candle salad

noun

A children's dish, composed of leaves of lettuce, pineapple rings, a banana, a cherry, mayonnaise, assembled to look like a lit candle in a candleholder, popular in mid-century United States.

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Meanings

nouncandle salad (plural candle salads)

plural candle salads

  1. UScookingA children's dish, composed of leaves of lettuce, pineapple rings, a banana, a cherry, mayonnaise, assembled to look like a lit candle in a candleholder, popular in mid-century United States.
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Chicago

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