On Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 2:20:06 PM UTC-4, tert in seattle wrote:
> The Cook wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 21:47:12 +0000 (UTC), tert in seattle
> > wrote:
> >
> >><http://tracybriggs.areavoices.com/2016/03/19/attention-fellow-midwesterners-jello-isnt-salad/>
> >>
> >>it's a little long - I did read some of it, and learned that apparently
> >>some clever marketing types came up with the brilliant idea of naming
> >>desserts "salad"
> >>
> >>proving again that HL Mencken was correct
> >>
> >
> >
> > So how do you classify it if it has both fruit and vegetables in it?
>
> not enough info
>
> anyhow, I would be curious to know what associations people have for the
> word "salad"
>
> I think "healthy" is one of them, even for people from the Midwest

Midwesterner all my life.

My associations with "salad" pretty much match the dictionary definition.
Vegetables, meat, or starch dressed with something.

"Healthy" is the devil in the details. A pile of greens and other
vegetables with a nice vinaigrette or buttermilk-based dressing is healthful.
Start crapping it up with cheese (unless it's a main-dish salad) and it
starts becoming less healthful quite rapidly. I wish restaurants would
say "Warning! Side salad has cheese!" right on their menus so I could
ask them to omit it.

Other salads, like potato salad, are less healthful from the get-go. So
many of them appear to be a vehicle for maximizing mayonnaise ingestion.

Jello salad isn't really in my culinary lexicon. I've never liked it,
although I liked plain cherry jello when I was a kid.

I had a nice Greek salad for lunch today, with some warm bread and
olive oil on the side. The feta cheese provided the protein for
the meal.

Cindy Hamilton