Oh my god you guys, I have the BEST idea:
When people go to a restaurant and order a salad, clearly what they REALLY want is some fried chicken! We should totally put deep fried chickens on our salads! I mean, who would totally order a salad in an attempt to not eat grease for lunch? We have an OBLIGATION to our customers to make sure they’re eating as greasy as possible! A salad just isn’t a salad until someone tops it off with a mandatory hunk of questionable fried meat, after all. It certainly isn’t like there’s an epidemic of fat in our country that we’re supposedly aware of and are helping sort out by giving people healthier choices, or anything. It’s also not like we praise ourselves and fool others into thinking they’re eating something GOOD for them just because it’s green underneath, right? Fried chickens for EVERYONE! Go go getting greasy!
I hadn’t realized that Wendy’s changed their salads to include a mandatory piece of fried chicken, and I am not impressed. Let’s just forget for a second exactly how much I loathe warm lettuce, and concentrate on the ridiculousness of the whole affair – I ordered a salad for lunch because I specifically didn’t want a deep fried chicken sandwich. What on EARTH makes them think that perhaps I really do want that slab of meat; I just don’t know it yet? The chicken salads USED to have cold grilled chicken in with all the salady goodness, and they were awesome. This new atrocity is completely disgusting, tastes horrible, and goddamnit I wanted a salad for lunch, not a fucking grease bomb on a bed of wilted lettuce.
Fuckers.
I *hate* warm lettuce.
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Yeah kinda sad when they all come made that way at most of the fast food places. Makes the vegetarian’s choices that much more non existent when they add mandatory meat to salad.
Yeah I realized recently that wendy’s salads are not exactly salads. I tried the taco salad one the other day. There is a light sprinkling of lettuce at the bottom, and then a heap of meaty chili, a ton of cheese, a pile of chips, tomatoes, tons of sour cream, and then a whole bunch of ranch dressing. Was edible, but certainly not a salad in my books. Out of curiosity I just checked their site and the salad has more calories, more fat, and more carbs than one of their big greasy burgers. Woo healthy choices! I think I will stick to salad loop.
josh beat me to it, but yeah, their salads are in no way healthier. The BLT salad actually has more fat than the Taco salad, somehow. You really are better off with the chicken sandwich.
A sidenote on warm lettuce: I often ask if I can get salad on a separate place when I go to lunch – sometimes they look at you funny, but I hate it when my salad gets warm.
Today we salute you Mr. Giant Taco Salad Inventor
A culinary invention that baffles the human mind,
a twelve thousand calorie salad.
Ground beef, refried beans, guacamole,
cheese, sour cream and, if there is any room left,
a few shreads of lettuce.
Some may ask, is your Taco Salad Healthy?
Of course it is, it’s a salad isn’t it?