• FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyzEnglish
    41·
    6 months ago

    I’m just gonna say it: Potato salad is NOT THAT BAD!

    If it’s made by your grandma and with the right ingredients, anyway.

        • klemptor@startrek.website
          5·
          6 months ago

          The weird thing is that it’s super commonplace over here, so lots of people do enjoy it. There are a lot of different kinds of potato salad and I’m betting the mega-Karen in the OP is referring to the kind that is pretty much just potatoes in mayo (which, for the record, is disgusting).

          Maybe I’m lucky because I live near Pennsylvania Dutch country, but there’s an abundance of good potato salad here.

        • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          Apparently it’s a very niche thing over there

          not at all, it’s a summertime staple in many places. Unfortunately it’s also fucking gross, right up there with coleslaw - you took something good, like a tater or some lettuce AND FUCKED IT ALL UP and left it wet and nasty.

          • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
            1·
            6 months ago

            you took something good, like a tater or some lettuce AND FUCKED IT ALL UP and left it wet and nasty.

            I most certainly did NOT! Danish potato salad is fucking delicious! Nothing like the miracle whip and corn syrup monstrosity that’s being referred to here!

              • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
                2·
                6 months ago

                Yeah I know, was just funnier to pretend that I didn’t 😉

                All kidding aside, though, you have to try Scandinavian/German style potato salad! That shit is SO good!

        • weeeeum@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          6 months ago

          I think it’s because of Americanized potato salad. The kind with miracle whip and tons of corn syrup. I’ve had mayo based salads like this and it makes me want to puke (as an American lol)

          I think this plays with the stereotype that weird eccentric middle aged people like weird/gross food. Sort of like jello salad coincidentally (search it up, it is foul).

          • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            corn syrup

            lived most of my life in the midwest and southern US, never ever seen anyone put corn syrup in potato salad. doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, but what the fuck yo

          • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
            1·
            6 months ago

            miracle whip and tons of corn syrup

            🤮 That’s not potato salad! I demand a reinheitsgebot like with German beer!

            I think this plays with the stereotype that weird eccentric middle aged people like weird/gross food. Sort of like jello salad coincidentally (search it up, it is foul).

            That’s fair

    • Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world
      10·
      6 months ago

      I’ll take it one step further and say potato salad CAN be downright delicious when made well… I have also had potato salad so bad that it caused me to have an existential crisis about how I ended up where I was, eating what I was, and I had to pause to reconsider my life’s choices.

  • numberfour002@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    6 months ago

    I was going to type something mean about her but I’m afraid she could sense I was rude on the internet and telepathically cause my skull to explode like a hard boiled egg in a microwave.

    • Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world
      6·
      6 months ago

      TIL hard boiled eggs can explode in a microwave and that the explosion can be as loud as 133 decibels. For reference sake, a gunshot is about 155 decibels depending on caliber, so that’s one loud ass egg.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
        7·
        6 months ago

        That’s actually not a very good comparison since, decibels being a base 10 exponential scale, the loudness of 133 and 155 decibels are not at all comparative.

        A much better comparison is a 1984 Motörhead concert:

        Lemmy and co.’s set was allegedly measured at 130 decibels, before it was cut short as plaster from the ceiling started to rain down on the audience below.

        And that’s still MUCH less loud than a microwave eggsplosion!

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
    201·
    6 months ago

    *Americans who eat potato salad.

    In Scandinavia and Germany, it’s popular amongst all sorts of people, not just megakarens…

  • Asclepiaz@lemmy.world
    16·
    6 months ago

    You know, being 1/2 Korean and 1/2 typical white American I can say y’all shouldn’t be sleeping on potato salad. You can use other and additional ingredients than mayo. My Korean family fucking loves my white family’s potato salad.

      • bluewing@lemm.ee
        10·
        6 months ago

        As a Midwesterner, potato salad is made with a mixture of real mayonnaise and yellow mustard. Finely diced onion and celery with a dash of old and flavorless paprika for color to round it all out. Salt and pepper to taste. You wouldn’t want it to be too spicy you know.

        Some heretics will add diced dill pickle on occaision - my one Grandmother would sometimes do this after drinking too much. This is generally considered a social faux pas, though us Mid-westerners are too polite and kind to actually say something about it. But we will look askance at you. And your children will never play with our kids ever again.

  • brown567@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    6 months ago

    I’ll have you know I was taught how to make potato salad by a Tongan dude who looks nothing like this

    But yeah, I resemble the image XD

  • Starkstruck@lemmy.world
    9·
    6 months ago

    I personally love potato salad but I think the biggest thing that hurts its reputation is when it’s bad IT’S BAD!