Re: Popcorn WHAT???? Salad??

SharkE · ‎08-19-2010

@AFWIFE wrote:
@Ladybug724 wrote:
@kitcat51 wrote:
I live in the Midwest never heard of it so goggled. The article stated popcorn salad has a long history in the Midwest...an example from the 1920s, a banana sliced in half with popcorn & gobs of mayo on top & the article included other recipes through the years. Does any other region want to claim popcorn salad as their own? We'd be more than happy to give it away, lol.
YIKES!!! LOL!
I am from the midwest and my grandmother used to slice a banana in half, add mayo and then top with crushed peanuts. I haven't had that in many many years but I don't remember it tasting horrible...but I could have a bad memory. LOL

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My mother in law did something similar she'd roll bananas in some kind of yucky salad dressing and then dredge thru crushed peanuts and called it 'dressed bananas". I was 17-18 at the time and didn't know what it was I asked "is that fried chicken"?

got laughed at by his family, but, I took a pass on it. She had some wild ideas. Crazy old bat. LOL

walker · ‎03-26-2010

@proudlyfromNJ ....thanks, you are right. I did what I should have done yesterday...checked Molly Yeh on Google. I apparently got the east connection because she attended Juilliard School of Music in NYC...where she met her husband. Then they moved back to area he is from..ND/MN border. I also live in suburbs of Chicago ...not far from where she grew up in Glenview.

Sorry to get off track here everyone......back to.....Popcorn Salad...think I will pass....interesting combination. Of all the foods known to be from Midwest....this is a new one. I need to ask some people I know who have lived in the Chicago area all their lives....not me, I'm from Michigan....never heard of it there either. Just give me a good bowl of popcorn with butter..yum! 😁

Have a nice day....with or without popcorn!

Ladybug724 · ‎03-12-2010

@colliemom4 wrote:
I saw a pic of this salad on a news show. They said many people were mad because it was made and no longer wanted to watch the show it was aired on lol.

This reminds me of people's reactions to Sandra Lee's infamous Kwanzaa cake. It almost ruined her credibility as a Food Network personality.

I wouldn't stop watching a show I liked just because I disagreed with a recipe!

Citrine1 · ‎03-09-2010

@Ladybug724 wrote:
@colliemom4 wrote:
I saw a pic of this salad on a news show. They said many people were mad because it was made and no longer wanted to watch the show it was aired on lol.
This reminds me of people's reactions to Sandra Lee's infamous Kwanzaa cake. It almost ruined her credibility as a Food Network personality.
I wouldn't stop watching a show I liked just because I disagreed with a recipe!

I never heard of Sandra Lee's Kwanzaa cake, so I looked it up. Ewwwww.... makes the popcorn salad look good.

AuntG · ‎03-09-2010

From Wisconsin. It's a common offering in grocery story deli's.

HerRoyaLioness · ‎03-13-2010

Lived in different parts of Wisconsin my whole 72 years of life and never had it or heard of it. Doesn't sound or look good, but you never know until you taste it!

coffee drinker · ‎03-21-2010

Just last week on "The Five", Jesse Watters, one of the co-hosts, eat it while on-air, and said it was very good.

lynne6was7 · ‎03-15-2010

I've lived in Wisconsin for 60 years and have never heard of popcorn salad at home, picnics, church suppers or grocery store delis. Must be very regional.

A favorite sandwich spread in my family is bologna, hard boiled eggs, and bread & butter pickles - put through an old-fashioned meat grinder. Then mixed with mayo.

Toppers3 · ‎10-25-2016

@deepwaterdotter wrote:
This is new recipe to this Wisconsin cook. Doesn't even sound good to me.

I'm in the Southeastern end of our state, and I've seen it here in WI in some of our supermarket Deli departments.

I never knew what ingredients were in it, but I tended to think that it was some kind of a sweet salad like a "fluff" or a strawberry pretzel salad or something like that--kind of like a dessert salad.

I wouldn't think of there being any mayo. in it.

If it was something that had whipped topping and caramel in it, for example--then I'd like to try it!