'salads' your nan used to make...

[trashcanjunkie]

Mine used to do this for my grandad once a week - it would consist of a boiled egg, halved, a massive spring onion or two, some pickled beetroot maybe.... (not entirely sure....) and two slices of corn beef with salad cream on the side.....

DH says his lot also used to have 'salads' like these - he reckons it's 1970's northern thing....

I wish I could remember all of the elements... Did anyone else's family eat these? I bet there are variations on the theme

Salad with MASHED POTATO???🤢

Yes my parents 'salads' were like this. If I remember rightly it tended to be things like halved boiled egg, slices of ham rolled up, corned beef, lettuce with salad cream, pickled onions, sandwich pickle, french stick, sometimes a park pie, slices of cheese.

Did anyone use Schwartz Salad Seasoning? I remember it had sesame seeds in. It expertly finished any salad. I've tried to find a picture of it on the tinternet but it's like it's a figment of my imagination. Amazing stuff.

I’m also in the bemused camp at why people are reminiscing about perfectly normal salads, if these are considered culinary relics, what do you consider a modern salad to be?

Yes had salads like this

Sometimes with ham

On the summer a few radishes were added (who eats these things) and horrible flavourless tomato

I’ve never tasted Salad Cream...

@2020changedtheworld

Phew. Glad it’s not just me who’s been left out of the memo that the only salads that people eat these days should be quinoia with soft-poached egg, smashed avocado, spirulina and wasabi!

Erm, we still eat these? It's just a salad?

@Lemonylemony

Ignore it. People have jumped on this as a way of signalling how frightfully woke they now are, because they wouldn’t possibly eat anything as common as salad cream which is apparently for pensioners and plebs —like me—

Yup, sounds about right.

When I first got married 35 years ago my mother in law would do exactly as you described OP but had chips on the side.
My then husband believed this was a true salad.....not a salad leaf in sight!

@Lemonylemony

I’m also in the bemused camp at why people are reminiscing about perfectly normal salads, if these are considered culinary relics, what do you consider a modern salad to be?

I'm wondering too!

My grandma and grandad still have this now. Pink meat (home cooked ham) with lettuce, cucumber, tom's, tray of home pickled beetroot, picked onions or possibly spring onions. Maybe some crisps or cheese.

Also at primary school we had what they called a sunshine salad. It was lettuce, cheddar cheese, grated carrot, wedge of orange, peanuts half a boiled egg. Was lovely!

@DoctorYang

Exactly. You, me, @Lemonylemony et al. We’re normal people who eat normal food. Of course, we can’t be as frightfully pleased with ourselves as the terribly modern Mumsnetters on here who wouldn’t be seen dead eating a sliced tomato. FFS

We used to have cold baked beans with salad - especially lovely when the bean juice mingled with the coleslaw on the plate

Cold mashed potato is vom though 🤮

And cheese savoury is defo a standard sandwich filling up here. It's one of my faves! I'm in Yorkshire.

Another one here wanting to know what people have in their salads now, if lettuce, tomatoes and cucumber are seen as retro. I don’t like avocado so not sure what I’m expected to eat in salads now

Park was chopped ham and pork squashed into a can shape loaf. It was caked in arsepick. (intentional spelling error)

You never really appreciated it until your dad got a bulk load of the cheapest, nastiest canned luncheon meat known to man from the cash and carry. I don’t think it had a name. It was fatty pink paste solidified. Even the dog refused it. We had it fried, casseroled, frittered, in curry and with pasta as well as cold in salads. For what seemed like years.

He bought 12x12 cans.

Not park, pek

My MIL makes a salad tea like this, but to be posh she adds an instant rice packet, the yellow one with bits of veg in. I quite like these but unfortunately she just does one pack for 14 people, so we generally get a teaspoon each. Also 2 packets of crisps, in 2 separate bowls.

And I have nan salad about five times a week. Love it. Canned tuna or cold chicken as well as the other listed ingredients. And rollmops - yum!

Pek is chopped pork with jelly on the top you'd have to scrape off.

Sunday evening was always salad at my (south east) Nan's. Cold leftovers from lunch, boiled potatoes and if we were lucky (or short on meat) boiled eggs. Round lettuce, cucumber/sliced onion/cooked beetroot in vinegar. Plus sliced tomatoes.
I still eat it, but with variations - my Nan wouldn't have had peppers for example. Celery was a most exotic additional, usually eaten as a whole stick (with salt).

I remember my gran having things like beetroot and celery very often. I recall more that salad vegetables would be served with cold meat or bread and cheese, often with pickles.

The horror I remember is school salad:
A lettuce leaf, with a slice of egg, slice of tomato and slice of cucumber. It cam with grated mousetrap, pork pie or cold sausage and was accompanied with the usual round scoop of lumpy mash often with a black bit. Utterly vile and heart sinking.

And it was in a little round tin