# Does Anyone Like Cole Slaw?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-cole-slaw/497143
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 21, 2009, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-cole-slaw/497143 "2009-05-21T04:42:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2009, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-cole-slaw/497143/1 "2009-05-21T04:42:51Z")
I’ll eat it if it’s served to me, but I don’t like it. It seems like one of those dishes people eat, but would rather have something else.
So do you like cole slaw? Do you hate it? Or are you like me? Will eat it but prefer something else.
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### Author:  [@keturah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keturah)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2009, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-cole-slaw/497143/2 "2009-05-21T04:55:32Z")
I like it.
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2009, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-cole-slaw/497143/3 "2009-05-21T05:05:09Z")
LOVE it.
Kentucky Fried Chicken has some awesome coleslaw, btw.
I’ve seen it ruined with the addition of raisins, but that is rare.
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### Author:  [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2009, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-cole-slaw/497143/4 "2009-05-21T05:14:22Z")
> [@garygnu](#):
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> Kentucky Fried Chicken has some awesome coleslaw, btw.
Seconded.
I love coleslaw, but apparently only if it’s prepared a certain way. A lot of delis put pepper in it, which just kills the taste for me. KFC’s is cool and sweet.
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2009, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-cole-slaw/497143/5 "2009-05-21T05:17:37Z")
Me too! I just had some tonight. Yummers. I don’t usually think to go out and get it, but if I have it, I’m one happy camper.
I’ve never had KFC coleslaw…don’t really go there much, but it sounds good.
You’re right about it needing to be prepared the right way. I’d rather have no coleslaw than bad coleslaw.
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### Author:  [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2009, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-cole-slaw/497143/6 "2009-05-21T05:23:02Z")
I like it if the cabbage is VERY fresh.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2009, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-cole-slaw/497143/7 "2009-05-21T05:23:58Z")
I love coleslaw. Who’s servin’?
Thirded on KFC coleslaw. I’ll buy a 4 piece grilled meal and my sides are always mashed potatoes and coleslaw.
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### Author:  [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2009, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-cole-slaw/497143/8 "2009-05-21T05:25:42Z")
I love KFC coleslaw, and that’s the only coleslaw I’ve ever tried that I liked. Dunno what they do, but it’s nummy.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2009, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-cole-slaw/497143/9 "2009-05-21T05:33:46Z")
It’s the perfect accompaniment to barbecue for me. I like mine without mayo, lots of pepper, some celery seed, cider vinegar, salt, red pepper flakes, and a little bit of brown sugar. For a change of pace, I do enjoy some Memphis-style mustard slaw (and I did enjoy some kind of hybrid down in Hernando, Mississippi, which was a mustard slaw with some mayo in it.) Generally, though, I don’t like lots of mayo in my slaw and I don’t like it being too sweet. KFC’s slaw, while good, is just too neutral to me. I like more vinegar tang in my slaw to cut through the rich fattiness of the foods it’s usually eaten with. That may be the Eastern European pickle & sauerkraut loving part of me shaping my tastes.
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### Author:  [@Mesquite-oh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mesquite-oh)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2009, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-cole-slaw/497143/10 "2009-05-21T05:42:46Z")
I like the sweet mayo and celery based slaw with cold crisp cabbage. It goes well with spicy or big bold flavored main dishes. It gives your mouth a cool sweet rest. Don’t like the vinegery or spicy style.
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### Author:  [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2009, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-cole-slaw/497143/11 "2009-05-21T05:46:00Z")
Like, don’t love. I’ll usually take it as a second side, unless I really want double fries.
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2009, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-cole-slaw/497143/12 "2009-05-21T05:47:09Z")
It’s one of those foods that I crave sometimes but don’t really like. Kinda weird. If experience is any indicator, that means I’ll probably like it some years down the road.
It was _really_ popular where I grew up, in central NC. I was generally viewed as kinda weird for not liking it.
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### Author:  [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2009, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-cole-slaw/497143/13 "2009-05-21T05:47:52Z")
KFC slaw is something you eat 'cause it’s there.
My Gramma’s slaw = ultimate salad/side dish for picnics .
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### Author:  [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2009, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-cole-slaw/497143/14 "2009-05-21T06:25:10Z")
I love cole slaw, but have definite rules as to what I do and don’t like. Some people add onions or black pepper or bell peppers to their slaw. I’ve also seen people add sweet pickles, or raisins, or other strange stuff. All of these things are, IMHO, abominations. Some creativity is perfectly okay with cole slaw - with or without celery seed? Okay. Apples or no? All right. Mustard? No problem. But some things just don’t belong in a perfectly nice slaw.
(Cole’s Law: Thinly sliced cabbage.)
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### Author:  [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2009, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-cole-slaw/497143/15 "2009-05-21T07:11:07Z")
Yeah, I like it, if it’s prepared properly. It’s very important for a barbecue place to have good cole slaw. It goes well with pork, and with fried chicken.
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### Author:  [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2009, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-cole-slaw/497143/16 "2009-05-21T07:26:52Z")
> [@Patch](#):
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> I love KFC coleslaw, and that’s the only coleslaw I’ve ever tried that I liked. Dunno what they do, but it’s nummy.
Whew, I’m not the only one.
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### Author:  [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2009, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-cole-slaw/497143/17 "2009-05-21T08:00:12Z")
I like coleslaw a lot.
Recently, i’ve been making a Salvadoran coleslaw, called curtido, quite a bit. It has cabbage and carrot, but instead of mayo it is flavored with apple cider vinegar, oregano, salt, cumin, cayenne pepper, brown sugar, and a couple of other things i’m forgetting now. The flavor is sharper than coleslaw, thanks to the vinegar, but it’s really refreshing, and is great with Salvadoran food like pupusas.
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### Author:  [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2009, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-cole-slaw/497143/18 "2009-05-21T09:14:04Z")
I love cole slaw done well, simple flavors, cabbage, carrot, onion, mayo, celery seed, black pepper, not too much salt. If you want to get fancy with red cabbage or onion, okay. But don’t go too much beyond that.
I have also developed a fondness for broccoli slaw, with shredded broccoli in place of its cruciferous cousin. Good, good stuff.
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### Author:  [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2009, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-cole-slaw/497143/19 "2009-05-21T09:38:11Z")
It’s the only food that I will refuse to eat categorically, when it’s served in one of those little paper cups.
Why? Because my first job was putting the cole slaw into those cups. I was working for my dad in his restaurant, it was summertime, and preparing hundreds of those cups was my second duty of the day, the first one being to touch every filthy surface in lower Manhattan (in the course of delivering take-out breakfasts to people’s offices). When I’d deliver the final breakfast order, about 10:30 AM, the other workers would make fun of me the first few days when I went to wash my hands “(Ha, ha, look at the boss’s kid, thinks he has to wash up, make his pretty little hands nice and clean, haw, haw, check it out”) so I was shamed into doing the job like the “men” did it–I’d stick my filthy, dirty, germ-infested utterly disgusting paws into a vat of cold, creamy cole slaw and fill up hundreds of little paper cups that we included with most lunch take-out orders.
I would rather eat shit on a popsicle stick.
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2009, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-like-cole-slaw/497143/20 "2009-05-21T10:54:44Z")
I do like it occasionally if it is done well. I will often order it as a side dish in a restaurant instead of fries. But so few places do it well.
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