On Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 3:40:05 PM UTC-4, tert in seattle wrote:
> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
> > "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.
>
> There are those who say the devil is in the details, and others who say
> that god is in the details, but I've never heard anyone say "such-and-such
> is the devil in the details."

I believe I coined the phrase about an hour ago, paraphrasing the
bowdlerization of Mies van der Rohe. I steal from the best.

> Cheese makes it less healthful? how so?

Fat and calories, of which I get plenty in the main dish when salad is
a side. I provided a disclaimer that "crapping it up with cheeses"
doesn't apply when the salad is a main dish.

Cindy Hamilton