On Tuesday, January 28, 2020 at 12:00:47 PM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 23:59:44 -0500, songbird >
> wrote:
>
> >Doris Night wrote:
> >...
> >> I won't eat salad at a restaurant because they keep it in a huge
> >> container in the kitchen and dish it out when it's ordered. It will
> >> generally have too much dressing on it, and it will have sat in the
> >> dressing for quite a while.
> >
> > no place i go to has dressing on the salad before you
> >get it and you can order the salad with the dressing on
> >the side.
> >
> > i suppose this community salad with one dressing on it
> >might be a cultural thing, but i'd not much like it. still
> >i could eat it if that is all there was.
> >
> > songbird
>
> The only salad I know of that arrives already dressed is a slaw. Even
> the greasyest spoon will bring a salad undressed with a dressing of
> choice on the side... nowadays the dressings are in sealed plastic
> packets as is ketchup, mustard, syrups, even butter pats jam/jelly,
> and cream for coffee. The only exception is a caesar salad but that
> would be dressed at table. I've never in my life encountered a
> restaurant that serves pre-dressed salad, for one they'd have a lot of
> waste... leafy greens go limp in under five minutes of being dressed.

Better restaurants make their own dressings and dress the salad in the
kitchen, then bring it to the table immediately. My regular Thursday
lunch spot does that.

Cindy Hamilton