Snickers salad is a

dessert salad Dessert salads are dishes made with jellos (jellies), whipped toppings, fruits, vegetables, mayonnaise, and various other ingredients. These salads are served at some buffet and cafeterias, and are also served at potlucks and parties. They ca ...

consisting of a mix of Snickers bars, Granny Smith apples,

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and often pudding or whipped topping served in a bowl. It is a

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and party staple in the

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of the

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, where the "salad" is popular alongside

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Watergate salad Watergate salad, also referred to as Pistachio Delight or Shut the Gate salad, or colloquially as Green Goop, Green Goddess salad, Green Fluff, Green Stuff, or Mean Green is a side dish salad or dessert salad made from pistachio pudding, canned ...

jello salad Jell-O is an American brand offering a variety of powdered gelatin dessert (fruit-flavored gels/jellies), pudding, and no-bake cream pie mixes. The original gelatin dessert ( genericized as jello) is the signature of the brand. "Jell-O" is a ...

and

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. 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 ''

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''. 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

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*Joanne Raetz Stuttgen and Terese Alle
''Cafe Wisconsin Cookbook''
Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2007 p. 72, 73 (Google preview) {{DEFAULTSORT:Snickers Salad Cuisine of the Midwestern United States Cuisine of Minnesota American desserts Salads

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