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> On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 23:59:44 -0500, songbird >
> wrote:
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>>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.

Most here will -plate up the salad, then bring it to you, swimming in
dressing. Most people I know ask for dressing on the side because they don't
want much dressing. They seem to get even more dressing that way. Such a
waste!