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

[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.