Vinegar based is best. Use white wine vinegar. And celery seed.

I grew up with it in the South. All of our “good” slaw is just mostly mayo and sugar. It’s pretty gross. I hated it as a kid. I still don’t eat it much but when I do it has to be better than the shit at your church supper. I think the key to good slaw is backing off the mayo and relying on carrots for sweetness and using a fancier vinegar than white. The grandma stuff is just the cheapest shit available and is too heavy.

I used to work for a restaurant where the owner used their highly coveted family recipe cole slaw. It was just green cabbage, no other veggies. Almost 1:1 mayo. Sugar but also artificial sweetener. Topped of with sweet bread and butter pickle juice. A little salt and pepper. That’s it. Of course I had to taste it every time I made it to make sure I got it right to her tastes. Just awful old people, fucking 1970s cheap southern buffet shit.

I love cole slaw, but a lot of places think that mixing mayonnaise and cabbage is cole slaw, so i rarely get any that I didn’t make myself

Cole slaw is bad

Cold slaw is reactionary comrade