I've Got My Ingredients Gathered for a St. Louis Salad
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (103153)
United States
July 11, 2025 4:45pm CST
It turns out my wife and I got invited over to our niece and her husband's house on Saturday about an hour away. We were told we didn't have to bring anything, but we usually at least bring something to any gathering.
I decided to make up a batch of St. Louis salad. It's nothing fancy, and in other places is probably called something else.
It just has broccoli and cauliflower along with onions and bacon, and uses a sauce mixture of mayonnaise, plain Greek yogurt and Parmesan cheese.
I have bacon in the freezer, but I just didn't feel like taking it out and cooking it up just for the salad, so I broke down and broke a cardinal rule...
To never, ever, under any circumstance buy pre-cooked bacon.
Hey, it's a money thing, right? It's $3.65 for 2.1 ounces of bacon, which when you break down the unit cost comes to a whopping and almost dizzying $27.81 per pound.
Even typing that, I swear I nearly passed out.
Either way, I am sure the salad will go over well and this one time bacon thing won't break me too badly. I am sure it will weigh on me as I dig into my own helping of it. "I could be eating filet mignon right now."
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@Ineeddentures (9976)
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15h
Who buys bacon like that
I can get one kg of decent middle bacon for less than that.
Wow
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@porwest (103153)
• United States
1h
@Ineeddentures I wish I had such an excuse to offer for paying so much for that bacon, but I did it bone cold sober. Ugh. It's going to haunt me with every forkfull.
@Ineeddentures (9976)
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14h
@porwest
I thought you might be drinking and types something wrong
I would be distraught
It would play with my sanity for days
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@Vikingswest1 (6608)
• United States
16h
Ouch. The salad sounds great though.
My brother Dan was visiting one summer. He lives in northern Wisconsin. I live in Washington state. He brought out cheese curds, extra extra sharp aged white cheddar cheese (holy smokes is that good stuff) and a few other things.
Before he left we wanted to set him up with cherries and some smoked seafood.
I picked up several slabs of smoked salmon at about 15 bucks a pound. The night before he left, his kids got into it and ate every last bite. The farmers market was closed. The two grocery stores were closed.
I went to the small store that was about a mile away because I knew they always had smoked salmon. I grabbed three hunks. The cashier said 43 dollars. My eyes got big. It wasn't even a pound of salmon. Not wanting to look cheap in front of my brother, I pulled out my wallet and paid the total while thanking them for having it on the shelf.
After they left the next day, I had a sick feeling about the more than 40 dollar a pound salmon I bought for him.
He said it was good.
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@porwest (103153)
• United States
Just now
It's a really good salad and quite easy to put together. Perfect for summer. Speaking of Wisconsin, small world. I lived in Wisconsin for around 25 years, but farther south in Milwaukee. But man, what a hefty price tag. Salmon is delicious, but wow. lol
If he HADN'T have said it was good I'd be worried. lol
@DaddyEvil (152991)
• United States
15h
I hope the visit goes well and everyone enjoys the salad you take.
We got invited to my nieces house for a late 4th of July this coming Saturday... Pretty can't stand her cousin so I declined the invitation... I understand why Pretty doesn't like her but I ignore the strangeness and visit with my niece when I get a chance.
My niece is one of those religious nuts who believes that dinosaurs never existed. She thinks the dinosaur fossils that scientists dig up were hidden by God to make fools of men... Pretty can't help but poke at my niece by telling her whatever new dinosaurs have been brought up lately, just to make her mad...
I would just go and have a good time...
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@DaddyEvil (152991)
• United States
2h
@porwest I offered to leave Pretty home but she didn't like that idea... If I getta go out, she says she should, too... So I offered to take her with me but she doesn't want to go... To me, that sounds like a her problem...
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@2ndchances24 (10625)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
14h
at that price you could say your eating filet mignon 
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@2ndchances24 (10625)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
14h
@porwest when we buy bacon, we buy 5 lbs worth
& that's a pretty good batch for hubby a few mons.
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@porwest (103153)
• United States
2h
@2ndchances24 I love bacon but really don't eat a lot of it. I MIGHT go through 2 or 3 pounds of it in a year. It depends.
@GardenGerty (164693)
• United States
14h
If I buy precooked bacon I get it at a bulk store owned by Mennonite people. They buy in bulk and repackage spices and other things, like bacon bits. I have not bought any bacon like that in a while. In our neck of the woods that is an Amish broccoli salad. Very good and really pretty good for you. I like it. Save me some. I have seen it with different sauces, including mayo with honey mustard, or mayo, sugar and cider vinegar.
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@porwest (103153)
• United States
2h
Yeah, there's a very similar salad I make that has all the ingredients this one does, but adds lettuce and shredded cheese, and then uses a sauce that has mayo, sugar and Parmesan. Both are good, but this one is easier to make and keeps a little better.
@LindaOHio (194246)
• United States
7h
I'm sure you'll live. Loosen up! The salad sounds yummy except, of course, for the onions.
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@Nakitakona (57581)
• Philippines
2h
I think that's a good salad you got. As of this writing I'm earing avocado smoothie prepared by my wife.
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@LooeyVille (71)
• United States
2h
Holy cow that's an expensive dish to take to the party.
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