Sister in law born and raised in Mississippi small town, at our Jewish ( observant) family Thanksgiving:
Where’s the salad? ( Um right in front of you…the thing with all the veggies) Of course. she meant jello. Yeah, we don’t eat that. Lol
What do you mean, you don’t put Marshmallows on your sweet potatoes
Why can’t we have ice cream with our pie. I know you eat ice cream.
That was only the first year. She’s gotten used to us by now!
I’m very happy to report that I’ve never heard of a pudding-based salad!
Unless you are talking about something like that Thai dessert with warm, sweet sticky rice and mangoes. Yummmmmm.
You havent lived if you haven’t had the salad made with cool whip, pineapple, marshmallows and pistachio pudding mix. It sounds gross but its great!!
Just for you, @nottelling. 
If we’re going to unite as a country we might as well start with food. This gets a lot of points because it has cool whip, pudding, mini marshmallows and its called a SALAD.
Arrrrrrghhhh!!! I’m crawling back into my bubble now.
@nottelling It’s honestly pretty good. I was introduced to it on a cross country trip. Not sure how it got its name.
We don’t cotton to a group being dismissed as “the left.” Condescending, indeed.
Agree overcooked dried turkeys leave much to be desired.
However, when turkeys are done right, they’re just as delectable in my book as a nice juicy Peking duck.
A few older relatives and their neighbors have proven it could be done.
H makes smoked turkey in a ceramic smoker that is 60+ years old. The turkey is moist and delicious. Does he get any points?
Does he sleep on the couch all night babysitting it like my neighbor from Louisiana did? (the ones who never ate cranberry sauce and had dressing instead of stuffing with crawfish in it).
I’ll through him an extra 3 points, @HImom, especially since its such an old family tradition.
I beg to differ! Old family tradition that results in moist and delicious turkey is -2! Throw in an extra - 1 for the ceramics. Did he throw it himself on a pottery wheel? Minus 3 more!
Well, if it was a brand new Big Green Egg that he paid a small fortune for because those are trendy I’d give him zero, but since he’s doing it an old way passed down from the previous generation, I think that’s worth a few points. You don’t get negative points unless you eat tofu or some other vegan fare.
I think @nottelling is just jealous that your turkey isn’t dry. 
@jym626 - It might be great but salad it ain’t.
Can we move the food discussion to another thread?
“I’m very happy to report that I’ve never heard of a pudding-based salad!”
nottelling: Although I can’t fact check this, since I de-accessioned most of my cookbooks on this last move, I’m pretty sure all Junior League cookbooks from my childhood included pudding and jello based salads.
NoVADad99: If the point of the survey was “what we all have in common” then Thanksgiving may be the best example.
Hi @sherpa!! I don’t make claim to considering it a salad. that’s what its called! I dont consider the jello molds a salad either, but apparently others do!
Oops - forgot to count the years I spent growing up in an urban neighborhood where half a block over, most adults (I think) did not have college degrees, and some likely had not graduated from high school, either. Some would have been solidly “blue collar” but others had worked their way into managerial positions. Quite a few eventually owned small businesses.
Through high school, I socialized with peers from these households as well as those from households similar to my own, although my friends tended to be college bound no matter the educational level of their parents.
That raised my score a bit, but not by too much. We do not eat at chain restaurants, except sometimes while traveling if nothing else is easily available. But Panera wasn’t on the list…
I also have some horizontal identities that have gotten me outside of my bubble, that would not show up on this survey although it correctly pegged me as second generation or more in the upper-middle-class.
In the past year I read Our Kids by Robert Putnam and found him more insightful on these issues that Charles Murray.
Perhaps someone could do a survey of the types of items that pop up in people’s Facebook feeds? I suspect that is where the real echo chambers arise, especially if they have not cultivated horizontal identities and have done lots of unfriending.
I scored a 66, but I kept feeling like I had extenuating circumstances for a lot of the answers.
Like another poster mentioned-millionaires go to Waffle Houses here (so true!)
I do watch those tv shows, but I stream them through my computer because we don’t use cable.
My parents were lower working class, but they would have scored higher on the bubble score than me because they were constantly trying to pretend they were higher class than they were-you wouldn’t catch them dead in a Waffle House.
I leveraged brains and beauty into an adulthood of comfortable upper middle class, but I’m not snobby about it. Bubbles are for soap…
Lol who doesn’t go to Waffle House. I’m a (shhhhh) 1 percenter and we are always excited to come across them on our travels! YUM!!
These quizzes really are quite silly. We are solid upper-middle class people living in a very rural desert area, surrounded by Subaru-driving conservative gun owners. My closest friend is a man from India, who is Muslim.
You couldn’t bin us into a category if you tried. 