Texan here and my family has a similar jell-o recipe 😂 (lime jell-o, pineapple, marshmallows, milk, cream cheese & cottage cheese). I LOVE it and, regrettably, once took it to a company potluck. Literally EVERYONE was quietly like "WTH is that??" 🤣
That sheepish, sneaky second bite at 2:56 is relatable. Honestly, this one is fine and even open to modifications like a different cheese or even caramelized onions in the tortilla.
2:01 my mother used to wrap a hot dog in a corn tortilla, pan fry it, and serve it with yellow mustard. She called it a hot dog taco. It is very simple, but tasty.🤗🤗🤗😋
For the ambrosia: skip the cottage cheese and jello, double the marshmallows, use pineapple chunks instead of crushed, add chopped maraschino cherries and drain and pat dry all the fruit. Too much juice will deflate the whipped cream into a soupy mess, the jello overpowers the flavors of the other fruit, and the acidity makes it harder for the whipped cream to stay fluffy. The dish is supposed to be mostly marshmallows, though.
It's funny that this abomination somehow ended up being called ambrosia in the US. Ambrosia is also a dessert originating from 18th century Portugal, and really traditional in the south of Brazil, made from a curdly mix of eggs, sugar and milk.
I can't believe there were no jarred cherries. I absolutely love ambrosia salad. It is so freaking good. Whenever I've had it or made it, there is very minimal liquid. This recipe was an abomination. I live in Maryland (have all my life) and know nothing about its origin. I just remember it would be around at cookouts, pool parties, get togethers growing up. The taste is so nostalgic to me.
@@r09d98 Ambrosia is what the ancient Greeks call the food or drink of the gods. There are many cultures that have used its name for different types of food and drink. There is no basis for what it is, so it could literally be anything.
When he said hardtack I was expecting the Tasting History Max "clack clack" clip lol. I watch him to often to subconsciously do that in my head whenever I hear the word
Down south, we grow up with sweet tea in our bottles so....too sweet is very subjective. ambrosia is a staple at every Basement Baptist potluck and ours always had marishino cherries and is more fluffy than runny. Or you can buy it premade at the grocery store deli counter. and that chicken recipe is also very similar to a lot of things we eat too! There's always a chicken crockpot pasta or dip made with similar ingredients at the potluck too. I was thinking it sounded delicious haha.
buc-ee's (the oversized gas station chain in texas) has something they call 'sausage on a stick' which is literally just a big ol sausage wrapped in a flour tortilla. its rlly good ! im not surprised the hot dog bake worked out lol
The slow cooker chicken is great on a ciabatta bun with pepperoncinis…of course no pasta. We tried the pasta version and thought it was too much so tried it on buns and loved it!!
I can't explain why I find my SIL's Ambrosia so addictively scrumptious. I'm not a huge fan of the individual ingredients, though to be fair I don't know what all she puts in it, and I don't ask, but, together, this "salad" sends my taste buds into orbit. She always sends me home with any leftovers and it doesn't last long, I can't help it.
My mom's ambrosia is 1 & ½ contairs of cool whip, whole bag of mini marshmallos, a can of pears, can of pineapple tidbits, can of peaches and a can of mandarin oranges. Cut the bigger pieces and drain it over night. Some people like pecans/walnuts and coconut shereds mixed in..I dont agree with those mix ins. Mix it all together, let chill and boom, hoilday favorite
We never added the additional cottage cheese to our ambrosia, which clearly does not allow it to set. Too much moisture. Ours set firm, so it was a fluffy jello with fruit and marshmallows. It's pure picnic food for eating outside. Pistachio pudding or lime jello works better than orange.
Been watching your videos for long time, I've got just one question, if you suspect something might not come out that good, why not make proportionally less quantity 🤔
@@kristinrush I don't believe that for a second. I've never seen a GOOD recipe that cannot be reduced proportionately. If a recipe cannot be reduced and retain its taste or consistency, then it's a bad recipe (or the cook lacks the necessary skills). I will grant there may be cases where a recipe requires a whole egg for 4 portions and you can't really break that down or a recipe uses a 1/4 tsp of a spice or flavoring for 8 servings (trying to get 1/32 tsp is pretty close to impossible--so you just add the proverbial "dash" or "splash"), but, again, it's a poor cook who can't find some workaround in order to reduce a recipe to fit their needs.
He does what we can not even dream of, similar to safiya nygards wish hauls we all know that its a scam or buying super expensive wacky shit. Something we lowkey wanna try out but its too dumb to try, one of the reasons why these videos perform so well.
I grew up with your "orange jello salad" (orange pineapple whip in my household) and these are the differences in recipes: the marshmallows are not needed at all (I have never added and would never add), drain your canned fruit (it looked far too wet), cut the amount of cottage cheese in half (it's mostly there for texture), and use half the amount of jello powder. I myself am not a huge fan, but my brothers request it every year.
You thought ambrosia alongside other jello salads were bad, you should of seen the infamous Party Cheese Salad. Which is a jello salad made with lemon jello, crushed pineapple, bell pepper, celery, pimentos, cool whip, and cream cheese. And topped with American cheese. Some UA-camrs made it and tried it, all with the same reaction to the known food crime.
My aunt makes the most delicious ambrosia mold! Strawberry jello + frozen strawberries + crushed pineapple in a mold then slathered w/ sour cream. It sounds horrific but is my favorite desert by far
I'm from the midwest and I didn't know about those jello salads until I started working in a grocery store deli where they were VERY popular. I feel like it's not something you can try as an adult, you need to have some nostalgia to be able to understand it lol.
Watching the jello salad thing just reminds me of how much MN and the south have in common. Whether it's the notable accents or the weird side dishes at BBQs we are all in this shit together. Home is always home.
i grew up with ambrosia salad, my mom makes it for special occasions tho there's no jello or cottage cheese in it. it's just mini marshmallows, pineapple, little orange slices and whipped cream.
The word "salad" comes from the French "salade", which is an abbreviated form of the earlier Latin "herba salata". Salt is associated with salad because vegetables were seasoned with brine (a solution of salt in water) or salty oil-and-vinegar dressings during Roman times.
Our version of ambrosia salad did not have cottage cheese (because that stuff is not a real food) and did not use multiple boxes of Jell-o. It still was very sweet. There are variations on ambrosia that add walnuts or maraschino cherries.
Mexican here and those first hotdogs... We make them all the time LOL But we slice the winer and just fold the tortilla to make a quesadilla or we put the winers and cheese sadwiched in two flour tortillas to make a sincronizada.
My family has a 'salad' with vanilla pudding mix, crushed pineapple, and boiled wheat berries. I have never been happier to be allergic to pineapple than I am when that 'salad' comes out.
Tbh these recipes are the reason why I thought for a very long time that Americans have the palate of a 5year old child (and sometimes I still do think that) 😅
Literally none of those are mainstays, and only one could possibly pass as maybe acceptable for a baseball themed pot luck (and even then it would get side eyed).
Man i love ambrosia but i keep mine just sweet without any curveballs (i hope?). I just mix cool whip, pineapple chunks(not crushed), peeled Clementine segments (i don't like mandarins), maraschino cherries with the juice, mini marshmallows, and coconut flakes (obviously you wouldn't be able to have that i think 😅). I think its super tasty but i love sloppa too
I'm horrified. I grew up in the 70s, and had a lot of jello salad- you make the jello as jello, with the fruit in it. When it chills, you cube it, then mix stuff with it.
Spent 33 out of 36 years living in Virginia and have never seen any jello recipes, not even from the whitest of the Wonderbread households. I am gagging at that orange slurry.
Always be careful with ground meat tho ! Got seriously sick after eating (infected ?) lamb meat a week ago Don’t be paranoid, just don’t take stupid “risks” 😅
Your smiley face burger actually looked better than the original XD Having said that - my gosh, the things that get viral these days are something else XD
before the intro finished I was trembling. You're a valiant hero... so we don't have to be. Real ambrosia is fresh orange, grapefruit + pineapple w coconut. Maybe maraschinos.? Pecans
Good God, that's not the ambrosia I grew up with. We make a few trays of jello (normally strawberry, orange, and a wild card one depending on the occasion), cut it up into 3/4" cubes, fold in some whipped cream, cut fruit, marshmallows. It's delicious and not too sweet because we usually use low sugar stuff and omit sugar in the whipped cream.
I live in Georgia. My mom does cool whip, pistachio pudding, cherries, pineapple, walnuts, and marshmallows. Think it’s called watergate salad. I don’t care for it, but it’s not bad. 😂
I loooove ambrosia salad but my family makes it entirely differently (and better). We use fruit cocktail plus a ton of other canned fruits, drain them, then use homemade whip cream so you make it less sweet then what cool whip is, then add the mini marshmallows. It’s so good. Most of the sweetness should come from the fruit instead of the cream.
We also made the ambrosia salad with pistachio pudding mix.... I've never seen it with the orange Jello... I think it's more of a mix between Watergate salad and ambrosia salad. I love the one made with pistachio though
omg, this is probably the worst group of recipes you have ever made. I can't believe these even exist. bless you for going through the trenches with them.
Ive never had that jello salad thing and honestly i dont think id like it either 😂 my parents used to make a different orange jello salad thing with shredded carrots, oranges, and pineapple which was good
Assuming they're parody is underestimating how readily people will go "ooh, that looks like a cute idea!" and not think deeply enough to realize how horrifying it is to people with more culinary sense.
I love Ambrosia fruit salad but the recipe my family makes is generally not so soupy. And no we don’t add any weird ingredients (that I know of, but it is a summertime only food so haven’t had it yet this year).
9:09 The trick with this salad is to drain the fruit well, and drain the cottage cheese well. I use coconut cream whipped topping. My mom only used one package of jello, and precisely zero marshmallows. Ew. I also do not use crushed pineapple. I buy chunks, and slice them in half. Adding the jello to the drained cottage cheese separately makes for a better texture. Did I see mandarin oranges? That recipe you made was gross. That is way, way too much jello/sugar. Again: one package is fine, and I buy sugar free jello for this. Wow…🤗🤗🤗🫶🏻🫶🏻💋
My sister makes what we call “orange fluff” similar to that fruit ‘salad’ that you made but it’s a lot fluffier and less soupy than that one 🥴 it’s actually a really tasty light desert when done well but I get why it’s off putting to some
I consider myself someone who is very much unfazed by most disgusting things; I've lived through the early ages of internet shock sites, seen worse IRL stuff... and yet seeing the intro clip of that jello salad made me gag.
I’m from the south but had a strict but bougie mom who did not let her extremely ADHD kid have much sugar. To be fair I became a demon who literally bounced off walls screaming boula boula boula. But when I went to my grandmas I got to experience the joys of jello concoctions and some were better than others. As an adult the only one I really loved my ex’s mom made. It used jello, pudding, cool whip and mandarin oranges & I liked it enough I wanted to try and make an elevated version. Instead of cool whip, freshly whipped cream. Sub a homemade pudding instead of insant pudding, & maybe some salt to offset all the sweetness. I’ve never made it tho bc I gave up sugar, but I think it’d be pretty fire.
Where im from in the midwest we too have ambrosia salad, but this was not our recipe lol. Ill be skipping this one and sticking with the traditional usual my family and communities always made, one container of cool whip, sour cream, marshmellows, chunky pinapple, maraschino cherries, and mandarin oranges all drained and pat dry, and sweetened coconut flakes with chopped pecans as a garnish. All mixed together, its fluffy, sweet (but the sour cream helps to tone it down a little), and great in small portions with a big hearty potluck. I tried an south easterners attempt at ambrosia salad a few months back and as a Midwesterner he looked to me for approval and i accidentally made a face and had to tell him "you tried, its just... Not what i grew up with. But the kids love it!" I did not mean to destroy his dreams of making a midwestern approved ambrosia, but alas. Maybe next time ill just bring it to the cook out 😂 we do have a different version, called watergate fluff salad (different type of ambrosia but with pudding mix, think pistachio) thats almost the same minus the sour cream, butnits only a single pack of oudding mix and not THREE. We also do like our jello based salads... Really we'll make anything into a "salad" if you leave us alone in a room long enough 😂
my mom has made that exact orange jello 'salad' my whole life :D So it is a midwestern 80s (or earlier) thing, not a recent tiktok monstrosity. I didn't like it as a kid because I didn't like cottage cheese, but I actually kinda like it now. I will say her version only used one box of jello powder, and no marshmallows, so it was probably way less cloyingly sweet.
For the meatloaf monstrosity just use a skull cake pan to make your favorite meatloaf. For the eyes only takes one , cut in half hard boiled egg. Add ketchup 'blood' and its horrifying af. BUT, it will taste good.
Ooh, orange stuff. Never had that. I've had green and blue stuff though. So I have half a hope for it, though it was certainly looser than the others. Edit: the green stuff is watergate salad Edit2: Cottage Cheese is odd, I'd probably not use that.
We have a version of ambrosia in New Zealand - usually a combination of fresh whipped cream, yoghurt (I usually use a raspberry), chocolate shavings, fruit (e.g. summer berries), and marshmallows. American ambrosia sounds like an abomination.
OOf that smiley burger looks like some kind of Scrub Daddy blood sacrifice. 😂
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Texan here and my family has a similar jell-o recipe 😂 (lime jell-o, pineapple, marshmallows, milk, cream cheese & cottage cheese). I LOVE it and, regrettably, once took it to a company potluck. Literally EVERYONE was quietly like "WTH is that??" 🤣
😂
My grandmother made something very similar... Canned fruit salad instead of canned pineapple but almost identical otherwise.
It's a staple at holiday dinners with my sister in law and her family.
I really like it!😋
Similar dish but lime and/or lemon Jell-O, canned pineapple, cool whip and marshmallows. Called it slimer salad.
The gag/gasp paired with the “makin’ my flesh crawl” sent me 😂😂
That sheepish, sneaky second bite at 2:56 is relatable. Honestly, this one is fine and even open to modifications like a different cheese or even caramelized onions in the tortilla.
2:01 my mother used to wrap a hot dog in a corn tortilla, pan fry it, and serve it with yellow mustard. She called it a hot dog taco. It is very simple, but tasty.🤗🤗🤗😋
I’m gonna try this 😂
Yeah that one seemed pretty good on it's own, without needing to bake it and add a bunch of extra cheese!
We call it a Mexican hot dog!
We call it a chihuahua dog in my house! We do add the cheese inside, though. Husband has it with chili, I have it with mustar, lol.
For the ambrosia: skip the cottage cheese and jello, double the marshmallows, use pineapple chunks instead of crushed, add chopped maraschino cherries and drain and pat dry all the fruit. Too much juice will deflate the whipped cream into a soupy mess, the jello overpowers the flavors of the other fruit, and the acidity makes it harder for the whipped cream to stay fluffy. The dish is supposed to be mostly marshmallows, though.
You definitely get it! Ambrosia is definitely good in small amounts and yes, should not be as runny as his was in the video
It's funny that this abomination somehow ended up being called ambrosia in the US.
Ambrosia is also a dessert originating from 18th century Portugal, and really traditional in the south of Brazil, made from a curdly mix of eggs, sugar and milk.
I can't believe there were no jarred cherries. I absolutely love ambrosia salad. It is so freaking good. Whenever I've had it or made it, there is very minimal liquid. This recipe was an abomination. I live in Maryland (have all my life) and know nothing about its origin. I just remember it would be around at cookouts, pool parties, get togethers growing up. The taste is so nostalgic to me.
@@r09d98 Ambrosia is what the ancient Greeks call the food or drink of the gods. There are many cultures that have used its name for different types of food and drink. There is no basis for what it is, so it could literally be anything.
When he said hardtack I was expecting the Tasting History Max "clack clack" clip lol.
I watch him to often to subconsciously do that in my head whenever I hear the word
Down south, we grow up with sweet tea in our bottles so....too sweet is very subjective. ambrosia is a staple at every Basement Baptist potluck and ours always had marishino cherries and is more fluffy than runny. Or you can buy it premade at the grocery store deli counter. and that chicken recipe is also very similar to a lot of things we eat too! There's always a chicken crockpot pasta or dip made with similar ingredients at the potluck too. I was thinking it sounded delicious haha.
Personally with the ambrosia, I would drain most of the pineapple juice out before adding the pineapple because it looks way too runny
My grandma makes the best orange jello “salad” it’s just orange jello made normally, but you add mandarin oranges and shredded carrots to it. So good.
Typically that salad does not have Jello in it. There might be some out there with it, but not 3 boxes 😂
EVERYBODY‘S SO CREATIVE!
buc-ee's (the oversized gas station chain in texas) has something they call 'sausage on a stick' which is literally just a big ol sausage wrapped in a flour tortilla. its rlly good ! im not surprised the hot dog bake worked out lol
The slow cooker chicken is great on a ciabatta bun with pepperoncinis…of course no pasta. We tried the pasta version and thought it was too much so tried it on buns and loved it!!
I can't explain why I find my SIL's Ambrosia so addictively scrumptious. I'm not a huge fan of the individual ingredients, though to be fair I don't know what all she puts in it, and I don't ask, but, together, this "salad" sends my taste buds into orbit. She always sends me home with any leftovers and it doesn't last long, I can't help it.
I would totally try the hotdog one. I’ll never make it but if I was somewhere and someone ELSE had made it, I would try it.
My mom's ambrosia is 1 & ½ contairs of cool whip, whole bag of mini marshmallos, a can of pears, can of pineapple tidbits, can of peaches and a can of mandarin oranges. Cut the bigger pieces and drain it over night. Some people like pecans/walnuts and coconut shereds mixed in..I dont agree with those mix ins. Mix it all together, let chill and boom, hoilday favorite
I would 100% watch an "ambrosia salad taste test" video or different regional salads 😂
I grew up with the orange jello salad as well as a pistachio version ❤ I miss them sometimes lol
Watergate salad
that orange jello 'salad' is a very 60's recipe. the era of jello-molds/jello-salads was...a very dark time for humanity
We never added the additional cottage cheese to our ambrosia, which clearly does not allow it to set. Too much moisture. Ours set firm, so it was a fluffy jello with fruit and marshmallows. It's pure picnic food for eating outside. Pistachio pudding or lime jello works better than orange.
Been watching your videos for long time, I've got just one question, if you suspect something might not come out that good, why not make proportionally less quantity 🤔
He always follows the recipe exactly so he can taste what they were going for. Changing portions and ratios might alter the finished product.
@@kristinrush I don't believe that for a second. I've never seen a GOOD recipe that cannot be reduced proportionately. If a recipe cannot be reduced and retain its taste or consistency, then it's a bad recipe (or the cook lacks the necessary skills). I will grant there may be cases where a recipe requires a whole egg for 4 portions and you can't really break that down or a recipe uses a 1/4 tsp of a spice or flavoring for 8 servings (trying to get 1/32 tsp is pretty close to impossible--so you just add the proverbial "dash" or "splash"), but, again, it's a poor cook who can't find some workaround in order to reduce a recipe to fit their needs.
He can just write it off on his taxes anyway so why not
He does what we can not even dream of, similar to safiya nygards wish hauls we all know that its a scam or buying super expensive wacky shit. Something we lowkey wanna try out but its too dumb to try, one of the reasons why these videos perform so well.
@@kristinrush yess he even bought the exact brand or type for some of his videos
David, David, David..... trainwreck I cant help watching! 😂
My aunt always made one she always called Pink Jello Salad 😂 I hated it. My niece? Loves it
I grew up with your "orange jello salad" (orange pineapple whip in my household) and these are the differences in recipes: the marshmallows are not needed at all (I have never added and would never add), drain your canned fruit (it looked far too wet), cut the amount of cottage cheese in half (it's mostly there for texture), and use half the amount of jello powder.
I myself am not a huge fan, but my brothers request it every year.
Nah, I need the mini mallows.
You thought ambrosia alongside other jello salads were bad, you should of seen the infamous Party Cheese Salad. Which is a jello salad made with lemon jello, crushed pineapple, bell pepper, celery, pimentos, cool whip, and cream cheese. And topped with American cheese. Some UA-camrs made it and tried it, all with the same reaction to the known food crime.
Should've or should have, not "should of."
I use to call a hot dog wrapped in a tortilla with a slice of cheese an “American burrito” when my kids were small.
My aunt makes the most delicious ambrosia mold! Strawberry jello + frozen strawberries + crushed pineapple in a mold then slathered w/ sour cream. It sounds horrific but is my favorite desert by far
My family makes this but adds cherry jello and a can of cranberry sauce with whole berries in it for the holidays. It's one of my favorite's as well.
David, why do you do this to yourself?
This is an intervention, we're concerned for you!
Funniest thing I've seen today
Creator heart lol.
Lol the second bite 😂
I'm from the midwest and I didn't know about those jello salads until I started working in a grocery store deli where they were VERY popular. I feel like it's not something you can try as an adult, you need to have some nostalgia to be able to understand it lol.
Watching the jello salad thing just reminds me of how much MN and the south have in common. Whether it's the notable accents or the weird side dishes at BBQs we are all in this shit together. Home is always home.
If you didn’t like the last thing you should definitely try aunt Myrna’s party cheese salad.
i grew up with ambrosia salad, my mom makes it for special occasions tho there's no jello or cottage cheese in it. it's just mini marshmallows, pineapple, little orange slices and whipped cream.
The word "salad" comes from the French "salade", which is an abbreviated form of the earlier Latin "herba salata". Salt is associated with salad because vegetables were seasoned with brine (a solution of salt in water) or salty oil-and-vinegar dressings during Roman times.
Our version of ambrosia salad did not have cottage cheese (because that stuff is not a real food) and did not use multiple boxes of Jell-o. It still was very sweet. There are variations on ambrosia that add walnuts or maraschino cherries.
I alays make the jello like it's supposed to be made and then add in the coolwhip and the fruit and all of that... and it's so delicious.
The jello salad is the least heinous of all these recipes!
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Mexican here and those first hotdogs... We make them all the time LOL But we slice the winer and just fold the tortilla to make a quesadilla or we put the winers and cheese sadwiched in two flour tortillas to make a sincronizada.
I got hooked on a version of ambrosia salad when I was a child. But we'd have it along side other strongly flavored foods, like bbq grilled chicken.
$15 for hot dogs is more disturbing than the raw meat.
We make the jello thing for pretty much every holiday. The only difference is it's only a single box of jello because that flavor is INTENSE
My family has a 'salad' with vanilla pudding mix, crushed pineapple, and boiled wheat berries. I have never been happier to be allergic to pineapple than I am when that 'salad' comes out.
That smiley burger is a heinous crime against humanity
I think you need to create your own one pot pasta bake thing.
My family has a jello salad recipe. It’s orange jello, caned oranges and cool whip.
Tbh these recipes are the reason why I thought for a very long time that Americans have the palate of a 5year old child (and sometimes I still do think that) 😅
Literally none of those are mainstays, and only one could possibly pass as maybe acceptable for a baseball themed pot luck (and even then it would get side eyed).
Man i love ambrosia but i keep mine just sweet without any curveballs (i hope?). I just mix cool whip, pineapple chunks(not crushed), peeled Clementine segments (i don't like mandarins), maraschino cherries with the juice, mini marshmallows, and coconut flakes (obviously you wouldn't be able to have that i think 😅). I think its super tasty but i love sloppa too
Ambrosia fucking slaps. My grandmas recipe calls for all this and sour cream and its fucking amazing. Always makes me think of her.
I've always exluded the sour cream because i thought it sounded weird.. I'll have to try it next time
I'm horrified. I grew up in the 70s, and had a lot of jello salad- you make the jello as jello, with the fruit in it. When it chills, you cube it, then mix stuff with it.
The only time the potato chips to mashed potatoes even somewhat works is when you use those Japanese potato sticks bc they're thicker
I knew one day the smiley burger would make it here and I wasn't disappointed. lol
Spent 33 out of 36 years living in Virginia and have never seen any jello recipes, not even from the whitest of the Wonderbread households. I am gagging at that orange slurry.
Ha I'm from VA and we have the pistachio version of this every year at xmas
$15 for hot dogs? What the actual heck.
It was an extra big pack of the expensive brand of hot dogs. That exact pack would be 8 or 10 bucks where I'm at
Always be careful with ground meat tho ! Got seriously sick after eating (infected ?) lamb meat a week ago
Don’t be paranoid, just don’t take stupid “risks” 😅
Your smiley face burger actually looked better than the original XD Having said that - my gosh, the things that get viral these days are something else XD
“This is horrific”😂😂😂
before the intro finished I was trembling. You're a valiant hero... so we don't have to be. Real ambrosia is fresh orange, grapefruit + pineapple w coconut. Maybe maraschinos.? Pecans
Good God, that's not the ambrosia I grew up with. We make a few trays of jello (normally strawberry, orange, and a wild card one depending on the occasion), cut it up into 3/4" cubes, fold in some whipped cream, cut fruit, marshmallows. It's delicious and not too sweet because we usually use low sugar stuff and omit sugar in the whipped cream.
I live in Georgia. My mom does cool whip, pistachio pudding, cherries, pineapple, walnuts, and marshmallows. Think it’s called watergate salad. I don’t care for it, but it’s not bad. 😂
I loooove ambrosia salad but my family makes it entirely differently (and better). We use fruit cocktail plus a ton of other canned fruits, drain them, then use homemade whip cream so you make it less sweet then what cool whip is, then add the mini marshmallows. It’s so good. Most of the sweetness should come from the fruit instead of the cream.
I do "hot dogs" with tortillas and a mozarella stick inside in the air fryer and it is good with any sauce you like, but this is too soggy for me...
Love your content david! Please make a Carbonara battle!❤❤❤❤
retry the chick parm pasta with YOUR recipe please :D
My grandma used to make something like the last one called Frog-eye Salad
Thank you for trying without the cottage cheese. Was so curious.
We also made the ambrosia salad with pistachio pudding mix.... I've never seen it with the orange Jello... I think it's more of a mix between Watergate salad and ambrosia salad.
I love the one made with pistachio though
Why did that midwestern mom pop into my head when he made the jello salad “Minnesota salads that aren’t really salad”
David id love to see you try the minnesota salads from that midwestern mom. A collab be harious.
All of those with the exception of beef face looked pretty good to me lol
For the algorithm! On on, my Liege
omg, this is probably the worst group of recipes you have ever made. I can't believe these even exist. bless you for going through the trenches with them.
We already knew David would go for the whole sausage
Ive never had that jello salad thing and honestly i dont think id like it either 😂 my parents used to make a different orange jello salad thing with shredded carrots, oranges, and pineapple which was good
We grew up eating Watergate salad.. No mayo or cottage cheese, just delicious (at least from my childhood memories).. 😄
Assuming they're parody is underestimating how readily people will go "ooh, that looks like a cute idea!" and not think deeply enough to realize how horrifying it is to people with more culinary sense.
Have you seen That Midwestern Mom’s content? Her whole shtick is, “Minnesota salads that aren’t really salads” 😂 Some of them are abominations. 😂😂😂
I love Ambrosia fruit salad but the recipe my family makes is generally not so soupy. And no we don’t add any weird ingredients (that I know of, but it is a summertime only food so haven’t had it yet this year).
3:42 There is no borderline involved. That thing IS horrifying. Yikes!🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣
Ambrosia Salad is as its name suggests, the food of the Gods. Your mom gets it
Just discovered your channel. Great video!
Jello salad is southern now??? 😮
I grew up in MN and there was at least one Jello salad every holiday meal.
9:09 The trick with this salad is to drain the fruit well, and drain the cottage cheese well. I use coconut cream whipped topping. My mom only used one package of jello, and precisely zero marshmallows. Ew. I also do not use crushed pineapple. I buy chunks, and slice them in half. Adding the jello to the drained cottage cheese separately makes for a better texture. Did I see mandarin oranges? That recipe you made was gross. That is way, way too much jello/sugar. Again: one package is fine, and I buy sugar free jello for this. Wow…🤗🤗🤗🫶🏻🫶🏻💋
Texas here as well. We make the ambrosia but we use whipped cream
One day you should collect your followers weirdest family recipes and recreate them
My sister makes what we call “orange fluff” similar to that fruit ‘salad’ that you made but it’s a lot fluffier and less soupy than that one 🥴 it’s actually a really tasty light desert when done well but I get why it’s off putting to some
If that's a meat loaf I'm living on Mars.
Love your content david! (Daniel here)
The things people come up with 😭😭 My goodness
i literally had to look away when he took a bite of that face burger potato chip stuff
I consider myself someone who is very much unfazed by most disgusting things; I've lived through the early ages of internet shock sites, seen worse IRL stuff... and yet seeing the intro clip of that jello salad made me gag.
I’m from the south but had a strict but bougie mom who did not let her extremely ADHD kid have much sugar. To be fair I became a demon who literally bounced off walls screaming boula boula boula. But when I went to my grandmas I got to experience the joys of jello concoctions and some were better than others. As an adult the only one I really loved my ex’s mom made. It used jello, pudding, cool whip and mandarin oranges & I liked it enough I wanted to try and make an elevated version. Instead of cool whip, freshly whipped cream. Sub a homemade pudding instead of insant pudding, & maybe some salt to offset all the sweetness. I’ve never made it tho bc I gave up sugar, but I think it’d be pretty fire.
Where im from in the midwest we too have ambrosia salad, but this was not our recipe lol. Ill be skipping this one and sticking with the traditional usual my family and communities always made, one container of cool whip, sour cream, marshmellows, chunky pinapple, maraschino cherries, and mandarin oranges all drained and pat dry, and sweetened coconut flakes with chopped pecans as a garnish. All mixed together, its fluffy, sweet (but the sour cream helps to tone it down a little), and great in small portions with a big hearty potluck. I tried an south easterners attempt at ambrosia salad a few months back and as a Midwesterner he looked to me for approval and i accidentally made a face and had to tell him "you tried, its just... Not what i grew up with. But the kids love it!" I did not mean to destroy his dreams of making a midwestern approved ambrosia, but alas. Maybe next time ill just bring it to the cook out 😂 we do have a different version, called watergate fluff salad (different type of ambrosia but with pudding mix, think pistachio) thats almost the same minus the sour cream, butnits only a single pack of oudding mix and not THREE. We also do like our jello based salads... Really we'll make anything into a "salad" if you leave us alone in a room long enough 😂
my mom has made that exact orange jello 'salad' my whole life :D So it is a midwestern 80s (or earlier) thing, not a recent tiktok monstrosity. I didn't like it as a kid because I didn't like cottage cheese, but I actually kinda like it now. I will say her version only used one box of jello powder, and no marshmallows, so it was probably way less cloyingly sweet.
I was going to say 3 boxes is overkill. My family skips the pineapple and marshmallows too.
For the meatloaf monstrosity just use a skull cake pan to make your favorite meatloaf. For the eyes only takes one , cut in half hard boiled egg. Add ketchup 'blood' and its horrifying af. BUT, it will taste good.
Ooh, orange stuff. Never had that. I've had green and blue stuff though. So I have half a hope for it, though it was certainly looser than the others. Edit: the green stuff is watergate salad Edit2: Cottage Cheese is odd, I'd probably not use that.
I have never seen an ambrosia that was made in that manner. Its always closer to the alton brown version
When you say “hardtack”, you’re supposed to clap together two biscuits. Wait…wrong channel.
Basternied is funny asf😂😂😂
We have a version of ambrosia in New Zealand - usually a combination of fresh whipped cream, yoghurt (I usually use a raspberry), chocolate shavings, fruit (e.g. summer berries), and marshmallows. American ambrosia sounds like an abomination.
Hotdog-flation! 🌭💸😩
That smiley face burger thing was upsetting to me, it would be so easy to use those ingredients to make something delicious!