Chapter 28 - Hot Potato Salad

According to Boy: There are several ways to make hot potato salad. One way is to start with three to five peeled potatoes, boil them until done, then cube them while still hot. Fry some bacon, and blot out the grease. Cut into small pieces. Chop up a small onion, and heat it covered in a frying pan with a little butter. When the onion is no longer crisp, toss the bacon pieces in with it. In a separate bowl, mix an egg, a little vinegar, a couple tablespoons of water, a little sugar, and a pinch of salt and pepper. Pour this mixture into the pan with the bacon and onion, and cook for about five minutes, stirring constantly. Then pour the mixture over the cubed potatoes.

I am not sure exactly how Zum Zum made their hot potato salad—perhaps it was much like I described above. But whatever recipe Zum Zum used, their salad was certainly delicious.

There were, during the early 1970s, a few Zum Zum fast food restaurants in Manhattan—we knew where they all were. Evie and I would frequently run into one of these establishments and order one of their authentic German sausage sandwiches, with a container of their German hot potato salad.

The potato salad alone made it a party.