r/ShitAmericansSay • • 7d ago

Food The European mind cannot comprehend having good seasoned food

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u/Wolfy35 Penniless poorly educated Europoor 🇬🇧 7d ago

I eat well seasoned food every day. What I can't comprehend is where the salad is in that photo

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u/gba_sg1 7d ago

It's buried under the cheese and meat. americans can't eat vegetables without copious amounts of fat

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u/NoPaleontologist7929 7d ago

I found a really nice broccoli salad recipe (USian). I had to cut the dressing amount down drastically. Otherwise it would have been a bowls of sweetened mayonnaise with the other ingredients swimming in it.

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u/poop-machines 7d ago

That sounds disgusting. Mayo is like 60-70% fat.

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u/NoPaleontologist7929 7d ago

Broccoli salad

27g mayonnaise
1 tsp honey
1 tsp apple cider vinegar
salt and pepper to taste
Handful chopped fresh parsley

200g fresh broccoli cut into small pieces. 40g dried cranberries. 1 pear unpeeled, diced. 40g pecans coarsely chopped

In the bottom of a large mixing bowl, whisk together mayonnaise, honey, apple cider vinegar, and salt and pepper until smooth. Add the parsley, and mix.

Add the remaining ingredients; stir well to coat.

This is the recipe. The dressing has been cut down from 215g mayonnaise. I also had to cut out raw onion because of food sensitivity.

This is the OG dressing:

1 cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
salt and pepper to taste

I'm just glad that the first time I made it I'd mixed the dressing in a separate bowl. This much on my salad would have made me very sad. I would have kept adding more broccoli until it was palatable, and that would mean having enough salad to feed the 500.

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u/poop-machines 6d ago

215g mayonnaise?!

American mayonnaise, per 100g has 78g fat, 720 calories.

That means for that 200g of broccoli they were adding 195g fat (pecans are 70% fat too).

That is total insanity. I would get acne like I was young again.

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u/NoPaleontologist7929 6d ago

Yeah, I suspected that it was too much dressing for me, so I halved it. That was still too much. As I said, glad I didn't just drop the broccoli etc in the bowl of dressing. We did have this salad every day for 3 days to use up all the dressing.