What Makes A Salad

[CrimsonNBlue]

There's an entire podcast devoted to these culinary conundrums. Appropriately titled: a hot dog is a sandwich.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a ... 1500763931

[pdub]

Well then the salad we ate today was not a salad according to that definition.
Because brussels, beets and salmon heated up would be fine.

[Mjl]

Warm beets? Other than borscht that's a new one to me.

[pdub]

You've never eaten beets warm?
My rents ( mom ukranian ) would serve just beets cooked, and that was a side.

As opposed to just fresh beats.

[jfish26]

I personally think that heating something up disqualifies it as a salad. I would take it a step further and say that, definitionally, a salad must be something cool-to-cold.

[pdub]

So warm potato salad is out for you.

[Mjl]

You've never eaten beets warm?
My rents ( mom ukranian ) would serve just beets cooked, and that was a side.

As opposed to just fresh beats.

We cook them but eat them cold. Interesting.

You did not have a salad for lunch.

[Mjl]

German potato salad is not a salad. Warm potatoes are a side dish.

[pdub]

And i'm on bored.
When the BUD ordered the brussels, beets, salmon salad - i thought every single piece would have already been cooked and then cooled and served.

Instead, all three pieces were all cooked, hot, and served.
Not a salad for me.
That's why I came to kcrim for clarification.

[CrimsonNBlue]

I have almost exclusively eaten German potato salad cold--grew up in mostly German extended family.

I'm not sure how much temperature is a bright line. I am thinking there are warm western bean salads, and then you get into a ton of warm Asian vegetable salads.

[pdub]

I have had warm German potato 'salad'.
Served warm intentionally.
I don't think it's salad - but they got salad in the name.

[jhawks99]

If the noodles and sauce are cooked separately, I guess it would. Damn.

Something my mom never learned: finish the pasta in the sauce!

Something Mrs. Fish (of all people, in that she's Italian) never learned: salt the pasta water.

Mrs 99 hits the water with a couple of shakes of the salt shaker and calls it salted. I usually cook the pasta.

As to the original question, PhD pretty much nailed it. I think warm brussels sprouts, beats and salmon is probably a salad, bit it's pushing the definition.

I guess cole slaw is a salad too.

[jhawks99]

My mom is famous for her German potatoe salad. It's a salad and it's fabulous.

[CrimsonNBlue]

Something my mom never learned: finish the pasta in the sauce!

Something Mrs. Fish (of all people, in that she's Italian) never learned: salt the pasta water.

Mrs 99 hits the water with a couple of shakes of the salt shaker and calls it salted. I usually cook the pasta.

When it comes to pasta water, I have always subscribed to the notion that it should taste like you unexpectedly took a big sea wave to the face.

[jhawks99]

^^^^ This.