{"id":5076,"date":"2023-01-23T15:18:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T21:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/?p=5076"},"modified":"2023-01-23T15:18:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T21:18:06","slug":"salad-or-dessert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/salad-or-dessert\/","title":{"rendered":"Salad or Dessert?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I ran across a salad that begs\nthe question \u2013 salad or dessert? I was researching regionally favored dishes\nwhen I noticed a mention of Snickers Salad. SNICKERS\u00ae like the candy bar, I wondered. So, I looked it up.\nAnd yes, it is Snickers like the candy bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Snickers salad is popular in the US\nUpper Midwest. It\u2019s made by combining chopped up Snickers bars with chopped\nGranny Smith apples, whipped cream, and pudding. Some people drizzle it a\nlittle caramel sauce. And while it fits one dictionary definition of salad – any\nmixture or assortment – this is definitely dessert. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Snickers salad reminds me of a\nsalad my family served made by combining Cool Whip, cottage cheese, uncooked strawberry\nJell-O\u00ae, and canned\npineapple. You can include mini marshmallows and I think someone dared to add\ncoconut once. I didn\u2019t understand why we called that salad either, but I\nconsumed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both of these dessert salads get\n5 stars when you search online recipes. And it looks like some families have\nfancy names and use fresh fruit in their Cool Whip\/Jello salad. We were never\nthat sophisticated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I\u2019m learning there\u2019s a\nsimilar salad in the Midwest called Watergate salad. This version is made with\npistachio pudding, canned pineapple, Cool Whip, marshmallows, and crushed\npecans. Pistachio and crushed pecans are a bit highbrow for my family so no\nsurprise I haven\u2019t heard of this one. Apparently, the recipe was published by\nGeneral Foods, I\u2019m guessing around 1972. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess the molded Jello salads of\n1960s popularity set the stage for more decadent salads to follow. And thank\ngoodness, because I\u2019ve never met a Jello salad I liked. You may be able to coat\nfruit cocktail in bright red Jell-O and make it more pleasing to the eye, but\nyou can\u2019t make the texture or flavor appeal to me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A discussion of dessert salads\nhas to include ambrosia. This occasionally made the table at family gatherings.\nPopular here in the South, it contains mandarin oranges, pineapple, marshmallows,\ncoconut, and chopped pecans. My grandmother liked to add apples. Seems like\nthere may have been maraschino cherries in it as well although I don\u2019t think\nthey were always included. All of this was tossed with a combination of sour\ncream and Cool Whip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the best things about\ndessert salads is how quick and easy they are to make. Sometimes there\u2019s a\nlittle chopping, but mostly there\u2019s dumping, mixing, and serving. And as\ndesserts go, at least some of them contain nuts, fresh fruit, and cottage\ncheese or sour cream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been known to eat in a nontraditional\norder. That means I can eat one of these salads at any point in a meal and feel\njust fine about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are enough of these\nmixtures, we should probably create a food category specifically called Dessert\nSalads. But until we do, you just have to go by the ingredients to know whether\nthe course they belong in is salad or dessert. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disclosure of Material\nConnection: I have not received any compensation for writing this post. I have\nno material connection to the brands, products, or services that I have\nmentioned. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade\nCommission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements\nand Testimonials in Advertising.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I ran across a salad that begs the question \u2013 salad or dessert? I was researching regionally favored dishes when I noticed a mention of Snickers Salad. SNICKERS\u00ae like the candy bar, I wondered. So, I looked it up. And yes, it is Snickers like the candy bar. Snickers salad is popular in the US … Continue reading “Salad or Dessert?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,12],"tags":[3366,3368,3367,472,3369],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5076"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5081,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076\/revisions\/5081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}