Talk:Snickers salad

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Poorly worded intro

“ Snickers salad is …, Cool Whip, and often pudding or whipped topping served in a bowl.”

Listing Cool Whip, and then saying “pudding or whipped topping” the whipped topping or the Cool Whip is redundant as they are essentially the same product.

I think it would be better to just say whipped topping instead of mentioning the brand Cool Whip Eclypsed (talk) 03:50, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

They mentioned 'Cool Whip' because they thought it made this dish, supposedly from "Iowa" (ha - many, many dishes like these were popular throughout the U.S. in previous decades), sound even more disgusting. You'll find that throughout Wikipedia - 'American' foods' ingredients include the cheapest, most synthetic versions possible (even though they don't have to be and never would be, if made at home or a better restaurant), whereas you'll never see that for dishes associated with places outside the U.S., even when they're just as often (or more often) made with cheap, synthetic ingredients as the 'American' ones are in the U.S. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.88.43.77 (talk) 14:16, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Divisive

The article states This feature makes the experience of eating it divisive. Isn't the divisive thing the fact that its incredibly unhealthy (and completely unlike other salads) yet called a "salad"? Polygnotus (talk) 01:36, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have never heard of "Snickers salad," and neither have my parents.

This is part of some currently trendy, bigoted meme which involves associating the U.S. states generally called "Midwestern" (I hate that term, but I'll save that for now) with 1950s Americana foods, which in the 1950s (and tapering off as far as into the present, for the very elderly) WERE POPULAR NATIONWIDE. It's absolutely asinine, and bears no relation to reality. These kinds of 'salads' and other 1950s dishes (all comical to ca. 2024 people) were EXTRAORDINARILY COMMON THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES, at church potlucks, other potlucks, and similar events, and, again, still are, if the attendees are old enough (though we're losing them by the day, sadly). 'Snickers salad?' The hell? (Maybe some editor at the NYT found that name particularly hilarious, because it sounds trashy and unhealthy - another NYT editor falsely associated 'grape salad' with Minnesota, when it turns out it's an obscure MARYLAND dish.) Look into cookbooks published by auxiliary groups, churches, small towns, etc. ACROSS THE UNITED STATES. (What's next? That churches, women's clubs, and even small towns only exist in the Midwest? Check out the South sometime. And the rest of the country, for that matter) Reddit memes and tropes are not historical cultural 'facts,' no matter how funny you might find them. (Oh, I was born in Davenport, Iowa in the 1970s, and my parents were born in Iowa in the 1940s. There's no possible way my grandparents, two of whom were born in Iowa, and the other two in neighboring Illinois, had heard of this dish, either.) Is this the way to treat the state that MASSIVELY helped Barack Obama win the White House the first and second times?