• @[email protected]
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    -16 months ago

    What makes a salad?

    here, i have some lettuce. and - here - i have some carrots. let’s mix 'em!

    salad?

    and why is lettuse such a nessecary ingredient? i mean oh my it’s a leaf

    • @funkless_eck
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      36 months ago

      Salad means “salted” - in this context because you could prepare vegetables by cooking them, or eating them raw with salt and oil, as the Roman’s would do, thus creating the “salad” we know today