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?

have you ver tried lidl potato salad amazing

The thing is, how can you tell what is a piss take and what is a real ‘recipe’?

Casseroles are the same. Basically, any old ingredients with a can of condensed soup poured over. I just looked at something called ‘Tater Tots Casserole’. Mince, tin of mushroom soup poured over, tinned green beans added, top with some horrendous orange frozen croquette type things called Tater Tots, and bake.

You need to try pasta with cheese and salad cream that's amazing

homecookingmemories.com/lime-green-jello-salad-recipe-cottage-cheese-pineapple/

I googled jello salad and saw this, so now you have to.

You are doing it wrong.

YANBU cold pasta is absolutely hangin

YABU pasta with tuna mayo and sweetcorn is the food of the Gods. I eat it all year round

No @Ionlydrinkondaysendinginy salad cream is for boiled eggs (and chips at a push). Then I am transported back to my granny's house. That and gammon with pineapple, banana mashed on water biscuits, and crumpets with so much melted butter you could have used a straw.

Happy days.

Casseroles are the same. Basically, any old ingredients with a can of condensed soup poured over. I just looked at something called ‘Tater Tots Casserole’. Mince, tin of mushroom soup poured over, tinned green beans added, top with some horrendous orange frozen croquette type things called Tater Tots, and bake.

Similar is Mexi-fries. Tater tots with taco toppings. Bloody lush I'm afraid.

OMG!

I have now discovered an American Pasta Salad that has pasta, tinned pineapple, marshmallows, ‘Tru whip’ , egg custard… It is called Frog Eye Salad

https://www.chelseasmessyapron.com/frog-eye-salad-healthier-version/#:~:text=What's%20in%20Frog%20Eye%20Salad,with%20marshmallows%20and%2For%20coconut.

grandma was a psychopath

I looked. 😱
The ingredients are lime jello (gelatin), crushed pineapple, evaporated milk, mayonnaise, cottage cheese, and walnuts.

If I was invited to an event where that was served I would be so grateful for the mayo-Ey pasta salad alternative.

I so agree! However it is made, with dressing, mayo, oil or whatever, cold pasta is just wrong!

But have you tried it 🤔 I had crumpets with a ridiculous amount of butter for breakfast this morning it was beautiful 😍

Dear God. Tell me you meant evaporated milk, not the sweet stuff?

Im probably in the minority here but I boak at the thought of cold, soggy, greasy roasted veg in a salad.

YABU. I was deathly hungover yesterday and found a pot of plain cooked pasta in the fridge that DH had left there the night before. A splash of good olive oil and a sprinkle of salt and I ate it out of the tub with a fork. Perfect.

What the hell happened to Grandma?

If you eat it with mayonnaise and sweetcorn of course it will be horrible.

Otherwise, yabu

Pasta, artichokes, sun-dried tomatoes, roasted peppers, basil, oil/vinegar dressing and maybe some sort of cheese is fantastic 😊

Just don't eat it if you makes you feel ill or not your bag.
I agree pasta is better hot.

‘Just don't eat it’. Strong.

Same hate salads! Euwwwwww! Slimey pasta yuk! Rather just have a baked potatoe with cheese !

Is cous cous pasta ? Someone said it was up thread... is this another thing I have just learnt ? Although I am happier to learn about this than ambrosia salad... 🤮

I’ve always felt that adding pineapple to cottage cheese is morally wrong. That lime green jello salad proves it.