Green Bean Salad with Bananas (1970s)

12 Comments on Green Bean Salad with Bananas (1970s)

1. Needs Cholula.

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2. https://imgs.search.brave.com/8cANrTE990zy4smG4f6ZbNunrlNkvAyl_2htgzmF4no/rs:fit:860:0:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLmlt/Z2ZsaXAuY29tLzIv/d3Z3ejAuanBn
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3. That AI generated pic makes the green beans look like space alien larvae, or maybe spinach rigatoni.

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4. I’ll pass on the green beans and banana salad.
   DO people still make ambrosia salad at Tgiving? It was on every table for about two straight decades, but I don’t recall having any in a while. I coulda gone face down in the bowl back in the day.

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5. I’m of the 50’s Eera, never heard of it, must be an east coast thing. I recall people eating raw hamburger sandwiches. My parents never ate it. Weirdest thing they ate was boiled beef tongue.

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6. Pass the aspic, please.

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7. Elvis would have loved that concoction to go with his peanut butter and banana sandwiches.

   Those green beans in the pic are actually green tube pasta.

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8. When our two older kids were growing up they regularly drank Tang. Once a recipe for “Tang pancakes” appeared on the back of a jar. They really wanted to make them so I said OK.
   UGH! Horrible! Still a regular family joke!

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9. Click bait, anyone? No such a thing as green bean and banana salad. Never was. Someone is having us on.

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10. Green beans are an abomination no matter how they’re served.

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11. We had canned fruit cocktail in a pretty glass cup with ginger ale poured in.

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12. Oyster stuffing is delicious when done right and not stuffed in the turkey. Grew up eating it for Thanksgiving. My mother would make it. Truly a side dish.

    AbigailAdams, agreed, no such thing as banana and green bean salad. AI fantasy.
    Goldenfoxx, beef tongue sandwiches- yum! It’s about what is added to the boil. Celery, onions, peppercorns, bay leaves, salt and garlic tenderize and really flavor beef tongue.

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