to put egg in potato salad.

[MrsMotherHen]

I am making a potato salad for a bbq tomorrow. Using jazzy new potatos, Mayonnaise, little bit of Dijon mustard, spring onions, dill and chives ontop (more for garnish really)

AIBU to bash up a few boiled eggs and throw them in aswell i think it would be yum!

Yuk I hate boiled eggs. If you have to have those stinky things don't give me any.

Yum yum yes please!

And gherkins. You need Mrs Elswood's Haimische Cucumbers or the sweet and sour ones chopped up in it too. Not cornichons, they are too sour.

Otherwise it'd be like coleslaw without the carrots
Hassled in what way?
Coleslaw - white cabbage, onion, carrot, maybe done red cabbage, mayo
Potato salad - potato, onion, mayo.
At what point does not having egg make one of those seem like the other?

Why not do a separate dish of egg mayo?

My mum always did potato salad with onion, boiled egg, peas, and salad cream not mayo. I love it like that but I'm guessing it may be controversial....!

I loved my SA friend for sharing her potato salad recipe which included eggs & condensed milk.

Not only sounds filthy, it so, so, deliciously is.

cardibach - because it's potato, onion, mayo, egg. That's how. Take away the egg and you might as well take away the carrot (I can't believe I'm typing this).

No.

Potatoes- white and mushy
Eggs white and mushy
Mayonnaise - white and mushy

Whole thing is white mushy sloppy ploppy mess.

If you really must have a potato salad then far better with a vinaigrette and herb dressing.

Boiled eggs chopped up on top for decoration is what me, my mum, and my nan do! Yummy !!

Mmm, love boiled egg in potato salad.

According to my family -the real traditional English potato salad was with salad cream only - added to hot potatoes with chopped spring onions.

The one with eggs, gherkins and spring onion is the Jewish/American version?

The German version tends to have meat added (bacon or ham usually), no eggs and with chives. There's less potato as well.

Naw, grimy. How to spoil a good potato salad.

Blurgh. Its so disappointing scooping a big dollop of potato salad on your plate and digging in and being met with egg texture and taste. Grim

I wish I'd never read this. Now I have to cross potato salad off my list of foods that people can't go wrong with.

Eggs! Grim. I hate boiled eggs.

Get your sausage and hot dogs out of the potato salad. Ewwww

Always do this.

salad cream is vile, never use it!

If you add eggs to potato salad when there is absolutely no reason to do so, you run the risk of a certain number of your guests not eating it because they hate boiled eggs. Why would you do that?

You can't have potato salad without eggs!
Cubed baby boiled potatoes with the skin on
Mayo
Spring onions
Cooled boiled eggs
Salt and pepper
Fucking heaven!

Nooooooo please don't.

Unexpectedly coming across a bit of slimy egg in a delicious potato salad would set me back decades in terms of boiled egg phobia therapy.

It's just not worth the heartache

I'm scared you're going to lose friends over this, OP! Just don't do it, please :(

See those of you who are saying it's vile... please try it. The recipe I just posted is to die for. My sister and I have been known to eat a whole container load of the stuff. It's awesome.

Resurgram

The egg won't be slimy, it needs to be hard boiled

tickety a boiled egg by any other name would still be a boiled egg. A cold one at that.

Bleuggghhhhhhhh