[Closed] please explain salad to me

and it's got f*** all nutritional value
but a killer sandwich has to have salad leaves in it, gives it a textural crunch

You guys are eating the wrong salads.

don't ask me please

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I have never had salad with fish and chips 😕

Peas or mushy peas, maybe, but not salad.

OP does realise salad is not just iceberg lettuce right?

All the more for me then, thanks.

Jamie - yea - it had other stuff innit too, like red onions, the thinnest strips of peppers & a few slivers of grated carrot

i think beer may in fact be better for you

I think the OP might be in for a right dressing down.

Love them.

Just finished a massive bowl of Romaine lettuce with cherry tomatoes, cucumber and avocado, with a garlic, pepper, tobasco, wholegrain mustard, olive oil and balsamic vinegar dressing, and two hard boiled eggs chopped through.

Would sometimes add some pasta spirals, rocket or spinach to that, maybe even some chopped up sausages or similar. Makes up for the macaroni and chips I had at the site canteen at lunchtime... 😳

What I don't like is when restaurants that charge upwards of £7/8 quid a course give you undressed salad, thats only half a salad...

You do know that salad comes from the garden right?

....and salad from the garden tastes fabulous.

Peas or mush peas, maybe, but not salad.

Salad is what you feed food.

garlic, pepper, tobasco, wholegrain mustard, olive oil and balsamic vinegar dressing

Homemade or store bought? Usually just have balsamic vinegar, but that sounds lush.

Seems to me that he who sees salad in those terms...ahem sees a different salad to me. That degree of generalisation implies that part of their mind is walled off. Lots of people like salad, it's not some nichewise fad.

Ah yes fresh salad picked that very day from the allotment, bears no taste resemblance whatsoever to that wilted cr*p that appears in those fast food pizza establishments.

tsrmx

Word of the day!

it's like steak but leafier.

garlic, pepper, tobasco, wholegrain mustard, olive oil and balsamic vinegar dressing

Nah, home made, should really be 2 parts olive oil, 1 part balsamic, 1 part red wine vinegar, tobasco, salt & pepper, teaspoon of wholegrain dijon mustard, clove of garlic, just like mama used to make (but hers always had something extra, heroin I think considering how morish it was).

...although for the true crack-cocaine of the salad dressing world, try Henderson's on Thistle Street in Edinburgh, they do a sundried tomato dressing which you could almost drink out of the bottle. Bastards won't sell any though.

EXACTLY - so you get these geen leaves that taste of nothing and cover them in tasty stuff and add more stuff to fill you up ❗

so you get these geen leaves that taste of nothing and cover them in tasty stuff and add more stuff to fill you up

and call it salad

it's like steak but leafier.

tons of different salads and ingredients. i suggest you add some things that you think taste nice to it
Eat them daily always a couple of homemade varieties in the fridge with or without dressings.

Salad dressing always ends up tasting like vinegar to me. So you end up with a load of wet sloppy crunchy things that taste of vinegar and raw things.

Nom nom nom I don't think.

EXACTLY - so you get these geen leaves that taste of nothing and cover them in tasty stuff and add more stuff to fill you up

Um, yes, its called a 'salad'. 8)

I prefer my salad naked, no oil or dressings just lots of fresh salad and a jacket spud.

mmmm, spinach and cheese salad

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Onions don't taste of much?
Spring onions don't taste of much?
Watercress doesn't taste of much?
How about ordinary cress?
Or crunchy yet moist radishes?
A perfectly ripe sweet tomato?
Rocket?

Have you thought about having your taste buds checked?

Tomato, cucumber, rocket, olives, cous cous, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, jalapenos, coleslaw and a shed load of black pepper.

Add chicken and chorizo, sometimes substitute the coleslaw for oil and balsamic.

Happy days 🙂

i don't get it, it doesn't taste of much else than water

Makes me feel all warm inside when a vegfie comes back to the dark side 😉

he he. I once prepared a magnificent salad for a young lady I was entertaining. How could she resist the crisp leaves, the ripe buds, the plump pods. It was beautiful. A morer mortal would have fallen tino my arms and experienced a pleasure so pure it would be a sin.

Sadly she turned out to be as uncouth and ill-paletted as you miserable shards of possible perfection and didn't like it and as a result I did not get my end away.

I got her drunk the weekend after and ragged her silly.

That's you that is.

LOL @ Samuri

Salad is what you have when you've eaten everything else

Salad, quite simply, is what food eats.

Samurai you have made my morning.

Salad.

Tomato
cucumber
lettuce
Cheese and plenty of it
Cooked meats
Pickle
Pickles
boiled egg
crisps
cold potato
Bread.

Or

Tuna
Sweetcorn
lettuce
Peppers
Carrot
shite loafs if Mayo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad

HTH

Had a genuine little gigglesnort at the tags on this thread!