Salad and British people….

[CurlewKate]

Do British people generally only eat salad in a heatwave? Asking because I went shopping yesterday and found empty shelves. I feel I should get special access to lettuce because I eat it and serve it all year round. All you fair weather Romaine lovers-reveal yourselves!

I’m an all year round salad eater. In my house the temperature is never so extreme that it influences if I eat hot or cold food.

I can assure you my encounter with the egg sucking woman is genuine and witnessed with my own eyes about 5 or 6 years ago in Hertfordshire. Not an urban myth. 2 members of staff also saw her doing this and didn't stop her but I really hope they removed the egg mayo after.

I have to buy posh salady stuff for my tortoise to support her weed diet when the weeds are almost all gone but rarely romaine, for her its lambs lettuce, chicory, rocket mixed bags of posh leaves and so on. She is a big girl so LOTS of it. Its not year round though as she sleeps in winter.

Never ever had salad in the UK, now we live in italy, i have it with eggs or fish for breakfast most days, and often just have a bowl of fruit and yoghurt for lunch. Totally to do with the weather. I was a eating 100% hot food in yorkshire.

We always eat green vegetables - sometimes cold like salad leaves, sometimes cooked. Other veg too, but there’s always something green. Salad mostly goes in packed lunches in winter, rather than being eaten with supper. I’ve spent a fair bit of time in Italy and when there is no separate salad course a meal can be quite low on veg.

I eat salad all year round
Either for lunch or as a side salad for tea.
Roast chicken/ new spuds/ salad for example.

I like the idea of summer salad shortages due to all the tortoises having woken up. 🐢 🐢🐢

I eat salad all year but never buy lettuce from the supermarket. It costs so little to grow your own and is much nicer. Can recommend it :-)

I hate lettuce, those bags of salad leaves make me heave. I do buy tomatoes, cucumber, onion and radishes all year round though.

I have salad all year round. I'm able to buy it all year round, which suggests I'm not the only one.

Agree with this, only swap British people for British weather. We live in London and many of our friends and neighbours are not British but still enjoy a BBQ (and a salad!) in this lovely weather.

In normal years I can grow enough weeds for her but when its so dry, they don't even germinate and its cheaper to buy her food than cough up for the water bill.

I do buy those bags of salad as I like a good mix of leaves and, much as I love the idea, the I bagged leaves at farm shop type laces are always wilted.

BUT you are right to heave: apparently they are the number one source of listeria in supermarket food.

Oh I’m great at growing weeds. In fact we excel at it …

well I am usually but its been dreadfully dry where I live

I love salad now - when I was a kid, salads were so boring - not-very-nice lettuce, cucumber and sliced tomato - and school salads were worse, because the lettuce had all the taste and texture of wet tissue paper.

Now we pack salads with all sorts of lovely things - peppers, radishes, cherry tomatoes, rocket, as well as little gem lettuce and cucumber, and I really enjoy it. Sadly I live in Scotland, and the weather in summer is often cold and wet, and while I am happy to eat salad even in winter, dh doesn’t like eating salads when it’s cold.

There is a definite salad season as no one wants to cook in hot weather and no one wants cold food in the winter.
I don't get this at all. My appetite doesn't change from summer to winter I still enjoy hot food in summer and I eat salad for lunch every day all year round. What I eat varies a bit according to what's in season that's all.
I grow fruit and veg so at the moment I'm eating a lot of raspberries and rhubarb. My lettuce is going strong and though I eat it all year round I much prefer home grown.

The British salad in the summer stereotype is lettuce, cucumber, tomato, boiled eggs, ham, coleslaw, potatoes/potato salad, pasta, pineapple and grated cheese.

Love it! It's an all year round thing for me! I love vegetables!

And meat & fish etc

Well that's made me glad I don't like them!

So during Covid shortages OP, when dairy milk was unavailable, did you leave the Soya milk for us?

You can have mine.

I saw someone sneeze into the salad bar in Morrisons once 😂🤮

haven’t bought a salad from their bar since.

absolutely grim

Warm Weather = BBQs. BBQs = salad. It's not a warm weather thing specifically. Its a "I'm going to eat a fuckton of grilled meat, so I'd better have something green to pretend its healthy" thing

Well yes-because soya milk is disgusting. Unlike salad. Not sure I get your point!