Watergate Salad

I remember this salad but can't remember why they call it Watergate Salad.....:)
It's a yummy recipe.

On a fluff forum I hang out at I often see Cool Whip salads listed on holiday menus but I've never tasted one. Closest I've ever eaten to it is ambrosia. Have something to try when I tour the MidWest:).

I really like this, but I add one more item. I slice fresh white grapes in half and add them to the mix. I generally match the amount of marshmallows.

amandasgramma wrote:
I remember this salad but can't remember why they call it Watergate Salad.....:)
It's a yummy recipe.

It tastes best if you make it at night, using flashlights. If anyone tries to say you made it, deny, deny, deny. If you copy the recipe, erase the middle 2 ingredients. :W

brirene wrote:

amandasgramma wrote:
I remember this salad but can't remember why they call it Watergate Salad.....:)
It's a yummy recipe.

It tastes best if you make it at night, using flashlights. If anyone tries to say you made it, deny, deny, deny. If you copy the recipe, erase the middle 2 ingredients. :W

ROFLMAO......GOOD NAME then!!!!

Sportsman2505qss wrote:
Watergate Salad

1 sm box Pistachio Instant Pudding
1 Lg.Tub cool whip
1 16 oz can Crush Pineapple-Do Not Drain
1/2 cup Chopped Walnuts
1/2 cup Mini Marshmallows

Instructions:
Mix all ingredients together and chill overnight

Someone was out of chopped pistachios. LOL!

Seriously, I love this stuff and double the chopped walnuts/pecans.

My mom makes a Watergate cake that I LOVE. It's a pistachio cake with "cover up" frosting (cool Whip + pistachio pudding). We used to have it for St. Patrick's day, and I'd request it on my birthday.

To NYCGirl-- The first decade of our marriage, I was amused and a little frustrated that my in-laws always turned up their noses at my salads. MIL explained that to their family a salad was either coleslaw or something made with macaroni or jello or Cool Whip. Hmmm, at my house jello and cool whip were dessert.

Sorry to veer off topic. Was just hoping you'd enjoy a laugh at my goofy in-laws.

Rolling_rhoda.......my husband is like your in-laws. He will NOT eat a salad with Cool Whip as a salad....it's dessert. :) :)

amandasgramma wrote:
Rolling_rhoda.......my husband is like your in-laws. He will NOT eat a salad with Cool Whip as a salad....it's dessert. :) :)

Call it what you want but anyone that isn't willing to eat dessert at the beginning, middle or end of a meal doesn't have their priorities straight. When dining at buffets, part of my strategy is to squeeze dessert in between trips to the carving table as to not be too full for dessert. ;)

rolling_rhoda wrote:
My mom makes a Watergate cake that I LOVE. It's a pistachio cake with "cover up" frosting (cool Whip + pistachio pudding). We used to have it for St. Patrick's day, and I'd request it on my birthday.

To NYCGirl-- The first decade of our marriage, I was amused and a little frustrated that my in-laws always turned up their noses at my salads. MIL explained that to their family a salad was either coleslaw or something made with macaroni or jello or Cool Whip. Hmmm, at my house jello and cool whip were dessert.

Sorry to veer off topic. Was just hoping you'd enjoy a laugh at my goofy in-laws.

Hehehehehe....salad is normally green and leafy for me sooo I'll just try Watergate salad in place of a piece of cake. On the subject of in-laws, mine were French and figured I was either a barbarian of some sort (I ate corn which they only fed to barnyard animals)or crazy. After waiting 11 years before divorcing their son I realised they were right: I WAS crazy but errrr maybe for different reasons than they imagined;)...