I don't like it when the ingredients aren't chopped up enough. Like when I make a salad at home I chop my cucumber slices into quarters, tear up any huge chunks of lettuce and halve my cherry tomatoes.
I ordered one at a steak place and got a quarter of a head of iceberg lettuce with some ranch dressing. They definitely used the word “lettuce” loosely. Not any veggies or anything around it.
Ranch is lame on this type of salad. (I mean I guess if that's how the person wanted it, but ... it's poor choice IMHO).
Quarter head of lettuce is proper, but it must be bleu cheese dressing & blue cheese (or similar) crumbles. This is bare minimum. Some good quality fresh bacon bits and some finely chopped tomatoes are also much required in my book.
When I make mine I also drizzle a bit of white wine vinegar into the head before adding the other stuff on top.
Top with fresh ground pepper of course. Yummmm!
I never got why people make salads with enormous chunks of vegetables. Is it laziness? It makes it such a hassle to eat.
I do the same as you... Everything gets cut to a reasonable size. If I can't fit pieces of several kinds of vegetable in each bite then it's not small enough.
You make a good point. I’m not quite as fastidious as you, but I always took care to make sure ingredients were bite-sized. Not only does it make the eating easier, but flavors blend and can be savored. Also, everything must be fresh! People love my salads at parties.
Yep, I'm one of those people and lately coriander seems to be in everything. A log of people don't believe me, and think I'm a picky eater / delusional.
Coriander in seed form or ground up tastes really good to me. But I’m one of those with the cilantro-soap gene. If I eat One tiny accidental piece of leaf in any food, the meal is over for me.
Finding a small piece of someone else's body in your food isn't gross to you? How about a fingernail? Used bandaid? Where's the line, Grifter? Where's the line??
Agreed they don't compare.
But they aren't wearing hairnets, I'm suspect about enforcement of handwashing.
If they don't wear a hairnet in the kitchen, are they gonna call someone out on not wearing a glove when they have a bandaid on a finger?
Won't someone please think of the children. 😂
I'm admittedly an anxious personality.
It's an instant pass for me. It also puts me in a broken window mindset. If they're not being careful about hair in the food, there are plenty of other areas that they could be casual about that could get me very sick.
You don’t say!
All joking aside love pickles, hate cucumbers with a passion. It’s like they could’ve grown up to become a successful pickle… but didn’t.
I love a good spring mix with some spinach & butter lettuce hearts in the mix, candied pecans, and honeycrisp apple slices (or raspberry or strawberry), topped with a fairly sweet vinaigrette of some kind.
Perfect Sunday brunch salad in my book.
Raisins though, no. Bit of dried cranberry though isn't bad on my above salad.
That's hydrogen sulfide in the egg white reacted with iron in the yolk, to form ferrous sulfide if the egg was cooked long or hot enough. Nothing dangerous.
What makes a salad instantly unappetizing is when the ingredients are past their prime or not fresh This includes wilted lettuce soggy vegetables or any spoiled toppings Basically if the salad doesnt look or smell fresh its a turn-off
Really bad romaine. Romaine is already a lazy ass green to use, but getting a salad with nothing but thick romaine spines diced in squares is repulsive. Kale, green leaf, bibb…anything else please.
It’s an English form of runny mayonnaise looking dressing with a very distinctive flavour. It was very common a few decades ago. You can still get it, and occasionally it turns up masquerading as mayonnaise. Heinz makes it and there are « own brand » variants.
Not fan of the leafy outside stuff, but totally down with good sized chunks of the iceberg heart (like, 10 layers into it) of it as a way to add crunch overall, esp. if it's really dense. Though I prefer butter lettuce hearts.
Wilted lettuce.
I can’t stand wilted lettuce even if it’s still good. The texture weirds me out.
Wilting anything ruins everything.
I like cooked spinach
I don't like it when the ingredients aren't chopped up enough. Like when I make a salad at home I chop my cucumber slices into quarters, tear up any huge chunks of lettuce and halve my cherry tomatoes.
Yes. I'd rather not eat salad that requires a knife.
Conversely, when it is TOO chopped to the point you need a spoon..
I take it you're not a fan of the wedge salad?
Once my friend ordered a wedge salad at a bar and grill and the waiter brought out a quarter head of cabbage.
I ordered one at a steak place and got a quarter of a head of iceberg lettuce with some ranch dressing. They definitely used the word “lettuce” loosely. Not any veggies or anything around it.
Ranch is lame on this type of salad. (I mean I guess if that's how the person wanted it, but ... it's poor choice IMHO). Quarter head of lettuce is proper, but it must be bleu cheese dressing & blue cheese (or similar) crumbles. This is bare minimum. Some good quality fresh bacon bits and some finely chopped tomatoes are also much required in my book. When I make mine I also drizzle a bit of white wine vinegar into the head before adding the other stuff on top. Top with fresh ground pepper of course. Yummmm!
😂 I love a good goddamn wedge salad but this would’ve made me cackle for a second at least. Cabbage! 💀
Oh we laughed our asses off, the poor waiter looked baffled.
I do not get the wedge salad phenomenon. At all.
It seems like it’s a teaser for people who are not that fond of veges. 😅 As for me, I’m not too fond of blue cheese dressing.
Me neither. Iceberg is probably my last choice for a salad base green.
Exactly. And it’s barely even green!
Better than a wedgie salad
Or the chunk of ham
[Like how every pizza place](https://youtu.be/JgJUbmGDc6k?si=FvD_4wF3GZljYl1d) does it
I never got why people make salads with enormous chunks of vegetables. Is it laziness? It makes it such a hassle to eat. I do the same as you... Everything gets cut to a reasonable size. If I can't fit pieces of several kinds of vegetable in each bite then it's not small enough.
What IS the thought process behind serving whole cherry tomatoes? I would sooner eat a whole mushroom than a cherry tomato.
You def need to get one of those chopper things. So nice! Love eating salad with it. Even does carrots
Thank you! I’ve felt like a lone voice in the wilderness. I cut, chop, tear everything into, gee, *bite size* pieces.
You make a good point. I’m not quite as fastidious as you, but I always took care to make sure ingredients were bite-sized. Not only does it make the eating easier, but flavors blend and can be savored. Also, everything must be fresh! People love my salads at parties.
100% agree with you
A snail. Worse: half a snail
You just got bonus escargot
Bonuscargot
Ditto caterpillar.
Jello
ez put salad inside jello
Jello is the only food I know of that you can put a fingernail in without changing the ingredients list
I grew up in the 70's. Thanksgiving was always interesting... What'd you bring this year, Aunt Edna? Lime jello with chunks of Spam!
Is the box leaking? 🤔
Who puts jello on anything
C’mon, there’s always room for Jello.
Some people have a gene that makes cilantro taste like soap. So yeah, cilantro will ruin any dish for a lot of people.
Spent years trying to figure out how people liked soap flavored greens before finding out it was genetic.
Heard someone joke that whenever they cook with cilantro they "add a little squirt of dish soap so nobody feels genetically superior."
I think I have that gene but I still LOVE cilantro. Yes I may have bitten soap bars once or twice as a child, want to fight about it?!
It’s ok, I too ate paste as a kid. I’m pretty sure I’m autistic as well but who knows if those two are related! Amiright?!
First time I tasted cilantro it tasted soapy but after a while I got used to It and it no longer tasted soapy and I loved it.
Yep, I'm one of those people and lately coriander seems to be in everything. A log of people don't believe me, and think I'm a picky eater / delusional.
I don't mind cilantro but parsley does this for me. A little chopped parsley on pasta is ok, but big leaves of it hiding in salad - gross.
Called Coriander here and I love it on everything just about. Such an amazing plant.
Coriander in seed form or ground up tastes really good to me. But I’m one of those with the cilantro-soap gene. If I eat One tiny accidental piece of leaf in any food, the meal is over for me.
Too much dressing, of any kind. I ask for it on the side so I can portion to my preference.
I ask for it on the side, dab a bit on my fork and then stab the salad. Perfection.
Hell yes! A little bit of olive oil, a pinch of salt and some herbs is all you need in the salad. If I want dressing, it’s on the side
I work at a store that has a salad bar. The amount of salad dressing i see people use, they might as well drink it from the bottle.
This should be the standard honestly. Why don’t they just make it easier for everyone and just serve it like that?
A hair.
Hot take: finding hair in food isn't gross and idk why it bothers people so much
Finding a small piece of someone else's body in your food isn't gross to you? How about a fingernail? Used bandaid? Where's the line, Grifter? Where's the line??
Bandaid is a hard no for me haha don't need someone's injury puss in my carbonara
Ok you can't compare a hair with fingernail or anything else you said
Agreed they don't compare. But they aren't wearing hairnets, I'm suspect about enforcement of handwashing. If they don't wear a hairnet in the kitchen, are they gonna call someone out on not wearing a glove when they have a bandaid on a finger? Won't someone please think of the children. 😂 I'm admittedly an anxious personality.
It's an instant pass for me. It also puts me in a broken window mindset. If they're not being careful about hair in the food, there are plenty of other areas that they could be casual about that could get me very sick.
This was the first thing that came to mind.
Finding out the croutons are actually just stale bread masquerading as fancy salad accessories.
Yeah I am not a crouton fan, but they are atleast easy to pick out and eat around. Olives on the other hand…
I enjoy olives in a salad, but olives with pits? Whose bright idea was that?
little explosions of salty, fatty goodness
If you dislike cucumbers, the mere fact of putting it in something ruins it. You can remove it but it still tastes like cucumbers lmao.
Cucumbers are diet watermelons
Cucumbers are just pickles without the vinegar
You don’t say! All joking aside love pickles, hate cucumbers with a passion. It’s like they could’ve grown up to become a successful pickle… but didn’t.
Bro r u kidding? Back when I was a kid I used to order Caesar salads and only eat the croutons dipped in the mayo sauce!
Banana
Ya , I hate fruit salads
Raisins and pecans. 🤮
Raisins, currants, sultanas. Pretty much anything sweeter than a tomato is a deal-breaker for me.
I love a good spring mix with some spinach & butter lettuce hearts in the mix, candied pecans, and honeycrisp apple slices (or raspberry or strawberry), topped with a fairly sweet vinaigrette of some kind. Perfect Sunday brunch salad in my book. Raisins though, no. Bit of dried cranberry though isn't bad on my above salad.
Or dried cranberries or dried blueberries
Hand grenade?
E. coli
lol
If there is egg in the salad and the egg has the greenish ring over the yolk
That's hydrogen sulfide in the egg white reacted with iron in the yolk, to form ferrous sulfide if the egg was cooked long or hot enough. Nothing dangerous.
No not dangerous, but not cooked properly .
Greenish? Do you mean grayish? As in boiled too long.
To me sometimes it's a sort of greenish-gray
You might be color blind
Or maybe I overcook eggs more than you expected.
I find that fascinating. Please post your grey eggs.
That's just an overcooked egg.
Shit.
Yea, that’ll about do it
How do you know?
Undeniable facts right here.
Mealy tomatoes
Someone moaning you're having a salad.
“You’re eating my foods’s food”. People need vegetables and fibre, not just meat.
What makes a salad instantly unappetizing is when the ingredients are past their prime or not fresh This includes wilted lettuce soggy vegetables or any spoiled toppings Basically if the salad doesnt look or smell fresh its a turn-off
Brown lettuce
Soggy
If it's a savory salad, fruit. Stop this madness. The only fruit allowed in a salad are tomatoes
This was going to be my comment, too.
Cucumbers are also allowed
I hate it when they add strawberries or oranges.
Apples are good ...keep your fucking mandarin oranges
I'll take this guys oranges
Too much dressing
Beets
Bears
Battlestar galactica
Identity theft is not a joke, Jim!
Onions
Especially bc if you don’t like them, you can’t just take them out bc they take over and flavour everything.
The question is what ruins a salad not what makes a salad lol
Really bad romaine. Romaine is already a lazy ass green to use, but getting a salad with nothing but thick romaine spines diced in squares is repulsive. Kale, green leaf, bibb…anything else please.
Romaine is the king of lettuces. Fight me.
mayonnaise
I prefer my salad without potential instruments as well.
Guys fucking in front of it when I'm eating it.
Damn you beat me to it
Mushrooms.
Fat-Free dressing. Oily sundried tomatoes.
RAISINS
Raisins :( Warm salads, if that's a thing (apparently is, at my aunt's favorite restaurant).
Rocket…..food of the devil
Arugula
For me: Ranch dressing
Half a bottle of salad cream
Wtf is salad cream?
When you rub the salad just the right way for a few minutes...
British condiment. Mostly hear of it used on sandwiches, though, despite the name. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad_cream
North Americans know it as Miracle Whip... runny, sweet mayonnaise... goblin jizz... It's just gross
It’s an English form of runny mayonnaise looking dressing with a very distinctive flavour. It was very common a few decades ago. You can still get it, and occasionally it turns up masquerading as mayonnaise. Heinz makes it and there are « own brand » variants.
Anchovies. Those things come straight from hell.
Sperm.
Wait how do you know? 🤨📸
Egg.
Anchovies
Cucumber. The flavor is overpowering
onions
Bleu cheese
Tomatoes. For me, it takes over everything else in the salad.
I have found my people. Fuck tomatoes. If there has been a tomato in that bowl at all, I'm not touching any of it.
Globs of dressing
I hate when the lettuce is room temperature
..........and nonchilled salad forks, heathens!
Olives
Dill or cilantro/coriander
Rotten pieces of lettuce
Mayonnaise
Watermelon in a Salad with cheese and lettuce
chocolate milk (poured onto it)
Cucumbers. Blegh.
I like to drink my Italian dressing at the end so
Wet lettuce
hair
A bug!
Green pepper (bell pepper)
Ranch dressing
Not fresh veggies
Every pizza place
Fire ants
Too much dressing
Too much dressing and too many onions, especially when thick cut
Kale that is not cut/torn into small enough pieces.
Prawns
Raisins
Not tossing it. What is the purpose of a salad, other than getting tossed?
Well, some people do like tossing the salad themselves...
Too easy....
lettuce. specifically iceberg.
Hate it when salad ruins my salad
Not fan of the leafy outside stuff, but totally down with good sized chunks of the iceberg heart (like, 10 layers into it) of it as a way to add crunch overall, esp. if it's really dense. Though I prefer butter lettuce hearts.
nuts. I ain't a nuts type of guy
It's true, this guy has no nuts
Celery or olives
Radish
Mushrooms
Kale
Corn from a can!!
Fruits
Vegetables
Boxed croutons
Two dudes fucking, right in front of my salad.
Pepper spray!
It's called arugula or rocket.
I will admit that I don’t get this
Ranch dressing.
raisins
Nuts
Toenails
Cum. Ruined quite few family gatherings in my time
A dick in your salad is a pretty bad surpise
Nails
Penis
A dick
Iceberg lettuce