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Default Summer sausage in pasta salad?

On Thursday, July 10, 2014 4:46:27 PM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
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> >> > On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 15:39:51 -0700, "Pico Rico" >

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> >> >>>>I have a recipe that I have been making for years. It's basically a

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> >> >>>>Swiss Cheese, slices of hard salami, fresh chopped parsley, olives,

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> >> >>>>dressing and large shell pasta. Angela found a similar recipe that

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> >> >>>>But what I have now and need to use up is some summer sausage. Would

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> >> > you are making an assumption that all summer sausage tastes alike and

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> >> > all salami tastes alike. Every butcher and sausage maker has their

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> >> > bologna or a thousand other sausages. Fact is, what she is making is

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> >> > a pasta take-off on a Chef's salad. In such a salad, whatever meat

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> > You are correct, and Janet is incorrect. Summer sausage is the

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> > cheapest, crappiest, shelf stable junk. No wonder why our Ms. White

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> > Trash wants to use it in her pasta salad. Between that, and her

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> > ****ing imitation mayo... I swear, who let her out of the pig wallow

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> It's not imitation mayo and it comes highly rated.


It IS "imitation mayo." It doesn't have egg yolk in it, or even egg white.
Is your subhuman mind capable of understanding why the word, "mayonnaise," is
nowhere on the jar? If it were, by law it would have to be preceded by the
word, "imitation."

--Bryan