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> 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.

I do like lemon on a salad. But not oil.