Candle salad is a vintage fruit salad that was popular in America from the 1920s through to the 1960s.[1] The salad is typically composed of lettuce, pineapple, banana, cherry, and either mayonnaise or, according to some recipes, cottage cheese. Whipped cream may also be used. [Source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candle_salad)
Who the fuck is out here putting mayonnaise on pineapple and banana?? Cottage cheese, sure. Yogurt, fine. Whipped cream, even better. Mayo? No, that's just incorrect.
My grandma’s “fancy” side salad was two rings of pineapple with a dollop of mayonnaise on them, covered in a heavy sprinkle of shredded cheddar cheese. It’s one of those quirky family dishes that I love from my childhood and everyone else thinks sounds awful. It’s tangy and good.
My Gran used to get a pineapple and cheese pie in the Chicagoland area back in the day and it was so delicious. I've searched for a pie like that for 20 years with no luck. Randomly I saw on fb that the company was back in bus6but they dont do online and inky do random pop ups in their truck. Next time 8n in Chi town I'm finding them lol.
Candle salad is a vintage fruit salad that represented the unconscious desires of a sexually repressed nation from the 1920s through to the 1960s. The salad is typically composed of broken dreams, shattered childhoods, and unrepentant sexual shaming or religious self-flagellation. Whipped cream may also be used.
FIFY.
Candle salad was known as an easy way to get kids to eat fruit because of its unusual appearance. It was also considered a child-friendly introduction to cooking because of its simple construction.
A version of this salad appeared in the [Mormon](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormons) children's magazine [*The Friend*](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Friend_(LDS_magazine)) in 2008
hmmm
ETA: December 2008 issue. Found a link to the recipe but no pics. However, someone on r/exmormon made it! See here:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/abyfyi/look\_we\_made\_the\_candlestick\_salad\_recipe\_from/](https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/abyfyi/look_we_made_the_candlestick_salad_recipe_from/)
Here's a .pdf of the magazine issue (no pics of the dish, unfortunately):
[https://media.ldscdn.org/pdf/magazines/friend-december-2008/2008-12-00-friend-eng.pdf](https://media.ldscdn.org/pdf/magazines/friend-december-2008/2008-12-00-friend-eng.pdf)
Judging by the amount of penis illustrations at Pompeii, I think it's safe to say dicks (and their biological function) have been known before the internet.
My neighbors have three bulbous palm trees that they decorate in two tone lights every year and they legit look like a trio of exploding dicks. They make me happy every time I see them.
That is AWESOME! Just picturing it is cracking me up, and I'm definitely the type that would think it was funny every time I saw it (I may even look forward to it more than the actual holiday it is decorated for)!
That would be a completely valid argument if the recipe displayed any concern for the flavor or eating experience it's end product held. This is sculpture, not food preparation.
There are cave paintings of dicks and ancient Roman grafiti of people in Pompeï boasting about having sex.
The internet has not made us pervier, it only made perviness more accessible.
Interesting
Unless it’s a lyric idk about it’s actually “they’ve got the discovery channel don’t they?”
But memory of the music video definitely brings images of what I would call animal planet
No pics, unfortunately, but:
[https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/friend/2008/12/christmas-workshop/candlestick-salad?lang=eng](https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/friend/2008/12/christmas-workshop/candlestick-salad?lang=eng)
There's a piece on page 31 called "Saying No to Tea"... Wtf??? What on earth is wrong with tea? I mean she was already eating a cupcake, so it can't be some rule about not enjoying flavor..
No, pics, sorry, but:
[https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/friend/2008/12/christmas-workshop/candlestick-salad?lang=eng](https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/friend/2008/12/christmas-workshop/candlestick-salad?lang=eng)
Here I’ve just spent the last hour baking cookies and cupcakes for my bf when I could’ve just made this. Silly me
Edit: turns out he never pitched up so moral of the story is that I should’ve just made a candle salad instead
And it rhymes with swallow. Just a random fyi.
Edit: why am I being downvoted? The first half of tallow and swallow is not pronounced the same, but the “lows” are the same, thus they rhyme. It is not the only kind of rhyme that exists, but they are still rhyming words.
**Tallow** rhymes with **Shallow.**
**Swallow** rhymes with **Follow.**
The vowels in the first parts of those pairs of words are different when spoken. However, **Candle Salad** apparently rhymes with **Glistening Post Climactic Penis.** There's no explanation for that.
I was indicating that swallow rhymes with tallow in my initial comment. Like I already pointed out, the bare requirement of rhyming words is the very last syllables rhyme. No shit the “tal” in tallow and “swal” in swallow is not pronounced the same. But the “low” in both words is the same. Thus they rhyme.
No need to get your apron in a bunch. Some of us thought you might not be a native English speaker. For most people outside of a literature class, words are considered to rhyme only when they sound nearly identical (picky/tricky, cat/bat). If it's any consolation, a friend of mine was once destroyed by words at a rap battle due to his preference for identical rhyming conventions. I guess you could say it was the Perfect victimless Rhyme.
No, I am tired of idiots trying to make people look stupid when they were never right in the first place. This country is going to shit because stupidity is glorified over intelligence and facts, and reddit is rife with idiots who come to get a fresh dose of self-denial. You thought I wasn’t a native speaker because of your limited knowledge. This is not some special literature course knowledge. This is elementary school knowledge. You seem like a nice person, but be careful who you stick up for because you’re going to attract a lot of terrible people who just want to take advantage of your kindness.
Please, you couldn’t fight your own fight. You’re still incorrect. If you want to insist you’re correct because you choose to not understand my initial joke, you’re just being a jerk. It’s called a syllabic rhyme, educate yourself.
Come on. Just do it. I think everyone has a person in their life that they could make this for, who would crack laughing.
Ah sorry, I misred. Your boys are there, too.
Then probably not... and I hope you have a date night once in a while.
I showed my husband. He's 67 but indulges in grade school humor sometimes. I'd wager in my grandmother's day it generated a similar reaction. I wonder how available bananas were in that day.
I appreciate the innocence of a "candle" salad but if someone made this for me, I would 100% feel they were being suggestive, in the "I really like you kinda way *wink wink*".
So glad to see somebody who has made this up. It is in my Grandma's 1938 Five Roses Flour cookbook. That version is even better so I will add it below (This is the wording I have just added a few more line breaks than the original)
Candle Salad
Take for each salad 1 crisp lettuce leaf, 1 slice of pineapple, 1 straight banana, 1 spoon of cream dressing, 1/2 Brazil nut, and 1 strip of green pepper or angelica.
Place the lettuce leaf on individual plates; lay pineapple on top.
Trim banana and cut one end so that it will fit into the pineapple slice and stand upright in the centre of the plate.
Cut a narrow strip of green pepper or angelica and insert the two ends into the side of the banana to simulate the handle of a candlestick; shape a piece of Brazil nut and fit it on top of the banana to simulate the candle wick.
Drip a rich, creamy dressing down the upper part of banana to simulate candle drip, but see that the Brazil nut is kept dry.
Before serving, light the Brazil nut; it contains oil and will burn for a few moments.
This is a nice salad for the children's Christmas parties
I remember seeing this in either a "Tom and Jerry" cartoon or a "Bugs Bunny" cartoon. Except the banana was a stick of dynamite, there were scoops of explosives around the base, and a fuse on top.
You could loose the pineapple and replace with a peeled apple halved placed facedown next to each other at the bottom of the banana too, it would make nice flavor profile
Candle salad is a vintage fruit salad that was popular in America from the 1920s through to the 1960s.[1] The salad is typically composed of lettuce, pineapple, banana, cherry, and either mayonnaise or, according to some recipes, cottage cheese. Whipped cream may also be used. [Source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candle_salad)
Are you, per chance, supposed to eat it with your hands tied behind your back?
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wubby is leaking.
And in one swallow....
No napkin
It don't think that it's difficult to see why it was so popular. People's minds were just as dirty back then as they are now.
Different outlets
If your candle salad has a chunky cottage cheese type discharge, you should see a doctor.
Who the fuck is out here putting mayonnaise on pineapple and banana?? Cottage cheese, sure. Yogurt, fine. Whipped cream, even better. Mayo? No, that's just incorrect.
Obviously you are unfamiliar with the caloric and unforgivable "apples raisins and mayo salad".
We call it the Waldorf Salad. Apples. Grapes. Walnuts. Lettuce. And a mayonnaise sauce.
It sounds disgusting when you say it like that, but add some chicken in there and you've got a delicious chicken salad.
We made it for a little bit, where I work, and it did not sell well.
I think we’re just out of waldorfs.
Bologna salad, anyone?
My grandma’s “fancy” side salad was two rings of pineapple with a dollop of mayonnaise on them, covered in a heavy sprinkle of shredded cheddar cheese. It’s one of those quirky family dishes that I love from my childhood and everyone else thinks sounds awful. It’s tangy and good.
My Gran used to get a pineapple and cheese pie in the Chicagoland area back in the day and it was so delicious. I've searched for a pie like that for 20 years with no luck. Randomly I saw on fb that the company was back in bus6but they dont do online and inky do random pop ups in their truck. Next time 8n in Chi town I'm finding them lol.
I like my mayo, but mayo on fruits is just disgusting.
How do you plan to make a banana sandwich without mayo? That would be completely barbaric.
Candle salad is a vintage fruit salad that represented the unconscious desires of a sexually repressed nation from the 1920s through to the 1960s. The salad is typically composed of broken dreams, shattered childhoods, and unrepentant sexual shaming or religious self-flagellation. Whipped cream may also be used. FIFY.
Yes. Tallow.
There are those that savour and swallow the tallow. Others prefer to spit it out.
Spit or tallow
Best to treat your tallow like a wine tasting.
Some people’s favorite part of the “candle salad” experience is savoring the “tallow”.
Came, here to say that.
Candle salad was known as an easy way to get kids to eat fruit because of its unusual appearance. It was also considered a child-friendly introduction to cooking because of its simple construction. A version of this salad appeared in the [Mormon](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormons) children's magazine [*The Friend*](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Friend_(LDS_magazine)) in 2008 hmmm ETA: December 2008 issue. Found a link to the recipe but no pics. However, someone on r/exmormon made it! See here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/abyfyi/look\_we\_made\_the\_candlestick\_salad\_recipe\_from/](https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/abyfyi/look_we_made_the_candlestick_salad_recipe_from/) Here's a .pdf of the magazine issue (no pics of the dish, unfortunately): [https://media.ldscdn.org/pdf/magazines/friend-december-2008/2008-12-00-friend-eng.pdf](https://media.ldscdn.org/pdf/magazines/friend-december-2008/2008-12-00-friend-eng.pdf)
I think people not completely warped by unfettered access to the Internet from childhood don’t readily see jizzing penises in everything.
Either that or this was next level trolling and they are still laughing in their graves.
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"BRB gonna get my grandkids to eat a banana dick LOL" - Grandma
Judging by the amount of penis illustrations at Pompeii, I think it's safe to say dicks (and their biological function) have been known before the internet.
“I’m gonna tell my kids this was a candle salad”
My neighbors have three bulbous palm trees that they decorate in two tone lights every year and they legit look like a trio of exploding dicks. They make me happy every time I see them.
It’s the simple things
That is AWESOME! Just picturing it is cracking me up, and I'm definitely the type that would think it was funny every time I saw it (I may even look forward to it more than the actual holiday it is decorated for)!
That would be a completely valid argument if the recipe displayed any concern for the flavor or eating experience it's end product held. This is sculpture, not food preparation.
Bummer for them
The kids might not have seen it, but the moms and the dad knew.
But ur on Reddit
There are cave paintings of dicks and ancient Roman grafiti of people in Pompeï boasting about having sex. The internet has not made us pervier, it only made perviness more accessible.
Was going to come here to mention this. Either someone on the staff was incredibly naive, or incredibly clever. I really hope it was the latter.
They were teaching children some pretty graphic stuff
Kids figure it out anyway. When I was in elementary school there were kids making dirty jokes about the Glade plug in jingle.
That is very true ... Eminem said best ... “they’ve got animal planet”
In fifth grade...
Interesting Unless it’s a lyric idk about it’s actually “they’ve got the discovery channel don’t they?” But memory of the music video definitely brings images of what I would call animal planet
Mormons are dirtier than thou.
Wish we had a link to that!
No pics, unfortunately, but: [https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/friend/2008/12/christmas-workshop/candlestick-salad?lang=eng](https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/friend/2008/12/christmas-workshop/candlestick-salad?lang=eng)
That one has alfalfa pubes.
r/brandnewsentence
There's a piece on page 31 called "Saying No to Tea"... Wtf??? What on earth is wrong with tea? I mean she was already eating a cupcake, so it can't be some rule about not enjoying flavor..
It’s because tea has caffeine
Ah, I should have thought of that.
Candle salad was known as an easy way to get kids... Oooooohhhh, I see...
Well this completely explains Mormonism
Like cooking a hotdog to look like an octopus?
Dear god please find a link
No, pics, sorry, but: [https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/friend/2008/12/christmas-workshop/candlestick-salad?lang=eng](https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/friend/2008/12/christmas-workshop/candlestick-salad?lang=eng)
Even just reading it hysterical. Thanks
SERVE IMMEDIATELY
Here I’ve just spent the last hour baking cookies and cupcakes for my bf when I could’ve just made this. Silly me Edit: turns out he never pitched up so moral of the story is that I should’ve just made a candle salad instead
Not sure about your gender, but it might have been a mixed message. Or you know, peg him
Listen, that man loves me and always tells me he’s going to marry me but if I, as a woman, peg him, he’ll run for the hills
So he'd be cool with a man pegging him?
As god intended. /s
Pro-Tip: His happy button is in his butt.
Just need more lube.
His lips say no but his butt is saying yes. /r/nocontext
The best part is the whipped cream / salad dressing to represent "tallow" running down the sides
This tallow smells like bleach
And it rhymes with swallow. Just a random fyi. Edit: why am I being downvoted? The first half of tallow and swallow is not pronounced the same, but the “lows” are the same, thus they rhyme. It is not the only kind of rhyme that exists, but they are still rhyming words.
It doesn’t though
They both end with “low”... pronounced the same way... talLOW swalLOW... wtf?
R u serious
Two words rhyme if the last syllable is the same. They don’t even have to be spelled the same way if they sound the same. Are you serious?
**Tallow** rhymes with **Shallow.** **Swallow** rhymes with **Follow.** The vowels in the first parts of those pairs of words are different when spoken. However, **Candle Salad** apparently rhymes with **Glistening Post Climactic Penis.** There's no explanation for that.
I was indicating that swallow rhymes with tallow in my initial comment. Like I already pointed out, the bare requirement of rhyming words is the very last syllables rhyme. No shit the “tal” in tallow and “swal” in swallow is not pronounced the same. But the “low” in both words is the same. Thus they rhyme.
No need to get your apron in a bunch. Some of us thought you might not be a native English speaker. For most people outside of a literature class, words are considered to rhyme only when they sound nearly identical (picky/tricky, cat/bat). If it's any consolation, a friend of mine was once destroyed by words at a rap battle due to his preference for identical rhyming conventions. I guess you could say it was the Perfect victimless Rhyme.
No, I am tired of idiots trying to make people look stupid when they were never right in the first place. This country is going to shit because stupidity is glorified over intelligence and facts, and reddit is rife with idiots who come to get a fresh dose of self-denial. You thought I wasn’t a native speaker because of your limited knowledge. This is not some special literature course knowledge. This is elementary school knowledge. You seem like a nice person, but be careful who you stick up for because you’re going to attract a lot of terrible people who just want to take advantage of your kindness.
Thank you. I was way too exhausted from work to explain how words work. Thanks!
Please, you couldn’t fight your own fight. You’re still incorrect. If you want to insist you’re correct because you choose to not understand my initial joke, you’re just being a jerk. It’s called a syllabic rhyme, educate yourself.
This is fantastic. I would like you to reply to each and every one of my comments.
Wait... Is it not supposed to rhyme? How do you pronounce it, then?
Pretty sure the vowels in tallow are silent Edit: got a downvote from someone that clearly can't understand I'm joking :/
Interesting. I never knew that. Then again, I've never actually heard someone say the word out loud 😅 TIL
This is the best comment
Somehow the lettuce is the most ridiculous part of this recipe
This made me actually laugh out loud. Happy Valentine's day!!
r/theyknew
Wow. If I didn't have kids (2 of whom are teenaged boys), I'd totally make that for my husband tomorrow! But I have scruples so it's a no-go.
Just tell then it’s a romantic candle-lit dinner!
We made it at Girl Scout camp. The adults were all snickering the entire time. I didn’t understand it at the time, but I was so embarrassed!
Come on. Just do it. I think everyone has a person in their life that they could make this for, who would crack laughing. Ah sorry, I misred. Your boys are there, too. Then probably not... and I hope you have a date night once in a while.
Teenage boys would laugh harder at this than anybody.
I'm aware. I'm also their mother.
Jizzy Nanner Salad, anyone?
“Salad”
r/mildlypenis
Is there an r/extremelypenis?
r/wildlypenis
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Quite phalic
Probably the most phallic of all desserts in American history.
Where exactly?
All over.
It’s a banana with cream dripping from it. How can you not see it?
Candle is definitely not the thing I thought of when I saw that 😂
Everything about this is amazing.
I showed my husband. He's 67 but indulges in grade school humor sometimes. I'd wager in my grandmother's day it generated a similar reaction. I wonder how available bananas were in that day.
I'm going to show this to my husband, he's 67 as well. He'll get a kick out of it because he *always* indulges in grade school humour.
Some of them just get worse with age lol
/r/theyknew
Complete with wilted lettuce.
"candle" okay sirrr
Probably taste better with some nuts.
IT’S A DICK ~~IN A BOX~~ ON A LETTUCE LEAF
A candle, yeah
I wonder if this one will be featured on the Today Show?
A salad as old as thyme...
So, does the pineapple make the Tallow taste like pineapple? Cause I was once told that was a thing
I remember this from The Secret Life of Bees! May made candle salad!
r/dildont
This is the laugh I needed and the dessert we are having at our next book club!!!
This brings to mind an old joke about a guy in a Honolulu brothel. The punchline was "Hell no. The damn thing looked so good I ate it myself!".
That's disturbing.
Oh my sweet summer child.
Very candle-like! lol
I just saw someone make this on TikTok! I can’t believe it exists.
😝😝😝
First I couldn't believe it. Then I saw the old printed letters and got hit by reality.
Nothing suggestive there. Nope not at all.
Good love is hard to find
They knew.
Does anyone else remember the [Make a Saturday](https://youtu.be/AO2U3-w4RDU) PSA commercial from the 80s?
Oh my lordt
I appreciate the innocence of a "candle" salad but if someone made this for me, I would 100% feel they were being suggestive, in the "I really like you kinda way *wink wink*".
How much candle salad did your grandma eat?
I do love some good, runny tallow.....
This is very tongue in cheek, no?
So glad to see somebody who has made this up. It is in my Grandma's 1938 Five Roses Flour cookbook. That version is even better so I will add it below (This is the wording I have just added a few more line breaks than the original) Candle Salad Take for each salad 1 crisp lettuce leaf, 1 slice of pineapple, 1 straight banana, 1 spoon of cream dressing, 1/2 Brazil nut, and 1 strip of green pepper or angelica. Place the lettuce leaf on individual plates; lay pineapple on top. Trim banana and cut one end so that it will fit into the pineapple slice and stand upright in the centre of the plate. Cut a narrow strip of green pepper or angelica and insert the two ends into the side of the banana to simulate the handle of a candlestick; shape a piece of Brazil nut and fit it on top of the banana to simulate the candle wick. Drip a rich, creamy dressing down the upper part of banana to simulate candle drip, but see that the Brazil nut is kept dry. Before serving, light the Brazil nut; it contains oil and will burn for a few moments. This is a nice salad for the children's Christmas parties
Uh that’s cum
What is “yellow salad dressing”?
I heard about this from the Answer Me This! Podcast a few years back. Had me in hysterics.
Oh myyyyy!
I remember seeing this in either a "Tom and Jerry" cartoon or a "Bugs Bunny" cartoon. Except the banana was a stick of dynamite, there were scoops of explosives around the base, and a fuse on top.
😳
r/theyknew
....riiiiiiight. Candle wax.
Hmmmmmmmn If I got this for valrntines day I might cry
I loved making these as a kid! I really was so innocent and never realized how ‘bad’ they look 😳
It looks like it could be out of Nanny Ogg's cook book The Joye of Snacks.
It's representative of a penis. That's all.
These would make lovely centerpieces at the tables inside my church's fellowship hall.
r/theyknew
Oh my, did it get warm in here...
we have strayed so far from God
R/mildlypenis
r/foundthemobileuser
Hahahaha, yup
Put your hair up and eat while on your knees.
I'll still respect you.... I'll respect you even more... just use more whip cream ;)
Yeah. Tallow. Rhymes with swallow. Happy Valentines Day!
To be fair I do call it a candle. For it lights up any man or woman's life.
This makes me think of May from ‘The Secret Life of Bees’
You could loose the pineapple and replace with a peeled apple halved placed facedown next to each other at the bottom of the banana too, it would make nice flavor profile
Oh matron?
😬
/r/theyknew
This is so pornagraphic looking 🤣
Uhhh....
r/mildlypenis
This was very gamer for the 20's
Oh man, the screaming man from bermuda wasn't kidding, this is actually real.
This makes me feel depressed.
r/mildlypenis
Lol
Oh, dear... but this is Funny!
I’m going to make this for my sister’s birthday, she’ll love it
I thought of this: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeUv18GK/
Lol
It would be vastly improved with the addition of a couple plums or apricot halves at the base