My significant other ate cucumbers and onion with some ranch. I called it a cucumber onion salad. She says there aren’t enough ingredients to call it a salad, because “it takes multiple ingredients”. I pointed out she had three and asked what the minimum is. She refuses to answer so I ask Lemmy.

  • Dubious_Fart
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    1 year ago

    Take lettuce for example.

    If you put a lot of lettuce in a bowl… What do you have? A Salad?

    NO. You have a bowl of lettuce.

    You put a second object in the lettuce bowl (Crouton, dressing, another veg, whatever), Now do you have a Salad?

    Yes. You have a salad.

    There is no maximum ingredient count for a salad, but you must have a minimum of two items for a salad.

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      1 year ago

      I want to agree with you, but I think the minimum number of ingredients has to be three. Otherwise, the unbelievably sad bowl of iceberg lettuce and Italian dressing that was served to me would qualify as a salad and I simply cannot allow that to be.

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        1 year ago

        Yes, but the argument wasnt for a non-sad salad.

        It was just, how many ingredients before it becomes a salad. obviously you would want a proper salad with more delicious and good things in it, but that the same way that a slice of bread between two slices of bread is a bread sandwich, so is a bowl of lettuce and some dressing a salad.