Snickers salad is a
dessert salad consisting of a mix of
Snickers bars,
Granny Smith apple
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s,
whipped cream and often pudding or whipped topping served in a bowl.
It is a
potluck and party staple in the
Upper Midwest
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of the
United States
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, where the "salad" is popular alongside
glorified rice,
Watergate salad,
jello salad and
hotdish
A hotdish is a casserole dish that typically contains a starch, a meat, and a canned or frozen vegetable mixed with canned soup that must be served hot or warm. A classic example is made with ground beef, topped with tater tots, and flavore ...
. It is sometimes included in church cookbooks.
Snickers salad is easy to make; the ingredients are simply chopped and combined. As to whether it is a salad or a dessert, popular lore has it that it depends on which end of the table it is sitting at.
The recipe for Snickers salad was included in a 2009 article "Salads worthy of a church picnic" in ''
The Indianapolis Star''. The author noted that "Despite what all my community and church cookbooks would say, I don't think anything with marshmallows can really be called a salad."
Salads worthy of a church picnic
May 27, 2009 Indianapolis Star
See also
* List of salads
*
Notes
References
*Joanne Raetz Stuttgen and Terese Alle
''Cafe Wisconsin Cookbook''
Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2007 p. 72, 73 (Google preview)
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Cuisine of the Midwestern United States
Cuisine of Minnesota
American desserts
Salads