I just watched a guy cover tinned beans in mayonnaise and call it bean salad.

Edit: This is the definition of salad people.

  • Abraxiel [any]
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    182 years ago

    Etymology of salad from Wiktionary

    From Middle English salade, from Old French salade, borrowed from Northern Italian salada, salata (compare insalata), from Vulgar Latin *salāta, from *salāre, from Latin saliō, from sal (“salt”).

  • the_kid [he/him]
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    72 years ago

    not strictly an American thing unfortunately. look up ‘salad olivieh’, it’s the worst

  • ToxicDivinity [comrade/them]
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    242 years ago

    Why do people point at 1 definition as though it’s the only thing a word can mean. Most words have more than 1 definition plus there is no authority over language so the meaning of a word follows usage.

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    52 years ago

    the final word on all arguments about food definitions is that it’s all made up and you can do whatever you want forever. tomatoes are both fruit and vegetable. a hotdog is a sandwich iff the person eating it is eating a sandwich. anything can be chili. champaigne does not exist, thank god.

    • hotwarioinyourarea [he/him]OP
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      52 years ago

      I’m vegan so I’m alright for fish salad but in principle I wouldn’t say adding fish to a salad is bizarre. It’s more the sweet stuff or just adding mayo to something and calling it salad.

      • AlpineSteakHouse [any]
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        52 years ago

        My wife makes a warm fish salad that’ll blow your balls off. Here’s how she does it, she takes some warm fish and she mixes it with a salad. Boom, ball’s right off.

  • poppy_apocalypse [he/him, any]
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    122 years ago

    I got caught off guard at a Subway in Australia. The worker asked me what kind of salad do I want on my sandwich. I’m like, no thanks, just the sandwich. It took a minute or two for me to realize they consider salad to be all uncooked vegetables. Is that correct or was it maybe a small town thing (I was in Sale).

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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      62 years ago

      No this is correct, more convenient than asking “what fruit/vegetables would you like on the sandwich”

  • Dolores [love/loves]
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    132 years ago

    like good marxists, we must apply the dialectical method to resolving this contradiction in the conditions of salad

    im throwing marshmellows and mayonaise into a Niçoise we’ll figure this out three-heads-thinking

  • The_Grinch [he/him]
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    82 years ago

    Are Americans asking you if you want some salad and then putting anything other than a green salad like the one pictured in your bowl?
    If you’re talking about bean salad, no one will be confused when it’s beans. If you’re talking about potato salad, no one will be confused when it’s potatoes.