As I tend to dip my salad bites into the dressing rather than pouring it all over the top and mixing it in, I can see how this could work for me: mimimal mess, and really no messier than picking up a greasy/salty fry and dipping it in whatever one happens to dip his/her french fry in. Personally, I like mayonnaise on my fries ... oh wait, we're trying to replace fries with salad. Sorry.

salad has so many uneven/inconsistent pieces. if only they could compress it into regular shapes, like they do with fries. like maybe they could breed a certain type of "finger lettuce" with finger-sized leaves that would be easily dipped in dressing.

hmm, yes laura. You point out a flaw in this strategy. The uneven/inconsistent pieces. But FINGER LETTUCE. BRILLIANT! LOOK OUT FRIES. YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED!

i want a salad with french fries in it. that sounds yummy.

you yourself bought some fries today, spudart. so... apparently the days of fries are not so numbered.

I made fries on Thursday. They were good. Not once did I wish I was eating a salad

i ate a whole pint of Fossil Fuel yesterday. that was after eating a salad.

salads suck! long live fries!

contradicting your own post?

yeah, it's fun. actually, i'm still behind salads. Fries are a nice occasional treat, but salads should become the standard side-order.

and spinach is the new chip

i wish my home were made out of french fries, ala a log cabin. So whenever i wanted a snack, I could just eat a part of the house. What would be the first and last part of the house to eat?

The last thing I would eat is the french fry toilet. That's sick. The first thing I would probably eat is like a door I don't need. Doors can be silly at times. The second thing would be railing on the stairs. I could could eat that. That would be the best french fry. Imagine. A french fry as big and long as the railing on my staircase. Yumm!!!

french fry hangers!

or how about power cords? french fry power cords. Those are the type of french fries that all wiggly.

Mmmmy a frency fry bed. That would be just one big potato cut up and you can lay in the fluffy potato goodness.

Who says french fries are a consistent size?

The are cut to size, just like salad conponents are cut to size. The only difference is that french fries contain only one base ingredient, and salad contains, usually, more than one.

How did I get me and my kids to eat salads instead of french fries?

I made a rule that you could have no other dinner until you ate your salad.

It worked.

Besides, now we are connoiseurs of french fries. We only eat great french fries, and not too many, as it dims the taste.

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A guy once said to me, "Honey, what you need is a good :pop:. I replied, "You're right--a GOOD one." hahahahaha

The secret to loving salads is to know how to make a good one, or recognize a good one.

No iceberg lettuce. Use Romaine. Chop into 1" pieces for regular salad, and 1/4" pieces for a chop salad.

Use only Roma/Italian/plum tomatoes, firm ones. Cube them, 1/4-1/3".

This is the basic salad.

You may add any veggie or fruit, if you chop it in a uniform size. Peas and small veggies need no chop. Carrots and zuchini should be grated.

Other additives include seeds, cooked beets, chopped nuts, Experiment.

Lettuce and other greens can be chpped in advance and stored in a sealed container in the fridge. I make a week's worth. Same for seeds and nuts.

Chop/grate the red/yellow veggies and fruits at the last minute.

I buy salad dressing at the dollar store. I am tired of being over-charged for salad dressing, even if it looks like Paul Newman. Some marinates, like sesame/miso are also great dressings.

If you think you can't eat salad dressing by hand, you haven't had popcorn at the movies lately. You don't need a lot. If you have any left at the bottom of the salad, you used too much.

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