On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 10:00:47 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>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

I don't know that those are better restaurants, some may ask if you
want their house dressing, I wouldn't. I went to a famcy schmancy
eatery a couple years ago, they drizzled some snot on the salad, I
couldn't eat it, in fact I couldn't look at it. That pig pen is out
of business now. Just bring me a half lemon and a bottle of decent
olive oil and I'll dress my own salad.