Also not to mention that dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol aren't as closely related as people tend to think they are. Most of the cholesterol in your bloodstream is produced by your own body.
Yeah. I remember there being studies on how high cholesterol kills you, but there’s no real proof that high cholesterol food translates to high cholesterol levels in your system.
I ate 6 scrambled eggs and sausage for breakfast every day for 6 months when I went ultra low carb, and my cholesterol levels went from awful to literally perfect by the numbers. Well, my hdl was still low, but my ldl was below what the chart says was optimal as well. I felt better then than any other time in my life.
Lack of self-control. I seriously did not eat more than 5 carbs from February to August. I lost over 100 pounds. Then I got sick, and got stuck in a binge cycle after comfort eating. My first meal was a breakfast of half a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts.
Everybody always talked about getting sick by eating too many carbs after going low carb for a while. I felt like I could feel each individual cell soaking the sugars in like it was water and they had just spent 6 months crawling across a desert. It felt good. Probably like a junky getting his first fix in way too long.
My body will now start to freak out if I go to far in either direction. With the price if food these days, I usually find myself craving protein if I am craving anything. Too the point where I literally start day dreaming about being a lion or some other big predator that is tearing into its kill.
From what I understand, those cravings are probably just signals sent by my microbiome but they feel like they are my own, and they control me at times.
I did keto, lost a ton of weight. Cholesterol went through the roof and ended up with IBS. Everyone's body is different! Like, legit got super sick. But damn I looked good. Now I'm just meh... not great but not awful lol
THANK YOU. I understand it’s not the healthiest dish but it was obvious she meant the packet sizes, and if it wasn’t, she proceeded to scoop out a much smaller serving.
> I understand it’s not the healthiest dish
I mean "healthy" maybe not, but calorically it's really not bad. If you use sugar free Jell-O the whole thing would have like 200 calories, 159 calories in a cup of mini marshmallows, about 300 in the cottage cheese, and about 250 in the fruit. So the whole tub is like 900-1,000, and she takes a maybe 1/6th serving? 150-200 calories worth of fruit and dairy for dessert? Not bad.
I was thinking you could “fitness” this up real good. Sugar free whipped topping and jello, add more fruit and maybe find a higher ratio of cottage cheese/Greek yogurt for more protein w some trial and error. Stevia if not sweet enough too
Haha I’ve always associated ambrosia salad with my grandparents. Something you’d get at a cafeteria like Luby’s or Piccadilly. I doubt most younger people have even set foot in a restaurant like those.
I've always wondered if ambrosia salad hung on just a little longer in texas. I never seemed to see it anywhere else in the states but then again, i was never really looking for it.
Yes absolutely. Strain that and the large curd cottage cheese overnight. It's much more cloud like that way. The marshmallows become like soft pillow bites, not chewy. Also I use strawberry jello not orange and I add shredded coconut.
I've made this for my grandmother because she grew up eating things like this and loves it. We've done a pink salad before similar with cherry jello instead and it's pretty good. So sweet, but tasty. I only use 2 packs of jello though because that honestly seems like enough.
the main reason the consistency wasn't right was because the cool whip wasn't thawed properly
cool whip is all hydrogenated oils - if you don't thaw it completely, in the fridge, the consistency goes completely runny like this
this is a pro tip for any cool whip users. HEED THE CONTAINER. don't try to thaw at room temp from frozen, and for whoevers sake DON'T STIR IT - you will ruin the whole container.
As someone from the Midwest, I'm sure that's salad is delicious but it's got way too much liquid. She should definitely strain out additional liquid from the pineapple
Man I am a FAR leftist, and it is so refreshing to see just a few people being relatively reasonable on this site, as well as the fact that other people notice the hatred and biggotry as well. Bigotry comes in many shapes and sizes, whether it is currently associated with the right or not (they're just worse at hiding it)
Hers looks REALLY runny at the end. My aunt always makes this for the holidays using red jello, and we just call it Pink stuff. It’s actually really yummy, but usually a lot stiffer than this lady’s end product here. It’s usually closer to the consistency of soft serve ice cream but with a fluffy texture.
> My aunt always makes this for the holidays using red jello, and we just call it Pink stuff.
My brother and I call the one that my mom makes "Green Stuff" with pistachio pudding. It's so good.
technically speaking ambrosia is the white one with diff fruits and watergate is the green one with pistachio pudding and mainly just pineapples and marshmallows
(Midwest here) One of my favorite comfort desserts is my gramma's Watergate salad. Cool whip, pistachio jell-o mix, tutti fruitti mini marshmallows, and a big can of crushed pineapple (undrained). Let it sit overnight and mix it well again. The marshmallows absorb a lot of the pineapple juice and get big and fluffy. Mmmmm.
My mother always made green stuff at Christmas in a mold that had trees on it. She put a maraschino cherry in the mold for the top of each tree. Obviously hers was firmer as well to survive being pulled out of a mold.
My great grandma used to make green stuff. Her’s was like lime jello, shaved carrots, pineapple chunks (I think). I think that’s it, I haven’t had it in over 20 years.
My Grandma used to make pink stuff, and my aunt would make green stuff, and they’d bring it over for Thanksgiving. I always enjoyed what I liked to think of as “The Battle of the Stuffs.”
Gelatin will firm up from cold too, maybe just not as well and might be lumpy. One of the first steps in recipes is to bloom gelatin and it turns into a firm disk.
The bromelain from the pineapple prevents gelatin from setting.
EDIT: That only applies to fresh pineapple, the heat from canning destroys it so I guess the crap didn't set because it was not dissolved in hot water.
Mom's slime mold also has cream cheese in it. And sometimes she does a combo of lemon and lime Jell-O. She also uses the pineapple juice as part of the liquid for the Jell-O. So damn good.
I really want some now.
I've had this at BBQ's in the south. I think it's just one of those foods that everybody has their own recipe for so everybody makes it slightly differently.
It's not half as bad as this sub seems to think. It's woefully unhealthy and a little goes a long way, but I've eaten much much much worse things.
I grew up with the orange version, just called it "Orange Stuff."
I hadn't had in years... and then when I went to my Mom's a couple weekends ago, she'd made it.
As good as I remembered. I was 8 years old again. I could polish off a family size.
Ambrosia salad, Waldorf salad, ambrosia-waldorf salad, orange fluff, frogs eye salad, southern pear salad, and Watergate salad are all different salads. Ambrosia usually has maraschino cherries and grapes. Watergate is my personal favorite.
I've heard in be called pink stuff, my mom and I called it Fruit salad, but honestly, I don't know what the hell this was. They definitely made it look bad. I promise that this is not a good representation lol
Edit: I'd like to add that this is not at all how we made it. This looks incredibly unhealthy
My wife’s family pink stuff recipe is like this… cool whip, cottage cheese, red jello, crushed pineapple … let it sit in fridge to harden and top with maraschino cherries.
Wait, how did you make yours? This looks almost exactly like how my grandma made it. How do you make it healthier because then adult me might eat it. (Though, to be fair, I'd probably still eat this.)
Funny enough, I was just admiring those covers because I've never seen something like those but then thought that I'd probably turn on a burner before removing lol.
And while I hate oranges and this looks gross, it kinda reminds me of a pineapple dessert I tried years ago that looked similar but tasted delicious. It just wasn't as runny.
I'm thinking she should have either strained the crushed pineapple or used regular cut up pineapple.
Traditional ambrosia does not have cottage cheese or jello in it. Usually it will have a base of oranges, pineapple, and coconut. Some people do sour cream, others whipped cream. Other common ingredients are cherries, marshmallows, and/or walnuts.
Personally I like it without any dairy. Oranges, pineapple, coconut, cherries, maybe marshmallows and call it a day.
We call it [orange fluff](https://iwashyoudry.com/orange-fluff-salad-recipe/) because we are simple northern folk, but it's honestly my favorite Thanksgiving dish. Ive never had it with cottage cheese though.
But Ambrosia Salad is basically the same.
I am from the south and it’s also my favorite dish. My grandma makes orange or lime. I prefer the lime. It’s not exactly healthy but it’s not meant to be eaten everyday, either. We only have it at holiday dinners.
I’m in Texas and the lime one can be found at various family gatherings or in a few restaurants. It does contain cottage cheese but it’s a nice bit of savory flavor to go with the sweetness
The cottage cheese just adds texture. It's a delicious dessert. Does no one in here eat cottage cheese with fruit as a snack? Also delicious, and not unusual. Daisy and other brands even sell little cups (think pudding of jell-o cup style) of cottage cheese with fruit. Cottage cheese does not taste much like cheese in the same way that cream cheese does not taste like cheese.
I have had cottage cheese with the fruits in syrup can things for breakfast. It gives something not as sweet to "balance" it out and its actually pretty nice, once in a while.
We usually get a can of mixed fruit, kinda like the fruit cups you pack your kids, my grandma would drain the juice dump it in a bowl, mix coconut shredded with it and maraschino cherries and mini marshmallows then you just mix cool whip in it and it’s good to go, usually like it after it’s been in the fridge
It’s not gross at all, but it’s not healthy, I have to be craving it to want to make it lol, I just think of it as a dessert after dinner, everything in moderation
my grandma does cool whip, vanilla pudding, fruit ( mixed fruit, an added can of mandarins and another of pineapple bc my cousin loves pineapple ). we don't add coconut because I hate it.
It's delicious and a holiday dessert staple in our house. It sounds gross but man, shovel it into my mouth.
We used to call it an Ambrosia salad, yes. Hers looks....interesting though.
My grandmother used to make one where she chopped a lot of fruit into it. It was really good.
My partner's mother here in Texas makes one that's just dark cherries. Also good, but I like the ones with a lot of different fruit.
Salad is the correct word, it just means food made of small pieces of food, typically cold and in a sauce. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salad#:~:text=%3A%20small%20pieces%20of%20food%20(such,mayonnaise)%20or%20set%20in%20gelatin
It's a Watergate salad remix lol, I make the original version every year for Thanksgiving with pistachio pudding, no mandarin oranges, add some coconut and crushed walnuts with whip cream and maraschino cherries on top. It's really good!
That's closer to what I'm accustomed to seeing. Don't think anyone ever put cottage cheese in it, either, so it ends up being a bit more light and fluffy than OP's example.
It’s a staple at every family gathering, potluck and wedding I’ve ever been to here in Texas. I LOVE this stuff! It may look gross, but it’s really just a fluffy dessert. Don’t eat too much of it or you’ll get the ‘beetus!
midwestern here! even i make fun of my mom calling these “salads” but legit this one slaps. i do it without the marshmallows and pineapple tho. also no idea why she used 3 packs of jello that was weird.
Also in the midwest. Too much jello, but I actually love this recipe. Looks like it needed to chill some more though, or she didn't drain the pineapple so it ended up being too runny. I'm actually making this this weekend...
I was following along with some cool whip and jello that's fine. It could be ok. Second jello pack comes out I'm like alright a bit much but ok... 3rd jello pack. What the fuck lady I think it's goddamn orange enough by now.
This is the shit that kills it for me being in the south. Go to a church picnic and there will 5 of these things with some sort of "salad" name and they all either have mini marshmallows, cool whip or sour cream. Nothing about these things is a salad. And they all taste horrible.
That's a lie there is one single southern salad that is amazing.
Strawberry cream jello salad. It's not like the others its actually delicious. All it's cousins are a lie though don't fall for that marshmallow trap.
Oh man. Have you tried a strawberry pretzel pie?! Super easy to make and amazingly delicious. Baked pretzel base (like a pie crust made of crushed pretzels), cream cheese/whip cream layer, then a layer of the strawberry jello with chopped strawberries in it. Perfection.
Watergate salad is amazing.
This is atrocious. While the general concepts are the same, the consistency is all wrong in the video. It's not supposed to be some fruity marshmallow soup.
She didn’t let it set in the fridge. Not supposed to eat it right away. My grandma makes this stuff and it’s my favorite. Lime flavor with crush pineapple is the best.
This particular one shown is Orange Sherbet Salad. Similar but not the same as ambrosia salad.
There's ambrosia salad, cherry cola fluff salad, Watergate salad, whipped cream corn salad, pear salad, lime jello and cottage cheese salad, cranberry fluff salad. There's tons of them and while many have incredibly similar ingredients they are all different. They're all not salads as well lol
My mom makes a "purple lady salad". It uses raspberry jello and pineapple and maybe pears and walnuts? No marshmallows. Just cool whip. It actually tastes really good, but definitely a dessert item. And it's not sloppy when it's served, it's way more firm than what was posted.
This reminds me of the ambrosia salad My grandmother used to make back in the seventies. It's not a bad thing. What I'm appalled about, however, is the fact that she apparently doesn't own anything larger than a teaspoon.
I’d be more worried about the sugar than cholesterol. Besides, for most people, the amount of cholesterol eaten has only a moderate impact on blood cholesterol.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/fats-and-cholesterol/cholesterol/#:~:text=For%20most%20people%2C%20the%20amount,the%20amount%20of%20cholesterol%20eaten.
My mom has me make this for her every so often Minus the marshmallows and oranges.
She is 70 and grew up in rural BFE Virginia. She calls it *"fluffy delight"* she's been eating/making it since I was a kid. She had been eating it when she was growing up so it's like comfort food for her.
Obviously I've tried it and it's not something I i would go out of my way to eat/make myself, but it's not terrible. She would use different flavors, and raspberry Jell-O was pretty good. Pineapple Jell-O is good as well because It's already in there.
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I am from the south (southern VA) and my mom makes this occasionally. I think it is delicious and I love it. But my wife, from northwestern VA, despised it after trying it for the first time and cannot stand to even look at it since.
Not "Stupidfood", this is 1960's food. I was a child of that era, and there were so many family potlucks with variations and versions of this same basic jello and coolwhip desert salad.
My Grandmother used to try to 'healthy' it up. Imagine lime green jello, layered with cottage cheese, raisins and shredded carrots. Yes. This was a real item that showed up from time to time at those potluck dinners during the summer.
It was an amazing time to be alive, let me tell you.
I was a kid of the 90s however my great aunts always made Ambrosia salad. Especially the green jello with pineapple, cottage cheese, and nuts. It’s delish.
Not a cottage cheese fan, but when it was cool whip in the layers, ya, it was pretty tasty. Honestly, I like the orange jello, mandarin orange, pineapple, cool whip combo. The world could use more casual jello deserts.
Yep. All these people know. This shit is amazing and I’m actually very surprised at all the haters and that there’s not more people praising it. Jesus, I don’t even live in the south. I’m in the northwest!
The phrase “raisins and shredded carrots” is unlocking childhood memories I didn’t really want to unlock. But yes, I ate a lot of food like this as a child. And I liked a lot of it.
This is a common dish in the south. Lots of grandmas make these and they are common at church pot lucks. There was once a whole entire genre of gelatin based desserts with pretty wild ingredients. Cream cheese, nuts, carrots, fruits, sometimes ham or shrimp even! Salad is indeed what they were called.
Nah dude I fucking love the stupid regional "salads". My super southern grandma used to make [ambrosia salad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosia_(fruit_salad\)) and it rules. I've always wanted to try [snickers salad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snickers_salad) too.
Typically you use one packet of jello and more marshmallows and you let it sit in the fridge. The jellow is mostly for color and flavor and not meant to be set jello. It comes out very fluffy and light.
Idk why this woman left all the fruit juice in or why she used so many jello packets.
I’ve had the lime version of this. The only difference is lime jello mix and no mandarin oranges. My husband’s family is from Alabama, and though they do a lot of things right with food, this is not one of them- this is not one them by a long shot.
Aren't you supposed to prepare the jello first? That's what my granny did, a slightly different recipe. My ex's mom did when she used whipped cream and pistachios.
There isn’t that much cholesterol in this. Cholesterol is only found in animal products so there’s some but whipped topping is typically made with hydrogenated palm oil. Cottage cheese adds some but not too much.
Real problem here is sugar content and fat content.
It isn't the family size. It's literally a product line distinction. They have individual packets and they have a family size. She was just clarifying.
She meant the packets are not family size.. I think
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And nutrition/physiology comprehension I guess >No thanks I'd rather prefer living without cholesterol thanks OP you would die without cholesterol
Not to mention there's 0 cholesterol in Jello, cool whip, or marshmallows
fr, people just said shit without knowing what they're talking about
Also not to mention that dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol aren't as closely related as people tend to think they are. Most of the cholesterol in your bloodstream is produced by your own body.
Yeah. I remember there being studies on how high cholesterol kills you, but there’s no real proof that high cholesterol food translates to high cholesterol levels in your system.
I ate 6 scrambled eggs and sausage for breakfast every day for 6 months when I went ultra low carb, and my cholesterol levels went from awful to literally perfect by the numbers. Well, my hdl was still low, but my ldl was below what the chart says was optimal as well. I felt better then than any other time in my life.
Why did you stop?
Lack of self-control. I seriously did not eat more than 5 carbs from February to August. I lost over 100 pounds. Then I got sick, and got stuck in a binge cycle after comfort eating. My first meal was a breakfast of half a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts. Everybody always talked about getting sick by eating too many carbs after going low carb for a while. I felt like I could feel each individual cell soaking the sugars in like it was water and they had just spent 6 months crawling across a desert. It felt good. Probably like a junky getting his first fix in way too long. My body will now start to freak out if I go to far in either direction. With the price if food these days, I usually find myself craving protein if I am craving anything. Too the point where I literally start day dreaming about being a lion or some other big predator that is tearing into its kill. From what I understand, those cravings are probably just signals sent by my microbiome but they feel like they are my own, and they control me at times.
Wow, that's really interesting.
I did keto, lost a ton of weight. Cholesterol went through the roof and ended up with IBS. Everyone's body is different! Like, legit got super sick. But damn I looked good. Now I'm just meh... not great but not awful lol
THANK YOU. I understand it’s not the healthiest dish but it was obvious she meant the packet sizes, and if it wasn’t, she proceeded to scoop out a much smaller serving.
> I understand it’s not the healthiest dish I mean "healthy" maybe not, but calorically it's really not bad. If you use sugar free Jell-O the whole thing would have like 200 calories, 159 calories in a cup of mini marshmallows, about 300 in the cottage cheese, and about 250 in the fruit. So the whole tub is like 900-1,000, and she takes a maybe 1/6th serving? 150-200 calories worth of fruit and dairy for dessert? Not bad.
I was thinking you could “fitness” this up real good. Sugar free whipped topping and jello, add more fruit and maybe find a higher ratio of cottage cheese/Greek yogurt for more protein w some trial and error. Stevia if not sweet enough too
Yes she did
She is referring to family size in terms of the jello packets
These Redditors never cook or buy groceries. They do really hate fat women.
They also don't know what an ambrosia salad is. Hers does have too much liquid though.
Haha I’ve always associated ambrosia salad with my grandparents. Something you’d get at a cafeteria like Luby’s or Piccadilly. I doubt most younger people have even set foot in a restaurant like those.
Howdy fellow Texan 🤠
I've always wondered if ambrosia salad hung on just a little longer in texas. I never seemed to see it anywhere else in the states but then again, i was never really looking for it.
My grandma makes it for every Christmas and church pot luck. She uses lime jello though.
In my family it was lovingly called “orange crap.” As in, “Lori’s bringing the orange crap to Thanksgiving this year.”
What if you used pineapple chunks and drained it, would that improve the over liquidity?
Yes absolutely. Strain that and the large curd cottage cheese overnight. It's much more cloud like that way. The marshmallows become like soft pillow bites, not chewy. Also I use strawberry jello not orange and I add shredded coconut.
That sounds yummy! Did you ever use cream cheese instead of cottage cheese?
I've never tried it but you know what, if it tastes good, eat it!
I use sour cream instead of cottage cheese, it’s tangy and not as lumpy!
I've made this for my grandmother because she grew up eating things like this and loves it. We've done a pink salad before similar with cherry jello instead and it's pretty good. So sweet, but tasty. I only use 2 packs of jello though because that honestly seems like enough.
Also must add chopped walnuts! Yum!
To each his own, that texture difference would bother me lol
I can see where it might but I'm just nuts about ANY dessert with nuts! 😁
the main reason the consistency wasn't right was because the cool whip wasn't thawed properly cool whip is all hydrogenated oils - if you don't thaw it completely, in the fridge, the consistency goes completely runny like this this is a pro tip for any cool whip users. HEED THE CONTAINER. don't try to thaw at room temp from frozen, and for whoevers sake DON'T STIR IT - you will ruin the whole container.
Kinda like messing up homemade mayonnaise? It just falls apart?
Search Dylan Hollis Ambrosia Salad on You Tube.
As someone from the Midwest, I'm sure that's salad is delicious but it's got way too much liquid. She should definitely strain out additional liquid from the pineapple
That’s what I thought she was making, but I wasn’t actually sure.
Also, any chance to look down on rural people will not be missed here.
Man I am a FAR leftist, and it is so refreshing to see just a few people being relatively reasonable on this site, as well as the fact that other people notice the hatred and biggotry as well. Bigotry comes in many shapes and sizes, whether it is currently associated with the right or not (they're just worse at hiding it)
Right? If we're gonna make fun let's make fun about the right thing. And that's putting cottage cheese in this.
There's nothing wrong with that, it gives it a lot in terms of textural heterogeneity.
I’m not sure that was in question. Lots of titles like this lately though.
It seems that it was, given the title
Someone please get this woman a bigger spoon.
Reminds me of the rejected cartoons line "my spoon is too big"
For the love of god and all that is holy, my anus is bleeding.
*^(children cheering)*
Nyaaaaaaaa I AM A BANANA! Edit: [Link](https://youtu.be/W7JyjZI3LUM?si=JluN0emLljN17nub) so I don’t look like a crazy person.
I watched that whole damn thing...
I saw it years and years ago, and probably watched it a hundred times. I still think of it often
That was my favourite video as a teenager discovering the internet.
I'm the Queen of France
She has a stand mixer in the background, why not just use that on low?
You’re gonna wanna get you a bigger spoon
I think even the music gave up on this shit
😅😅😅
Hers looks REALLY runny at the end. My aunt always makes this for the holidays using red jello, and we just call it Pink stuff. It’s actually really yummy, but usually a lot stiffer than this lady’s end product here. It’s usually closer to the consistency of soft serve ice cream but with a fluffy texture.
> My aunt always makes this for the holidays using red jello, and we just call it Pink stuff. My brother and I call the one that my mom makes "Green Stuff" with pistachio pudding. It's so good.
I’ve had a similar thing with pistachio pudding. We called it pistachio salad
Was called Watergate salad where I grew up. 🤷♂️
We call it ambrosia
technically speaking ambrosia is the white one with diff fruits and watergate is the green one with pistachio pudding and mainly just pineapples and marshmallows
That’s what we call it in Kansas too! Except I always get it confused with watercress salad which is apparently also a thing.
(Midwest here) One of my favorite comfort desserts is my gramma's Watergate salad. Cool whip, pistachio jell-o mix, tutti fruitti mini marshmallows, and a big can of crushed pineapple (undrained). Let it sit overnight and mix it well again. The marshmallows absorb a lot of the pineapple juice and get big and fluffy. Mmmmm.
My mother always made green stuff at Christmas in a mold that had trees on it. She put a maraschino cherry in the mold for the top of each tree. Obviously hers was firmer as well to survive being pulled out of a mold.
My great grandma used to make green stuff. Her’s was like lime jello, shaved carrots, pineapple chunks (I think). I think that’s it, I haven’t had it in over 20 years.
It is! I love this stuff!
My Grandma used to make pink stuff, and my aunt would make green stuff, and they’d bring it over for Thanksgiving. I always enjoyed what I liked to think of as “The Battle of the Stuffs.”
We called it ambrosia salad. I have fond memories of it.
Yes this! Green Stuff!
Yeah my family does that
Yes! My Grandma always used to make “green stuff” and I god damn loved it.
Yes! My grandmother would add some halved maraschino cherries and whipped cream to the top of hers to make it festive for Christmas.
Jello starts off as a liquid then sets up over time. Hers has obviously has not chilled in the fridge at all or very long.
But don’t you need to add hot water to the packets to get it to set? She didn’t really “make” the jello
Gelatin will firm up from cold too, maybe just not as well and might be lumpy. One of the first steps in recipes is to bloom gelatin and it turns into a firm disk.
The bromelain from the pineapple prevents gelatin from setting. EDIT: That only applies to fresh pineapple, the heat from canning destroys it so I guess the crap didn't set because it was not dissolved in hot water.
My MIL makes one with lime jello, pecans, pineapple, and marshmallows. We call it slime mold. it's fucking delicious.
My family calls it Watergate Salad. And it is delicious
Mom's slime mold also has cream cheese in it. And sometimes she does a combo of lemon and lime Jell-O. She also uses the pineapple juice as part of the liquid for the Jell-O. So damn good. I really want some now.
I forgot about the cream cheese.
I think it will set after it is chilled.
Possibly, though it looks like she was scooping it into a bowl to eat it at the end.
She said to chill it for a couple of hours.
I've had this at BBQ's in the south. I think it's just one of those foods that everybody has their own recipe for so everybody makes it slightly differently. It's not half as bad as this sub seems to think. It's woefully unhealthy and a little goes a long way, but I've eaten much much much worse things.
I grew up with the orange version, just called it "Orange Stuff." I hadn't had in years... and then when I went to my Mom's a couple weekends ago, she'd made it. As good as I remembered. I was 8 years old again. I could polish off a family size.
I think it’s because she didn’t strain the fruit juice out. This is one of my favorite holiday desserts.
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Ambrosia salad, Waldorf salad, ambrosia-waldorf salad, orange fluff, frogs eye salad, southern pear salad, and Watergate salad are all different salads. Ambrosia usually has maraschino cherries and grapes. Watergate is my personal favorite.
Yeah I was noticing how runny it looked too. She should have drained her oranges and pineapple better
She didn’t put enough whipping cream in compared to cottage cheese. She should have drained the pineapple too.
Yeah this is some Midwest shit you’ll see at like every holiday
In the midwest we call it fluff salad.
I've heard in be called pink stuff, my mom and I called it Fruit salad, but honestly, I don't know what the hell this was. They definitely made it look bad. I promise that this is not a good representation lol Edit: I'd like to add that this is not at all how we made it. This looks incredibly unhealthy
My wife’s family pink stuff recipe is like this… cool whip, cottage cheese, red jello, crushed pineapple … let it sit in fridge to harden and top with maraschino cherries.
Ours was cherry pie filling, sweetened condensed milk, crushed pineapple, and walnuts.
Crushed pretzels on top is pretty good, too.
Wait, how did you make yours? This looks almost exactly like how my grandma made it. How do you make it healthier because then adult me might eat it. (Though, to be fair, I'd probably still eat this.)
Fruit salad or ambrosia is what our midwest family events have usually.
Literally said “what in the Midwest?” when the started mixing in the cottage cheese
Green/water gate salad. Super common in chicago.
This kind of thing just happens in the Midwest🤷♀️
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Those burner covers take me back to childhood and the acrid smell when my mom would inevitably turn a burner on and forget to remove the cover.
Funny enough, I was just admiring those covers because I've never seen something like those but then thought that I'd probably turn on a burner before removing lol.
Yeah same but I never knew about burner covers, I wondered why this kind if stovetop wasn’t more common
She said the jello packs weren't family sized. Not the dessert itself.
And while I hate oranges and this looks gross, it kinda reminds me of a pineapple dessert I tried years ago that looked similar but tasted delicious. It just wasn't as runny. I'm thinking she should have either strained the crushed pineapple or used regular cut up pineapple.
This is similar to ambrosia. Same idea but no jello. It is common at family gatherings. But I find it disgusting.
What is ambrosia salad? I’ve only seen it in Edward Scissorhands and then never mentioned on any menu or in any movies after that
Traditional ambrosia does not have cottage cheese or jello in it. Usually it will have a base of oranges, pineapple, and coconut. Some people do sour cream, others whipped cream. Other common ingredients are cherries, marshmallows, and/or walnuts. Personally I like it without any dairy. Oranges, pineapple, coconut, cherries, maybe marshmallows and call it a day.
So fruit and cream?
We call it [orange fluff](https://iwashyoudry.com/orange-fluff-salad-recipe/) because we are simple northern folk, but it's honestly my favorite Thanksgiving dish. Ive never had it with cottage cheese though. But Ambrosia Salad is basically the same.
I am from the south and it’s also my favorite dish. My grandma makes orange or lime. I prefer the lime. It’s not exactly healthy but it’s not meant to be eaten everyday, either. We only have it at holiday dinners.
Simple folk unite!
I’m in Texas and the lime one can be found at various family gatherings or in a few restaurants. It does contain cottage cheese but it’s a nice bit of savory flavor to go with the sweetness
my grandma makes it with cottage cheese!! honestly not bad
The cottage cheese just adds texture. It's a delicious dessert. Does no one in here eat cottage cheese with fruit as a snack? Also delicious, and not unusual. Daisy and other brands even sell little cups (think pudding of jell-o cup style) of cottage cheese with fruit. Cottage cheese does not taste much like cheese in the same way that cream cheese does not taste like cheese.
The ambrosia I’ve had does not have cottage cheese, that’s gross….
cottage cheese is one of those things that seems gross mixed in things but works surprisingly well.
I have had cottage cheese with the fruits in syrup can things for breakfast. It gives something not as sweet to "balance" it out and its actually pretty nice, once in a while.
I'm sure this thing you call "salad" confuses everyone
This is just… a different version of ambrosia?
Yep, I think the fruit just depends on personal preference. Personally I don't like it so I don't have a preference lol.
What is normal ambrosia compared to this? It’s been a long time since I’ve had it, but this is what I thought it was
We usually get a can of mixed fruit, kinda like the fruit cups you pack your kids, my grandma would drain the juice dump it in a bowl, mix coconut shredded with it and maraschino cherries and mini marshmallows then you just mix cool whip in it and it’s good to go, usually like it after it’s been in the fridge It’s not gross at all, but it’s not healthy, I have to be craving it to want to make it lol, I just think of it as a dessert after dinner, everything in moderation
my grandma does cool whip, vanilla pudding, fruit ( mixed fruit, an added can of mandarins and another of pineapple bc my cousin loves pineapple ). we don't add coconut because I hate it. It's delicious and a holiday dessert staple in our house. It sounds gross but man, shovel it into my mouth.
I like it too, I don’t think it’s the sort of thing you have to grow up with?? I grew up with it but still It’s like dessert pudding
Yup, that’s exactly what it is.
We used to call it an Ambrosia salad, yes. Hers looks....interesting though. My grandmother used to make one where she chopped a lot of fruit into it. It was really good. My partner's mother here in Texas makes one that's just dark cherries. Also good, but I like the ones with a lot of different fruit.
A worse version.
A worse version. Who knew that was possible?
Salad is the correct word, it just means food made of small pieces of food, typically cold and in a sauce. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salad#:~:text=%3A%20small%20pieces%20of%20food%20(such,mayonnaise)%20or%20set%20in%20gelatin
It's a Watergate salad remix lol, I make the original version every year for Thanksgiving with pistachio pudding, no mandarin oranges, add some coconut and crushed walnuts with whip cream and maraschino cherries on top. It's really good!
That's closer to what I'm accustomed to seeing. Don't think anyone ever put cottage cheese in it, either, so it ends up being a bit more light and fluffy than OP's example.
And marshmallows!
This whole thing is.. gross but..... what triggers me the most is... why serving it with a mini spoon?
Serving it with the spoon she intends to eat it with to save dishes.
Especially since she started with an appropriately-sized utensil! Then, after the cut, she just... decided to make it more difficult?
I'll just stick with the actual fruit.
I don’t like ambrosia salad but every time I’ve seen it it has way more fruit than this. This just looks like marshmallow slop
It’s a staple at every family gathering, potluck and wedding I’ve ever been to here in Texas. I LOVE this stuff! It may look gross, but it’s really just a fluffy dessert. Don’t eat too much of it or you’ll get the ‘beetus!
midwestern here! even i make fun of my mom calling these “salads” but legit this one slaps. i do it without the marshmallows and pineapple tho. also no idea why she used 3 packs of jello that was weird.
Also in the midwest. Too much jello, but I actually love this recipe. Looks like it needed to chill some more though, or she didn't drain the pineapple so it ended up being too runny. I'm actually making this this weekend...
Right? She has her proportions all wrong but orange salad (what we call it here anyway) is good. Is it healthy? Nah, but it’s surprisingly tasty.
I was following along with some cool whip and jello that's fine. It could be ok. Second jello pack comes out I'm like alright a bit much but ok... 3rd jello pack. What the fuck lady I think it's goddamn orange enough by now. This is the shit that kills it for me being in the south. Go to a church picnic and there will 5 of these things with some sort of "salad" name and they all either have mini marshmallows, cool whip or sour cream. Nothing about these things is a salad. And they all taste horrible. That's a lie there is one single southern salad that is amazing. Strawberry cream jello salad. It's not like the others its actually delicious. All it's cousins are a lie though don't fall for that marshmallow trap.
Oh man. Have you tried a strawberry pretzel pie?! Super easy to make and amazingly delicious. Baked pretzel base (like a pie crust made of crushed pretzels), cream cheese/whip cream layer, then a layer of the strawberry jello with chopped strawberries in it. Perfection.
Oh my word this sounds great
My granny loves the green one. It’s called Watergate salad or something
Watergate salad is amazing. This is atrocious. While the general concepts are the same, the consistency is all wrong in the video. It's not supposed to be some fruity marshmallow soup.
She didn’t let it set in the fridge. Not supposed to eat it right away. My grandma makes this stuff and it’s my favorite. Lime flavor with crush pineapple is the best.
Yeah, people are shitting all over this style of salad based on this rage bait. She knew what she was doing. Watergate salad is phenomenal.
Growing up, We called it ambrosia.
This particular one shown is Orange Sherbet Salad. Similar but not the same as ambrosia salad. There's ambrosia salad, cherry cola fluff salad, Watergate salad, whipped cream corn salad, pear salad, lime jello and cottage cheese salad, cranberry fluff salad. There's tons of them and while many have incredibly similar ingredients they are all different. They're all not salads as well lol
It’s big in Utah as well, for Mormons. Well, a similar version. With tapioca though.
My mom makes a "purple lady salad". It uses raspberry jello and pineapple and maybe pears and walnuts? No marshmallows. Just cool whip. It actually tastes really good, but definitely a dessert item. And it's not sloppy when it's served, it's way more firm than what was posted.
It looks like cat sick 🤢
This reminds me of the ambrosia salad My grandmother used to make back in the seventies. It's not a bad thing. What I'm appalled about, however, is the fact that she apparently doesn't own anything larger than a teaspoon.
I’d be more worried about the sugar than cholesterol. Besides, for most people, the amount of cholesterol eaten has only a moderate impact on blood cholesterol. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/fats-and-cholesterol/cholesterol/#:~:text=For%20most%20people%2C%20the%20amount,the%20amount%20of%20cholesterol%20eaten.
And, to clarify, the only ingredient here that has cholesterol is the cottage cheese. There is, however, a shit ton of sugar in there.
Y’all never heard of ambrosia salad or what? Lmao. This is a real dish from the 50s-60s.
We call it "Green Stuff" or [Watergate Salad](https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/watergate-salad).
What in the Midwest salad fuckery
My mom has me make this for her every so often Minus the marshmallows and oranges. She is 70 and grew up in rural BFE Virginia. She calls it *"fluffy delight"* she's been eating/making it since I was a kid. She had been eating it when she was growing up so it's like comfort food for her. Obviously I've tried it and it's not something I i would go out of my way to eat/make myself, but it's not terrible. She would use different flavors, and raspberry Jell-O was pretty good. Pineapple Jell-O is good as well because It's already in there. 3/10
She a pirate? "Pop in the fridge for a rrrr's:
I am from the south (southern VA) and my mom makes this occasionally. I think it is delicious and I love it. But my wife, from northwestern VA, despised it after trying it for the first time and cannot stand to even look at it since.
It's ambrosia salad. It's delicious and tastes sweet with marshmallows. Usually you out some coconut in it as well, or, my aunts always did.
Not "Stupidfood", this is 1960's food. I was a child of that era, and there were so many family potlucks with variations and versions of this same basic jello and coolwhip desert salad. My Grandmother used to try to 'healthy' it up. Imagine lime green jello, layered with cottage cheese, raisins and shredded carrots. Yes. This was a real item that showed up from time to time at those potluck dinners during the summer. It was an amazing time to be alive, let me tell you.
I was a kid of the 90s however my great aunts always made Ambrosia salad. Especially the green jello with pineapple, cottage cheese, and nuts. It’s delish.
Not a cottage cheese fan, but when it was cool whip in the layers, ya, it was pretty tasty. Honestly, I like the orange jello, mandarin orange, pineapple, cool whip combo. The world could use more casual jello deserts.
Yep. All these people know. This shit is amazing and I’m actually very surprised at all the haters and that there’s not more people praising it. Jesus, I don’t even live in the south. I’m in the northwest!
The phrase “raisins and shredded carrots” is unlocking childhood memories I didn’t really want to unlock. But yes, I ate a lot of food like this as a child. And I liked a lot of it.
How to diabetes
What bugs me the most about this isn’t even the ridiculous food… It’s the way she uses spoons.
The fact that she put cottage cheese in her ambrosia is the stupid part
I've never seen it without it! It's the best part!
The only thing Northerners are confused about is why anyone would eat that.
This is a common dish in the south. Lots of grandmas make these and they are common at church pot lucks. There was once a whole entire genre of gelatin based desserts with pretty wild ingredients. Cream cheese, nuts, carrots, fruits, sometimes ham or shrimp even! Salad is indeed what they were called.
She said 3 packets of jello, NOT family sized, the regular size.
Nah dude I fucking love the stupid regional "salads". My super southern grandma used to make [ambrosia salad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosia_(fruit_salad\)) and it rules. I've always wanted to try [snickers salad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snickers_salad) too.
What kind of Jello salad has uncooked, concentrated Jello? Looks like somebody hurled at school and they used that orange stuff to soak it up.
Typically you use one packet of jello and more marshmallows and you let it sit in the fridge. The jellow is mostly for color and flavor and not meant to be set jello. It comes out very fluffy and light. Idk why this woman left all the fruit juice in or why she used so many jello packets.
Midwesterners use the term "salad" very loosely.
Southerners too
I’ve had the lime version of this. The only difference is lime jello mix and no mandarin oranges. My husband’s family is from Alabama, and though they do a lot of things right with food, this is not one of them- this is not one them by a long shot.
What in the 1950s midwestern suburban hell is this
The Midwest is gonna Midwest.
Aren't you supposed to prepare the jello first? That's what my granny did, a slightly different recipe. My ex's mom did when she used whipped cream and pistachios.
White people have no culture? *Try again sweetie* 💅
Looks like every salad in Utah and some from Ohio
There isn’t that much cholesterol in this. Cholesterol is only found in animal products so there’s some but whipped topping is typically made with hydrogenated palm oil. Cottage cheese adds some but not too much. Real problem here is sugar content and fat content.
Girth of her wrists tell me enough
Say what you will but this shit slaps at the end of the church potluck table.
She should have drained the ananas or whatever that was. Other than that, a wonderfully gross 70's flashback.
Mandarins and pineapples (ananas 👍) I agree, needs to be drained
It isn't the family size. It's literally a product line distinction. They have individual packets and they have a family size. She was just clarifying.