A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I ate lots of pasta, and hated salad. Then, one fateful day, I learned I was pre-diabetic. Dietary changes were ordered, and in order! I started eating chef salads.
Turns out, I like them. I eat them several times a week for dinner, now.
I love salad, and would have them every night if I were less lazy. They are fresh and light, and provide a good counterpoint to heavy foods.
I have a salad wrap of some sort three or four nights a week (it kinda makes up for my lousy diet the rest of the week). Instead of lettuce I use broccoli coleslaw.
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For the record, I love salad, but my neighbor is a salad fanatic and would only eat salad forever if it was up to her. So, all of the other neighbors in the 'hood sing this to her at every meal we are invited to at her house.
I adore salad, the more stuff in it, the better. Italian dressing, please, blue cheese crumbles, and Italian bread on the side. I could live on the stuff. I am more excited over the prospect of visiting a salad bar than a 21 year old boy going to a strip club.
But I buy them now pre-made. They’re just better, it takes me way too long to buy, wash, cut, and assemble all the ingredients, and my salads just don’t measure up. All limp, room temperature. Not spending all that much more on a pre-made salad, either, considering the cost of buying all the ingredients.
I like salad and even eat it without dressing or very much dressing! Even just plane lettuce. Yum!
True dat!
That pretty much is a salad.
I’m going to make a carrot and raisin (and craisin) salad to have with dinner tonight. Thanks for the prompt, SDMB!
One salad that many people like who aren’t exactly salad fans is salad niçoise. Common ingredients on it are good tuna (you can do tuna steaks or sushi-grade tuna, or just a nice canned version if you don’t want to go fancy/pricey), cooked new potatoes, cooked green beans, hard-boiled eggs, flavorful olives, and a mustard-based vinaigrette, with lettuce underneath. Of course, depending on how picky your tastes are, this may sound terrible as well! 
Please give me a description of something less revolting then the idea in my head.
I like many salads, I just don’t like many vegetables they use for salad. So I look up salads that include ingredients I like.
Also, do you like salsas with your chips? Many of those are basically salads with a light vinagrette. I love making them as salads, meals by themselves. Yummy and refreshing.
Isn’t saying you don’t like salad kind of like saying you don’t like sandwiches? What you can put in a salad is practically limitless. And with the wide variety of dressing, it’s hard to believe you couldn’t concoct a salad you like.
I’m as carnivorous as one can get, if I choose.
But salads are fantastic. I could live on salads.
Then again, I could live on chili and beer.
Well, I hate the smells of both tuna and hard-boiled eggs so much that I’ve never been able to try them…:rolleyes:
I wasn’t kidding when I said I was a picky eater.
Someone who calls himself Leaffan likes salads.
Who’da thunk it?
Yeah, no on this, at least for me. In both cases. I hate overdressed salad, which is pretty much any salad you order at a run-of-the-mill restaurant. They just drown the salad in dressing. Yuck. Salad dressing in quantity is disgusting to me. I like a little tang of acidity and olive oil on my greens, and that’s about it. I don’t understand how people bury salads in ranch dressing, but, de gustibus and all that. (And, I’ll admit, I have a somewhat irrational hatred of ranch dressing.)
I don’t eat as much salad as I should, but I like them because they’re light, they’re healthy (if you make them correctly), they’re refreshing and cooling. A perfect summer meal or accompaniment to one when done right.
Non-canned tuna doesn’t stink. And consider a soft-boiled or poached egg if you like. But anyway, it’s a good example of a salad that isn’t “the usual” yet it’s a very well-known type!
To be fair, no one really likes airline food.