To bolster your point I regularly make something I call cucumber onion salad with cucumber, white onion, and oil w herbs, salt and pepper. To me, it's a salad if it focuses on seasoned raw ingredients, esp vegetables, served cold. There's also the confusion over things like chicken/tuna/egg deli salads focused on being eaten as a sandwich or w crackers, and Midwest "salads" for which all rules seem to be moot except that it's likely served cold.
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Heterogenous chunks served around or below room temperature are a salad. To be heterogenous, there must be at least two different things, so... two is the minimum, dressing doesn't count towards the total.
Cucumber slices with tajΓn? Not a salad.
Cucumber, tomato, and red onion dressed with tahini? Jerusalem salad.
Tuna mixed with mayonnaise? Not tuna salad.
Tuna mixed with celery and mayonnaise? Tuna salad (barely).
Lime jello? Not a salad.
Lime jello cut into cubes mixed with orange jello cut into cubes? Jello salad.
Cranberries stewed with spices and sugar? Not a salad, cranberry sauce.
Cranberry sauce mixed with mandarin oranges, cut pineapple, and walnuts, set into a bundt-shaped jello mold? Cranberry salad.
If I heat pasta salad in the microwave, is it no longer a salad? Is a leftover portion of pasta a salad before it is reheated? I'm not sure temperature is a requirement.
Also I have to question calling two flavours of Jello "different things", let alone calling 2 flavours of gelatine a salad, but I know Americans are more liberal with the word salad than other places.
Where I am you will rarely see the word salad used in relation to dishes that don't contain some raw chopped vegetables, especially leafy green ones. Or it's the dish's imported original name, like potato salad. Fruit salad is the one exception to that, I think.
I could see an argument that past a certain temperature, you are now just eating pasta.
I think the temperature doesn't work as part of the definition. If you've never had it, Taco Salad is served hot (the meat at least is, and usually the tortilla bowl is as well).
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When will the divorce be final?
Those ingredients you listed are literally the ingredients to a dish called cucumber salad. Though usually the dressing is more of an vinegary Italian dressing instead of ranch. Just Google it.
For me a salad is minimum of two uncooked ingredients.
What about potato salad, noodle salad and similar dishes containing cooked components?
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Cut is as a prep step and it becomes a salad.
I've often had spinach, some shredded cheese, and a vinaigrette and called it salad.
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I mean when you put chopped iceberg lettuce and tomatoes, it's a salad... So... Two?
Last time I tossed a salad it was two ingredients, so I think you're correct.
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Potato and Mayo = potato salad. So I would say two is the minimum. A bowl of lettuce on its own is not a salad. A salad is a classification of coke, (mainly) vegetable based dishes.
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My girlfriend calls lettuce salad. A bowl of lettuce she calls a salad
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There is a centuries-old simple salad recipe involving just cucumbers, onions, vinegar, sugar, salt, pepper.
Anyone saying you can't have a salad out of cucumber, onions, and dressing...is wrong.
Or the centuries-old salad recipe is wrong?
I have no opinion on this matter. I am merely being contradictory.
Two ingredients and a "dressing" is a salad.
If no dressing, then three ingredients or more.
Also, chicken caeser salad is a salad, and it has starch/bread.
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