On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:15:14 +0100, Pamela >
wrote:

>On 16:04 28 Aug 2019, 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 was taught ripping lettuce is better than cutting to hold the dressing.
>Now I always rip it.

With torn greens there's far less bruising. But sometimes I prefer a
chiffonade, which is fine when eaten immediately, before the ruptured
cells oxidize;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiffonade