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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.

The only thing worse than mayo is celery!

Celery, raw and cooked, is fantastic. How else would you make stuffing?

You don’t, unless it’s cornbread sausage stuffing!

Cornbread stuffing is gross

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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.

The only thing worse than mayo is celery!

Celery, raw and cooked, is fantastic. How else would you make stuffing?

You don’t, unless it’s cornbread sausage stuffing!

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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.

The only thing worse than mayo is celery!

Celery, raw and cooked, is fantastic. How else would you make stuffing?

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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.

OP here - someone in another thread asked for an update here. I don't have much of an update other than I'm opting out of the chicken salad for this particular gather. We do have family who likes this particular chicken salad which is a little sweet, with chutney.

I'm also a vegetarian. I 100% don't mind preparing chicken salad as it would really be dh cooking the chicken and me making the dressing. I don't mind him asking me to cook for a colleague. I enjoy cooking and in general we have a fair division of labor.

I know there's no pleasing everyone, and because I'm vegetarian I always have non meat sides including hearty salads and bean dishes (falafel was one example I gave which seems pretty basic to me). In the other thread it was made known that beans are offensive. That's fine, no one else has to eat them as there's plenty of other food and as the host, I get to choose my protein.

Most of you understood the assignment of this thread and I thank you for the 11 pages worth of entertainment!

Sound great. Love grapes in it, and really good bread on the side

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.

Lol I make a few different versions but one of my favorites has curry powder, apples, dried cranberries, and almonds.

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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.

I do this too. Le Diplomate has a great curry chicken salad sandwich that is also very popular. I wonder if the real haters are thinking of the prepackaged slop?

Ugh I lived with a Southern relative who would buy it in big tube from the grocery store and serve it on wonder bread every single weekday lunch. So no, thank you, from me.

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.

Don’t make me turn my rings around

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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

It's not about what I eat. The point is I know other people have strong opinions, so I don't serve something so obviously polarizing to a random "colleague" coming to my house for lunch. We would obviously just go out for lunch anyway.

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.

The only thing worse than mayo is celery!

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.

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.

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

I've had a version with those ingredients plus dried cranberries that was outstanding.

I am Gen X. We still eat mayo salads.