Examples from literature

• About all I knew how to make when we came to Green Valley was fudge, fruit salad and toasted marshmallows. 
• At less formal dinners the sweet dessert may be omitted, and cheese and hard crackers, a fruit salad, or toasted wafers and coffee may be substituted. 
• Bananas combine well with any other fruit and, being the least expensive fruit, may be used as the basis of fruit salads. 
• He made pancakes and cut up pears and peaches and apples and bananas for fruit salad. 
• When new figs are seasonable, they may be used in fruit salads to take the place of the honey.