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Goomba38 wrote:
> Barry wrote:
>> On Apr 18, 1:52 am, (ms. tonya) wrote:
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>>> Looks nice but really needs greens as one poster said.

>>
>> Not by definition of a salad, but as brainwashed americans.. yes.. a
>> salad sposed to have greens.
>>
>> so long as it's spinach or field greens, not ice-berg sit on your
>> stomach and rot lettuce.
>>

> I must not be brainwashed enough yet <shrug>
> Many salads contain no greens. Carrot raisin salad and waldorf salad
> are two examples. Then you could have a lovely salad of nothing but
> tomatoes and mozzarelle cheese (a Caprese salad) with a bit of basil.
> The salad Nancy photographed at Whole Foods is a commonly made one in
> my house in the summer. The addition of some nice calamata olives is
> good too.


And there's green papaya salad; one of my favs. How about shrimp salad or
crab salad? Potato salad? No, not all "salads" contain greens.

kili