Twitter Is Deeply Confused About This Vintage Prune And Donut Recipe

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Twitter user and political scientist Paul Fairie discovered a vintage recipe for a prune and cream cheese doughnut salad and shared it with Twitter.

"If this can be a salad, you can be anything," he tweeted with the newspaper clipping.

The supportive message of "you can be anything" was somewhat overshadowed by the recipe's name, ingredients, and instructions. Twitter users were deeply confused as to how on Earth this recipe was created and how it constitutes in any way a salad.

"Here's my recipe for "ice and whisky salad" — take a glass, fill with whisky. add ice to taste," tweeted @Metatone.

"I think you need to use a lettuce leaf as a coaster for it to count as salad," responded Twitter user Roger McCarthy.

The salad — made with four doughnuts, four prunes, four lettuce leaves and 1/4 pound of cream cheese — is supposed to feed four. During the salad construction, however, the instructions implore the maker of the salad to assemble it as if it were a sandwich. Twitter was understandably puzzled.

"It's a sandlad," tweeted Beth Ethier.

"Wouldn't it be tidier to just put the prune in the hole?" typed Larry Koch.

One Twitter user even assembled the dish for the internet.

"Guess some can be anything then," they said in captioning their picture.

This sandwich-salad vintage recipe definitely belongs in the 25 retro recipes you won't believe people actually made.

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