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The story behind Caesar salad

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fracus ◴[] No.44469615[source]
It casts the same spell as pizza. You'd have a hard time finding someone who doesn't really enjoy it. It even works on people who don't generally like salads.
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munch117 ◴[] No.44471142[source]
It is precisely a salad for people who don't generally eat salads.

The big uncut leaves are suited for slow nibbling of token amounts of salad.

Croutons are recognizable from a distance as a non vegetable ingredient, making it attractive to someone who'd rather not eat vegetables at all. To me they're just stale bread.

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MangoToupe ◴[] No.44472081[source]
I'd think that peoples' main objection to salad is the uncooked veggies, which isn't addressed at all with caesar salad. I don't generally trust raw vegetables to not make me sick. Especially in the US.

> The big uncut leaves are suited for slow nibbling of token amounts of salad.

What does this sentence even mean?

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1. munch117 ◴[] No.44474501[source]
> What does this sentence even mean?

Apologies for my non-native English. I'll try putting more words on it and maybe it will come out less convoluted.

It's easier to eat a lot of salad when it's finely cut. Then you just shovel in a portion with a bit of everything with every grab of the fork or spoon. With a large piece of lettuce, you need to cut it first, and then stab the piece with the fork, and then combine with other ingredients. Which makes eating that kind of salad a slow process. That's what I meant by "suited for slow nibbling of token amounts".