# Soup or Salad? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 28, 2017, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soup-or-salad/787569 "2017-05-28T00:44:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soup-or-salad/787569/41 "2017-05-29T01:21:43Z")
Salad. Soup is messy to eat in public. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soup-or-salad/787569/42 "2017-05-29T01:24:44Z")
I order a salad and ask for Roquefort dressing. If they say, “What?” I go for the soup. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soup-or-salad/787569/43 "2017-05-29T01:27:03Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Soup is messy to eat in public. I saw a famous man eating soup. I say he was lifting a fat broth Into his mouth with a spoon. His name was in the newspapers that day Spelled out in tall black headlines And thousands of people were talking about him. When I saw him, He sat bending his head over a plate Putting soup in his mouth with a spoon. _– Carl Sandburg_ (I always loved this little poem) ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soup-or-salad/787569/44 "2017-05-29T01:30:32Z")
Soup, every single time. If it’s not good, I’m not ordering anything else. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soup-or-salad/787569/45 "2017-05-29T02:04:21Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I love salad bars myself. Prefer that most of the time over what you get from the kitchen, even if it’s a single trip. > [@silenus](#): > > Ditto. With a salad bar you can customize your grazing and skip all the chef’s lawn clippings they try to serve at most places. Beats ordering a salad and spending 5 minutes telling the waitron what _not_ to put on it. But salad bars rarely have fresh produce. I had a salad with dinner last night at one of my favorite dining places, and it was out of this world. I usually eat salads because they’re good for you, but this tasted like everything was just picked hours before. The tomatoes were full of flavor, it had two types of bean pods (string and snap) that were so crispy and sweet. Just wonderful As for the OP, usually salad. But it depends on the place. There are a few places I eat at that make killer soups, and I’ll go for that. But usually soups are a salt fest, and I prefer to not go down that road. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soup-or-salad/787569/46 "2017-05-29T04:15:16Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Because many restaurants offer a choice of soup OR salad. :rolleyes: As you so clearly indicate in your post there are restaurants that offer both. :rolleyes: In those restaurants I get both. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soup-or-salad/787569/47 "2017-05-29T04:17:49Z")
I dislike cream soups, so will order the soup only if a non-cream variety is available. If a cream soup is offered, it will be salad for me. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soup-or-salad/787569/48 "2017-05-29T04:21:02Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > As you so clearly indicate in your post there are restaurants that offer both. :rolleyes: > > In those restaurants I get both. 🆒 Yes, most restaurants offer both, but you usually get a choice of one or the other. When did the word “or” become confusing? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soup-or-salad/787569/49 "2017-05-29T05:54:11Z")
I’m seeing a lot of people answering they’ll choose the soup if it’s good, otherwise the salad, but not that they’ll choose the salad if it’s good and otherwise the soup. There’s only a handful of restaurant soups I like, if that many. Anything with bean in it, forget it. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soup-or-salad/787569/50 "2017-05-29T14:38:21Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I admire your spirit of adventure; the worst bad soup in the world is a bad New England clam chowder. Agreed. I’ve had some that was vaguely fishy-flavored wallpaper paste. Yergh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soup-or-salad/787569.md?page=2)