I must ask: What are /ck/'s thoughts on these "cold salads", like pasta salad, chicken salad, tuna salad, egg salad, etc.?

Love me a good pasta salad. My old boss used to make a mean one.

>>21415272 (OP)
them's good eating, especially with smoked salmon

>>21415272 (OP)
Love em all, but they gotta be just right. There's a German deli near me that does some of the best egg salad I've had, I still need to try their potato salad though.

Mac salad is probably the least reliable. Lots of places make it too sugary, add unexpected tuna, etc.

Like' em
Technically, my family and I eat a large number of them as full meals on their own during the summer months. We just had one for dinner two nights ago, bibimmyeon.

gotta get that dill, man. gotta get that dill

What exactly am I supposed to be making pasta salad with? Just, like, olive oil and spinach and tomatoes? I'm sure I've had it with mayonnaise before –is one kind of dressing better than the other?

When are we going to get a pasta salad pizza? I've seen chicken caesar salad pizza, and it's great. Obviously I mean the oil-and-vinegar kind of pasta salad, though.

>>21415283
Russian deli near me had a similar set up but other than morkovcha (socalled "Korean" carrot salad; actually invented by ethnic Koryo people in the Soviet Union and not Koreans from Korea) and funchoza (their version of japchae), I've never bought any. The fur coat herring salad (literal translation lmao) the deli has looks good but I always find I dislike other people's versions of that and other salads my grandma made so I never bothered buying any, similar to your aversion to pasta salad

>>21415291
>What exactly am I supposed to be making pasta salad with? olive oil and spinach and tomatoes? is one kind of dressing better?
Depends. Italian pasta salad is dressed with a vinaigrette and American ones are dressed with mayonnaise. Outside of Korean noodle salads like the two/three I mentioned in >>21415299 and >>21415284, I only know of Italian and American pasta salads and the subset of Italian-American ones. Bro, I'm a part Central Asian born and raised in Italy to an Italian woman so I'm, like, weirdly poised to discuss this shit. So here it goes:
Italian pasta salads aren't as common as American ones. Rice salad is far more popular. We tend to include beans and vegetables. Pasta salads in Italy are generally served as a meal in the summer. If it includes beans, it's generally eaten in its own with a green salad but if not, it's eaten with other salads/cold dishes such as bean salad, Italian style tuna or mackerel salad (basically a niçoise without the vegetables), Simmenthal (and aspic of beef, dressed with olive oil and lemon), or tuna'd veal (sliced veal breast served cold with a sauce made of extra lemony mayonnaise blitzed smooth with tuna and capers). As with the meal-sized portion of pasta salad, the full buffet-like set up is also served with a plain green salad. Everything is pronouncedly sour from lemon or heavy use of vinegar and often features heavy use of onion. The meal is usually followed up with a sweet fruit course such as macedonia (Italian style fruit salad) or wine soaked peaches.
American pasta salads tend to have all sorts of things in them like ham, cheese cubes, tuna, the baby Jesus, the kitchen sink and whatever the fuck else they have on hand. They tend to be sweet rather than sour and come in a much larger range of flavours. Bacon, ranch, bacon-ranch, lemon, lemon-ranch, "green goddess" (which is some weird, ranch-like green dressing) and more. Americans never serve pasta salad as a meal of its own…

>>21415344
…and it's most commonly served with barbecue or grilled dishes.
Italian-American pasta salad is usually also vinaigrette-based but includes stereotypical "Italian" ingredients and pasta shapes that we would find novel or strange to use in a salad in Italy. Anchovies, feta (not Italian), olives of various colours, pickled vegetables, dried tomatoes and more. It's not uncommon to find them made with stuffed pasta such as ravioli, tortelli/ini or mezzelune but they're most commonly made with fusilli (inexplicably renamed 'rotini' in America; fusilli means spindles, because the pasta is made by wrapping it around one, while rotini means wrappings), particularly rainbow ones. They may or may not be served topped with grated cheese.
Sorry for my long-ass effort-post.

>>21415272 (OP)
They're pretty good, but almost always taste better with raisins

>>21415399
You're the devil, aren't you?
Why do you test me, Satan?

>>21415272 (OP)
German-style potato salad is elite.
Tuna salad, egg salad, any salad with mayo is white trash vomslop.
Pasta salad can be good (and I do love proper hot pasta) but all too often people making pasta salad add too many weird ingredients that don't work right.

>>21415272 (OP)
Egg salad and mayo based pasta salad are gross, but the rest are really good. Chicken salad sandwiches/wraps are one of my favorite convenience foods, and vinaigrette pasta salad is so good I will eat it standing at the fridge at 2am.