My significant other ate cucumbers and onion with some ranch. I called it a cucumber onion salad. She says there aren’t enough ingredients to call it a salad, because “it takes multiple ingredients”. I pointed out she had three and asked what the minimum is. She refuses to answer so I ask Lemmy.

  • Loid@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I talked with a expert (my one friend who knows how to use a knife) and the conclusion is: any vegetable that is served in a different plate.

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          1 year ago

          Potatoes come from a plants roots and should be considered a vegetable. And fries are made of potatoes. Therefore I say it’s a salad.

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            1 year ago

            But not all plant products are vegetables. Take wood, sugar, or coconut oil as examples.

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              1 year ago

              According to Wikipedia:

              The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant Solanum tuberosum and is a root vegetable native to the Americas.

              They are usually sold with the other vegetables in a supermarket because they are a root vegetable.

              Let’s stop arguing and just enjoy fries instead