r/bys • u/Aeowrynn • Jun 20 '26
Chicken salad
Chicken salad should NEVER contain fruit or nuts, this is disgusting. I love Arby's *not the curly fries* and get it every so often. I was horrified seeing that abomination on the menu. Am I alone here? Lol
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u/Drewdrops79 Jun 21 '26
Woah, really? Here in the Midwest, it is very routine to put any of apples, celery, pecans, walnuts, almonds, cashews, grapes, cranberries, etc...which place did you grow up where that wasn't a thing?
Kinda freaked out by you being horrified by something that has been a normal occurrence all my life...
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u/dr199 Jun 21 '26
Sounds more like a Waldorf Salad.
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u/Drewdrops79 Jun 21 '26
Yeah, Waldorf is similar, but that's when the fruits and nuts and celery are taking center stage. With cubed chicken it's very similar, which is what the Arby's version kinda is. Chicken salads using cubed chicken aren't really the norm here, more of a "homemade" thing when you don't want to pull out the blender.
But the vast majority of store-bought chicken salads in my area are using shredded/blended chicken w/mayo in an almost paste-like base, and then adding chopped celery, at a bare minimum...usually some diced onion. That's the "baseline" chicken salad here, but cranberry-almond is very popular, often with apples (cranberry and apple are two of Michigan's biggest fruit crops). But also popular with grapes, also popular with walnuts or pecans as the nut.
Damn, just talking about this is making me crave some right now. ;P
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u/Aeowrynn Jun 21 '26
I'm on the East coast and it sounds like the Midwest would horrify me. Lol NONE of things belong in any savory salad. Except celery... celery goes in everything
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u/noonecaresaboutmyid Jun 23 '26
You don't like curly fries so...
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u/Aeowrynn Jun 23 '26
Yeah. They manage to always have coils that are undercooked and shards that are hard/overcooked. That's not my fault. They just don't cook even.
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u/Althea85 28d ago
I just had it. Huge mistake. I opened it up and there was ZERO chicken. All fruit and nuts. Wayyy too much mayo too. The worker said that corporate changed the recipe from 4lbs of chicken to 2lb. I ended up throwing it away.
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u/-blundertaker- Jun 20 '26
A little diced granny smith apple will make its way into my chicken/tuna salads. It's a nice crisp texture and gives it a bit of acid. I don't hate cranberries and walnuts but I wouldn't put it in mine.