On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 08:04:09 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 at 10:57:48 AM UTC-4, Sheldon wrote:
>> On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 06:02:24 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 at 8:18:57 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
>> >> Pamela wrote:
>> >> > I would skip the wine and stick to the foods.
>> >>
>> >> I've always claimed here that having wine with dinner is TIAD to
>> >> the max.
>> >
>> >You don't get to decide what tastes good to other people. "TIAD" is
>> >judgmental to the max. "Taste in ass disease" implies that you know
>> >better than anyone else.
>> >
>> >Mayonnaise mixed with ketchup is TIAD.
>> >
>> >See how nice a thing that is to say?
>> >
>> >> I still mean it too. I like wine but not with food.
>> >> Separate nice events, imo. Same with food only, surf and turf
>> >> dinners. Two good foods but best to enjoy separately, not
>> >> combined.
>> >
>> >Then don't combine them, for ****'s sake, but shut up about what
>> >and how other people eat.
>> >
>> >> When eating a good meal, I have no desire to interrupt that taste
>> >> with a sip of beer or wine. yuk. Cleansing your pallette? Yeah,
>> >> right. IMO, if you want a cleansing thing, eat your dinner all
>> >> at once and not served in separate courses. IOW, eat one thing
>> >> then something else and alternate. Also (for me), some cold
>> >> gramma's applesauce gives a good cleansing and a nice break
>> >> without deadening your taste buds and your brain with an
>> >> alcoholic beverage.
>> >>
>> >> I've gone to annoying restaurants where they will serve you a
>> >> salad, then watch and wait until you are done before bringing the
>> >> entree. Nonsense. I prefer to eat them both together so I can
>> >> alternate tastes.
>> >
>> >Everybody's different. I always eat my salad first at home.
>> >
>> >Cindy Hamilton
>>
>> At home salad is our entire meal; veggies, meat, and carbos.... a big
>> bowlful of all kinds of veggies, sliced meat, cheese, and pasta/beans.
>> Btw. I never eat restaurant salads anymore, they don't properly wash
>> the veggies nor are they fresh, nowadays most eateries serve those
>> plastic bagged greens shipped up from those chicano factories, no
>> thank you... they're the greens that are the salvage that the tractor
>> ran over, rinsed in murky pond water.
>
>Salad frequently is an entire meal for us. When it isn't, a smaller
>salad precedes the main meal.
>
>It's obvious that the restaurant in which I eat the most salads (every
>Thursday for lunch) cuts their own romaine.
>
>Cindy Hamilton

I don't eat in restaurants anymore, not for several years now... ALL
restaurant food is filthy crap, especially fast food with all their
mystery meat. Actually the higher rated the restaurant the worse the
food and the dirtier... any knowlegable cook can make garbage taste
great, it's mostly in the presentation. People eat with their eyes,
and by cost, the higher the price the better they believe it is. I
think people who boast about how they paid $100+ for a steak dinner
are more dollars than brains Shmucks. I've never eaten a steak out
that was better than what I chose from a local market and cooked
myself.

We have salads made with produce from our garden or out of season from
whole heads of greens, never that pre-chopped plastic bagged dreck.
Most salad produce sold at market here is marked "Locally Grown"... no
way to prove it but still I buy entire heads and do my own prep. Right
now our garden is producing a glut of gorgeous Big Girl tomatoes, very
soon the Romas will be coming in. Yesterday I picked a small
cantaloupe, ate half for lunch, pure sweetness. Soon the end of the
garden season but still there are a ton of green beans and lots of
greens and winter squash.