This is so cool! Most of the “hot” potato salads I know that have vinegar/bacon/etc. go by the name “German Potato Salad”. Obviously that name would’ve been a problem at the time. I’d be curious to know if it was intentionally changed because of the war, became known as German later, or is a whole different thing altogether!
Oh interesting! I didn't realize German potato salads were vinegar based. I always thought they just used more mustard. Lol I haven't encountered any anti-German sentiments towards German recipes in newspapers or cookbooks, even after a search specifically on that. So many people here had close German heritage, so it seems they drew a line between their own background and their lives in America vs. what was going on in Europe.
Yup! My grandma’s family is German, she’s the one who introduced me to it and a lot of the recipes I see in community cookbooks like that are called “German Potato Salad”!
It’s interesting people were able to separate the recipes from the ongoing conflict! I just remember the whole “Freedom Fries” debacle post-9/11, and was curious if that might have been a similar situation here with “Hot Potato Salad”.
This is so cool! Most of the “hot” potato salads I know that have vinegar/bacon/etc. go by the name “German Potato Salad”. Obviously that name would’ve been a problem at the time. I’d be curious to know if it was intentionally changed because of the war, became known as German later, or is a whole different thing altogether!
Oh interesting! I didn't realize German potato salads were vinegar based. I always thought they just used more mustard. Lol I haven't encountered any anti-German sentiments towards German recipes in newspapers or cookbooks, even after a search specifically on that. So many people here had close German heritage, so it seems they drew a line between their own background and their lives in America vs. what was going on in Europe.
Yup! My grandma’s family is German, she’s the one who introduced me to it and a lot of the recipes I see in community cookbooks like that are called “German Potato Salad”!
It’s interesting people were able to separate the recipes from the ongoing conflict! I just remember the whole “Freedom Fries” debacle post-9/11, and was curious if that might have been a similar situation here with “Hot Potato Salad”.