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Molly Yeh made a popcorn salad with mayonnaise in a video on the Facebook page Food Network and no one had an absolutely neutral feeling about it. The food blogger calls it ‘one of the classic dishes from the Middle East that you would often find in a church cellar’s happiness’, which shocked quite a few people who attended the pot cruises in the cellar. As commentator Cassie Marie put it: “Am I the only one who has lived their entire life in the Midwest and never seen a popcorn salad?” Newsweek reports. Perhaps home orders and social guidelines are the home cooks eager for new ideas. Maybe the long moment of the crouton is over and American palate is ready for something new. Either way, some people have reacted to the idea of folding popcorn into a salad on mayonnaise, which also contains carrots, peas and celery with a fearless positivity.
Penny Hafner said: “I know it sounds weird, but it’s so delicious. You only have to try it once,” per Newsweek. It is true that it turns mayonnaise on food, turning it into a salad in the Middle East. And popcorn salad recipes are ahead of Yeh’s video, reports Vice Munchies, who details several, including one from the 1920s that covered a banana half with mayo and popcorn. In 1994, a community cookbook in North Dakota published a popcorn salad recipe, and other versions, one century old, are there. And then there are even older uses of the ingredient: the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s website makes a brief but intriguing mention of Iroquois cooks popping corn and putting it in soup. Yet Yeh’s recipe currently earned only 2.5 stars. (Read more popcorn stories.)