Recipe of the Week – The Potato Salad Wars
May 27, 2008 at 8:05 am 1 comment
(from www.emealsforyou.com/Salad/Betty’s
German Potato Salad)
(from www.emealsforyou.com/Salad/Jake’s Potato Salad)
Celebrating Memorial Day this weekend brought back fond memories of growing up in New Jersey and experiencing the “Potato Salad Wars”. I guess it all started when one of my kids called and asked us to bring potato salad for a picnic.
My father always made what we called “American Potato Salad”, mayo based, while my mother always made “German Potato Salad”, bacon based. My father’s large, I mean really large, family all made the American style so they always looked forward to my mom’s German style. So you had all these Slovaks fawning over my mom’s salad, not unnoticed by my dad; while all the “other” people bellied up, as it were, to the American. The good news for us kids was that this competition went on for all the time we were at home, this means we got the best of both worlds.
So guess which one I took to the picnic; you have it, I took them both.
Entry filed under: Misc. Tags: American potato salad, German potato salad, picnic food, potato salad.
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Teresa Branda | September 18, 2008 at 11:07 am
We always had the American style and I was shocked to find out that there actually was a “different” kind of potato salad. I love them both, as long as they are homemade. There’s nothing worse than biting into a bland concoction from the deli!!