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What do you put on your salad!?

Catalina makes me think of the Rathskeller. Mmmmmmmmmmm

CameronBornAndBred wrote:Catalina makes me think of the Rathskeller. Mmmmmmmmmmm

Good stuff. But my favorite is to MIX thousand island (or Russian, if you're from up north) and french (or catalina). Ymm! I do it all the time. I saw my mother do it circa 1977 when she and my dad visited me in Winston Salem for the first time and we went out to dinner at (dang, I can't remember the name of the restaurant, it was a really nice steak house on Reynolda Road, owned by the same guy that owned Sam's on Stratford Rd, and there is also a steak house in Charlotte that he owned). Anyway, I thought she was crazy and told her so. Next time I ate out (when not in her eyesight ;) ) I tried it. Been eating it that way ever since! My momma wasn't so dumb after all!

It kind of depends on the greens being used...

YmoBeThere wrote:It kind of depends on the greens being used...

Give me iceberg lettuce. None of that fancy shit - thems are weeds! Carrots, cucumber, green bell pepper, tomatoes, a little vidalia or purple onion and a few croutons, and I'm happy. Oh, and I like raisins and maybe a little chopped pineapple if you want to get fancy and sweeten it up! With the above dressing combination.

OZZIE4DUKE wrote:

YmoBeThere wrote:It kind of depends on the greens being used...

Give me iceberg lettuce. None of that fancy shit - thems are weeds! Carrots, cucumber, green bell pepper, tomatoes, a little vidalia or purple onion and a few croutons, and I'm happy. Oh, and I like raisins and maybe a little chopped pineapple if you want to get fancy and sweeten it up! With the above dressing combination.

You put raisins and pineapple on salad and you call any other kind of lettuce "fancy shit?"

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DukeUsul wrote:

OZZIE4DUKE wrote:

YmoBeThere wrote:It kind of depends on the greens being used...

Give me iceberg lettuce. None of that fancy shit - thems are weeds! Carrots, cucumber, green bell pepper, tomatoes, a little vidalia or purple onion and a few croutons, and I'm happy. Oh, and I like raisins and maybe a little chopped pineapple if you want to get fancy and sweeten it up! With the above dressing combination.

You put raisins and pineapple on salad and you call any other kind of lettuce "fancy shit?"

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OZZIE4DUKE wrote:

YmoBeThere wrote:It kind of depends on the greens being used...

Give me iceberg lettuce. None of that fancy shit - thems are weeds! Carrots, cucumber, green bell pepper, tomatoes, a little vidalia or purple onion and a few croutons, and I'm happy. Oh, and I like raisins and maybe a little chopped pineapple if you want to get fancy and sweeten it up! With the above dressing combination.

sounds like a salad bar.

OZZIE4DUKE wrote:

YmoBeThere wrote:It kind of depends on the greens being used...

Give me iceberg lettuce. None of that fancy shit - thems are weeds! Carrots, cucumber, green bell pepper, tomatoes, a little vidalia or purple onion and a few croutons, and I'm happy. Oh, and I like raisins and maybe a little chopped pineapple if you want to get fancy and sweeten it up! With the above dressing combination.

OZZIE4DUKE wrote: Good stuff. But my favorite is to MIX thousand island (or Russian, if you're from up north) and french (or catalina). Ymm!

Oooh, that does sound good. Another favorite of mine is totally new to me. (Tons of dressings nowadays). It's Green Goddess...damn that's tasty. And green.

Where do you get the Green Goddess dressing? I haven't seen any of that in YEARS! I have some recipes that use Green Goddess dressing, and I'd love to be able to find it at the store.

Hidden Valley Ranch is my favorite dressing.

I will regularly go with Ranch, can't go wrong there, but have been known to be flexible with the other flavors also!

CathyCA wrote:Where do you get the Green Goddess dressing? I haven't seen any of that in YEARS! I have some recipes that use Green Goddess dressing, and I'd love to be able to find it at the store.

Hidden Valley Ranch is my favorite dressing.

ITA. And it has to be homemade Hidden Valley Ranch. Bottled ranch dressing has a nasty aftertaste. Not sure what it is, but it's nasty.

I guess it's kind of boring but I prefer good ol' Ranch.

YBT is right; it depends on the greens. Fer yer basic salad though, I'll go with Bacon and Tomato, the creamy one not the tangy one.

When at home, I only use French or Thousand Island. If I am at my favourite restaurant, The Olde Spaghetti Factory, I get their French which is somewhere between normal French and Thousand Island but is completely smooth (ie. no bits in it). That dressing is a gift from God. Seriously.

When in Britain I only eat Thousand Island as their French is really weird compared to the North American version. But their Thousand Island is way better than ours - it is actually quite spicy and, surprisingly, the supermarket's own version is better than any others (at least the Tescos stuff is).

colchar wrote:If I am at my favourite restaurant, The Olde Spaghetti Factory, <snip>

Is this part of the same chain of restaurants here in the US, or is it a different restaurant completely?

CathyCA wrote:Where do you get the Green Goddess dressing? I haven't seen any of that in YEARS! I have some recipes that use Green Goddess dressing, and I'd love to be able to find it at the store.

Hidden Valley Ranch is my favorite dressing.

Harris Teeter usually has it.

colchar wrote:When at home, I only use French or Thousand Island. If I am at my favourite restaurant, The Olde Spaghetti Factory, I get their French which is somewhere between normal French and Thousand Island but is completely smooth (ie. no bits in it). That dressing is a gift from God. Seriously.

When in Britain I only eat Thousand Island as their French is really weird compared to the North American version. But their Thousand Island is way better than ours - it is actually quite spicy and, surprisingly, the supermarket's own version is better than any others (at least the Tescos stuff is).

Is it ironic that Colchar likes French dressing? Is that French dressing Canadian, or Canadien?

Lavabe wrote:

colchar wrote:If I am at my favourite restaurant, The Olde Spaghetti Factory, <snip>

Is this part of the same chain of restaurants here in the US, or is it a different restaurant completely?

Until you asked, I had always thought it was a Canadian company but, as it turns out, it isn't. The first location opened in Portland in 1969 and the first Canadian location opened in 1970. I checked a couple of menus from American locations and our menus are different. But if the American ones sell the same French dressing get it the next time you are there. Trust me.