dodge the question, but sure.

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For anyone interested in German potato salad (not PP, obviously!), there are some classic styles:

Bavarian kartoffelsalat (bacon vinaigrette, about 3/4 of a piece of bacon per serving): https://thegoodheartedwoman.com/oktoberfest-hot-german-potato-salad-recipe/

Specifically Swabian kartoffelsalat (no bacon, but has German mustard): https://www.daringgourmet.com/restaurant-style-schwabischer-kartoffelsalat-swabian-potato-salad/

My objection is purely to potato salad whatever culture it hails from. I don't want a salad of potatoes. Calling it "light" b/c it has bacon grease and not oil and egg based mayonnaise is a distinction without a difference.

What cuisine did you grow up with? Or are you accurate enough to just say there are foods from any cuisine, including yours, that other people find really gross? because that's a given, you know.

Are you dense? Of course all cultures have some questionable foods. We're allowed to have preferences. I take issue with your idea that greasy heavy potato salad somehow cuts the richness of a typically fatty Thanksgiving spread. It's more of the same. Regardless of whatever culture is calming it.

DP. If your vinaigrette dressed potato salad is greasy and heavy, you’re doing it wrong.

Actually you're doing it right if you follow the recipes. One says "Oil and LOTS OF IT" and the other includes multiple pieces of bacon. So, yeah, heavy and oily. As the recipes say.

You are talking to two different PPs. The one that posted random recipes pulled from the web isn't the one you are responding to here, and this poster presumably has better recipes.

But I will point out that "multiple pieces of bacon" is actually less than one piece per serving. If that breaks your mind for a holiday meal, well, god love you.

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Many Americans are mutts made up of many heritages. There is no one culinary heritage to try to tear down. We all have our own preferences and most people prefer a little bit of this and a little bit of that, not 100% of anything.

What cuisine did you grow up with?

Sorry, quoted the entirely wrong post.

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Anonymous wrote:Gross. How Americans love foods like potato salad, macaroni salad, coleslaw etc. (I.e foods drenched in mayo) is beyond comprehension.

It's pretty uncultured to think that these require mayonnaise. Broaden your culinary scope.

My mother always served german potato salad to cut the heaviness and fat of the turkey and gravy. It has a vinegar base. No mayo.

A lot of German potato salad has bacon and/or bacon fat. Not exactly a low fat side dish.

Also, not mayonnaise.

Bacon grease vs mayonnaise? It's a toss up as to which is worse.

Expand those culinary horizons. I can't think of any German potato salad that has a comparable amount of bacon grease as typical to the amount of mayonnaise in American potato salad, but please feel free to post if you have it.

In fact, a lot of German potato salad recipes just add crumbled bacon as a garnish. But if there is some kind of prejudice or bigotry that underlies this peeve, facts aren't going to matter anyway. So, what's the culinary heritage you come from? Would you like to talk about fried, sugary sweets, or how white rice is one of the worst foods for spiking blood glucose levels, or what?

Honestly I'm just going to pass on all the potato salad. No thank you. Don't care if its loaded with mayo or bacon or hard boiled eggs. Hard pass on all of it.

Way to dodge the question, but sure.

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For anyone interested in German potato salad (not PP, obviously!), there are some classic styles:

Bavarian kartoffelsalat (bacon vinaigrette, about 3/4 of a piece of bacon per serving): https://thegoodheartedwoman.com/oktoberfest-hot-german-potato-salad-recipe/

Specifically Swabian kartoffelsalat (no bacon, but has German mustard): https://www.daringgourmet.com/restaurant-style-schwabischer-kartoffelsalat-swabian-potato-salad/

My objection is purely to potato salad whatever culture it hails from. I don't want a salad of potatoes. Calling it "light" b/c it has bacon grease and not oil and egg based mayonnaise is a distinction without a difference.

What cuisine did you grow up with? Or are you accurate enough to just say there are foods from any cuisine, including yours, that other people find really gross? because that's a given, you know.

Are you dense? Of course all cultures have some questionable foods. We're allowed to have preferences. I take issue with your idea that greasy heavy potato salad somehow cuts the richness of a typically fatty Thanksgiving spread. It's more of the same. Regardless of whatever culture is calming it.

DP. If your vinaigrette dressed potato salad is greasy and heavy, you’re doing it wrong.

Actually you're doing it right if you follow the recipes. One says "Oil and LOTS OF IT" and the other includes multiple pieces of bacon. So, yeah, heavy and oily. As the recipes say.

You are talking to two different PPs. The one that posted random recipes pulled from the web isn't the one you are responding to here, and this poster presumably has better recipes.

But I will point out that "multiple pieces of bacon" is actually less than one piece per serving. If that breaks your mind for a holiday meal, well, god love you.

Dudes, stop trying to pass off potato salad as a light healthy side to cut the heaviness of Thanksgiving dinner.

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I am glad you have joined the land of more than one poster named Anonymous.

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Anonymous wrote:Gross. How Americans love foods like potato salad, macaroni salad, coleslaw etc. (I.e foods drenched in mayo) is beyond comprehension.

Yes. All americans just suck and are gross, amirite?

As one of multi millions of Americans who love the foods you mentioned, plus more, drenched in mayo and therefore we all suck and are gross, I'm not sure who you are but I would like to know so I know who I can judge as sucks and is gross because they are stupid enough to not like foods drenched in mayo. Please identify yourself so I don't have to hate the entire rest of the world.

Just replace the term mayo with aioli and then there's no judgment all of a sudden.