Foods Network’s Molly Yeh confronted a flurry of internet criticisms soon after a recipe online video for popcorn salad went viral. The recipe phone calls for tossing popcorn in a mayo-dependent dressing alongside with carrots, celery and sugar snap peas.
Scrolling through Twitter on Sunday evening, as one is wont to do, I arrived throughout a video for popcorn salad. (Of course, you examine that correctly.)
Popcorn is tossed in a mayo-primarily based dressing alongside with carrots, celery, sugar snap peas and other accoutrements. It gave me pause. With my eyebrows elevated, I tweeted, “I have tons of inquiries about the popcorn salad, but the one at the forefront is: would not the mayo dressing make the popcorn soggy as it sits?”
But then my brain went to all the coleslaws, egg salads, macaroni salads, potato salads, tuna salads and very similar mayo-based salads I grew up feeding on and delight in to this day. This time, the star of the dish just happens to be popcorn, and what is wrong with that?
Even though I gave the recipe and its creator the advantage of the question, the online doesn’t give such leniency and experienced significantly harsher issues to say.
The video clip in query is from host Molly Yeh on her Foodstuff Community exhibit “Girl Fulfills Farm,” and the episode that includes this recipe initial aired April 26, 2020.
Yeh, who rose to fame with her blog site My Identify Is Yeh, grew up in a Chicago suburb, lived in New York City for a stint to attend Juilliard and then “moved from Brooklyn to a farm on the North Dakota-Minnesota border, where by my spouse is a fifth-generation farmer,” she states on her web page. The segment opens with Yeh saying she’s sharing “a riff on an iconic Midwestern dish.” As an individual who invested the very first 21 a long time of his existence in the area, I’d in no way listened to of it until this weekend.