Pineapple Salad , a classic old school recipe. It’s such a simple recipe and quite tasty! This salad follows the same basic concept of Southern Pear Salad.

I remember the pear version being served more often, but on occasion, the pineapple version made it’s appearance on the table.

Back in the day, as they say, mayonnaise was often used as a simple salad dressing. Of course that was before we had a gazillion options for salad dressings as we do today.

The combination of flavors will surprise you at how good it taste if you’ve never had pineapple salad. If you’re not a fan of mayonnaise, you could substitute cottage cheese instead.

I had one reader comment that pineapple salad was still one of their mother’s favorites. So bring back these classic salads to the table soon. I’ll tell you how….

Best Pineapple Cheese Mayonnaise Salad

Ingredients

1 Can of Pineapple Rings
Fresh Lettuce
Mayonnaise, preferably Duke’s
Grated Cheddar Cheese

Customarily these salads would be assembled as individual servings. If you like you can assemble a platter for self service.

Lay a bed of lettuce on each plate.

Next, add two slices of pineapple per person.

Top the pineapple slices with a dollop of mayonnaise.

Finally, add a bit of shredded cheddar cheese, just on top of the mayonnaise dollop.

Old School Pineapple Salad

While the combination of ingredients may seem a bit strange, it all works so well together.

Old Fashioned Fruit Salad with Mayonnaise

Old School Pineapple Salad on a serving platter

Pineapple Cheese Mayo Salad

Yield: 1 Salad Side Dish

Old School Pineapple Salad

Name: Old School Pineapple Salad
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 Can of Pineapple Rings; Fresh Lettuce; Mayonnaise, preferably Duke's; Grated Cheddar Cheese

Classic Southern fruit salad with mayonnaise and cheddar cheese.

Prep Time 5 minutes

Additional Time 1 hour

Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes

Ingredients

1 Can of Pineapple Rings
Fresh Lettuce
Mayonnaise, preferably Duke's
Grated Cheddar Cheese

Instructions

Lay a bed of lettuce on each plate.
Next, add two slices of pineapple per person.
Top the pineapple slices with a dollop of mayonnaise.
Top with shredded cheddar cheese, just on top of the mayonnaise dollop.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

8
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 38Total Fat: 3gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 4mgSodium: 35mgCarbohydrates: 3gFiber: 1gSugar: 2gProtein: 1g

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Thanks for stopping by! I hope that you’ll try this tasty pineapple salad if you’ve never had it before. It truly is delicious.

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Scarlette Ashley (yes its my real name)

Saturday 9th of September 2023

This was a staple pre-dinner salad at my great-grandmothers house (dob 1915) and my grandmother’s house (dob 1935) I found this post because I have always wondered if pineapple salad had an official name, AND where it originated. My whole life I have never seen anyone else eat it, I was starting to believe it was somethings she made up hahaha. Unfortunately I found very little information on this salad, and nothing with her version of the salad.

One thing I cannot stress enough to people who are trying this for the first time, Grate your own cheddar cheese, packaged shredded cheese is a completely different taste and it just doesn’t do this salad justice. If you absolutely refuse to do this, then buy the bag labeled thick shreds. I remember ONE time my grandma had to use bagged shredded cheese and it was so memorable you would think she burnt the thanksgiving turkey. It was terrible by comparison and no one ate the salad that night.

Another variation if anyone wants to try, is that she always used Miracle Whip never mayonnaise. Ive actually never had this particular salad with mayonnaise, but thats always a been a demographic disagreement in the south, which recipes must use Dukes and which should be Miracle whip, as far as this salad goes I choose Miracle Whip, and I just want to acknowledge miracle whip is technically salad dressing, just saying ;) hehehe

Thats the southern woman’s kitchen tug of war that never ends hahaha

Thank you so much for posting this, I was so happy to find it online.

Julia Jordan

Thank you so much for stopping by and sharing your wonderful memories with us. ~Julia

Kelly

Saturday 4th of December 2021

OMG, finally i found this recipe!!!! ...My grandparents made this for us when we were children, then my sister made it one year while at her house for Christmas and i've recently wondered where to find it. Unfortunately, my sister even forgot how to make it! lol ...I will let her know, i found it again ...Thanks so much for posting this, much gratitude to you! <3

I'm so glad that you found the recipe and thanks for sharing your fond memories of it. ~Julia

Unknown

Friday 21st of July 2017

OMG! pineapple sammiches!mama would send them to school in our lunches,now I've gotta add pineapple to my shopping list!

Georgia Peach

Friday 7th of July 2017

My "Granny" would slap this salad btween two slices of white bread for my lunch.

Julia

OHHHH! I bet it was great! I've never had it as a "sammich" :)