When people say they put potato salad in their gumbo what do they mean?

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put a scoop of potato salad on top

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eta: or maybe both, people do some strange stuff with food. This sounds like a grisgris nightmare

7 step process

1. Make a bowl of gumbo
2. Put a scoop of potato salad on top
3. Take a bite
4. Throw bowl away
5. Make a bowl of gumbo
6. Put a scoop of potato salad on a separate plate
7. Enjoy

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This sounds like a grisgris nightmare

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GG and LL are both really finicky about their meal plating.

I've cooked/served seafood gumbo at a large festival in rural south LA every year for the past 40 years...customers can buy a serving of potato salad to go w/the gumbo. About 1/3 of sales include PS...2/3 get just the gumbo. Festival patrons are primarily locals w/in a 1-hour drive distance, not tourists.

Most people who eat PS w/the gumbo alternate bites between the two...a minority plop the PS right into the bowl with the gumbo. A smaller minority ask for PS in place of rice.

Tastes the same way either way, broski.

The only way to eat a steaming hot gumbo is with a spoon of cold potato salad

I put potato salad in my gumbo. Everyone else is a god damn heathen

I put a can of rotel in my potato salad for color

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Put a scoop of potato salad on a separate plate

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It's not prison you neanderthals. Put it on a separate plate.

I used to always use a separate plate for my potato salad and think it was very strange if people put it in the same bowl as their gumbo. Now, that I have tried it in the gumbo, I can't go back. It is difficult for me to eat a bowl of gumbo without a dollop of potato salad right smack in the middle.