Coke Salad

Also known as Cherry Coke Salad, Bing Cherry Coke Salad, Coca Cola Salad, Cherry Cola Salad

A dark jello like salad full of nuts.

Ingredients
1 15 oz can crushed pineapple 1 can Bing cherries{red cherries in heavy sweet sauce} Note: Now called 'Dark Sweet Cherries' 1 package strawberry jello 1 package cherry jello 1 small pkg cream cheese 1 cup chopped pecans 13 fluid ounces of coca cola - preferably made from cane sugar available from small grocers
Directions
Drain pineapple and cherries, saving juice. Check each cherry for seeds left in!! Heat pineapple and cherry juice, Add jello and chopped up cream cheese, while juice is hot, stirring to melt cheese. Add pineapple, cherries and nuts. Chill until it begins to jell and add coke.

This salad has a sweet, nutty flavor with the occasional burst of cherry and always a subtle hint of carbonation cola taste.

Other variations exist on the Internet tweaking this and that. One had mayonnaise as an ingredient. Mayonnaise?!?!?! Yuck. Stick with this recipe.

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