Pasta salad. Yes, I do have a lot of non-Irish tastes and prefer it to potato salad. I also prefer my pasta salad that's Italian salad dressing based with salad supreme and veggies. Bonus for sliced pepperoni and cherry peppers.
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Pasta salad is not Italian; it's more American.
This was incredibly insulting but not surprising.
Maybe I'm reading what he said wrong, but he looks to be saying he likes his pasta salad to be made with an Italian salad dressing base and is making no assumptions as to where the food originated.