Posted on 12/01/2024 2:18:57 PM PST by DallasBiff
Creamy Pineapple Fluff Salad
Guests of all ages will gravitate to this traditional “fluff” salad, chock-full of pineapple, marshmallows and cherry bits
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Have you ever had Watergate Salad?
I remember my mom and aunt’s making that ... I really liked it.
I remember quite a few of these from the 70s. Some of the dishes still hold up just fine. Others are a little ... cringey.
I must make Watergate salad about 10 times a year. It’s a fave at fellowship suppers at church.
Now that was a very FUN review of recipes!!!!
For many years my lovely spouse has always made fluff salads. This past Thanksgiving she made cherry fluff salad, and it was delicious, although I’m not sure why it’s referred to as a “salad”.
I have never heard of Watergate Salad.
Some look very good! Is forgotten about rum balls cookies.
I won’t be making anything this year. Will turn that over to the chef on our cruise. 🛳️
Delicious. But I have no idea why it has the word “salad” in it. More like a dessert.
If nothing else, one can appreciate the efficiency of a dish served in “log” configuration.
I make Watergate salad quite abit. I have the ingredients ready to go in my cupboards and freezer. One of my favorites, minus the maraschino cherries.
Also affectionately called: “green fluff.”
Brings to mind the Real Men of Genius “Mr. Giant Taco Salad Inventor” episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWMBAmo_1cQ
For many centuries, Advent, from four (typically) Sundays before Christmas, through Christmas Eve, was a time of fasting, and meat, milk, and eggs, could not be eaten. Fish could be eaten.
So Christmas dishes typically contain copious amounts of milk, sometimes preserved as cheese, or butter, and eggs, which had been stockpiled for a month, and meat, but not fish, because people were tired of eating fish all through Advent.
We stick to the tried and true. Prime rib, yorkshire pudding, “crispy” potatoes, glazed carrots, green beans and scallions, au jus, ambrosia and buche de noel.
Neither have I, so I looked it up. It seems to be like ambrosia salad but with pistachio pudding as the base.
OH yeah and horseradish cream.
Did Kommie-la provide a recipe for her ‘word salad’? (Snort)
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