Subject: Mother's Brand Potato Salad? How to Make?
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking

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From: ericDONOTSPAMMEthered[at]eudoramail.com
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 12:15:43 -0500
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We get a brand of potato salad in the grocery stores around here, from
time to time, called Mother's Potato Salad -- it's real good and I'd
like to be able to come as close as I can to making it... 

Has anyone got a potato salad that comes close?

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From: nancree[at]aol.com (Nancree)
Date: 23 Jun 2001 19:17:08 GMT
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Where is "around here" ? 

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From: ericDONOTSPAMMEthered[at]eudoramail.com
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 19:59:10 -0500
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>Where is "around here" ? 

Chicago

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From: moosmeat[at]mindspring.com (moosemeat)
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 21:06:10 GMT
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How do we know if we can come close when we have never tasted it.
My family raves over potato salad when I make it but you probably
wouldnt like it because it has dill pickle, boiled eggs, potatoes,
mayo but NO,repeat, NO radishes in it.

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From: penmart01[at]aol.como (Sheldon)
Date: 23 Jun 2001 21:18:23 GMT
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Well of course potato salad would definitely contain potatoes... and don't
forget green bell pepper, carrot and parsley.

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From: ndooley[at]blue.weeg.uiowa.edu (Nancy Dooley)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 19:13:18 GMT
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Sheldon wrote:
>Well of course potato salad would definitely contain potatoes... and don't
>forget green bell pepper, carrot and parsley.

NO carrot, NO parsley, definitely celery, eggs, SWEET pickle,
potatoes, mayo, RADISHES, mustard, celery seed, green pepper if I have
some, a little vinegar, a little sugar, NO chopped onion but impart a
little flavor by putting a cut onion in the top of the finished dish
of potato salad and removing before eating.  ;-)  Let the fun begin.

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From: velo` <snindre-nospam[at]mn.cs.stanford.edu>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 02:42:08 GMT
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> We get a brand of potato salad in the grocery stores around here, from
> time to time, called Mother's Potato Salad -- it's real good and I'd
> like to be able to come as close as I can to making it... 

  Why no make good homemade style,commercial brands are full of
preservatives.

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From: ericDONOTSPAMMEthered[at]eudoramail.com
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 03:20:40 -0500
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>Why no make good homemade style,commercial brands are full of
>preservatives.

Yes, this is why I'm looking to come close to the commercial version.

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From: nancree[at]aol.com (Nancree)
Date: 24 Jun 2001 18:49:01 GMT
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> Why no make good homemade style,commercial brands are full of
> preservatives.

Preservatives can be a *good*  thing!
Without preservatives, food develops  "free radicals", which cause cancer.  
  Not everyone can walk out into a garden and pick vegetables.  So when buying
food, be grateful for preservatives.