Our cafeteria at work serves the world’s blandest tuna salad (honest to Og, it’s tuna and mayo, Period.), so I make my tuna salad with a big spoonful on coleslaw and some sesame seeds and fresh ground black pepper. It’s my go-to lunch choice, and quite tasty.
Cole Slaw is good.
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I love it too. Especially the more vinegary kind. But then I also eat big bowls of plain sauerkraut, pickled daikon and carrots, etc.
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I make gallons of it every summer. Just the thing with BBQ and burgers.
Yes, I love it and most any dish made with cabbage, which, along with its cousin, broccoli, is my favorite vegetable.
A ton of black pepper, or a couple shakes of hot sauce makes it even better.
Cole slaw must be prepared lovingly. Legend has it that the dish was traditionally considered an infallible guide to character. In medieval times, it was customary to offer cole slaw at every public gathering, in order to demonstrate one’s sterling moral quality. Tasty cole slaw was proof that one’s household was blessed and prosperous, while bad cole slaw indicated turpitude and spiritual malaise.
Eventually the monarchy decreed this practice as mandatory for all, in order that the kingdom would offer no shelter to the wicked. Persons charged with moral transgressions could prove their innocence by publically preparing a meal of delicious cole slaw for the court. The dish ultimately became synonymous with the king who first enshrined it in legal custom. This is why we call it “Cole’s law.”
Up here in the Rust Belt, Catholics were (and are) a huge percentage of the population. And in the olden days, they were required to not eat meat on Fridays. Fish was allowed.
So a niche was created and was filled by bunches of little mom and pop stores that opened only on Fridays to sell take-out fried fish dinners. You could smell the delicious odors wafting down the street as you approached. The dinners consisted of a thick slab of haddock, french fries, and the best cole slaw I’ve ever tasted. Even though every restaurant around here to this day has Friday fish dinner specials I spend my days searching for cole slaw made like that, and failing, failing, failing.
I’m pretty “meh” about it. If it’s a side that comes with something, I’ll eat it. I’m not nutos over it and usually a few bites is enough for me.
Here in Austin, you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting half a dozen good BBQ places and that means plenty of the best cole slaw on the planet. The line forms behind me.
No, lots of people I know really like it. I personally can’t stand the stuff, and I don’t mind any of the component ingredients, I just don’t like them when they are put together. My SO doesn’t like it either so that’s a win, but I hate when they force it on me as a side - I’m just not going to eat it, and I’m not really one to make a fuss at restaurants (substitutions etc.)
But I know plenty of people who love it.
Nasty, nasty stuff. I don’t even like to be in the same room with it.
I absolutely love cole slaw. My grandmother’s recipe is truly amazing, and shredding the cabbage is the only food prep/“cooking” that my father will do, oddly enough.
I guess, from what I’ve heard from talking with customers at work (I work at a barbecue restaurant) that there are different varieties of slaw. I’ve never personally come across this fabled vinegar-y cole slaw, or spicy cole slaw, or anything like that. The only differences I ever saw in cole slaw was its level of runniness and the addition or subtraction of celery seed.
It annoyed me to no end when I first started working there when people would ask me, “What kind of cole slaw is it?” because in my head I wanted to say, “It’s like every cole slaw I’ve ever tasted in my life. WTF are you talking about?” but now I tell them it’s like KFC’s but with coarser cabbage.
Odd, because I almost always see it as an option (along with pasta and or potato salad), so it seems obvious that it would stop being offered unless some people preferred it to those other things.
I would prefer the cole slaw.
I love coleslaw. Recently I made Emeril’s Delta coleslaw which is vinegar-based and almost perfect (he puts in too much sugar; my next batch will have less). I love all kinds, and my 7-year old is a big fan. The rest of the family could live without it but my husband will eat it. He prefers the vinegar-based slaw, which is fine with me. Any kind, any time.
This I understand and agree with wholeheartedly. What I don’t understand is why the OP who doesn’t like it will eat it if it’s served to him.
Love it and KFC’s is my favorite.
We were just down in the Carib and had it served to us with coconut substituted for lettuce/cabbage. It was good in a different sort of way but still not up to the ambrosia that is KFC.
I’ll eat it, but it’s not something I’m crazy about. I like it a lot more when it isn’t sweet cole slaw, but that’s not something that you’re likely to get at most restaurants.
I’m very fond of cole slaw as well. Barbecue is the second best thing to have it with. The best is to pile it on top of a fried fish sandwich!
Last summer I volunteered to bring cole slaw to a picnic. I couldn’t find any that looked good at the nearby markets and figured I’d give the prebagged shredded cabbage in the produce section a whirl. Imagine my surprise when it came out really good following the recipe on the bag! The only change I made? Double the amount of cabbage, thereby reducing the ratio of dressing to salad.
Holidays at the Bayard Family Preserve are not complete without my mom’s cole slaw. My brothers and I drop subtle hints like, “You’ll be making cole slaw, right?” No other slaws compare.