i just got ‘reprimanded’ for using pork belly instead of pork cheeks like what the fuck
My grandma recently tried telling me that olives and mustard simply do not belong in potato salad and that it’s not “traditional”. She did not appreciate the 50,000 recipes I found detailing “classic” potato salad with olives and mustard.
I’m sorry, she said not to put mustard in a dish that was invented by Germans?
Never heard of olives tbh but mustard? The stuff that’s in like 90% of potato salad recipes?
The regional differences in potato salad are a very divisive topic in Germany.
For the record, potato salad should be made with broth, vinegar, oil, onions and maybe cucumber. It also needs to be slightly warm. Definitely no mayo.
Well grandma is right. Olives?!?
Plus, don’t you want to make your grandma’s potato salad? I make my grandma’s potato salad. It’s awesome. Could I go to foodnetwork.com and fool around until I make a “better” one? Probably.
But that’s not the damn point, is it? The point is that I make my grandma’s potato salad. It’s just the way she made it and I make it that way too. When I serve it to guests, I tell them it’s grandma’s potato salad and that always gets a lot of smiles. I’m keeping her alive and serving delicious food at the same time.
She’s possibly the most critical person I’ve ever known and gets upset when anything is done differently than she would do it to the point it gives me anxiety.
Oh…I kind of assumed that you felt about your grandma the same way I feel about my grandma. I guess that was unwarranted.
