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.

  • PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 year ago

    Can we first define “salad”?

    If it’s cold ingredients, mixed together, then wilted iceberg lettuce and a gas station dressing packet is salad.

    So two.

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
      21·
      1 year ago

      It doesn’t even have to be cold. Look at pasta salad, or anything with grilled chicken or fresh croutons.

      • blackbrook@mander.xyz
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’m not gonna claim a salad can’t be hot, but I think of pasta salads as a cold dish. Maybe it depends where your from.

        Potato salad is generally cold too, but there is also hot German potato salad.

      • tromars@feddit.de
        5·
        1 year ago

        I‘m German and have eaten a lot of potato salad during my entire life. Not once has it been served hot

        • SevFTW@feddit.de
          2·
          1 year ago

          Not hot but „lauwarm“ or „lukewarm“ is very typical for same day fresh potato salad

          At least down here in the south