working class salads

[Detroit City]

indian working class onion relish
3 large onions, sliced into rings; Juice of 2 lemons; paprika; salt
layer onions, sprinkle each layer with paprika and salt, and cover with a saucer and put in fridge overnight

that is red chili powder, not paprika

and you can also add ground cumin

 

[fogbat]

that's better.

needs fish and baked beans or mushy peas though

Tch. Ponce!

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

Boiled ggs, beetroot, pickled onion, salad cream. Innit.

My dad loves that and always declines on mums prawn and avocado with vinegarette.

 

[tufty79]

You could try the salad my mum used to make

iceberg lettuce, tomatoes in quarters and cucumber. Garnish with salad cream (note: NOT mayonaisse). If you're feeling adventurous, chuck in some radishes.

same here. sliced boiled eggs and cold meats/chipolata sausages as well, if you're feeling daring

oh! and pickled silverskin onions and beetroot

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Cold baked beans are very tasty I think, and give a bit of substance to the salad so that you don't get hungry an hour afterwards. Some boiled new potatoes are more effective though.

I can eat cold baked beans but the thought of that gloopy tomato sauce on cloth lettuce still makes me heave

 

[Mrs Miggins]

remember when a tiny glass of orange juice was the alternative to soup as a starter?

Yes - that memory can still bring a smile to my face

 

[bluestreak]

beleive this thread and you'd believe the English working classes never eat raw carrots, spring onions or celery.

This part of the english working class didn't. And, in celery's case, still doesn't.

Raw carrots were for buffet snacking.

 

[bluestreak]

Along with everyone else, I concur that this is the correct definition of salad. Optional extra: cress.

Working class credential fail.

UNLESS: was it home grown?

 

[harpo]

You're too old to have eaten iceberg lettuce then

It was floppy lettuce

And sliced pickled beetrot

Yes. Flat lettuce, we called it. Couple of slices of beetroot, tomatoes, cucumbers, spring onions.

And it was always on a plate, never a bowl. Salad cream and a couple of slices of bread and butter on the side.

 

[bluestreak]

Yes - that memory can still bring a smile to my face

I was in a B&B in the lake disctrict a few years ago where orange juice OR soup was still the starters option!

 

[tufty79]

^^ pm the address pls - i need a weekend break soonish

 

[bluestreak]

Man, I want a working class old school salad now. Fuck the olives and mixed beans and poncy fucking balsamic and mint dressing, i want a hunk of lightly salted iceberg lettuce, some flavourless fucking fat tomatos and a boiled sodding egg with piles of salad cream. and i want to eat it sitting in the garden fighting off flies and dogs.

 

[tufty79]

bah. you're right.

ham.
beef
eggs.
cucumber.
hothouse lettuce.
pickled onion.
beetroot.
bread and butter
salt.
salad cream.
cup of sugary tea and a glass of juice.

now.

 

[bluestreak]

Beef? In a salad? The only acceptable meat for a working class salad either cold or potted meats for those over 50, or sliced ham from the chiller cabinet at sainsburys for those of us under 50.

 

[tufty79]

cold slices of beef. yes.
from tesco's (it was me grandparents in Brum who did good salads).

 

[moose]

Hmmm, I'd forgotten about the lettuce - it was always Flat till I was around 15, when Iceberg was invented. We had Lambs and Cos, though, from my grandad's allotment.

My mum still uses Heinz Vegetable Salad, which is perhaps the vilest thing known to man, regardless of class.

 

[bluestreak]

I tried some of that recently, on a nostalgia trip. Interestingly, you can vomit it back into the can and not tell the difference.

 

[Herbsman.]

Beef? In a salad? The only acceptable meat for a working class salad either cold or potted meats for those over 50, or sliced ham from the chiller cabinet at sainsburys for those of us under 50.

Corned beef is a prime example of working class 'meat'

 

[rennie]

Where I come from, salad is very cheap and is considered to be poor people's food.

 

[Wolfie Smith]

Cucumber - sliced or in a chunk? We always had slices until the invention of the cucumber chunk in about 1973 utterly rewrote the rules.

Salad cream still tastes better than mayonaise imho.

 

[rennie]

What's worng with some lemon juice and olive oil? Does it have to be salad cream or mayo? Yuk.

 

[Herbsman.]

salad cream would be preferable to 'avocado oil balsamic vinaigrette with rosemary infusion'

What's worng with some lemon juice and olive oil? Does it have to be salad cream or mayo? Yuk.

That's middle class stuff

Working class people have 19p Tesco 'Lemonade' (no actual lemon content), and Lard

 

[tufty79]

i'll have you know that i didn't try any namby-pamby 'salad dressing' until i was in my twenties

the closest we got was salad cream. and my mum's weirdo habit of putting vinegar on lettuce.

 

[Badgers]

The Cress Marketing Board execs would be turning in their graves

 

[Badger Kitten]

<derail>So. Anyone's working class mum make 1970's curry with economy mince, curry powder and raisins, tinned apricots or peaches or similar yuk?</derail>

 

[tufty79]

apples instead of apricots

and she still does prawn cocktail or orange and lentil stew for starters.
followed by loganberry mousse or lemon crunch pie

 

[Badger Kitten]

Eve's pudding or - upsidedown sponge with Birds, and tinned apricots or peaches, bleeugh.

Prawn cocktail = frozen prawns under hot tap, ketchup & mayo mixed together, on half an avocado and a lettuce leaf

 

[tufty79]

just a bed of shredded lettuce and a cherry on a stick - none of that avocado crap

melon boats too....

 

[Herbsman.]

OMG FRUIT IN CURRY ffs

 

[the button]

My mum makes "winter salad" for Christmas tea every year (to go with the cold turkey, cold ham, cold beef, cold pork, etc): -

A layer each of: -

Grated raw sprouts
Grated carrots
Grated beetroot
And grated cheese on top.

Spoonful on plate, mix with salad cream to taste. Although when I went to university, she did buy some mayonnaise for with it. I thinks it's nice, tbh -- a bit like working class coleslaw.