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Food Crimes - Offenses against nutrition

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I love how fast and loose this plays with the definition of "salad".

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Right? Cover a fucking donut with mayonnaise, serve it on a single leaf of lettuce - boom, salad.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

You watch, Dunkin' Donuts will feature this next month as "healthy".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Can't wait to see a black forest gateau salad.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In the 70s salad was any sort of combination of plant material and sauce

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Yes! Throw some crap in jello, serve on a lettuce leaf, SALAD!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Ah no. A salad was anything combined with anything else but not cooked (again). This led to some true abominations at the table. Too often, mayonnaise (and not even mayonnaise but Miracle Whip) served as the binder.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My wife's grandma makes "pretzel salad", which is crushed pretzel sticks that are tossed with a mixture of margarine and cream cheese, I think, then baked until crispy then crumbled.

In the meantime, cream cheese, maybe whipped cream?, sugar, a few other onesies and twosies, and canned shredded pineapple are mixed into an unholy slop.

Then, when is time to serve, the crumbles are mixed in with the slop and there you go. Salad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is this a side for a meal, or a dessert?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I believe it's a dessert

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Mmm, interesting. Pretzel salad for me is the layer of crushed pretzel and melted butter (no cream cheese here) baked, like you said, then a layer of a cream cheese frosting, then a layer of strawberries in strawberry jello. All separate layers, no unholy slop, and it's sooooo good. But no, it's not salad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It used to mean any meal served cold. Later versions were encased in gelatin for better preservation, which contributed to the later post-war jelly salad recipes.