Evangeline's class went to the pizzaria today and brought home dough.

[conuly]

So I made pizza for dinner, with buffalo mozzarella. And salad, of course, because it wasn't a very big pizza.

So now I'm wondering - what on earth does everybody put in (on?) their salad? It is time - for a poll!

Poll #7147 Salad!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14

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What do you put in (on?) your "standard" salad? That is, which of these are the default?

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Iceberg lettuce
3 (21.4%)

Some sort of green leafy lettuce
9 (64.3%)

Some sort of red leafy lettuce
5 (35.7%)

One of those lettuces in a fancy frilly shape
1 (7.1%)

A bag of mixed salad greens
7 (50.0%)

Baby spinach
7 (50.0%)

Basil
2 (14.3%)

Parsley
2 (14.3%)

Other fresh green herbs
3 (21.4%)

Tomatoes, chopped
9 (64.3%)

Tomatoes, small sized
4 (28.6%)

Cucumber
10 (71.4%)

Corn
1 (7.1%)

Scallions
5 (35.7%)

Onions
1 (7.1%)

Red onions
4 (28.6%)

Mushrooms
4 (28.6%)

Radishes
1 (7.1%)

Beets
1 (7.1%)

Carrots
8 (57.1%)

Olives
3 (21.4%)

Sugar snaps
3 (21.4%)

Bacon bits
2 (14.3%)

Feta cheese
0 (0.0%)

Blue cheese
3 (21.4%)

Croutons
2 (14.3%)

Cheddar cheese
4 (28.6%)

Some other sort of cheese
1 (7.1%)

Ham
2 (14.3%)

Chicken
2 (14.3%)

Some other sort of meat
0 (0.0%)

Eggs
4 (28.6%)

Some sort of cooked dried bean
0 (0.0%)

Fresh fruit of some sort
1 (7.1%)

Dried fruit of some sort
2 (14.3%)

Some type of nut
4 (28.6%)

Peppers
2 (14.3%)

Bean sprouts
2 (14.3%)

Avocado
3 (21.4%)

Jicama (seriously? And yet, google tells me!)
0 (0.0%)

Capers
0 (0.0%)

Pickled something or other
0 (0.0%)

Dressing
7 (50.0%)

Something I totally forgot
1 (7.1%)

Whatever I get from the garden, planted or otherwise - dandelion, purslane, etc.
3 (21.4%)

A brassica of some sort (kale, broccoli, cauliflower, mustard, cabbage)
0 (0.0%)

I don't eat salad. Ever.
1 (7.1%)

Is there anything I listed that you think, in no way, belongs in the prototypical "salad" image you have?

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Yes
3 (50.0%)

No
3 (50.0%)

What sort of dressing?

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Oil and vinegar
4 (28.6%)

Vinegar and oil
2 (14.3%)

Italian
0 (0.0%)

Creamy Italian
0 (0.0%)

Blue cheese
1 (7.1%)

Ranch
2 (14.3%)

French
1 (7.1%)

Catalina
0 (0.0%)

Russian
0 (0.0%)

Caesar
0 (0.0%)

Something else
1 (7.1%)

No dressing at all
3 (21.4%)

I don't eat salad
0 (0.0%)

And do you typically buy or make your dressing?

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Buy
4 (36.4%)

Make
7 (63.6%)

Comments

[siderea]

You have "pepper", but don't disambiguate between the little hot italian ones, and green bell peppers. I do the latter, not the former.

I wasn't quite sure how to approach the survey, because I understand the cultural platonic ideal of "salad" involves a big, ol' heap of wortys of some sort, usually lettuce, and if you ask me, "what's a salad", being descriptionist, that's what I'll tell you. But left alone at a salad bar, my personal prescriptionist notion of what a "small basic salad" should be is cucumber + bell pepper + tomato. (Thus, I am partial to salad bars that price by volume, rather than by weight. :) There are other things that I think are tasty that I'll put on a salad (e.g. black olives and carrot shavings), but that's the core.

Several years ago I discovered that the Greeks basically agree with me, though I have to ask them to hold the onion.

[conuly]

1. Wortys?

2. It never occurred to me that anybody would put hot peppers on their salad! I should've distinguished between green (unripe) bells and the other ones, though....

Well, it was a big-ass poll, I was bound to mess something up a little.

[janewilliams20]

"Worts" - lovely generic word for almost any sort of green stuff.
"Buttered Worts" is one of my favourite medieval recipes.

Harleian MS 4016, in "Two Fifteenth Century Cookery Books", Early English Text Society.

"Take all maner of good herbes that thou may gete, and do bi ham as is forsaid; putte hem on the fire with faire water; put there-to clarified buttur a grete quantite. Whan thei ben boyled ynogh, salt hem: late none otemele come there-in. Dise brede small in disshes, and powre on pe wortes, and serue hem forth."

[conuly]

So worts == greens?

[janewilliams20]

Yep. Sometimes used more specifically for the cabbage family, but more generally, "plants".

Googling...
Middle English, from Old English wyrt; see wrd- in Indo-European roots.

[janewilliams20]

I might well add anything on that list if it was a stand-alone salad rather than one to go with pizza, and I was the only one eating it - my husband's more fussy than I am. Well, everything but "Jicama", because I've never heard of it before, and Google indicates I'm never likely to meet one.

[conuly]

I've never eaten it myself, but I could pick it up if I really wanted to try it. Our supermarket is SO WEIRD that way. I've never before known of a neighborhood, non-fancy supermarket that sells quail eggs.

[janewilliams20]

Ours sometimes does quail eggs, but they're in the "fancy stuff" area, not with the normal eggs.

[conuly]

We don't have a fancy stuff area. We have olive oil in two different locations, though!

[janewilliams20]

Also, if this was a generic salad, green beans, potatos, various sorts of fish.... I'm thinking "nicoise" here.

[velvetchamber.livejournal.com]

Now you have inspired me to have pizza for dinner. Sadly not home made, but pizza it shall be.

Also, things that can be combined for salad can be good, but they are better when separate than when mixed together. Except for fancy occasions where there are apples, green grapes, celery, walnuts and a mixture of whipped and sour cream.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Salad:
Some kind of good green
grape tomatoes unless some other awesome tomato is in season
English cucumber (or pickling cukes, seasonally)
yellow capsecum
some kind of cheese--usually feta or goat
assorted raw veggies depending on what I have
meat or nuts, typically tuna or almonds
white or red balsamic and toasted or red pepper sesame oil.

I got here too late to take the poll....

[marveen.livejournal.com]

...but at the very LEAST my salad has green or red leaf lettuce, cheese, croutons, and homemade dressing.

For a dnner salad, I add egg, avocado and tomatoes if available, chopped meat, sunflower seeds if available, and crumbled bacon ditto.

Re: I got here too late to take the poll....

[conuly]

You're not too late, it's just that the poll is over at DW.

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

I feel it necessary to point out that I'm not a fan of black olives, but that I put both green and kalamata olives on my salads.