That "salad" sounds interesting!! My mother used to make some kind of strange coolwhip salad with marshmellows (and I think pineapple), too, forget the name of it. it also reminds me of Waldorf "salad" (NONE of these things are remotely salad-like of course) which is apples, walnuts, raisins and MAYO!! Sounds so gross, but it was quite good.

I want to try and make a vegan version of the watergate salad!!! Does it call for real pistachios?