The story behind Caesar salad

I don't like it. I like salads that have tasty, fresh, delicious vegetables (and often fruits and/or nuts) where the dressing just adds some pizazz and tartness.

To me caesar salad is just dressing where the lettuce is only there to act as scaffolding.

Agreed. The things with "salad" in the name that I've gotten at Mediterranean restaurants have been delicious combinations of multiple ingredients. The things with "salad" in the name that I've gotten at American restaurants have been bowls of lettuce with a few other things thrown in.

I make my Caesar with kale and arugula, shave broccoli with a peeler then roast them, and add pine nuts plus roasted garlic lemon chickpeas in addition to croutons for even more and healthier crunch. It’s also delicious with just oil.

So not Caesar salad then.

Sure, that's true at bad American restaurants. There are many great salads to be found in America.

That sounds like a delicious salad that is not a Caesar salad.

This is exactly why I love Cesar salads. I have always disliked vegetables, trying many times in my life to eat them more because that's what health "experts" say we need to do.

I don't like vegetables fresh, I don't like them grilled, I don't like them stewed.

Cover them in Cesar dressing tho and I can eat an extra large salad (hopefully with some protein too).

>because that's what health "experts" say we need to do.

You remain unconvinced that vegetables are good for you?

Its not health "experts" but literally whole nutrition science, or science in general. Its like saying "experts" claim evolution, but I know better.

Jeez, I know this is predominantly US forum which is a place with its own fucked up nutrition and general eating problems that whole world sees, but this?

You simply have some (easy to dispose of if actually tried) mental barriers when food needs to be salty, greasy, sweet etc. and rest is untolerable, and salads are a rabbit food (or variant of these, heard it many times in many cultures). This all can be unlearned and new things learned, human mind is not that complex and can be molded like clay with a tiny bit of resolve, it doesn't even take a long time.

Never had potato salad? Carrot salad? Pasta salad? Egg salad? Three-bean salad? Fruid salad? Ambrosia salad? Barley salad? Corn salad? Pimento cheese salad?

I've had all of these served in restaurants in the US serving "American" food.