My significant other ate cucumbers and onion with some ranch. I called it a cucumber onion salad. She says there aren’t enough ingredients to call it a salad, because “it takes multiple ingredients”. I pointed out she had three and asked what the minimum is. She refuses to answer so I ask Lemmy.
Take lettuce for example.
If you put a lot of lettuce in a bowl… What do you have? A Salad?
NO. You have a bowl of lettuce.
You put a second object in the lettuce bowl (Crouton, dressing, another veg, whatever), Now do you have a Salad?
Yes. You have a salad.
There is no maximum ingredient count for a salad, but you must have a minimum of two items for a salad.
I want to agree with you, but I think the minimum number of ingredients has to be three. Otherwise, the unbelievably sad bowl of iceberg lettuce and Italian dressing that was served to me would qualify as a salad and I simply cannot allow that to be.
Yes, but the argument wasnt for a non-sad salad.
It was just, how many ingredients before it becomes a salad. obviously you would want a proper salad with more delicious and good things in it, but that the same way that a slice of bread between two slices of bread is a bread sandwich, so is a bowl of lettuce and some dressing a salad.
Lettuce, croutons and dressing is basically a deconstructed sandwich
Sandwiches are bready salads.