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> I have always hated any type of lettuce or "salad fixin's" except
> iceberg lettuce. Recently, I have planted a garden with different
> sorts of lettuce so I am trying really hard to get used to eating other
> kinds of salad greens. It's NOT easy.
>
> One thing that seems to really help is using a good virgin olive oil
> and a little vinegar, salt and pepper. I detest "sweet" or strongly
> flavored salad dressing. Somehow the mild olive oil and teensy bit of
> vinegar really compliment the salad greens and make them edible.
> Almost.

I have never been a bog fan of lettuce salads, but I never hated them.
Naturally the ingredients make a difference. My wife makes a great
dressing with olive oil, red wine vinegar and lemon juice, salt, pepper, a
crushed garlic clove, some powdered mustard and Worcestershire sauce. My
favourite salad is just Bibb lettuce with some sliced onion and avocado
with my wife's dressing. Sometimes I have bleu cheese dressing on it
instead.

You don't have to have lettuce in a salad. You can have spinach instead.
Or you can make a Greek Salad with onion, tomatoes, cucumber, black olives
and Feta cheese.