To think nobody likes the salad bit on the side?

[marymarkle]

You know when you go into a cafe and order a sandwich, or jacket potato and other snack, and when it comes there is a tiny bit of basic salad on the side? AIBU to think no one actually wants that? It is simply a way to make it look a bit nicer and thus charge us more money?

It really depends on the meal part of the plate.

Salad alongside scampi chips and peas - no thanks, thats decoration, its taking up the space I'd dump my tartare sauce and lemon wedge, it can sod off.
I would only eat this if I still have room after consuming the vital elements that are, scampi, chips and peas (in that order).

Salad alongside a sandwich that doesn't contain salad - this may be acceptable, ditto baked potato.

This is only if its good, fresh salad.

Two bits of limp iceberg, a slice of bland tasteless tomato and a bit of cucumber is not a 'good fresh salad' - its just plate filler and needs to fuck off.

Side salads are often just token gestures but I'll always eat it. I love salad.

but I hate it with hot food

So glad someone feels the same! I love a good salad but I hate cold limp salad with hot food, it just doesn't go!

Agree about the bag of warm raw onion with the Indian takeaway, Ours used to always be a bag of iceberg lettuce with a bit of tomato and cucumber, and maybe a little bit of onion if they remembered it. Last time it was just a bag of onions, such a waste as all they do is pong.

I once got fired from a waitress job for scraping the untouched salad garnish into the bin. Apparently I was being wasteful, and my protests about food hygiene fell on deaf ears. I found out later the place went bust after the owner drank most of the contents of the beer cellar which technically belonged to the brewery.

Love it! Even when it's gone warm from the potato and got beans on. Beans and lettuce is a good combination 😬

It's always "nettle-y".

Where's the nutritional value in crisps?

That is totally not the point of crisps!

I always eat the salad but I do judge its limpness and lack of dressing. Usually feel like I need some greens on the side of my carbs, no matter how sad they are

I hate hot and cold food on the same plate so I usually ask them not to put the salad on if it’s warm food. I happily eat salad, just not with anything hot

I eat it, but I like salad. I even eat the Indian takeaway salad bags.

@Rhiwhites Mum? Is that you?

Love it and eat everyone else's too!

I’ll eat it if it deserves to be eaten. Nine times out of ten it doesn’t.

"I do, except bloody onion. Who eats raw onion." This!

An awful lot of the restaurants & takeaways by me chuck loads of diced raw white - sometimes spiced - onion on the side salads - I hate it! Don't like the taste and gives me horrendous heartburn if I eat it (even a little by accident)

If dds with me she takes my onion I take her tomatoes.

"I like it. What I don't like is getting a veggie main with no vegetables on the side with the excuse that there are already vegetables in it. I don't care. If I'm spending a tenner on a bit of goats cheese bloody quiche, I want stuff with it (mainly chips)" yep! Also seasoning - are meat dishes under seasoned now? Is it the healthy anti salt thing or is it just veggie dishes? I end up just adding my own anyway cos there's NO FLAVOUR!

"I had no idea no idea it was such a divisive issue" are you new to mn? The less controversial a topic may seem the stronger opinions posted 😂

YABU I LOVE a side salad on almost everything. Just coz you don't doesn't mean everyone else doesn't.

I eat raw onion too (in a salad.)

I'm allergic to tomato so always ask for meals plain. I can't even risk them just removing the tomato from the salad (if they are all made up in bulk) so it safer to have meals salad free. I'd eat them if I could trust them.

Yeah, normally it's crap - especially the raw onion, yeuch. But my favourite cafe does such an amazing bit of salad with its omelettes that I've been known to go in and ask for a whole bowl of it on its own.
It's not actually on the menu as a 'thing' but I was happy for them to set whatever price they saw fit. Amazing

Me too sanity I get horrible eczema from tomatoes. Everyone usually thinks they're so healthy !!!!!

Yanbu I don't like salad anyway so in this situation it gets totally ignored by me! I occasionally eat the tomato because I do quite like those (but nothing green!)

I like the salad, and always eat it.

I like a nice chopped salad with my sandwich, though I don't like tomatoes or huge pieces of iceberg lettuce. I've never understood the point of crisps or tortilla chips with a sandwich. They don't go together imho.

I like it.

I love raw onion in a salad or a sandwich. I'm amazed others don't.