54 minutes ago, liuzhou said:I certainly wouldn't call it a salad; it's "chicken in mayonnaise".
Here you kind of get into a territorial battle over definitions. Where I grew up in the Midwest, any meat that was ground or diced and mixed with mayonnaise and various add-ins was called salad. It was used on sandwiches. Examples: chicken salad, tuna salad, ham salad.
In some areas, if the meat was ground fine it was called sandwich spread. Examples: ground bologna, ground ham, or ground roast beef.
Prime examples in Europe are Wurstsalat and Coronation Chicken. Their primary component is meat not greens. Although I have not seen Coronation Chicken described as salad, only that it can be used as salad.
The OP did not specify whether whether she meant for the chicken salad to be used in a sandwich or with greens as a meal. It does make a difference. To me, the example that I posted is not chicken salad. It is a salad with chicken.
