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potato salad

Waldorf. Most people only order it because they saw it mentioned in Fawlty Towers once.

Any salad with chicken on top
Taco/Southwest salads
Any salad involving bacon and ranch
Any of those mayonnaise based side dishes people insist on calling salads (potato, macaroni, etc.)

>>6394047
Agree with wedge

>>6394054
Fuck off, potato salad rules. Especially german potato salad.

>>6394063
n-not chicken and tuna salad

>>6394068
I didn't say it didn't rule, I said it was a pleb salad

Cobb. It's like someone threw the office party snack table into a bowl and overpriced it.

Chicken/fruit/nuts for entree salad
House w/ ranch for side salad

>you know this to be true

>Chopped for COAT entree
>Caesar for GOAT side

>>6394056
Wow. What pleb tier suburb or should I say council estate (is that the right name for it?) do you come from?

This whole thread is such fucking dildos.
Salads are good. Salads are life.
Yes, they should be well made salads, but even OPs Wedge can be made to be a complete and delicious salad. I think perhaps too many of you have eaten shit tier salads in chain restaurants.

>>6394171
Salad can be great. The steakhouse iceberg wedge is garbage

>>6394175
See, that's what I'm talking about. You said "steakhouse iceberg wedge". I've had wedge salads made with other types of lettuce, with slightly modified or different toppings that were amazing (AFA salads go). Stop eating in shit tier restaurants and you might have some good salads. Or make them yourself.

>>6394204
Stop being a faggot. "Steakhouse iceberg wedge" is exactly what OP had in the pic.

>>6394210
Yeah....I think we know who the faggot is here.
(Protip: It's you)

>>6394216
You're trolling at this point.
Who could possibly be such a faggot that they would defend shit tier salad this much?
You have shit tier taste.

spinach salad master race

>>6394047
>caesar
>pleb tier

>>6394063
This is exactly my thoughts on the matter. Especially chicken Caesar and mayo based salads.

>>6394566
spinach and arugula da bes

This is a good thread to share my salad

Might be pleb, might not be

Mixed greens
Fuji apple slivers
sriracha roasted almonds
homemade red pepper and onion dressing
grated parmesean
grilled chicken cut on the bias

>>6394767
>grilled chicken on a salad
>dat shit pre-grated cheese
had promise, needs work

>>6394569
It is on nearly every menu that was written all over the English speaking world between 1990 and 2005. You find it in such illustrious establishments as Swiss Chalet in the US/Canada and nearly every single other chain restaurant besides.

If you do not recognize this as pleb tier, well that word, I don't think it means what you think it means...

tldr; get a better taste in salad than that travesty named after a goddam mexican.

>>6394451
Frankly, it's you that has shit tier taste. The fact that you are so close minded that you only think salads above the made-up tier in your head are good screams pleb tier "foodie". I love all kinds of salads, made from all sorts of greens and many other things, exactly because I'm not some bourgeois boor like you.

>>6394817
>I'm not some bourgeois boor like you.
which makes you a pleb

>>6394807
Caesar Cardini was Italian.
>whomp whomp

>>6394817
>"bourgeois" as an insult

>>6394047
Gonna make a salad wedge tonight, thanks OP.

>>6394832
No, that's wrong. Be quiet, the adults are talking.

>>6394834
Do you know what bourgeois means?

i'm a skinny rich guy and i only eat salads made of wild microgreens picked from the highway median by a sweaty fedora wearer covered in tattoos

>>6394838
Obviously not the better class of adults.

>>6394833
>who operated a restaurant in Tijuana during prohibition

The more you know faggot...

>>6394047
I was totally let down by the wedge salad and I'm unsure if it was actually bad or not. I just remember that more than half of the tv shows I liked watching a few years ago mentioned a wedge salad in some way, and one (Modern Family) had an entire plot point centered around how good it was. It was shitty and hard to eat and I was totally let down.

>>6394854
How would you know, you have no idea what class is.

>>6394842
its dem niggas with capital

fuck outta here karl

>>6394864
sick burn bro
u burned him bad
so burnt
rip >>6394854

>>6394863
Depends on the restaurant. I've had good wedge salads and bad wedge salads. One of the best I've had used grilled romaine as the base. You're not going to get a good wedge salad at any chain restaurant, no matter how "upscale" the chain might be. Good wedge salads are like chasing any other good food product, either you spend time searching them out, or you have to make them yourself.

>>6394865
>perfect example of bourgeois boorism, while still trying to sound like he knows the streets.

I should be copying all this down for future reference examples.

>>6394842
>Bourgeois as an insult
>From a guy using the phrase "bourgeois boor" on a Laotian Car Repair forum

>>6394047
>faggots are arguing over a hunk of iceberg lettuce

it gets more unreal every day

>>6394890
And? Your point is?

>>6394902
>Using the phrase "bourgeois boor" on a Chinese Cross Stitch forum
>Not bourgeois

>>6394880
>using word "boor"
>is certainly poor

>>6394906
Oh, should I have used the word "lout" or "oaf" instead? The point still stands.

>>6394905
You have no idea what you're talking about, you're just baiting now.

>>6394920
>You have no idea what you're talking about
>Pretending to be intellectually superior by using phrases such as "bourgeois boor" in an informal setting such as a Korean Cat Appreciation forum is in no way bourgeois behavior itself.

>>6394926
Real Bourgeoisie reporting, do not lump us in with pseudo intellectual gauchist circlejerkers.

>>6394832
>>6394834
>>6394865
>>6394890
>>6394905
>>6394906
lmao
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>>6394926
There's no pretending going on here. I am intellectually superior to you. The fact that what started as a point about someone's bourgeois attitude towards salads has devolved into this nonsense is only more proof.
By the way, talking about one's intelligence, or lack thereof, has nothing to do with being bourgeois or not. Different topic entirely.

>>6394958
>There's no pretending going on here

I can assure you there is if you believe that you are intellectually superior.

>By the way, talking about one's intelligence, or lack thereof, has nothing to do with being bourgeois or not

No, but being bourgeois in a Thai Windows Box Gardening forum does. One would have expected an intellectually superior person like yourself to have understood that.

I don't know if you've noticed but you're also displaying boorish behavior, too. The irony is just too delicious.

>>6394873
Its a salad, its never worth the time to make it at home and if it can't be consistently made well at even halfway decent restaurants its not worth buying.

>>6394047

Well, really, all salads are pleb tier.

>>enjoys wedge salads.

>>6394963
You are literally making up your own fantasy now.
There's no irony. My responses that you call "boorish" are a direct result of all the assclownery, simple as that. And, to top it off, you've missed the point of everything and moved on to just trying to insult and degrade strangers on 4chan, which in and of itself is intellectually inferior. To put it simply, so you can understand: You just don't get it.

>>6394964
Are you trying to imply that chain restaurants are "halfway decent"? Because I have news for you....

Not to mention the fact that you think salad isn't worth making at home. Jesus christ......

>>6394966
>all salads are pleb tier

>>6394958
>I am intellectually superior
kek
>>6394976
>insult and degrade strangers
r u new here
>>6394976
>intellectually inferior
u have aids
>>6394976
>To put it simply, so you can understand: You just don't get it
found the redditor

>>6394988
I'm agreeing with a tripfag but he's right. Salads are for women and food

>>6394991
Sorry, wrong again.

>>6394983
The time spent into cutting up the veggies for a salad and putting it together for a side dish is just wasted time. Salads are not hard to make but you can have a much better side dish at home for the amount of time spent cutting up the various vegetables needed for a salad.

>>6395000
>>6394993
>don't understand why salads are important

>>6394996
>again
>first post in this thread
r/food awaits your bacon covered dildo pictures

>>6395003
I understand. They give something for the women to do while men cook.

>>6394958
>I am intellectually superior to you
She's so cute.
>someone's bourgeois attitude towards salads
When it comes food the bourgeois, for all their tiresome judgment on what may be beneath them do tend have decent taste. Because a life of privilege exposes one to things like fine dining, luxury foods, travel and even living abroad.

Given the choice of dinner with the bourgeois or chicken Caesar salad at a chain restaurant with the common man I'd opt for the bourgeois every time. The conversation will be dull in both instances, but the food will be much better in the former.

I get that English speakers have a little trouble with this idea, since Americans like to pretend class doesn't exist, and the English are trying to overcome their own historic issues with it. But those who come from inherited family wealth and high disposable income eat better, and have access to better food. Elitism can rub you the wrong way, but it doesn't make this fact disappear.

>>6395020
Full Definition of BOURGEOIS

1
: of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class
2
: marked by a concern for material interests and respectability and a tendency toward mediocrity
3
: dominated by commercial and industrial interests : capitalistic

>tendency towards mediocrity
>tendency towards mediocrity
>tendency towards mediocrity

Oh, yes, you certainly ARE bourgeois, aren't you? This is getting very entertaining.

>>6395020
>Americans like to pretend class doesn't exist
True, but those of us who are not retarded know that it does and know it's fucking sweet.

>>6395027
>tendency towards mediocrity
In comparison to the rich. Compared to the garbage the working classes choke down they're still way ahead of the game.

>>6395033
America has a even more insidious problem with it's new money class. Those people are just an embarrassment, to everyone.

>>6395027
>choosing the definition that fits your homosex argument

>>6395035
The mediocrity doesn't extend to just food. I think you're trying very hard to justify the bourgeois as something good, or somehow superior, when it's basically shit people with a little money to spend and no taste.

>>6395037
New money is always embarrassing.

>>6395040
All the definitions fit my argument, but that part is especially telling. Also, do you not understand what making a point means?

>>6395045
This is true.

>>6394047
I mean i don't really think the wedge and caesar salads are pleb tier salads. They're both essentialy steakhouse classics. I'd be willing to call a house salad pleb tier.

with the exception of the wedge, any salad with iceberg lettuce is utter shit. doesn't even taste good.

arugula is god tier green.

>>6395043
>shit people with a little money to spend and no taste.
Again, it's a matter of comparison. When so much of the country shops at WalMart and eats at chain restaurants the bar is set pretty low. I can do something as unimaginative as wander down to a local bistro for lunch, order a niçoise, and already be way ahead of that standard.

>>6395017
This notion of men cooking slabs of meat over a fire to serve alongside the women's contribution of some shitty leaves is the real pleb tier ITT. Shitposts like this are why every food forum is bad, steak restaurant cooks that think they're chefs.

>>6395045
see: china

>>6395046
yes but thats not what you did there

>>6395072
That certainly is true. But, that doesn't make your form of mediocrity intrinsically good, just better than utter shit tier.

>>6395101
>intrinsically good
name an intrinsically good salad Dildo Baggins

>>6395101
>that doesn't make your form of mediocrity intrinsically good, just better than utter shit tier.
Which more than qualifies me to respond in a thread about pleb tier salads.

basic white girls have ruined every single food trend since fucking 2000.

>>6395106
not him, but imo salads are supposed to be simple. I don't like these 20+ ingredient salads. A good salad should showcase the quality of the vegetables, a simple dressing should make everything pop. I've had a fresh heirloom tomato caprese salad that was phenomenal, simply because of how ripe and delicious the tomatoes were.

so to answer your question-simple, fresh, not overdressed-inherently good salad

>>6395182
>every single food trend since fucking 2000.
Do you mean since you were born? Because the only folks I know making fun of white girl taste being terrible are high school kids.

>>6395193
>>every single food trend since fucking 2000.
lol no i'm about to be 23. maybe it's not just white women, but just yuppies in general.

>>6394566
>feta cheese

>>6395344
found the child

>>6395374
It's just so...awful. I prefer halloumi.

>>6395391
I prefer chewing tinfoil to eating feta

>>6395391
>>6395402
you must have had shitty feta. this is Bulgarian, imported

>>6394767
I Hope you at least remembered to activate the almonds.

That stuff that's just macaroni drowned in mayo. depressing.

Good potato salad is something to die for. It's a Christmas food for my family (fried fish and potato salad)

>red cubed potatoes
>chopped onion
>chopped pickles
>peas
>cubed cooked carrots

Dressing a combo of mayo, sour cream, mustard and vinegar (or pickle juice is great too) and seasoned with salt and pepper. it's even better the next day when the flavours have mixed a bit more.

>>6395106
Hello, I am here to inform you that you are severely lacking in reading comprehension. Please consider returning to an adult education class or perhaps community education literature classes, so you can improve on this.
Sincerely,
Fuck Off

>>6395403
Bulgarian is good, but French feta is better. More creamy. I'd eat either though, over the shit that passes for feta in the regular supermarket aisle.

>>6394047
I've never heard of wedge salad before. Seems really lazy. People buy that? Is this just in the US?

>>6395697
It started as a specialty of steakhouses. Then it went mainstream in the 1960s. Then, it disappeared for several decades. Now, it's been brought back by steakhouses and other restaurants as a nostalgic throwback. I personally like wedge salad, but only when I make it myself, because a lot of restaurants REALLY suck at it, and absolutely do use it as an excuse to be lazy.

>>6395732
>because a lot of restaurants REALLY suck at it, and absolutely do use it as an excuse to be lazy.

Sadly, that's true for a lot of restaurants. They might be good at whatever their main draw is (steak, or seafood, or classic French or whatever), but the "extras" like the salad, coffee, etc, is often very crappy.

Everyone here has said that almost every salad in existence sucks.
Just say what fucking salad you would eat then?

>>6394862
He was an Italian immigrant; he worked in Tijuana. That doesn't make him Mexican just like I didn't become a car because I worked in a garage.

>>6394900
tiranosoarus czeck'ed

>>6395414

Who here /endive/

>>6394063
>>6394593
And a person agreed...
>the rest of the thread
/ck/ drains the life out of me sometimes.
I really hope most of this thread is just a bunch of stop liking what I don't like basement dwellers, because if any of you have anything to do with the food industry, it's a sad looking future.

>>6395785
>sucks.

That's getting conflated with the OPs point that certain salads are 'pleb tier.'

Something can be pleb tier but still be fucking delicious.

I fucking love wedge salads.

Also: something may be labeled a 'salad' on a menu but actually be a lot more than a salad.