Those jello mold things that mryrcn posted (the first 4 pics of her montage on page 1) are congealed salads. Because they are congealed. Like congealed duck blood, a delicacy that goes in hot pot in Taiwan.
My MIL grew up in Michigan and always makes what she calls blueberry salad. It's blueberries mixed with pecans and crushed pineapple in raspberry jell-o. The topping is sour cream mixed with cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla extract with pecans sprinkled on top. I don't know why it is called a salad. It's pretty tasty, though.
I grew up in Wisconsin, and there were definitely jell-o molds present at all family events. Nothing like that, though.
This is very similar to what my MIL makes but hers has peaches, pears, etc in a peach jello. But it is topped with pecans and creamcheese, sugar, vanilla, and i thought it was whipped cream but maybe it's sour cream - it is both sweet and sourish - and sprinkled with pecans on top.
Maybe this is a Minnesota/Wisconsin thing? My MIL is deep East Texas but her IL's are from Minnesota.
Post by irishbride2 on Nov 25, 2015 19:28:06 GMT -5
I said no and was getting all snotty about it...
And then I saw the pics and realized we do lol. We do a straw berry pretzel salad, which has pretzels as the crust, whipped cream, and then strawberries held together by strawberry jello as the topping.
Post by chickadee77 on Nov 25, 2015 20:43:26 GMT -5
Yes, I made H's green jello mold tonight for tomorrow, lol. I don't like them, and didn't grow up with them, but it's a family tradition for him and he likes it, so whatever.
Also I somehow knew what you meant by "congealed salad," though I don't know that I've ever actually heard it called that, lol.
It's not technically a congealed salad I don't think because we don't mold it, but a pistachio jello concoction with pineapple and nuts and marshmallow and whipped cream and crap (not technically crap but...crap.) MIL introduced it to our house.
ETA: Maybe it is congealed since it looks like the green one with the nuts thing in the right column below.
That stuff is delicious. No jello though. It's pudding.
Fucking hell. no. The grossest thing that my family makes is sauerkraut. Apparently it's typical from German immigrants on the Eastern shore of Maryland?
Sauerkraut is definitely a thing in MD. Baltimore born and bred, my family makes this. I have never actually tasted it however. My ILs, not native to MD, thankfully pass on this as well.
Fucking hell. no. The grossest thing that my family makes is sauerkraut. Apparently it's typical from German immigrants on the Eastern shore of Maryland?
Sauerkraut is definitely a thing in MD. Baltimore born and bred, my family makes this. I have never actually tasted it however. My ILs, not native to MD, thankfully pass on this as well.
Sauerkraut is fucking awesome. I'm not sure if you're saying its a thanksgiving dish, in which case I think that's a bit weird, but outside of that, yum!
Sauerkraut is definitely a thing in MD. Baltimore born and bred, my family makes this. I have never actually tasted it however. My ILs, not native to MD, thankfully pass on this as well.
Sauerkraut is fucking awesome. I'm not sure if you're saying its a thanksgiving dish, in which case I think that's a bit weird, but outside of that, yum!
It's totally a thanksgiving dish around here. I have many memories of my parents' house smelling of that on turkey day.
Not really. But my grandma makes "Ambrosia Salad" which has jello powder mixed with mandarin oranges, cottage cheese, crushed walnuts, cool whip, and sometimes pineapple.
Post by lyssbobiss, Command, B613 on Nov 25, 2015 22:29:45 GMT -5
My aunt always brings some dish that's like strawberry jello with some sort of fruit on top of pretzels? And I feel like there's also cottage cheese mixed in?
It's basically the epitome of White People Foolishness, I realize. I don't eat it. I have room on my plate for the basics - turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans, corn, roll. Everything else needs to gtfo, I don't have room for your bullshit.
"This prick is asking for someone here to bring him to task Somebody give me some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask him I'll pull the trigger on it, someone load the gun and cock it While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket."
When I was growing up, potlucks and holidays always had "salad" and "jello salad". The word "congealed" was never used, and I can't believe someone would use that word for food, ever. -shudder- So yeah - things with whipped cream and pistachio pudding would be served alongside salads made out of actual vegetables.
I remember comparing notes with high school friends on the grossest jello "salad" we'd ever eaten. I think the winner was lime jello with grated carrots, topped with mayo.
I've never had one at Thanksgiving but I am aware of this food. My mom made something like it growing up, but it was a dessert to us. No one pretended it was salad.
Also, a Waldorf salad is apples, celery, pecans and mayo on lettuce. No hint of jello.