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Love & Best Dishes: Grandma Essie's Potato Salad Recipe | Father's Day Dinner Menu Ideas
Jun 16, 2026
Grandma Essie's Potato Salad Recipe | Father's Day Dinner Menu Ideas - If you need summer cookout sides for Father's Day, Joseph Harris is sharing his grandmother's simple potato salad recipe with eggs!
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- All right, now this is the dish that Joseph is making
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(Paula coughing)
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for our very first video that we did.
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That wonderful.
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- Oh man, that
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was so good. - Hamburger, cheeseburger,
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bacon, butter lettuce,
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- Guinness burger.
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- So Joseph and I was just standing up here talking
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and I offered him an egg slicer.
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I said, do it wherever you're comfortable.
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And he does it just like I do.
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- Absolutely.
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- And just like his grandma did.
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- That's it. - With my hands.
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We had both just washed our hands.
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- Absolutely, yes.
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'Cause that's the most important part,
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if you're gonna cook with your hands,
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definitely wash your hands.
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- And when I, yeah, and I, when I saw that
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big old bowl of eggs, I thought, well,
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he's making egg salad.
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- No, my grandmother,
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whenever she would make this potato salad, this is hers.
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Her recipe, she would always put an abundance of eggs in it.
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- I see that. - People would eat it
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and they're like, what is going on with this potato salad?
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And she told me, she said it was
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always an extra, yeah. - I love egg salad.
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I love egg salad
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and I love potato salad. - Love potato salad.
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So why not mix the two of them together?
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- That's right. - Yeah.
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And so right now we've just broken up our eggs
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and we've cooked our potatoes.
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- Yeah.
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- These are about four to five
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Yukon gold potatoes that we've diced
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and then boiled until they became soft.
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- Yes, and I've gotten where y'all,
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that's all I buy anymore is the Yukon gold.
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- Yeah, it's the best, it really is.
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- They hold together better. - It's so good.
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I agree. - There's you.
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- [Teresa] Why are y'all making this salad?
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- Why are we making this?
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Because it's
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Father's Day - For Fathers Day.
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- And it goes with the burger recipe.
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- Yeah.
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- It's a side for it.
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- Would you rather go just wash 'em than
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trying to use a rag?
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- Yes, yes, I will, no problem.
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- Yeah.
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- [Joseph] We're multi tasking around here.
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- Do you put everything in the bowl first
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and the the potatoes last?
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- Yeah, technically what I do is, so what, if we had time,
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I would let these cool a little bit
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and then incorporate everything in.
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But we're just gonna,
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for the sake of time, put it all together.
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- Well now I, my family, if I didn't have hot potato salad,
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- Yes. - They didn't want any.
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- My mom is the same way.
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She wants it just like this.
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- And I was the same way too.
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- Yep, and so this is bringing back memories.
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This was my first-
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- Your mama and your grandma
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and I were a lot alike - Grandmother.
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- Weren't we?
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- Beyond words.
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I tell my family all of the time how much you,
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like it kind of scary sometimes.
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I'm like, this is my grandmother through and through.
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And the way my mom thinks.
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- There aint a nicer thing
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you can say to me. - Oh my goodness,
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'cause they are amazing women.
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- My name in the sentence with
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mama, grandma. - Absolutely.
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- Or great-grandmama.
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- They're all amazing women.
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And this is reminding me of my grandmother, because-
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- It look y'all.
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It doesn't look-
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- This is one of the first recipes that she,
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like when I was maybe six or seven years old,
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she had a catering company and she-
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- Oh wow.
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- Well it was like a small home
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catering company. - Yeah, but they work hard.
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- She did, she worked hard.
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And she almost liked the bag lady.
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She would feed businesses
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in the area in Baltimore. - Right, right.
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- And one night, I remember waking up in the middle
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of the night and seeing her cutting onions
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and celery in this little teeny food processor,
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and she asked me to come in and help her.
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And I always say, that's where my culinary curiosity,
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was birthed.
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In the middle of the night, maybe like two,
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three in the morning. - Exactly, exactly.
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- And she was doing that and the rest is history, so
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- That's the way it works.
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- Here's to her in this.
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So I'm just adding a little bit of onion
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and a little bit of celery.
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We have the recipe. - I love the crunch.
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A lot of people don't like the celery.
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- Yeah.
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- My first husband couldn't stand celery.
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- Oh, you're kidding. - That and onion.
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So I'd put it in the food processor.
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- Processor and get it, that's what my grandmother
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would do. - He never knew.
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And I would use the dried onion.
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- Oh yeah, I started doing that.
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- He said, oh my gosh, you make the best potato salads.
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I said, I know I do. - You tricked him.
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I love it.
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That's awesome. - And this onion powder
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is really good.
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- It is, so we're just gonna add some in.
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- Yeah, and it's funny kind how the powder it...
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- Mm hmm.
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- Okay, one more shake.
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- Yeah, why not?
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It just adds a little bit of extra flavor.
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You can add in either dill relish
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or you could do sweet and pickled relish.
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Doesn't matter, it's to your liking, so.
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- And I don't, I don't like sweet relish.
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- You don't, okay.
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- No, I don't like it in my egg salad.
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My tuna salad. - Yeah, yeah, I don't like
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it in egg salad. - No, no cold salads.
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- Yes, and I'm, yeah, I agree with you on that, so, yeah.
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And so right now I'm just gonna mix this
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a little bit together.
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- I do love my silly salt though in all my-
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- It's so good.
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Yeah, I've used your silly salt in chicken
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salad I think before. - Yes, yes.
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It's so good in cold, - It's very, very good.
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- It's good in everything.
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I think Eddie uses it in everything, don't you Eddie?
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- [Eddie] I do.
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- It's a good all purpose seasoning.
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- Yes, yeah. - For sure.
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And so right now we're just mixing this all together.
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We're gonna add just a little bit of garlic powder,
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just to add a little bit of extra flavor.
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- Yes, yes, yes. - My mama always did that.
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- Always.
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All right, tell, stop me.
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- I will.
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Not a lot.
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Okay, that's good.
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- Okay. - Awesome.
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The mustard just gives it a little bit of twang.
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- That's right.
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- Which is really, really nice.
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And then what we're gonna do is add in our mayonnaise.
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And we use, my grandmother used a lot of mayonnaise,
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so I'm not gonna use this. - Me too, me too
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- Use this spoon.
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- And
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if you did not eat it all
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and you put it in the refrigerator, there's a good chance
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that you're gonna have to add a little bit more.
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- More mayonnaise to it.
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Yeah, because of-
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- And it's the same way with macaroni salad.
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- I agree, yes.
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Yes, because it soaks up all of the moisture
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from the mayonnaise. - Yes.
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Yes, especially macaroni salad.
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- Absolutely, yes, so, yeah.
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And so now what we're doing is just
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mixing this all together.
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This is starting to look just like my grandmother's.
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- Yes, yes, yes.
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Yes, yes, yes. - Potato salad.
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Only thing different she would do,
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and this is why I cool it down a little bit.
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She would actually mix it with her hands.
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And she would take it and work that potato salad.
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- Yeah, well I do, I do like using a
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spatula. - Spatula, yeah, yeah.
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- And look, we got our burger right here.
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We still got some bacon right here.
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- Yep.
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So- - Now we need some forks.
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- Mm hmm.
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This is just a good, easy, quick side dish
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that you could do for Father's Day.
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- Yes. - That's no fuss.
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And you know, it's summer.
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Everybody loves potato salad, especially in the south.
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In the north too.
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They do it a little different up north.
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But this is, this is a
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southern (indistinct). - You ready to quit
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stirring that?
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- Yeah, yeah.
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I just added in some more mayonnaise.
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That's why I was that mixing that in a little bit, so.
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- Well, it looks delicious.
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- Yay.
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- If you and I, if you lived in Savannah,
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I probably wouldn't be able to get through that arc.
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- (laughs) I don't eat like this all the time, I promise.
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Mm.
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Like heaven, mm hmm. - Creamy.
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Mm, warm. - Yes, it's so good.
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Ooh, it's warm.
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It's just ever so slightly warm, it's delicious.
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Lot of the onion, celery, adds a nice sweet component.
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It's really good.
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Do yourself a favor and make it.
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- I thought it would taste more like egg salad.
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- No, it doesn't.
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- But, oh, I'm double dipping.
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- That's okay.
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You're healthy.
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- I ain't got nothing, I just went to the doctor.
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I aint got nothing. - Amen, good.
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Yeah, definitely try this out guys.
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I think you'll enjoy it. - Teresa come get you
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some warm potato salad to go with your burger.
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- [Teresa] Okay.
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- Yep, it's so good.
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- If that doesn't make a father happy,
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- Something's wrong with the dad.
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- Something's wrong with the dad.
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(Joseph laughing)
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I think you'll love it.
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- I think so too.
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- Just as much as we love y'all.
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- Yes we do.
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- And thank you for being the father that you can be.
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Thank you.
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- Amen.
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- Love those children.
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Love that wife. - Yes.
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That's right. - That partner.
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- That's right.
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- Love and best dishes. - Bye.
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