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What is a salad?

Is there such a thing as a bare-bones/standard/ultimate salad?

It's so confusing. It feels like there's a conspiracy behind all of this.

>> No.13812115
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13812115

don't ask questions you don't want the answers to op

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13812137

What is a sandwich?

Is there such a thing as a bare-bones/standard/ultimate sandwich?

It's so confusing. It feels like there's a conspiracy behind all of this.

>> No.13812249

>>13812101
Would you be able to call a single piece of lettuce a salad? Or would you need two pieces of lettuce?

>> No.13812270

>>13812101
A salad is a selection of discrete, stand-alone items joined by a dressing sauce. It’s very simple. Complementing items tied together via a dressing.

>> No.13812278

>>13812270
by that definition, certain soups and stews are salads

>> No.13812280

>>13812249
You are thinking a salad has anything to do with lettuce. It’s more that lettuce and other greens are popular salad ingredient choices. Since a leaf of lettuce is not combined with other items with a dressing, it is not a salad.

>> No.13812282

>>13812280
So the minimum requirement is any two items and a dressing?

>> No.13812284

>>13812101
literally even just throw lettuce, tomato, onion and whatever dressing you want in a bowl and mix it.

>> No.13812287

Doesn't help when Europoors call burger/sandwich toppings a fucking salad.

>> No.13812288

>>13812278
Soups/stews are not salads because they are cooked all together and are no longer discrete ingredients. There is no dressing, either, simply cooking liquid.

>> No.13812293

>>13812282
Basically yes. Consider tuna salad. Tuna, celery or pickle, mayo-based dressing.

>> No.13812303

everyone knows the word "salad" was created by jewish mold men that live in the center of the effort in an effort to confuse and exploit the goyim

>> No.13812306

>>13812280
It is not A salad, and yet it is salad...

>> No.13812307

>>13812293
If apply heat to it, does it stop being a salad?

>> No.13812314

>>13812307
No, think warm German potato salad. Potatoes, pickles/onions/capers/etc depending on tradition, vinegar/mustard dressing, served warm or even hot.

>> No.13812318

>>13812314
Damn, so I could just put a bunch of random shit from my fridge in a bowl and have myself a salad? I'm starting to feel inspired.

>> No.13812324

>>13812314
I don't think an English speaker would regard that as a salad.

>> No.13812328

>>13812318
Yes. This is the true beauty of the salad. An infinite sea of choices. A rule I stick to is, if I can’t explain in plain words why it makes sense, I don’t do it.

>> No.13812333 [DELETED] 

>>13812101
greens with dressing.

>> No.13812337

>>13812324
Googling “warm german potato salad”. First result: https://www.fivehearthome.com/german-potato-salad/

> THE BEST German Potato Salad is a warm potato salad recipe featuring tender red potatoes and bacon in a tangy dressing for the ultimate summer side dish!

Warm salad, from a native English speaker.

>> No.13812344

>>13812318
Yeah but stop looking for excuses for being a fat sack of shit, you lard ass nigger.

>omg i've been eating salads for literally DAYS and i've gained weight :'(

>> No.13812352

>>13812101
Honestly? Spinach and tomato. You can throw other things in, sliced bell peppers, plenty of other produce. But to wash-and-dice a tomato, that's one part to two parts chopped spinach: take fresh spinach (if you're not a salad person, look for baby-grade spinach, the larger and firmer the leaf the more bitter, better suited to cooking) by the fistful, twist it up the way you might roll together a stack of napkins, and you slice across the roll, you can mince cilantro and other leafy veg similarly. Toss tom+spin together in a bowl or tupperware. Parmesan, oil+vinegar, ground pepper, pickled peppers, giardiniera, plenty of ways to easybreezily garnish that salad base. I like croutons, I'm partial to chex mix for that purpose.

Lettuce-based salads can be refreshing and crisp but spinach is far far more nutritious and substantial, I think it ought to be the default salad green.