December 05th, 2025

Any idea what this photo represents?  I didn't.  I had no idea at all.

I get all sorts of unexpected things in my various online feeds: ads for discounted auto insurance, info on the latest HGTV Dream Home Contest, enticements from loads of Cruise Lines, requests for me to donate blood, and lots and lots of recipes just by way of example.  I want to be clear right off the bat, I did not request ANY of these things (or the other 5 zillion things).  They just show up.

Every single day, as soon as I sit down at the computer, my first task is deleting. And deleting. And yet more deleting.  At one time I bothered to 'unsubscribe' from each thing I did not want.  Sometimes it even worked, but removing one seemed to invite a half dozen other's to take it's place so now I just delete.

The one thing I do not automatically delete is recipes. I did not ask for any of them, but I have no problem with them showing up uninvited.  I am always on the scout for new recipes.  Sometimes I get so tired of making the same things over and over and it occurs to me that if I am tired of making them, Tim must also be tired of eating them. So Yay new Recipes. Or, possible recipe.

It's not as if every recipe that wanders into my email or online feed is a winner after all.  Tim, who will eat almost anything, detests mushrooms in any way, shape or form so the 'Stuffed Mushrooms" recipe that popped in two days ago, is long gone.  Delete!  I also waved byebye to sauteed cabbage and stuffed eggplant. Delete!  But now and again, something turns up that catches my eye.  I will look over the photo, read the recipe and then decide whether or not it's worth a try.  If so, I make the dish and offer it up.  If it's a hit, I add it to the collection, if not....Delete!  I am heartless.

No wait, that's not true. I 'm not heartless.  I just don't want a bunch of unused, unnecessary, unneeded crap sitting around anywhere, even if it's in my Yahoo Inbox!   I know how to make the tough decisions and sometimes that makes me SEEM to be  heartless.  

So anyway, earlier today, as I was deleting with abandon, 'hair replacement  - nope,  laser tattoo removal - not applicable, anything remotely political - outoutout", like that complete with editorial comment, this one recipe comes up.  It says, "Snickers Salad". And I came to a complete halt.

What's that now?  I read it more carefully to myself but said the words out loud,  "Snickers Salad".

Well that doesn't make a lick of sense.  I know what snickers are and I know what salad is, but Snickers Salad? Just did not compute.

So I scrolled down to the photos, (the same one you saw at the top oft he page). Well hmmm, I said to myself,  I see cut up snickers bars...they are unmistakable. But I also see cut up apples and some kind o soft looking white stuff, oh my dear lord is that whipped cream?

Someone is playing a trick on me, I was absolutely certain is was a joke.  Ho Ho Ho, Very Amusing, Snickers Salad indeed.  I continue to scroll down, even while dry laughing searching for the ingredients. And sonuvagun!  It's a real thing!  Snickers Salad is a real thing!!  It is very obviously a dessert though so I was a little mystified by it's name.  

Now while my first thought, when thinking of a salad is very green and crunchy, I am not so unsophisticated that I believe all salads must have a minimum of one sort of lettuce in it's make up.  I am well aware that there are many types of salads:  Green Salads of course - the place my brain went first;  fruit salads, also yummy; many and sundry pasta salads; tuna or chicken salad which is only just barely a salad in my heart and other, newer to the interpretation such as beet salads too.  And I 100% buy any and all of those examples as being salads.

Snickers Salad?  Nope. That's just wrong.

Or is it?  What exactly IS a salad after all?  How is it defined?  And I was not certain, so of course, I looked it up:

1. a cold dish of various mixtures of raw or cooked vegetables, usually seasoned with oil, vinegar, or other dressing and sometimes accompanied by meat, fish, or other ingredients:
   "a green salad"
   "bowls of salad"
   • a mixture containing a specified ingredient served with a dressing:
     "a red pepper filled with tuna salad"
   • a vegetable suitable for eating raw:
     "sow salads like lettuce, radish, and spring onion"
   •  a usually incongruous mixture : hodgepodge

Well hmm, let's see here, it's absolutely not Number 1 unless that mysterious white stuff is considered a dressing.  And unless Snickers Bars have themselves been reclassified to be considered vegetables, it 's not number 2.  However, "an incongruous mixture" sounds like a possibility  Dingdingding, we have a winner!  Snickers Salad is only a salad in the broadest sense of the word.  The third option.  Ok, I'm okay now.

I calmed down and re-read the ingredients more carefully, this time paying actual attention instead of just saying that I was paying attention.  Turns out the white stuff is vanilla pudding and CoolWhip mixed together.

I am almost tempted to give it a whirl.  My mother would have loved it.  She adored CoolWhip and put it on almost everything. Went through giant tubs of it on the regular. And if you knew what a teeny tiny lady she was, that knowledge would seem just about as incongruous as calling this recipe a Snickers Salad.  But honestly, I think she would have liked that name too.

 I suppose you could expand upon this idea with any other bad for you ingredients: Chocolate Chip Cookie Salad, Ice Cream Salad, Cake Salad, oh yeah, I am liking the direction this is taking.   Let's get creative people!  I seems that there is no need to allow the knowledge of nutritional value to hold us back!  LOL

I hope those uninvited recipes keep rolling across my screen.  One of them is bound to be a winner.

Hugs