On Jul 21, 6:32�pm, Lou Decruss > wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:22:45 -0400, "kilikini"
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> >For example: John Smith wrote:
> >> I am originally from New Jersey but I live in Florida now and I
> >> cannot find decent potato salad within 1000 miles. I dislike
> >> "southern" potato salad and all the deli's around sell the Boars Head
> >> brand or whatever brand of meat they sell and it just doesn't do it
> >> for me. Also, Publix is the getter supermarket around where I live
> >> and they make about a half dozen different kinds and none of them do
> >> it for me either. I am looking for a good recipe for chunky, creamy,
> >> skin off potato salad with no mustard and plenty of hard boiled eggs
> >> like you get in the deli's up north. I've tried several recipes that
> >> I found on the internet but no luck and I really do not want to try
> >> to make a dozen recpies until I find the right one. So if anybody can
> >> help me out I would really appreciate it. Thanks.
> >> P.S. If anybody has been to the BBQ restaurant "Red Hot & Blue", that
> >> is the type of recipe I am looking for. Thanks again.
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> >If I make a mayo-based potato salad, I just use boiled peeled potatoes, hard
> >boiled eggs, relish, pickle juice, black olives, mayo, celery, dill, and
> >call it done. �It's not rocket science.
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> >My standard is German potato salad, though.
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> >(Oh, and by the way, I'm in agreement with you on "Southern" potato salad.
> >It's terrible. �I, too, live in Florida.)
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> What makes it "southern"?

Onions! Blech!