Restaurants that insist on serving salad dressing on the side really grind my gears

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4 months ago 02/29/2024 7:12pm EST

In a perfect salad, the greens are lightly and evenly coated with dressing. This is best accomplished by tossing the salad in a large bowl using tongs.

When the salad is served with dressing in a little cup on the side, you are forced to try to mix the dressing in at the table. The serving bowl is way to small for this task, and your dinner utensils aren't the right tool for the job.

No one would serve pasta with the sauce on the side. Why do they think it's ok to insist on serving salads with dressing on the side?

4 months ago 02/29/2024 8:24pm EST

re: toss my salad

C’mon everyone knows you like to toss your own salad.

4 months ago 02/29/2024 8:36pm EST

re: toss my salad

toss my salad wrote:
When the salad is served with dressing in a little cup on the side, you are forced to try to mix the dressing in at the table. The serving bowl is way to small for this task, and your dinner utensils aren't the right tool for the job.
No one would serve pasta with the sauce on the side. Why do they think it's ok to insist on serving salads with dressing on the side?

Let me guess…. You are a Republican. Complaining about everything. the dressing on the side is to please everyone including those that don’t want their salad drenched in dressing.

4 months ago 02/29/2024 8:36pm EST

re: toss my salad

toss my salad wrote:
In a perfect salad, the greens are lightly and evenly coated with dressing. This is best accomplished by tossing the salad in a large bowl using tongs.
When the salad is served with dressing in a little cup on the side, you are forced to try to mix the dressing in at the table. The serving bowl is way to small for this task, and your dinner utensils aren't the right tool for the job.
No one would serve pasta with the sauce on the side. Why do they think it's ok to insist on serving salads with dressing on the side?

If it grinds your gears that much, just use the dressing to lubricate your gears some as well as your patootiecrack some while saying “Nice!”.

4 months ago 02/29/2024 9:27pm EST

re: toss my salad

Complain to the manager, Karen.

4 months ago 02/29/2024 9:30pm EST

re: toss my salad

toss my salad wrote:
In a perfect salad, the greens are lightly and evenly coated with dressing. This is best accomplished by tossing the salad in a large bowl using tongs.
When the salad is served with dressing in a little cup on the side, you are forced to try to mix the dressing in at the table. The serving bowl is way to small for this task, and your dinner utensils aren't the right tool for the job.
No one would serve pasta with the sauce on the side. Why do they think it's ok to insist on serving salads with dressing on the side?

I'm allergic to most salad dressings. So it is either on the side or no dressing at all. So no, your idea is not a perfect salad for me.

4 months ago 02/29/2024 9:31pm EST

re: toss my salad

No he’s right. The only good salad is a tossed one.

4 months ago 02/29/2024 10:18pm EST

re: toss my salad

They don't know how much dressing you prefer, so they leave it to your discretion.

Something tells me you may already know that...

4 months ago 02/29/2024 10:28pm EST

re: LetMeGuess

LetMeGuess wrote:
Let me guess…. You are a Republican. Complaining about everything. the dressing on the side is to please everyone including those that don’t want their salad drenched in dressing.

Come on, man. What does political affiliation have to do with this? People who do this on both sides are not helping alleviate the absurd and impractical “Us vs. Them, at any cost” that American politics has become.

You can probably request that they toss your salad, OP, except maybe at a fast food drive thru. You may or may not be annoying somebody who has twenty other salads to make on top of yours, and you may or may not care.

4 months ago 03/01/2024 1:47am EST

re: toss my salad

10/10 troll, my respects.

4 months ago 03/01/2024 1:56am EST

re: toss my salad

Don't be cryptic, just say it. Everyone reading this knows... Olive Garden is your favorite restaurant.

4 months ago 03/01/2024 11:02am EST

re: toss my salad

Order something else, then.

4 months ago 03/01/2024 1:53pm EST

re: toss my salad

If the dressing is on the side then the salad bowls must be large enough for the diner to toss the salad in. Some of these bowls are so small it's like pouring thousand island dressing on a burger.

4 months ago 03/01/2024 2:11pm EST

re: toss my salad

toss my salad wrote:
In a perfect salad, the greens are lightly and evenly coated with dressing. This is best accomplished by tossing the salad in a large bowl using tongs.
When the salad is served with dressing in a little cup on the side, you are forced to try to mix the dressing in at the table. The serving bowl is way to small for this task, and your dinner utensils aren't the right tool for the job.
No one would serve pasta with the sauce on the side. Why do they think it's ok to insist on serving salads with dressing on the side?

People will complain no matter what so they take the easy way out.

Pre-dressed and people complain that there's too much or not enough.

My only issue is that they never give you enough.

4 months ago 03/01/2024 4:19pm EST

re: seattle prattle

seattle prattle wrote:
They don't know how much dressing you prefer, so they leave it to your discretion.
Something tells me you may already know that...

The ironic part there is that when it is served on the side often more salad dressing is given than would have been put on in the kitchen so a person eats more of it. (A common tactic for weight loss was to get it on the side which turned out to be counterproductive.)

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