Scientifically Proven Guide to Ordering The Perfect Salad by The Huffington Post

Oct 22, 2014 9:15 PM

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Scientifically Proven Guide to Ordering The Perfect Salad by The Huffington Post

I saw the Huffington Post guide to ordering/making your own perfect salad. I just merged it up and uploaded it to share with everyone.

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and getting caught in the rain?

10 years ago | Likes 98 Dislikes 0

Does it bother anyone else that they're listed as both "peppers" and "bell peppers" with the same image?

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Holy shit, put all of this fucking in me.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

What's with all these fucking vinaigrettes? There are other salad dressings.

11 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 2

I find the lack of raspberry vinagrette disturbing

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

My salad is avocado, period

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I like to believe you didn't finish this list.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Favourited to certainly use again. Do like a salad.

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

I hope those vinaigrettes at least have olive oil in them or they're pointless--you need fat with veggies to get the vitamins.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Sauce?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I LOVE SALAD

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

if unsure, walnuts

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

as a Californian, all decent food starts with avacado, bacon, and cheese. then you decide what you are going to eat.

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

False. Beets and blue cheese.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

If you love mozzarella cheese: Pair with tomatoes, olives, salami, pizza bases. Make pizza. Fuck salad.

11 years ago | Likes 204 Dislikes 7

lol ya

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I actually cried a little bit laughing at this.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It actually looks delicious, along with the feta cheese with olives and grapes and shrimps one :)

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Nah, salad is all right. In another room. Eaten by another person.

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

What do we say if they ask for their steak well done? We ask them politely, but firmly, to leave. =|

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Lettuce, Bacon, ranch. Done.

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Love avocado, hate onions, allergic to nuts. Fuck you, list.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Am I the only person that prefers french dressing

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I prefer them undressing... but that's just my dirty mind ;)

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If you love [salad topping], use ranch

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

YOU WILL NOT TELL ME HOW TO MAKE A SALAD! I can fuck that up enough well on my own!

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

You think this is a fucking game?! - salad.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

YOU PAIR APPLE WITH BACON BUT NOT WALNUTS? YOU SWINE YOU!

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Beets and goat cheese is seriously the combo of a lifetime.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Now I'm no salad expert, but isn't lettuce also usually an ingredient?

11 years ago | Likes 68 Dislikes 6

You know they're american when a salad has bacon but not lettuce...

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Now, I'm no expert graphologist, but there's a goddamn picture of a lettuce at the top.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

That's kind of a given.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Prefer lettuce over spinach any day.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Mmmmmm romaine <3

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I can't be the only one who disagrees with this list, can I?

11 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

Considering half this list contains nuts and shrimp that i'm allergic to, and the other half bacon/meat products i don't want, no

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No. No you are not. Why the red onion with every kind of meat ? I hate raw onions of any color. Would never put them on my salad.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My list: If you think it's worth a try, toss it in. Eat what you fucking want and stop trying to act sophisticated; it's all subjective.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

i always get downvoted when I saw this. +1 for you

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

say*

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

So...I get no salad cuz I'm allergic to vinegar? Thanks huffington post...

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

thanks obama

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

wtf. allergic to vinegar? How does that even happen?

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No clue, never had an issue. Tried to make homemade cleaner with orange peels and vinegar, migraine every time I used it, now every time 1/2

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I eat anything with vinegar, mayo, mustard, ketchup, salad dressing etc, my face starts burning and my lips feel swollen...ugh

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

For Feta: Lettuce, cucumber, plum tomatoes, sweet pepper, mushroom, red onion, boiled potato, chorizo, with olive oil, salt, and white...

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

...wine vinegar. Lettuce + tomatoes chopped, everything else diced. Obviously, remember the (diced) feta as well.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

If you love bacon, pair it with egg, pancake and hashbrown.

11 years ago | Likes 1160 Dislikes 10

I'm pretty open about eating exotic foods and animals of any sorts and I don't want to eat hashbrown ever again. Its existence infuriates me

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

welcome to the swanson society. on Wednesdays we wear sensible shoes.

11 years ago | Likes 106 Dislikes 4

Son, we wear sensible shoes every day.

11 years ago | Likes 47 Dislikes 0

It was a mean girls reference.

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 3

You are now ejected from the Swanson society for using a mean girls reference.

11 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 1

Whatever "mean girls" is.

11 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

Also a nice maple syrup dressing will mak for good "salad"

11 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 0

Instructions unclear. Paired bacon with bacon. So yeah, it was pretty cool.

11 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

If you love bacon, eat it with everything.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Or a nice burger

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

or shrimp, the 3rd best food wrapped in the first

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Correction: if you love bacon, pair it with bacon, bacon, and bacon.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

If you love bacon, set it free.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Breakfast of champions... atleast Americans... :)

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"If you love bacon, pair it with sausage, ham, and steak." -Possible Ron Swanson quote.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

this morning was the first time I've managed to eat a large breakfast in a long time, eggs, bacon, pancakes, and toast.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Entirely too many vinaigrette dressings.

11 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 5

balsamic vinegar all the way

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That stuff's awful.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Goes great with lettuce. If you're needing it for a giant, heaping, mound of big'ol floppy dicks however, I wouldn't recommend it.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It tastes like sweat smells.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

And salty too I hear

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yes! I'm like, which salad goes well with ranch dressing?

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

If you love Bacon, Pair it with Bacon, Bacon and Bacon.

11 years ago | Likes 589 Dislikes 19

Bippity Boppity Bacon! Now it's an entree.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

One of my favorite Jim Gaffigan skits... That and the one on hot pockets.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Diarrheaaaaaaa Pockeeeeeets!!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

11 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

Instructions very clear, had bacon

11 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

welcome to the swanson society. on Wednesdays we wear sensible shoes.

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

+1 for you, good sir.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Then wrap it in bacon.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

485 points too late to post this myself.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

~ a message from Ron Swanson

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

AHHAHAHAHAHA

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just a thought, you could add some bacon to the side

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

you are a god among men

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And cheese.....With bacon

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

and beef.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

literally the 3 things I hate more than anything are eggs onions and tomatoes.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

Bacon is now a proper noun

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The fact that this comment is right below an almost perfectly identical comment with less bacon is perfection. +1 for you both

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That person who posted the same comment, apologized for making the same comment.. LOL I told them no worries :)

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Alright, Ron.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I did not mean to copy your comment. I seriously posted first before I scrolled down and saw this. My apologies.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No worries, great minds think alike :)

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yes, we do.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The best pairing

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You forgot bacon juice. Didn't you see the dressing column?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

someone did mention Bacon Vinaigrette...

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sorry, the comments only loaded after I'd posted..

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No worries, all is fair in love and bacon :0

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ah-hah, definitely. I work at a fastfood place where we constantly cook bacon. Heaven. We even cook other things in the bacon juice.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I knew this was fake when it implied there are people who love beets.

11 years ago | Likes 96 Dislikes 14

Beets are easily my favourite veggie.

11 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

roast them...trust me

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Alrighty, Mr Crowey92!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I can't imagine people like those things considering that they are always dropping them.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

have you never met a russian?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

In Soviet Russia you love beets!

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

They're nature's candy, don't ya know?

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And now we know whose house not to visit on Halloween.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Beets are delish! Also, how can you say you hate The Beets? AIIIEEOOOOO KILLER TOFU OOOEEEOOO KILLER TOO-FUUUU

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I love canned beets and have also had them in borsht, a Russian beet soup. The greens are good too (at least in borsht).

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

I call Borsht

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Could be that you've only had them canned and hated them that way. I was the same about asparagus but I like that fresh. So experiment.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

*nom nom nom*

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I love beets!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Steamed beets are my favorite :(

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Beets are absolutely essential on a köttbullemacka, or with pyttipanna.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

A köttbullemacka without rödbetssallad is like a flärdfull without a snickargården, amirite?

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I refuse to believe some languages weren't made by just mashing randomly on some ancient typewriter.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I like beets. My mom pukes when she eats them though.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You know who loves beets??

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hey, I like pickled beets, especially in a salad with hard boiled egg and ranch.

11 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

Also lovely with cured herring!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yummmm. *Drooling*

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yay, pickled beets!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Haha had the same thought, I like beets but does anybody love beets?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I definitely love beets! Pickled, canned or fresh.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I do! On burgers!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I like when I'm wrong, it means I'm consistent

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I love beets, especially on burgers. But I'm Australian.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Beets are my favorite :(

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I love beets!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You haven't met my family.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I like beets :(

11 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 2

Are you by any chance... A Bear?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But do you love beets?

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Please seek help. We still care about you. It's not too late.

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

BEETS TASTE NICE! BEET ENTHUSIASTS UNITE!

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

There are dozens of us! DOZENS!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

By our powers combined WE ARE...nothing special really.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hey, beets have feelings too! Delicious feelings!

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

But seriously, beets with feta cheese, basil, olive oil and salt

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Y NO RANCH?

11 years ago | Likes 80 Dislikes 12

Silly broughham, ranch is for pizza.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

The casual of dressings

11 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 1

The keto powerhouse of dressings.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

What is this, the peewee league?

11 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 4

Dangerzone

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

found the American

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

If you want to add ranch you honestly should just have a burger instead; give up the pretense that you want something light and healthy.

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 32

I'm just watching you plummet. Makes me feel bad and I didn't even downvote you.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I agreed with you @MathSalts, sorry brochacho/girlchacho.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 4

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

If you're eating a salad to lose weight/watch calories, then skip the ranch. If you like the taste or veggie nutrients, ranch it up!

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

That's actually not a bad idea! Thanks, guy!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You don't have to want something healthy to want a salad. You can want an unhealthy salad cause it tastes damn good, not fooling yourself.

11 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

I read once that fatty dressing helps digest the vegetables. Or something. I'm clinging to that.

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Nah bro, google ain't showin nothin

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

most of those cream-based dressing have hfcs so i reject them. (i should just make my own.)

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I appreciate you. I now believe that and will never question this "fact". Thank you.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I got your back.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You were right-ish. Some vitamins (A, D, K, E [the fat-solubles]) need fat to be absorbed. Healthy fats in small amounts are best.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Sorry, stopped reading after your second sentence ;) Thanks for tossing in the science!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I didn't mean to misrepresent - I'd sell my first born for an unlimited supply of Newman's Own Ranch.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0