Lettuce , tomato, carrot,onion, black olives, season with black pepper, salt
and garlic powder and onion powder and mix with a little mayo. Just like
mom used to make. Great with enchiladas.
"Thurman" > wrote in message
...
> It seems that up until about ten years ago, every Mexican
> restaurant in Texas served a side salad of just iceberg
> lettuce, tomato and onion. Apparently, as a cost reduction,
> that disappeared.
>
> It seemed incongruous that the salad dressing was 'ranch,
> Italian, thousand island, etc.' I started asking the
> waiters, owners or anyone in a Mexican restaurant what their
> mother served on salads. It drew a lot of blank stares, but
> never an answer.
>
> If green salad was served in Mexican households, was there a
> dressing?
>
> What would be considered "authentic".
>