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I just watched a guy cover tinned beans in mayonnaise and call it bean salad.

Edit: This is the definition of salad people.

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 37 points 11 months ago (7 children)

USian restaurants: no we don't have any vegan or even vegetarian salads, but if you want we can charge you full price and just not put grilled chicken on top

[–] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

One of my biggest pet peeves.

[–] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

A "garden salad" that doesn't include the ½ inch of shredded cheese in the ingredient list 🤮

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[–] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 31 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Would you like another serving of Spaghetti-O hotdog salad?

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

Delicious. Finally some good fucking food sicko-instapot

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[–] ToxicDivinity@hexbear.net 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why do people point at 1 definition as though it's the only thing a word can mean. Most words have more than 1 definition plus there is no authority over language so the meaning of a word follows usage.

[–] hotwarioinyourarea@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

Good on you comrade. Don't let the red fash teach you how to read, they only want to propagandize you more easily.

[–] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Babe what's wrong? You've barely touched your gelatin marshmallow salad.

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What the fuck. That's all I have to say honestly.

[–] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Midwest recipes are based on a dare.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The Midwest failing to beat the alcoholism charges.

[–] buh@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago (3 children)

please don't slander alcoholics like this, some of us have standards when it comes to food

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

Beer is food, right?

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[–] RION@hexbear.net 21 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Counterpoint: "Fruit salad, yummy yummy" (The Wiggles, 1994)

[–] RION@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

Also Merriam Webster has a more expansive definition

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[–] SwitchyWitchyandBitchy@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago

If you fuckers come for my potato salad imma turn leftist unity into leftist dissonance.

Also, fleischsalat is amazing and there are even good vegan options for it in the mean time I’m told.

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)

"a usually incongruous mixture : HODGEPODGE"

A salad is when you mix stuff together.

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[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Potato salad or kartoffelsalat is a popular German dish that's been around longer than America's existence

Also I went to that site and you cut off the second definition 💀💀

[–] hotwarioinyourarea@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

My political days are over. NO MORE QUESTIONS

[–] edge@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago

Ok but potato salad, tuna salad, and chicken salad are all good.

Also this Slovak fish salad looks good, but it doesn’t match your definition.

[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I WILL NUT EAD DA FUGGIN SALAD

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

a glassig gomig :-----DD

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

Post that definition in Eastern Europe to instantly trigger three national blood fueds and an ethnic cleansing.

[–] poppy_apocalypse@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I got caught off guard at a Subway in Australia. The worker asked me what kind of salad do I want on my sandwich. I'm like, no thanks, just the sandwich. It took a minute or two for me to realize they consider salad to be all uncooked vegetables. Is that correct or was it maybe a small town thing (I was in Sale).

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

No this is correct, more convenient than asking "what fruit/vegetables would you like on the sandwich"

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

someone break out a salad version of the "sandwich alignment chart"

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[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

like good marxists, we must apply the dialectical method to resolving this contradiction in the conditions of salad

im throwing marshmellows and mayonaise into a Niçoise we'll figure this out three-heads-thinking

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[–] buh@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

I think “salads” like that are mainly a midwestern boomer thing. The thing with salads I’ve seen more is people who think it’s mainly just chopped lettuce with ranch dressing (mayonnaise based sauce) and everything else is unnecessary. Even basic, common vegetables like tomatoes or cucumbers are seen as overly “fancy”

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

bean is a vegetable

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

salad people

Also, the west wasnt won on salad. Or some shit. I saw it on a bumbersticker on some overcompensating jackass’s truck recently. So it has to be true.

[–] pumpchilienthusiast@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

you dont win friends with salad

[–] hotwarioinyourarea@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

2 eggs, beaten
1 tablespoon butter
1 1/2 cups small marshmallows

A light salad

light

agony-mescaline

[–] hotwarioinyourarea@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is a heavy salad just a bowl of syrup and chocolate??

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Thats just a breakfast salad.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

as a large midwestern treatboy i will not hear this ambrosia slander

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[–] The_Grinch@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

Are Americans asking you if you want some salad and then putting anything other than a green salad like the one pictured in your bowl?
If you're talking about bean salad, no one will be confused when it's beans. If you're talking about potato salad, no one will be confused when it's potatoes.

[–] heartheartbreak@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago

This is hexbearica. I believe we very strongly understand word salads.

[–] hotwarioinyourarea@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago

WHAT THE HELL IS A JELL-O SALAD

[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Americans think salad just means food covered in mayonnaise, it's so fucking gross

[–] FactuallyUnscrupulou@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

No, things covered in whipped cream or submerged in Jello are salads too.

[–] the_kid@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

not strictly an American thing unfortunately. look up 'salad olivieh', it's the worst

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[–] Self_Hating_Moid@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

A salad is anything loosely mixed together. Fruit salad would be made of fruits

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