I don’t mind wedge salad. It is at least honest about needing to be cut. What pisses me off is regular salads where the pieces are way to big to put in your mouth without getting dressing on your face. They should be bite sized already.
“…including Women and Children!”
This bit of vapor-brained filler from the talking heads is beginning to piss me off. It’s effectively announcing: “A horrible event has occurred, affecting many people – and not just the discardable segment of the population either!”
I know it shouldn’t bother me, given the origin. But for some reason it really grinds my gears.
I learned something today!
And I have no idea why a scriptwriter, of all people, could not picture an actual book in their mind…or pick one up and look at it.
That reminds me of something that used to drive my wife crazy about Lester Holt (NBC News) - his apparent need to tack on “…including New York”, like they need a special shout-out for some reason. Something like “this weather system is expected to impact much of the East coast… including New York.”
If it was on your dinner plate you ate at a poor restaurant. Wedge salad needs to be on a salad plate, so you can, as you note, avoid getting diced tomato and bleu cheese in your sides. But a well-made and presented Wedge is a thing of beauty.
What infuriates me to a minor degree is the places that think Ranch = Bleu Cheese. Good bleu cheese is a sign that the Universe loves us. Ranch is Shub-Niggurath snot.
Could be. It was in a bowl but it was a bowl that was only just big enough to contain it, so it had to come out onto the main plate in order to be cut up, but apart from that it was just a wedge of iceberg lettuce with dressing zigzagged over it.
Everything else in the steakhouse was very good, but honestly, I’m not bothered about food touching food - I just don’t want a salad that needs me to finish cutting it up. It’s just less convenient.
That little blob of yogurt that spits out of the cup when you peel back the foil. I can often avoid it from happening, but not always, and it pisses me off every time.
Yep, and Roquefort is even better. Ranch is for people without taste buds. Once in a while i will use it to dip pizza crusts in when there is nothing else, but that is about it. Salads- Blue, fresh oil & vinegar or good Ceasar. Buffalo wings- Blue.
My daughter treated her children and I to a multi-day stay at a very famous (and expensive) resort. There were a number of infuriating things that happened and we’ll never go there again but one that this ‘wedge salad’ discussion reminds me of was this: We were tired from a day of skiing and with small children didn’t want to face eating in one of the overcrowded restaurants so we ordered take-out. The Caesar Salad ended up being two wedges of iceberg lettuce with a light sprinkle of Parmesan cheese. No bacon, no dressing, no croutons. Our room was about a ten minute hike from the restaurant and it was just one more offence in a long list so we just didn’t bother.
The Mount Washington Resort is pretty much crap. Do not recommend.
Isn’t that just because he’s in NY and broadcasting to a NY audience? A weather event that hits “much of the East Coast” might well not include New York, so I certainly would like to know if it’s something I should be worried about or if it’s way south.
Maybe if he was doing it on the local news, but on a national broadcast I don’t see a need for it. (And it’s one of those things that, once it’s pointed out to you, you start noticing a lot.) It just felt like a “I have to mention New York because we’re the center of the universe” kind of thing. It may be petty and irrational, but that’s what the thread’s about, right?
Preach! There is no elegant way to eat that style of salad and I feel like a hick that just fell off the turnip truck trying to eat one.
Fly Lady?
one goes there to eat, not to work … right?
Yeah, I wasn’t going to say her name.
Exactly, although of course I don’t complain about having to cut up my own steak to eat it, so maybe that’s inconsistent, but wedge salad just seems half-made to me
I rather like a wedge salad, if the lettuce is really fresh. I enjoy the sound and feel of cutting it. And if they cut it up, it would fall apart and I’d just get bits of leaf and not juicy clumps of iceberg.
I sometimes cut a purple cabbage into wedges and serve it with supper, too.
Got something other than a video that explains why you, or possibly Tyson, thinks that it’s silly?
Especially why it’s any sillier than BC and AD.
– a thing that infuriates me well beyond its actual importance is people posting videos instead of words, for things that are best explained in words.
I especially hate video instructions without an accompanying text version. Yes, video can be good for shooting exactly which button to press. But it sucks for remembering what order to do things in, as it’s awkward to rewind and rewind…
Really infuriates me more than its actual importance.
In fact i did explain it in words, then someone said that only a Christian would say that. But Neil deGrasse Tyson is not a Christian, and neither am I.
AD & BC came first, and have been used for like 1500 years before someone came up with BCE and CE. But why? Everyone understands AD & BC.
Maybe it is becuase you want to take religion out of common usages? but then no one is trying to convert Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.