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!

Never ever had salad in the UK,

😱 northern heathen

Its rocket for me! Rocket, grated carrot, sweetcorn, diced pepper, cucumber, finely chopped red cabbage and tiny pickled onions or pink pickled onion. I can eat that on the side of anything all year round.

I tend to dodge them!

Why do these things all happen at Morrisons? I don’t have a Morrisons near me but is there something particularly unhygienic about their salad bar?

Morrisons is perfectly good and has high quality foods. Their salad bars are very varied and attractive so I guess a lot of people use them and the more you use them the more you might see things you don't necessarily want to see!

I think it's code for 'low-grade clientele with dubious personal hygiene'.

Though it was in an Asda that I saw people actually getting into a fistfight over discounted Easter eggs -- they ended up rolling around on the floor in the confectionary aisle. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and have always been disappointed it's never happened again in my presence.

We eat salad all year around. But not lettuce. I’m not a massive lettuce fan unless it’s one with some flavour.

I like rocket with pesto pasta! That’s flavourful and a match made in heaven!

I used to work on the Morrisons salad bar when I was a teenager. Everything gets soaked in Milton to disinfect it before it goes out to the trays, which I find pretty awful!

What, the food???!!

Yeah I do actually like rocket. The spicier the better.

They all want to make an ENORMOUS salad. 😂

I adore a really peppery rocket.

Probably more people eating it more often while it’s hot instead of hot food with veg, also more having BBqs

Seriously?! I adore lettuce! Especially iceberg & spinach. I always have salad in my fridge all year round.

Some varieties of lettuce & cucumber can be bitter but if left for a day or two until more ripe, they’ll be fine. Been growing them for years!

We eat much more lettuce, and leafy greens, when we grow our own but we haven't done that the past couple of years. I don't prioritise lettuce day-to-day anymore as I'd rather get my nutrients from other vegetable sources, but every so often there's nothing I want more than a proper leafy salad.

We have a small salad every night as a starter. Love it.

They don’t. Mumsnet is bizarrely snobbish about Morrisons!

You are not alone, OP. We eat salad all year round too. Great starter at Christmas lunch :)

Jesus. Please someone moan about dogs 🤣humans are rank!

Yes indeed. I was once torn apart on a thread for saying that I shopped at Morrisons. Still shop there, though (and luckily I don’t eat egg salad!)

I wonder why that is!! I never associated Morrisons with “class” more with age?

@TY78910 - I have no idea. The concept was new to me too!

The issue is with the shops.it should be someone's job to check forth coming weather and order stock appropriately