Salad
 

Salad is a loose term, it doesn't really define the dish so it's clear as mud... but it covers the ground.
Seems like anything that ain't meat&taters gets shoved into the salad category.
One of the salads people have strong opinions on are Jello salads, more properly Aspic salads.
I remember Julia Childs saying if your food is pretty someone has had their hands all over it. I'd add complicated.

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It's a Hellmanns ad but I like Miracle Whip better, I think it has more chemicals than mayo.

My Mother made something like that once when I was little. YUK!!!

She worked her fingers to the bone, sweated and toiled to bring a beautiful creation before you, and did you appreciate it?
NOOOOOO, ungrateful damn whippersnappers. :crone:

My Dad didn't like it either.

So you come from a line of disrespectors of Mom's hard work.
Oh the humanity. :mecry: