I'll take it one step further and say potato salad CAN be downright delicious when made well... I have also had potato salad so bad that it caused me to have an existential crisis about how I ended up where I was, eating what I was, and I had to pause to reconsider my life's choices.
I was going to type something mean about her but I'm afraid she could sense I was rude on the internet and telepathically cause my skull to explode like a hard boiled egg in a microwave.
TIL hard boiled eggs can explode in a microwave and that the explosion can be as loud as 133 decibels. For reference sake, a gunshot is about 155 decibels depending on caliber, so that's one loud ass egg.
That's actually not a very good comparison since, decibels being a base 10 exponential scale, the loudness of 133 and 155 decibels are not at all comparative.
A much better comparison is a 1984 Motörhead concert:
Lemmy and co.’s set was allegedly measured at 130 decibels, before it was cut short as plaster from the ceiling started to rain down on the audience below.
And that's still MUCH less loud than a microwave eggsplosion!
You know, being 1/2 Korean and 1/2 typical white American I can say y'all shouldn't be sleeping on potato salad. You can use other and additional ingredients than mayo. My Korean family fucking loves my white family's potato salad.
As a Midwesterner, potato salad is made with a mixture of real mayonnaise and yellow mustard. Finely diced onion and celery with a dash of old and flavorless paprika for color to round it all out. Salt and pepper to taste. You wouldn't want it to be too spicy you know.
Some heretics will add diced dill pickle on occaision - my one Grandmother would sometimes do this after drinking too much. This is generally considered a social faux pas, though us Mid-westerners are too polite and kind to actually say something about it. But we will look askance at you. And your children will never play with our kids ever again.
That was from a fear of food poisoning from it being left out in the sun to warm. But it was more of an issue if real mayo, (with raw egg yolk), was used. If you used some type of industrial grade Miracle Whip untainted by anything real you could ID as an ingredient, it was far less of an issue.
Besides, what's a little e.coli gonna do? Besides make you all shiny clean on the inside.