Do you consider cole slaw a vegetable?

[Danmel]

I asked my husband to get potato salad and a veggie to have with dinner tonight and he got potato salad and coleslaw.
I don't think it's a veggie. He does. What do you all think?

[TommieMommy]

1. I do because it's made from cabbage

[SheltieLover]

2. Cabbage is definitely a vegetable.

[Diamond_Dog]

3. It's sliced cabbage .....

So I would say yes it’s a vegetable.

[hlthe2b]

4. If it is really heavy on the cabbage and/or shredded broccoli and carrots--I say yes...

Obviously the more sugar and mayo, the less one might think it to be as healthy, but it can be.

[The Blue Flower]

5. Why would you think it isn't?

Cabbage and dressing.

[riversedge]

6. yes, cabbage is a veggie

[enough]

7. Cabbage, sometimes with shredded carrots and/or chopped onion.

These are all super vegetables.

[Niagara]

8. Yes it absolutely is a veggie

Hold on, I'm on my way over to your place for coleslaw!

[lastlib]

9. It's a vegetable until......

...you slather that mayonnaise sh*t on it......then it's garbage......

My 2cts. You're welcome.

[yellowdogintexas]

17. Have you ever had vinegar slaw? It is very good

For the coleslaw base:

1 medium head green cabbage (about 2 lbs), cored and thinly shredded
2 medium carrots, peeled and grated
1/2 small red onion, very thinly sliced
1 small green bell pepper, thinly sliced (optional)

3/4 cup apple cider vinegar
1/3 cup vegetable oil or light olive oil
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon celery seed
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon dry mustard powder

Steps
Shred the cabbage as thinly as possible using a sharp knife or mandoline slicer — thin shreds absorb the dressing better.
Place the shredded cabbage in a large bowl.
Add the grated carrots, sliced red onion, and bell pepper if using.
Toss the vegetables together to combine.
In a small saucepan, combine the apple cider vinegar, oil, sugar, salt, celery seed, black pepper, and mustard powder.
Heat the dressing over medium heat, stirring frequently, until the sugar completely dissolves — about 2-3 minutes.
Do not let the dressing boil.
Pour the warm dressing over the cabbage mixture immediately.
Toss everything together thoroughly until all the vegetables are coated.
Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or preferably overnight.
Toss again before serving and drain off excess liquid if desired for a less wet slaw.

or there is freezer slaw:
https://myhomemaderoots.com/pa-dutch-pepper-cabbage/?pp=1&utm_source=Pinterest&utm_medium=organic

[Tikki]

10. It's a salad and if done correctly it is Yummy.

Tikki

[yellowdogintexas]

16. Now I want a pulled pork sandwich with vinegary hot sauce and slaw on the sandwich

I don't have time to go to Kentucky and get one

[Tikki]

19. Yes...slaw should be accompanied by hot sauce and in my case

a slab of grilled breaded eggplant on a fresh bread bun.

Tikki

[legallyblondeNYC]

11. I'd say it's close to a salad - dressed raw veggies.

[Danmel]

12. I guess i was thinking green.

Smattering of carrot, mostly white cabbage with Mayo. Seems redundant with potato salad.

[yellowdogintexas]

15. I would say they are not redundant because they have a completely different taste and texture

Of course when I was growing up, everybody had a garden and in summer many of our meals were all vegetables fresh from the garden, such as squash, green beans, corn on the cob, cucumbers marinated in vinegar and sliced tomatoes. Once in a while we would have fresh blackeyed peas, which are very different from the dried ones.
And Sweet Tea, of course.

[yellowdogintexas]

18. any time you go to a BBQ place, slaw and potato salad are on the side list

We always had both when we had a BBQ party (when I was still living with my parents), and we put slaw on our sandwiches. We had a literal BBQ shack in town, ( I firmly believe that if you sneezed real hard it would fall down) a pig was roasted on hot rocks (which had been fired for two days) under a heavy tarp. It was basted with this amazing vinegary hot thin barbecue sauce and we always had it for July 4th. You could smell it all over town, too. I would sell my soul for a bottle of that sauce!!!!! I have never found a sauce quite like it, although Red Hot and Blue had one that came close.

The owner/cook had been cooking pigs from when my dad was a kid, and her father before her. Legend has it that her grandfather or maybe great grandfather was the pit master at a plantation in North Carolina. She never shared the recipe for that sauce either, despite my uncle begging her for it. Whenever he came to visit, he brought several 2 liter soda bottles and filled them up with that sauce.

Now I really want to go to Kentucky!!

[Alpeduez21]

13. Cole slaw is not a vegetable but the cabbage and carrots

Are definitely vegetables

Cole slaw is a salad

😁

[yellowdogintexas]

14. Absolutely; it is made with cabbage

of course if my mother made it she would shred cucumbers in it.
It was wonderful

Sometimes I put radishes in it

[LudwigPastorius]

20. Could have been worse.

He could have come home with fried okra.

[Morbius]

21. I consider potatoes vegetables.

So, technically, French fries count.

Anyway, your husband is a man and you know how we are. You perhaps should have been more specific.

[Skittles]

22. no but......I'd give him a pass

what's wrong with coleslaw

[Emile]

23. He's right

[DFW]

24. Absolutely not!

Every time I try that stuff, it reaches up, growls, grabs my throat, attacks the spaces between my teeth, etc. It is a vicious, aggressive member of the animal kingdom that cleverly disguises itself as a passive vegetable until it stages its vicious attack, and then it’s too late.