My significant other ate cucumbers and onion with some ranch. I called it a cucumber onion salad. She says there aren’t enough ingredients to call it a salad, because “it takes multiple ingredients”. I pointed out she had three and asked what the minimum is. She refuses to answer so I ask Lemmy.
it’s a salad, it’s just a terrible one
Cucumber and onion with a vinaigrette though is a delicious salad.
There is tomato salad. Just tomatoes, oil, vinegar, salt and pepper.
I’ll raise you some mozzarella.
Add fresh basil and I’m in.
One of my favourite things to eat in the summer
Those ingredients you listed are literally the ingredients to a dish called cucumber salad. Though usually the dressing is more of an vinegary Italian dressing instead of ranch. Just Google it.
I grew up with the notion that chopped tomato sprinkled with coarse salt is a salada.
lettuce in a bowl is salad.
To me, it has to have dressing. Otherwise it’s just lettuce in a bowl.
Pop a drizzle of oil on it? BOOM SALD
Quick edit: plug for saladguy12, who just hit DAY TWO THOUSAND
Two ingredients and a “dressing” is a salad.
If no dressing, then three ingredients or more.
Also, chicken caeser salad is a salad, and it has starch/bread.
Also, chicken caeser salad is a salad, and it has starch/bread.
Deconstructed sandwich
2 minium?
- A base, such as lettuce, pasta, boiled potato or rice.
- Some salad-worthy veggie or fruit.
Well, the cube rule of food says anything without a starch/bread is a salad, if you want an absurd authority to point to: https://cuberule.com/
So steak or chocolate are salads and a salad is a nacho, got it!
Potato salad is sad now
Looks at breakdown of the cube rule: Yeah, okay. That all makes perfect sense.
Looks at examples that follow the cube rule: YOU MONSTERS!!
This is hilarious! What a beautiful, pointless discussion! I love it! 🤣
Potato salad is often just potatoes with chives and Mayonnaise. Your SO is chatting shit imho.
What about Kabelsalat?
I mean when you put chopped iceberg lettuce and tomatoes, it’s a salad… So… Two?
I would lettuce + cucumber, too. Begrudgingly, but I would accept it.
Last time I tossed a salad it was two ingredients, so I think you’re correct.
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I talked with a expert (my one friend who knows how to use a knife) and the conclusion is: any vegetable that is served in a different plate.
So if I put my fries on a seperate plate it’s a salad? Good to know
Fries aren’t a vegetable though :(
Potatoes come from a plants roots and should be considered a vegetable. And fries are made of potatoes. Therefore I say it’s a salad.
But not all plant products are vegetables. Take wood, sugar, or coconut oil as examples.
According to Wikipedia:
The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant Solanum tuberosum and is a root vegetable native to the Americas.
They are usually sold with the other vegetables in a supermarket because they are a root vegetable.
Let’s stop arguing and just enjoy fries instead
No worries. Enjoy!
I grew up eating green salads without dressing, because the dressings my parents favored were so salty and acidic they hurt my mouth. Lettuce, sliced tomatoes, carrots, celery, maybe cucumber.
These days I usually go for a “Mediterranean” salad with greens, olives, feta or similar cheese, cucumber, tomato, bell peppers, herbs, and a splash of olive oil.
If you’re making it for a group of people, finding a good mix of vegetables for a salad involves excluding the ones that someone doesn’t like. I don’t like zucchini or asparagus. One of my housemates can’t abide celery. One friend doesn’t like jicama. Another friend is okay with red bell pepper but can’t abide green bell pepper. Making a salad everyone enjoys seems to be partly about getting all these preferences right and then balancing what’s left.
Lettuce alone is sufficient, but not necessary. As soon as you omit lettuce it takes multiple ingredients.
My nana calls that the “honeymoon salad”, lettuce alone
Ha! You beat me to it. My dad loved that joke.
“Do you have honeymoon salad?”
“What’s honeymoon salad?”
“Lettuce alone, without dressing.”
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More like, “been married for 30 years salad”, amirite?? /BoomerHumor
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Also the conditions for a salad grow stronger. If there’s lettuce there’s no worry about adding hot ingredients but if it’s a potato salad you’re only making fancy mashed potatoes if it’s hot.
Can we first define “salad”?
If it’s cold ingredients, mixed together, then wilted iceberg lettuce and a gas station dressing packet is salad.
So two.
German potato salad is served hot. A salad is literally just any ingredients mixed together.
I‘m German and have eaten a lot of potato salad during my entire life. Not once has it been served hot
Not hot but „lauwarm“ or „lukewarm“ is very typical for same day fresh potato salad
At least down here in the south
It doesn’t even have to be cold. Look at pasta salad, or anything with grilled chicken or fresh croutons.
I’m not gonna claim a salad can’t be hot, but I think of pasta salads as a cold dish. Maybe it depends where your from.
Potato salad is generally cold too, but there is also hot German potato salad.
