The Coke Salad pictured above was shared by Magnolia Days, and it includes crushed pineapple, cherries, flavored Jell-O, chopped pecans, a whipped cream topping and, of course, Coca-Cola. So, what is Coke salad for those that don't know? There are plenty of recipes out there for it, and each one tends to differ a little. Our office recently got into a chat about Coke salad, and while some of us said it was a staple found on every holiday dessert table, there were others who had never heard of it. That said, there are some folks who were surprised to hear of its existence, and a few of them even work at It's a Southern Thing.

Honestly, given the way Southerners try to work Coca-Cola into basically every meal in some fashion, no one, especially in the South, should be surprised to hear this is a real food people make and have made for decades.on purpose. Enter Coke salad, the ultimate combination of two of Southerners' favorite things: Coca-Cola and the act of congealing.īorn from the days when women of the deep South would pretty much encase anything, and we do mean anything, into a blob of Jell-O and call it a salad, Coke salad is the unlikely union of a variety of ingredients into a surprisingly delicious, though not always pretty, dessert.

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