Monday, January 22, 2007

"Fuck, Salad" or "Fuck! Salad!"

If I were to take some pasta, cook it, mix it up with some olives and tomatoes, and serve it to you hot, you would be eating pasta. If I were to throw it in the fridge for two hours and serve it to you, you would be eating pasta salad. Hence the debate: What the hell is salad, really?

Is "salad" cold? Given the above reasoning, you might think "salad" is cold. If I were to tell you you would be eating a chicken sandwich, you would prolly think it may be served hot. If I were to tell you you'll be eating a chicken salad sandwich, you would most likely think it was to be served cold. So does "salad" mean "cold"? But aren't taco salads warm?

Is "salad" chopped up little pieces? Again, here's an example. "I'm eating tuna for dinner." The connotation implies that the tuna may be in a single piece, steak form, and perhaps hot. Now try, "I'm eating tuna salad for dinner." Now you assume that the tuna is in tiny pieces. But don't Chicken Ceasar salads sometimes come with a whole piece of big-ass chicken on top?

And fruit salad? Is it really salad? Let me give you three dishes to choose from: Fruit cocktail, fruit salad, and a bunch of diced fruits. Don't get me started, I've got other things to do today. This is recoculous.

I have run out of steam here. My only conclusion is that salad is nothing. Look it up in the dictionary and you tell me if the defintion even DEFINES anything. It doesn't. ("A cold dish of chopped vegetables, fruit, meat, fish, eggs, or other food, usually prepared with a dressing, such as mayonnaise." - thefreedictionary.com). It just pretty much lists every food possible, which means salad is limitless and infinite. Ha ha. it does mention "cold" - and mayonnaise, which we know isn't right. (Fruit salad, taco salad, ceasar salad, pasta salad - where's the mayo there?)

Salad is nothing. Fuck salad.