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The only dish you can ruin by adding too much of a good thing.
means A dish of mixed vegetables, greens, or other cold ingredients, usually tossed with a dressing.
from Traces back through French 'salade' to Vulgar Latin 'salata,' meaning 'salted,' from 'sal' (salt) — because Romans ate their greens dressed simply in salt or brine, the ancestor of today's vinaigrette.
- word root
- Same root as salary, both trace to salt
- caesar salad
- Invented in Tijuana, not Rome or by any Caesar
- jello salad
- 1950s America called gelatin with fruit a salad
- iceberg lettuce
- Mostly water, nutritionally close to eating crunchy nothing