Condiment. It goes on the sandwich, not in a cup next to it.
It can go on pulled pork, but on the side for everything else.
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Stays in the container unless exceptionally good.
Mmm corned beef, mild cheese, and cole slaw on toasted rye. I prefer the vinegar-based type, but even the white stuff is OK.
Side dish. (Also, I don’t care for the types of sandwiches I’ve seen it on, which probably doesn’t help.)
Cole slaw is sometimes a condiment and always a side dish. There are only a few sandwiches that it works well on, but it can stand alone next to almost anything.
Depends on how good it is, of course. I love the coleslaw from the fish cove, very very finely chopped - very fine - with carrot and pineapple, and a sweetish mayonnaise dressing. Usually it’s served in a little cup alongside the main dish or sandwich, and of varying quality. I don’t like it on a sandwich, it can get too soggy, but I don’t mind putting it on my sandwich myself from the little cup just before I eat it…
As a condiment, on a great big cheesesteak, with tomatos and french fries – all served on fresh Italian bread. (But it has to be vinegar slaw – it has that lovely tang to it) Pair that up with a cold beer and you’ve got Heaven on a bun.
Most of the time, it’s a side for me. Pulled pork and perhaps a Rachel are the only exceptions so far.
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Side dish, always.
why not both?
All the cole slaw I’ve ever had has been disguised, cleverly, as potato salad. (I hate cole slaw)
You drain it first so it’s not so wet. <Secrets of the Universe> 
Yes.
Side dish unless it is served with Carolina BBQ.
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Cole Slaw is ambi-sexual. It can screw your sandwich as a condiment if it’s bad, or make love to your sandwich if it’s good.
As a side, it doesn’t matter—if it’s good, eat it; if it’s bad, leave it and eat the deli pickle instead.
Usually when I’m having coleslaw, I’m also having baked beans. I don’t mix the two, but I do set them side by side on the plate. And in some spoonfuls you get a little bit of baked bean mix with a little bit of coleslaw. And those spoonfuls are absolutely divine.
Also, I mix sunflower seeds in with my coleslaw. If I were to use coleslaw as a condiment, that crunchy goodness would be lost on a sandwich.
I’m a south Georgia resident, transplanted from central Indiana. I taught high school here for 26 years.
One day my first year here, the cafeteria was serving strange brilliant fluorescent red cylinders that sort of smelled like meat. I asked what they were. Hot dogs, they said. I said OK, where’s the mustard? They looked at me funny, but fetched a few packets for me. I sat down with the other teachers, put the mustard on the unnaturally red dog, and ate. I then ate a forkful of the slaw. The others grimaced and told me I was supposed to put the slaw on the hot dog.
Since then, I have tried slaw on a hot dog, and it’s pretty good, but mustard still rules. Those neon dogs (I derisively call them red velvet dogs) are still gross, however.
Oh, yeah- slaw is a side dish.
Entree. I loves me my cabbage. I understand some people not of Irish or Central/Eastern European heritage suffer digestive upset from eating too much of it. This is solved by training their guts.