What do you put/use for potato salad?

[chowmama]

13. Mom's potato salad used Henri's French (now Catalina) dressing

to flavor the Miracle Whip, along with a little mustard, some diced celery and onion, celery seed, and almost as much hard-boiled egg as potato. Her egg salad was the same thing without the potatoes. Both were a distinctive salmon-peachy color.

Other people found it weird - "Why is it orange?" - but it tasted good. And I found its origins in some recipes from the 20's and 30's for 'Pink Potato Salad', using either the dressing or just ketchup.

In a side note, The Notorious Commune had as a member a guy whose mother was friends with a woman who worked at the Henri's plant. We all got the secret recipe and the dressing lived in an old Miracle Whip jar in the fridge for our dinners. All it lacked was the emulsifiers, so we had to shake it up before use. I don't make it anymore, so my salads are now yellow, but I tried it again a couple years ago. It was so sweet that I had to make a second batch without the sugar and combine them. That made it really very good, if you like the style. I guess tastes were different then.