Last night, the BF and I were spending some quality time watching YouTube videos. As is often the case, we wandered a little too far and ended up on the weird side of YouTube. Before we knew it, we were watching a woman with a West Virginia accent making some kind of “fluff salad.”
Now, this wasn’t strange to me, having grown up with variations of this dish—but the BF was absolutely flabbergasted. First, at the ingredients going into it. But maybe most of all, at the use of the word “salad” to describe it. So I was like, “Wait...have you never had pistachio salad?” To which he replied, “What the FUCK is pistachio salad?” I clicked on the first YouTube video I could find:
Apparently, it dates back to the 1970s and is also called Watergate salad (among other names), but it was always pistachio salad to my family. Here’s the Kraft recipe for it.
I tried to explain to the BF that this was my family’s “salad” whenever we had a special meal—our way of getting a little green on our plate. We’d load up a plate full of meat, potatoes, and gravy, and right next to everything we’d have our salad. (I was kind of exaggerating a bit just to get a reaction, but honestly, that’s not far from the truth. My brother and I laughed years later about the fact that our family considered pistachio salad to be a healthy side.) He informed me that he will never eat that monstrosity, and I told him it would be quite rude not to eat the salad at family dinner. And if you don’t eat your salad, I informed him, you don’t get the dump cake for dessert:
He completely checked out after that video. He’s still muttering about “white people food.”
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