I am obsessed with Victory Day salads (‘for men’). I think it is a combination of sincere effort and inappropriateness as a means of commemoration/celebration
Some selected pictures:
1/ Standard ‘Tank’ Salad pic.twitter.com/RCvL8okhli
— Jade McGlynn (@DrJadeMcGlynn) May 8, 2022
After seeing these commemoration-adjacent versions of zakuski, I will never be quite as embarrassed about Midwestern potluck jello mold ‘salads’…
3/ 9th May Salad with St George’s Ribbon pic.twitter.com/faYSImutTh
— Jade McGlynn (@DrJadeMcGlynn) May 8, 2022
5/ Woohoo Kremlin, Fireworks and Day of Commemorating Horrific War and Mass Death Salad pic.twitter.com/utVhIFytRc
— Jade McGlynn (@DrJadeMcGlynn) May 8, 2022
And here I had assumed that Slava Malamud might be exaggerating for comic effect, just a tiny bit, the glorious Olivier of the Mayo Empire.
Pobedobesie! Seems like it’s basically a potato salad, but (as Terry Pratchett would say) for heroes…
Economist had a story awhile back. Less graphic than this thread, but informative: https://t.co/gzaGeTxkEL
— Brant (@brant_burke) May 8, 2022
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
These look absolutely disgusting
NotMax
Open Thread? (Yay!)
Brings new meaning to the term bodies of water.
Timurid
Those look like the horror recipes from 1960’s magazines…
Ken
@Timurid: Needs more gelatin and olives.
EDIT: Unless those things on the “9 May” and “Soldier in the Trenches” salads are green olives, in which case needs less olives. But they look like peas, or maybe capers.
Omnes Omnibus
Why was there no trigger warning? Mayo and clowns. Those are my things. I can handle just about anything else. But come on….
sab
@Timurid: Yes. My favorite from my mom’s Betty Crocker cookbook: a pineapple made of liverwurst, mustard and olives.
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
As someone who appreciates aspic in all its aspects, I’d devour all of these.
NotMax
@Timurid
Surprise!
:)
Ken
I will give the Russians this, they’re sensible enough to have their big mayonnaise holiday when it’s cool. The number of times I’ve watched potato salad visibly evolving under the July 4 sun…
Raven
My brother is on “Name That Tune” tonight.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Maybe they’re made with Miracle Whip lol?
Weird story from a few weeks ago. A customer going through the self-checkouts at work asked me to do a price check for a jar of mayonnaise he was trying to ring up; it wouldn’t scan, as if it wasn’t in the system.
Well, I go back to where the mayo is and I can’t find the type of mayo (it was light Duke’s mayo I think) on the shelves at all! A minute or two later, I decide to just give it to the customer for the price of the brand in the same size jar. On my way, I glance at the jar and discover that the sell by date was in fucking 2020!
I let the guy know and said OK, he’ll just go and get the regular Duke’s instead of the light. He ended up coming back empty handed, even though there was plenty of regular Duke’s on the shelf
It wasn’t until later that day after work that I wondered if he brought in an expired jar of mayo hoping to get one for free or somethin
It’s possible it was a discontinued item that was left and buried behind other jars, but I’d have to think grocery would’ve caught that in the nearly two years since. Just really weird
Yutsano
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg:
<__<
Dat sus brah…
(Also: FYWP)
debbie
I’ll stick to whoever it was who constructed dioramas of battles with Peeps and other Easter candies.
schrodingers_cat
From the last thread.
Remembering Santoor maestro Pandit Shivkumar Sharma.
In concert with Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Gin & Tonic
@Raven: I thought that show ended like 50 years ago.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Gin & Tonic:
Probably a reboot/reviva
Here it is
delk
Had a doctors appointment this morning. An elderly woman came in and in a loud voice said, “ My name is Kaput. K-A-P-U-T”
I smiled behind my mask
’
Eunicecycle
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): my husband accidentally bought a jar of pickles that was 5 years past its expiration date! They looked fine until he opened them and then they looked disgusting. The store was apologetic and just said it must have just gotten shoved back during restocking.
germy
Cameron
Just looking at those pics, I can feel my arteries hardening.
Raven
@Gin & Tonic: Nah, this is the second season of the reboot. He went to Dublin twice. The first time it got covided and the second was a go,
Alison Rose ???
These are felonies.
germy
MagdaInBlack
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg: Where are you seeing aspic in these?
They make me think of my MIL’s pea salad and I just want to barf.
Raven
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Here he is for a second in the trailerere he is for a second in the trailer
Redshift
I actually like mayo, and things like potato salad and tuna salad. But there are limits.
Jim Appleton
@Eunicecycle:
I pickle lots.
Just found a jar of cauliflower and green tomatoes from 2007, it was just a bit off color but crisp and delicious.
Brine pickled, steri-canned in brine, vinegar, water equal parts.
Lovage added a nice cumin/celery note.
germy
Gin & Tonic
You know what goes great with one of those salads? A couple of pickled tomatoes, like that woman tossed a jar of at a russian drone back at the beginning of this war.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Raven:
I think he I know which contestant is your brother lol.
How did he do in the competition?
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Eunicecycle:
Oh wow! I can’t even imagine what that smell must’ve been like ?
I couldn’t tell if the mayo had spoiled, but I wasn’t going to open it to find out lol
It’s probable it was pushed back during rotating the stock
debbie
@Raven:
Air guitar guy?
Raven
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Non disclosure and he’s a lawyer so. . . .
@debbie: yep, he said he was almost twice as old as all the other contestants.
zhena gogolia
Olivier salad can be delicious. These look really disgusting.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Raven:
I’ll have to give it a watch
oatler
@Omnes Omnibus:
https://thetakeout.com/drew-magary-hates-mayo-bullies-1832866128
PaulB
I was scheduled for jury duty this week, which has definitely had me feeling very apprehensive. Thankfully, I just received word that all jury trials for this district court have been cancelled this week and I’m off the hook. Whew….
As for the salads, ugh…. I applaud the creativity but would not eat a bite of any of them.
ian
@Eunicecycle:
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Can’t speak for the stores you guys are talking about, but all it takes are 2 things in tandem, teenage stockers who don’t rotate, and management that doesn’t go through and double check. If these two factors are present, goddess alone knows just how old the product in the back is. If a grocery/convenience store doesn’t pay their entry level employees well, it is in my experience somewhat inevitable.
PaulB
@oatler: Omigod… I love that rant. And agree with most of it.
I still remember a Chinese restaurant where I made the mistake of ordering some kind of walnut shrimp dish. What they didn’t tell me in the menu is that the shrimp were basically drowned in a mayonnaise-based sauce. It was one of the most nauseating things I’ve ever tried to eat. I think I managed two bites and gave up.
Dan B
@sab: A gay black guy from Alabama held a White Trash Party every year at some appropriately suited venue, often with big white columns… Horrifying Jello Salads were never in short supply. A liverwurst,, mustard, and olive “pineapple” failed to make an appearance.
One favorite was an Airstream trailer park on a big mirror. The “trailers” were Twinkies. Genius. Equally genius was the cheese themed year. One creative soul came as “Cheeses of Nazareth” .
cain
@Omnes Omnibus: honestly, we could have used hummus instead of Mayo.
Dan B
@NotMax: When SHAPE & COLOR ruled!
At least ruled the kitchen and the holiday buffet of horrors!
L85NJGT
Botulism has no smell…..
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@NotMax:
@Dan B:
Eh, I thought the pineapple dish on the right looked pretty yummy. YMMV
Dan B
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): How much you wanna wager that pineapple dish is a layer of crushed pineapple on top of shredded beet Jello?
schrodingers_cat
BTW guys Sri Lanka is imploding and we haven’t had a single FP post about. I don’t see much about it in the MSM either
mrmoshpotato
@zhena gogolia:
Well, that’s one way to stop the orphans from asking, “Please, sir. Can I have some more?”One of history’s greatest actors didn’t deserve that.
MagdaInBlack
@Dan B: I see you read the recipe too. Yup, beets.
Mike in NC
Our tour buses in St Petersburg stopped for lunch at a couple of restaurants. The food was perfectly OK, if a bit on the bland side. Probably what they were used to serving to middle-aged American tourists. Sushi kiosks seemed to be very popular for street food but we didn’t stop at any. I bought a few cans of beer at a large souvenir shop to take back to the cruise ship.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@schrodingers_cat:
I read this on the Sri Lankan wiki page:
The son of a former corrupt president of the Phillipines who was chased out of power in the late 80s (and was responsible for widespread human rights abuses that resulted in thousands of dissenters being disappeared), has won
Barbara
@schrodingers_cat: WaPo:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/10/sri-lanka-violence-unrest-rajapaksa/
Sorry about the pay wall.
Leto
@germy: actual smart people, who’ve done concrete things, say Elon is full of shit.
NoraLenderbee
If those were cakes instead of salads, they wouldn’t be half bad.
Amir Khalid
Those are the most unsaladlike “salads” I’ve ever seen. Do Not Want.
I’ve noticed that when I try to return to the CNN home page from a story, it makes Firefox just freeze up. Is anyone else seeing this?
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@schrodingers_cat:
This seems significant:
The president has not resigned, yet
Gin & Tonic
@Leto: Boy, I love random Twitter dude saying “who the fuck are you?” to Grady Booch.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Barbara:
This from the WaPo article, was interesting:
Dude should just resign. It sounds like most of the country hates him, his family/party, and wants them gone
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Dan B:
Probably lol. I’d hope the filling was strawberries/raspberries instead of beats
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Leto:
I loved reading the imgur comments. No trace of the Musk cult there, from what I could tell by glancing through. You love to see it.
SpaceX and Tesla are companies that are successful and innovative in spite of Musk, not because of him. They’d be much better off without his manchild influence
Leto
@Gin & Tonic: Just 2 seconds worth of Googling… nah, go full blast!
dnfree
@Dan B: somehow your comment reminded me of a friend of my daughter’s in high school who used to exclaim “cheese and rice!” instead of taking the name of the Lord in van.
Ohio Mom
I’m usually a big fan of outsider and naive art but these salads just remind me of Cake Wrecks. This may be a reflection of my newly found animosity toward all things Russian.
Though I am a little charmed by the toy soldier behind the mound of mayo and peas. I think it’s the simplicity and weird scale of solider vs peas.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Gin & Tonic:
I don’t get the fascination with Musk. He seems like a total weirdo to me who hypes himself up through his Twitter account, like a flim-flam man
karen marie
I may have to throw myself off my balcony. The certifiably insane respondent in a case I’m working on just cited “Project Veritas.”
MisterForkbeard
@Leto: This is basically the take from everyone else in tech. I work in Silicon Valley and I can’t find anyone who thinks Elon has spent more than 5 minutes on this or has any idea what he’s doing.
It is entirely an ego trip (and apparently something used to get Trump on twitter)
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@MisterForkbeard:
Oh but Elon himself assured us he’s had no contact, direct or indirect, with Trump /s
prostratedragon
@Dan B: “Cheeses of Nazareth”
Whew, that actually made me gasp!
LAO
My disgusting Mayo story: Years ago I lived a couple of blocks from the Carnegie Deli, and if you’ve never been it was a pretty famous deli that had communal dinning tables in addition to private tables. The staff was notoriously rude and the customer base was split pretty evenly between NY’ers and tourists, Anyway, once a month I’d meet up with my brother and his now wife for a massively disgusting meal. There we were, at a normal communal table — me, my boyfriend at the time, brother and SIL — with enough food for 12 people. An extremely rude waitress sits some random tourist at our table — he seemed pretty uncomfortable. Then he placed his order. Pastrami on white bread with mayo. She gasped, asked him to repeat his order. He did. Suddenly, a bunch of wait staff descended on our table, grabbed all our food, told us to get up and moved us into a private table. The waitress came by and apologized — she literally yelled “nobody should have to watch anyone eat a pastrami sandwich on white bread with mayo.”
It was funny but I felt bad for that guy.
Soprano2
@schrodingers_cat: I’ve been hearing a little on NPR about it, but that’s about it. Sounds like their economy is collapsing. We have a regular customer whose family came here from Sri Lanka when he was 12.
JR in WV
@LAO:
Have eaten at the former Carnegie Deli, was great. Can imagine the scene you describe… would be hilarious!!!!
schrodingers_cat
@Barbara: The situation has been deteriorating for a while now. I just haven’t seen it covered much until now. The President’s house was set on fire.
schrodingers_cat
@Soprano2: They gave into hate, against Tamils, against Muslims and now the entire country is imploding.
Shana
@debbie: The Washington Post Sunday Magazine used to have a contest but I haven’t seen it for a few years. I miss it.
Timill
@Dan B: “Blessed are the cheesemakers”…
El Cruzado
Something not unlike Olivier salad (minus the bologna) is eaten in Spain as “Russian salad”. One of these days I’ll figure out how it made the jump to the other tip of Europe…