On Friday, August 10, 2012 9:56:30 PM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
> I ask this as I am forcing down a bowl of "American" salad. Now when I was
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> a kid this was pretty much all we ever got. Except for the years when I had
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> a garden and grew leaf lettuce. For those of you who don't know what this
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> is, it is iceberg lettuce, shredded carrots and a small amount of shredded
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> purple cabbage. Once in a while there will be a few red radish slices in it
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> as well.
I like greens all of them mustard tunips collard greens and cabbage. I do eat salads from time to time but I must admit I do not know the difference between lettuce.
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> I remember the first time I had butter lettuce at the Hunt Club. That was a
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> restaurant I couldn't normally afford to dine at. But my friend was
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> graduating from college and rather than throw a party, his parents too me
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> and another friend out to dinner with them to this place. I was very
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> uncomfortable during the meal, partly because I had to dress up (and I hate
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> to do that) and partly because people kept hovering around us. I also
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> remember having a pepper crusted steak which I really didn't like, being a
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> vegetarian and all but at that point in time there were no vegetarian dishes
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> on the menu. I think my friend had duck. They did have a guy who came
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> around with a big pepper mill. I did like that.
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> I like pretty much all of the salad greens except for when they are really
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> bitter. Sometimes I will get a blend that has too much bitter stuff in it.
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> I don't normally buy bagged salad for fear of food poisoning but this bag
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> came from Costco and it was only $2.17. We've been eating salad all week
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> from it. Tonight I put some green onions and some green pepper on it as
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> well as some black olives. I intended to put walnuts but I forgot. The
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> green pepper was an accident. The produce drawer was stuffed full but I
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> insisted to Angela that I could fit the remaining three green onions in
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> there. Well, I did but I smashed the green pepper. Which is why I ate it
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> tonight.
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> I also like tomatoes and celery on my salad. And I often put kidney, pinto
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> or garbanzo beans on there. Cooked white beans are good too although I
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> don't really like black beans on a salad too much. Unless it is really a
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> Mexican type salad with like...corn and salsa. Then it's okay. I also like
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> that baby corn but I only ever want two ears. So I never buy the stuff
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> because nobody else will eat it and it always goes bad before I can finish
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> it.
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> So what are your favorite salad greens? Costco sells some baby lettuces
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> that I love. But you have to buy so many in a package that we can never
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> finish them. Actually Angela won't eat them. But I can get her to eat
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> Romaine.