Salad: Mother's Brand Potato Salad? How to Make?

Subject: Mother's Brand Potato Salad? How to Make?
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
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?
From: nancree at aol.com (Nancree)
Date: 23 Jun 2001 19:17:08 GMT
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Where is "around here" ?
From: ericDONOTSPAMMEthered at eudoramail.com
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 19:59:10 -0500
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>Where is "around here" ?

Chicago
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.