• zepheriths@lemmy.world
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    To be fair as someone from Louisiana… All of you should be banned from making food

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            so, our business model failed when the german guy died and stopped sneezing into the bread. he had some unique gross weird boogers.

            Now, I have stolen this Federation starship to seek out new yeast!

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          Oh that’s just one example. Pass denied.

          edit: feel free to point out weird food from here, I probably will agree.

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            11 months ago

            You want the really weird I can give you that to, down here we eat nutria. Basically water rats. I have no problem insulting our cuisine, but as a green ball once said " if you are going to insult me do it properly"

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                Because tourists from the Midwest can’t pronounce etouffee

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                  Tourists cannot pronounce most of the street names here and we’re fine with it. Make tourists learn new vocabulary, or at least believe they’re visiting a different country or something. If you call it cheesecake, expect them to think of it as cheesecake.

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      11 months ago

      I’m from Louisiana/Texas with family in the Midwest. When we’d visit for the holidays, it was some disgusting shit. Green, opaque jello molds with random foods suspended in it, pickles and cream cheese on toothpicks, and random “salads” like the ones above. My mom (from the south) made macaroni and cheese casserole one year up there and everyone was floored

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        11 months ago

        Were the pickles with cream cheese wrapped in ham or some other deli meat? Because those are delicious.

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          11 months ago

          I’m not going to lie, yes they are, but they’re not Thanksgiving food, dammit!

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            11 months ago

            😀

            Those are delicious anytime snacks, I’ll have you know. (Seriously, I make them once a month or so. Great low cal snack)

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      I love Cajun food, but all of the dishes pretty much taste the same with different textures. Let’s not pretend like Louisiana is the mecca of cooking here.

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        11 months ago

        I don’t mean to but compared to the image above, food in Louisiana looks like a Gordon Ramsey dish

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          Was “All of you” not directed at “all of us”, then, and instead directed only at the people making the abomination casseroles instead?

          You should be more specific in your language next time.

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    Ahhh, Mom’s pineapple cheese salad. Reminds me of when she used to handcuff us to the chairs and tell us to go ahead and scream while spooning it down our gullets. I miss her every day since the hay baler accident. Dinner just isn’t the same.

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    I’m from small-town Iowa originally. My grandma made many of these “Midwest Salads”.

    I went back for a funeral a few years ago. The was a reception/lunch at our old church. I got a serving of something that looked like jello with cream cheese on top, seemed interesting. But no, it was jello with mandarin oranges in it, and it wasn’t cream cheese, but about a quarter-inch of Miracle Whip on top, sprinkled with grated carrots. I took a bite, smiled, turned to my wife, and said, “I’m home again!”

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        Unfortunately miracle whip is more like a tangy mayonnaise and it has no business in a dessert

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          Lol I misread it as cool whip, because who the hell would put miracle whip on that!

          Cool whip still sucks compared to whipped cream, but it would still make a decent dessert. Miracle whip though, yuck

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          11 months ago

          You forgot that miracle whip is Satans anal palp. This message brought to you by several generations of matriachal induced trauma.

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    Ha ha. I had a gf from oklahoma whose mom made an old family recipe, “Pea Salad”. Of course I’d never heard of pea salad. It is cubes of cheddar cheese, chopped iceberg lettuce, canned peas, and Miracle Whip.

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      11 months ago

      I’m from Germany and I know a “rice salad” that is basically the same recipe, but instead of cheddar and lettuce, you put in rice (obviously cooked) and tuna. And a little bit of vinegar before mixing it, covering the bowl, and throwing it into the fridge until cool.

      That said, most people I know, including myself, think it slaps.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah, according to french or german criteria, that is a salad. And I’m sure we could find some store-bought salad dressing which remind this “miracle whip”.

        I’m not into store-bought dressing, but this salad sound good enough for me.

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          Miracle Whip is pretty similar to mayonnaise, though it has some slight differences. Don’t just throw any regular old salad dressing in there, because if they are similar to what I know as salad dressing, then it’s certainly going to end up back here in this community.

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            11 months ago

            I haven’t realized there is marshmallow in it just by looking at the picture. I am not putting vinegar on marshmallow, don’t worry.
            I go back on my word, that is not a salad and I don’t wanna eat it at all.

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    Seeing these “salads” fills me with the urge to quarantine the area, but also gives me that helpless, defeated feeling that the disease has already spread too far to contain.

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      11 months ago

      Might I interest you in a pizza salad? It’s bread or pasta, cheese and tomato sauce for a vegetable (feel free to substitute it with ketchup). There is no escape!

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    My joke about being from Iowa is that you could have a salad potluck without ever seeing a piece of lettuce! My family’s wildest is Snicker Salad, Tapioca Salad (marshmallows and mandarin oranges), and Cranberry Salad.

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    Midwesterner here. Admittedly, some of these can be… interesting (to be interpreted as passive aggressively as possible). Some can be excellent though. We have a pistachio salad in the family that is a go to, and if I don’t control myself I could eat a whole batch.

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      please elaborate on pistachio salad. why would you not just eat pistachios?

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        Ingredients include: whipped cream/Cool Whip, pistachio pudding, mini marshmallows, diced pineapple, and of course chopped pistachios. It’s obviously more of a dessert/sweet side dish type of thing. Pistachios alone, though delicious, wouldn’t fill the same role.

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          oh no! you’re possessed with the cool-whip-marshmallow-and-pineapple contagion! mister tuvok, let us casually discuss this imminent threat!

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            Yes, Captain. The contagion seems to be spreading rapidly. Almost as if people are finding the combination appetizing, and are perpetuating the phenomenon by way of potlucks and recipe sharing.

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          My husband made it for me once. Although he called it “green salad”. Unfortunately I couldn’t stomache more than one bite because it was insanely sweet.

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    Pineapple cheese salad

    Never heard of this, wonder how it is baked on a pizza crust.

    (Yes, everyone’s cries are delicious.)

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      From what I can tell, the primary ingredients are:

      • Pineapple
      • Cheddar cheese
      • Crumbled bacon
      • Mini marshmallows

      The first three sound great on a pizza, but the marshmallows ruin it for me.

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        oh those are marshmallows. I thought they were some kind of white cheese cubes.

        I’d try it at least once for science.

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          At my boyfriend’s request I made sweet potato casserole for the first time ever. The recipe was… something.

          Basically mashed sweet potatoes with eggs and vanilla beaten in. Then a brown sugar, pecan, butter crumble topping, and then once done baking it gets mini marshmallows broiled on top.

          I don’t eat shit that sweet for dessert! Lol (although it’s disturbing how tasty it was )

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            Wait this is supposed to be the meal and not the dessert??
            I was thinking it sounded delicious but main course, holy shit

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          Wait ? That’s sweet ? I’m disappointed. I was dreaming about some cheesy Midwest potatoes salad. Is custard use a sauce ? That’s original.

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    I postulate an evolutionary “Crabification” of culinary science:

    Everything, at the terminus of its evolutionary branch, becomes casserole.

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    You people are all speaking about food but I don’t see any recipe here. I need to taste some of these Midwest or Louisiana cuisine before I have an opinion.

    I genuinely want to taste this salad. Also, if it has potatoes in it, it is a salad in my country.

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      I’m from the midwest. This ‘salad’ looks to be chunks of cheddar, pineapple, bacon, and marshmallow. If they were feeling particularly spicy, they added some mayonnaise. You honestly have no need to try this.

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        I definitly don’t need to eat that. I’m going to make my own “sweet midwest salad” with cheddar, pineapple, potatoes and mayo. Still it has the merit to have inspired me.