"sweet" potato salad - I don't get it

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Someone explain to me what possesses so many establishments to ruin potatoes by boiling them and turning them into this shitty concoction. I must admit I don't know what kind of evil magic turns a potato salad sweet.. is it sugar? miracle whip? satan himself?

Everyone knows that a mayo/mustard/dill potato salad is vastly superior but 90% of commercial potato salads are sweet. I don't get it.

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This is the supposed "original" recipe. Don't know why the frick people would put sugar in it.


INGREDIENTS
2 lbs. potatoes (5 to 6 medium), peeled and cut into 3/4-inch chunks
1 cup Hellmann's® or Best Foods® Real Mayonnaise
2 Tbsp. vinegar
1-1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. sugar
1/4 tsp. ground black pepper
1 cup thinly sliced celery
1/2 cup chopped onion
2 hard-cooked eggs, chopped (optional)

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I grew up with sweetened tator salad and with shaved carrots with raisins and tiny marshmallows on special occasions. My sister makes it with miracle whip and my cousins add Apples to theirs.

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holy frick that sounds awful

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holy frick that sounds awful

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I know, right? Piccadilly would not serve that The older peeps growing up that made it the nasty way, all came from poor farming communities in Ireland, its gotta be from over there.

. The leftovers from my recipe I will put in a pie shell and sprinkle with crumbled bacon and some chedder cheese and bake it @400 for 20 minutes and the kids go to town on it.

I only use diced dill pickles and chopped olives on top of the usual elements to make potato salad, as they add a bit of oomph to the mixture a sour and briny flavor in practically each bite. In addition tater salad should be served while still warm, not refridgerated which holds back so much of the flavors involved in it. Miracle Whip would I think be the ingredient that gives the sweet flavor to it. I can't stand the flavor of that shite at all, I think it is the element of tumeric that gives me the willies.