To Dread Summer Pasta Salads?

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IMO pasta 'salad' is revolting.

Pasta was surely not made to be eaten cold? It is stodgy, claggy, and invariably mixed up with mayo and sweetcorn to make it even more claggy and gunky and horrid.

I keep seeing it recommended for buffets and BBQs. Alongside Coleslaw and Potato salad, both of which are also creamy beige, mayo drenched and one very carby. Fine if you like these salads (I do like good coleslaw and good potato salad) but not all three together, surely? We need contrast and variety!

Does summer have to come with a side of pasta salad?

I’ve just made one 😂 I’ve never had it with mayo though. I make my own oil based dressing and add tomato, cucumber, olives and pepper with some basil and then toasted pine nuts just before serving. I do potato salad with a mustard mayo, but I’d we have coleslaw it’s with yoghurt dressing. I like the summer salads, but not if they all have the same base.

You are being unreasonable - they don’t have to be like that.

I don’t like mayonnaise so I would make a pasta salad with olives, tomatoes, garlic, basil and extra virgin olive oil. Potato salad with a vinaigrette dressing and coleslaw something like this

https://yumveganlunchideas.com/beetroot-coleslaw/

why dread it? You don't have to eat it surely?

or is your issue that when you go to other people's BBQs there isn't anything else you like?

Pasta pesto mozzarella and tomatoes is just delicious cold. Maybe you are doing it wrong 😂
i also like to cook orzo pasta which goes well cold with olives, chickpeas, feta cheese…

try couscous salad perhaps

I live in Germany and my kids are in school and various hobbies. I'll have to stare down at least about 30 tupperware bowls full of suppurating nudelsalat in the next three months. Send me your thoughts and prayers

I've never made pasta salad with mayonnaise or sweetcorn. The fact that you think pasta salad invariably has mayonnaise and sweetcorn suggests that you haven't been eating good pasta salads, of which there are thousands.

YABU to be so narrow minded about food 😂 and YABU to keep eating food made by someone who can't make a nice pasta salad (mayo and sweetcorn? Wtf??)

Just stop it and have higher standards.....

Well you are and you aren’t.
homemsde pasta salad with overcooked penne sweetcorn and Mayo is absolutely disgusting.
Pasta salad with farfalle, olive oil and pesto is the best 👌
I do know what you mean though- I never eat them at peoples houses I make my own or go to M&S

Yabu. Tuna, pasta, mayo, sweetcorn and pasta is my ultimate comfort food.

I don’t like them either. Nor rice salads.

A nice potato salad, OTOH…. Especially mine, with some lemon juice and plenty of chopped chives, or the green of spring onions thrown in…

Yanbu it's the season of communal germs.

YANBU. I cannot stand food like this!! Worst nightmare.

I’m not keen on pasta salad but I make because the family do, when making pasta or potato salad I do 50/50 with mayonnaise and yogurt it makes it much lighter. I do like a rice salad though or coleslaw again 50/50 mix

Cold claggy pasta is my staple summer diet and I love it

I'll eat any old shit, but I make an exception for a pasta salad.

I like it as long as it’s with a nice homemade dressing and lots of nice veg and salad leaves.

Pasta with mayo and sweetcorn is not a salad!

I’m not doing it wrong: I’m not doing it at all 😂

But if I come to your house I could eat the lovely tomatoes and mozzarella and pick out the pasta, pretending to be low carbing?

Spread the word @ActDottie , at speed!

I don’t put mayonnaise on my pasta salad or my potato salad. Use a little in my coleslaw dressing. Stop eating bad food?

Pasta is disgusting however it is served. My family ate a macaroni cheese pizza today. I had a slice to see what it was like - disgusting.

Pasta and mayo’ is unforgivable, but pasta salad with a good quality dressing, some beans or chickpeas, peppers, olives and so on - perfectly fine.

Agreed. Cold pasta is the worst

I am sorry. I will do better.

Very allergic to tomato and mayonnaise/salad cream is minging so salads are a no go area really!

I don’t like it either but I love potato salad.