Thread 21484193

What are your thoughts on salads?

>>21484193 (OP)
olives suck ass

>>21484193 (OP)
Made for fat women to pretend they’re eating healthy

>>21484222
Fuck you

>>21484222
those olives suck ass

if something is to count for a salad, most of the calories have to come from vegetables, not the dressing, not croutons, not meat or fish, not cheese, not grains like bulghur

>cesar salad
not a salad
>pasta salad
not a salad
>olivier salad
not a salad
>cucumber, tomato and onion salad
a salad
>greek salad
usually a salad if you don't go overboard with the feta
>bean salad, no mayo potato salad
technically salads if you follow the letter of my law and not the spirit

>>21484193 (OP)
they exist? be more specific

>>21484255
Spare the faggot question mark reddit nigger

Can be delicious with just a few simple ingredients and just oil and vinegar but watch this board have a meltdown about it.
I mostly just eat tons of meat btw, no sides if I can help it

Excepting noodle salads, I like simpler ones over more complex. Just one veg, salt and a vinaigrette/citronette. That's all I need. Going to visit family, someone always make mountain salad. It's a Swiss thing with like eighteen dozen different salads all mounded up against one another into a tall cone. It's nice, but it's just multiple individual salads rather than one cohesive dish.

>>21484251
this is like the people tat say white chocolate doesn't exist like I can go to the store and buy it lol.

>>21484251
>if something is to count for a salad, most of the calories have to come from vegetables
says who?

>>21484362
me, retard. duh
this is a thread asking anons about their personal thoughts on salads, did you miss that or something?

>>21484193 (OP)
The vast majority of salads are very bad. This is generally because the people making them are lazy or are too ignorant and don't really care about constructing something more meaningful than a pile of plant parts.

A well made salad is as good as any other dish, without a doubt. It'll be well balanced in flavour (sweet, acidic, savory, properly salted, properly seasoned) and in texture (soft, crunchy, wet, dry), and appealing to the eyes. A good salad when first eaten ought to make you think "Fuck, what the hell is in this? I want to make some myself", because you often can at home. If you or anyone else's home salad's suck, it's an issue on the who prepared it, not the ingredients.

Not some vegan fag either, love meat. Put some chicken in your salad if you can.

>>21484193 (OP)
I hate fruit in my salad and it makes my farts smell funny

>>21484284
>>21484297
sadly, for all the effort many people put into salads, a really good tomato with some salt and olive oil is practically impossible to beat.

>>21484193 (OP)
spring mix
black olives
banana peppers
cucumber
cherry tomato
italian dressing

Simplicity is key a nice oil and vinegar and maybe some raw radish is enough for me
don't really care for over the top salads like cobb or nicoise

>>21484193 (OP)
They are good on occasion as long as there is a main protein.

>>21484193 (OP)
based

salad enjoyers fuck hard daily and live to age 100

salad haters suck ass and fart gay aids from their anuses

>>21484222
Black olives do really suck ass, but green olives or better Italian taggiasche olives on EVO oil are the shit.

>>21484705
>nicoise
>over the top
?
Maybe I've been having something else my whole life and calling it niçoise but isn't it just a green salad with a tin of olive oil tuna and some sliced onions? I had one yesterday.

>>21484251
desu

>>21484231
ah fuck you olive man

>>21484222
basic canned black olives kind of do. proper green or kalamata olives are great though and a salad without them is lacking.

>most of the calories have to come from vegetables
you're going to be getting like 50-100 calories at most from vegetables. understandable if you're having a side salad as part of a meal but that's about all you could ever do.

Love a good salad bar.

>>21484788
Maybe you and I should settle this at the salad bar

>american salads
>>either 60% shitty kale/lettuce by volume """"""""""""because it's healthy"""""""""""", exhibit A: >>21484193 (OP). May pad the dish volume further with bullshit croutons
>>or drenched in twice as much mayo as needed (chicken/potato/tuna)
>>no third option exists
>european salads
>>proper balance between ingredients
>>not dripping with mayo
a sad situation really

>>21484905
No drenched, no croutons, just salt and pepper and a little bit of olive oil.

>>21484193 (OP)
If it doesn't involve a pasta it ain't a salad. Yeah you read what I just wrote. Where is your fucking rigatoni you disgusting swineherd?

You don't win friends with salad, Lisa.

>>21484193 (OP)
Any form of salad is instantly 50% better when someone else makes it for you. Even if you use the exact same stuff. I cant explain it.

>>21484251
>most of the calories have to come from vegetables
do you know how low calorie vegetables generally are? a bowl of lettuce, onion, tomato, what it adds up to is almost negligible. you throw a chicken breast and some dressing in and the calories increase 10x

>>21486598
True plus people add all kinds of stuff as well like cheese and croutons in addition to the dressing and meat. Also depends on what kind of leafy stuff you use. I prepefer to use baby spinach. Iceberg lettuces are literally just water.

>>21486598
yeah you're right, of course i knew vegetables were low calorie, but i wasn't fully aware of how low calorie they are. for my math to work out, you'd need to eat 500 grams of tomato for every 5 grams of olive oil. maybe i'll have to recalculate my rule, lay low for a couple of years and then post something like "vegetables have to make up at least 90% by weight"

>>21486747
I eagerly await your new and improved definition of “salad”

>>21484193 (OP)
>Vegan hot take
Salad sucks.
It's not filling, it's very low calorie, and raw isn't my favorite way to eat most veggies.

I only eat them in social settings because if you don't eat them you're a baby man that doesn't like his veggies, even if your diet is like 90% veggies.

>>21487140
What about fruit salad?

>>21487140
cheers veg bro
sorry to hear that
but it's not like you don\t get enough veggies already so it's ok

love me some salad tho
usually i make a huge one to replace a meal
also will put on a healthy amount of a savory dressing with good fats

>>21487140
>raw isn't my favorite way to eat most veggies
you can cook them. you can even grill the lettuce, it’ll still be a salad

I love a good salad.
It doesn't even need to be complicated. Just some cucumber and tomato with a basic vinaigrette will do the trick.

>>21484193 (OP)
>What are your thoughts on salads?
Hygiene must be impeccable.

>>21484222
You are evil!

i dont make enough salads. most meals should have one to complement the heavy main.

>>21484193 (OP)
Twst

>>21484193 (OP)
I only eat them if I'm about to slopmax right afterward.

>>21484272
Sorry I'll try not to offend the faggot and spare him any further question marks.

>>21487270
>grilled lettuce
get a load of this idiot sandwich

>>21484415
Clear, just letting you know you should refrain from expressing your opinion from now on.

How do you even make one? If I throw a bunch of vegetables in a bowl it just tastes like vegetables in a bowl

>>21489359
personally, i use a salad dressing. i also add a good amount of nuts and cheese and croutons to actually make it filling.

>>21484193 (OP)
listeria and salmonella

Tonight it is a hamburger salad

>>21484193 (OP)
I have some weird mental thing with salads. Wrap up all of the ingredients of a chicken Caesar salad, or a Cobb salad, or something like that, in a big tortilla wrap, and I'll eat the whole thing. Put it in a bowl and give me a fork and I don't want any of it at all.

>>21484193 (OP)

I like this and Italian.

I'm trying to work more salad into my meal rotations after finding out that despite being in otherwise great health it seems I likely have a genetic predisposition toward high cholesterol. Made one tonight that I really enjoyed, it was a base of half and half arugula and spring greens topped with sliced red onion, shredded red cabbage, red bell pepper, carrots, sun dried tomato, tossed in a simple lemon Dijon vinaigrette I threw together and topped with a little bit of turkey and pepper jack cheese. Added a scoop of homemade garlic hummus and some harissa paste that I mixed in as I was eating, shit was good.

I'm actually angry that growing up I thought salads were shit because all I was ever exposed to was the dogshit iceberg lettuce with tomatoes olives and croutons topped with ranch that you get at crappy restaurants here in burgerclapistan.

I like salad to compliment a protein rich and starchy main course with inadequate vegetables.

Love the fuckers.

>>21490440
>>21490442
>how much fox is in it?

>>21484193 (OP)
I eat some every day. It keeps me regular. I eat a lot of cheese and fatty meats, so I need fiber and I get it from cabbage and spring greens and lettuce.

>>21484272
LOL, this. I'm so sick of that form of sarcasm. Statement with question mark at the end.

Unlike several other posters ITT I prefer salads with a lot of ingredients. Why not? it's more interesting that way. Salad is one of the few dishes that you can add a bunch of stuff to and have every ingredient retain its own separate texture and distinguishable flavor. Even things with flavors that would be a little offensive on their own (like bitter dandelion greens or earthy raw chard) can contribute to a salad if you add enough other stuff in there.

>>21486620
Water isn't green and leafy. "Literally" doesn't work in this instance. Quite an exaggeration. Consult a dictionary.

>>21487140
Vegans are gay. I will outlive you no matter how young you are.

>>21490136
Yes! I eat this kind of thing all the time.

>>21490440
Sanford and Son's Redd Foxx wouldn't have approved of that salad.

>>21490696

So you're the only person ever who would actually find the "gourmet chopped salad" in the following video to be appetizing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNOVQgKUK1I

load it up with some super acidic straight battery acid vinaigrette and i'm happy

>>21484193 (OP)

too much prep work, I just eat the parts of a salad in their whole form.

>>21490707
>youtube
didn't watch

I'll keep adding oak leaf lettuce, romaine lettuce, radicchio, chervil, purslane, endive, arugula, chard, mizuna, dandelions, fried tofu, red onions, artichoke hearts, hard-boiled eggs, walnuts, torreya nuts, pumpkin seeds, finger lime caviar, black and gold cherry tomatoes, radish, cucumber, grated beet and grated carrot all to my salad.

>>21484222
no u

>>21490698
highly improbable, cardiac-arrest kun.

>>21484222
Good job outing yourself as not having mature taste buds

>>21484251
Good bait desu.
I liked the part where you said salads most known for being covered in olive oil had most of the calories come from veggies. Made me reply.

>>21484193 (OP)
not real food
and not cooking

>>21490704
Hell yeah bro

>>21491466
@grok is this true?

>>21493811
Hitler did not kill six million Jews and he wrote a number of hit musicals under the pseudonym Ira Gershwin.