I ask this as I am forcing down a bowl of "American" salad. Now when I was
a kid this was pretty much all we ever got. Except for the years when I had
a garden and grew leaf lettuce. For those of you who don't know what this
is, it is iceberg lettuce, shredded carrots and a small amount of shredded
purple cabbage. Once in a while there will be a few red radish slices in it
as well.

I remember the first time I had butter lettuce at the Hunt Club. That was a
restaurant I couldn't normally afford to dine at. But my friend was
graduating from college and rather than throw a party, his parents too me
and another friend out to dinner with them to this place. I was very
uncomfortable during the meal, partly because I had to dress up (and I hate
to do that) and partly because people kept hovering around us. I also
remember having a pepper crusted steak which I really didn't like, being a
vegetarian and all but at that point in time there were no vegetarian dishes
on the menu. I think my friend had duck. They did have a guy who came
around with a big pepper mill. I did like that.

I like pretty much all of the salad greens except for when they are really
bitter. Sometimes I will get a blend that has too much bitter stuff in it.
I don't normally buy bagged salad for fear of food poisoning but this bag
came from Costco and it was only $2.17. We've been eating salad all week
from it. Tonight I put some green onions and some green pepper on it as
well as some black olives. I intended to put walnuts but I forgot. The
green pepper was an accident. The produce drawer was stuffed full but I
insisted to Angela that I could fit the remaining three green onions in
there. Well, I did but I smashed the green pepper. Which is why I ate it
tonight.

I also like tomatoes and celery on my salad. And I often put kidney, pinto
or garbanzo beans on there. Cooked white beans are good too although I
don't really like black beans on a salad too much. Unless it is really a
Mexican type salad with like...corn and salsa. Then it's okay. I also like
that baby corn but I only ever want two ears. So I never buy the stuff
because nobody else will eat it and it always goes bad before I can finish
it.

So what are your favorite salad greens? Costco sells some baby lettuces
that I love. But you have to buy so many in a package that we can never
finish them. Actually Angela won't eat them. But I can get her to eat
Romaine.