Dan Abel wrote:
> In article >,
> Goomba > wrote:
>
>> Mark Thorson wrote:
>>> Victor Sack wrote:
>>>> Okay, I'll bite and indulge you yet again: there is no such salad in
>>>> Germany. There is no such thing as a (pan-)German salad, anyway, and
>>>> none of the numerous regional versions contain brown sugar.
>>> German potato salad is an American invention.
>> I've never seen a recipe for it call for brown sugar.
>> I can't abide "sweet" potato salads so don't make it. It makes my teeth
>> itch to think about!
>
> Well, maybe not brown sugar, but sugar. Here's the first hit from
> Google:
>
> http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/German-...ad/Detail.aspx
>
> It's "sweet and sour". Lots of vinegar, and a little sugar.
>
Oh ick! Make mine vinegar-sharp. NO sugar.

--
Jean B.