Pickled onion flavour Monster Munch with salad cream. Obv.
My tomatoes.
With salt.
working class salads
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My tomatoes.
With salt.
My tomatoes.
With salt.
indeed...shredded radishes with salt and red chili powder is ace too
moose
like some cat from Japan
My mum used to put slices of orange in there too, but that's probably because she'd been a cleaner in Wilmslow.
However combining salad cream with tomato sauce to make Thousand Island dressing was a perfectly acceptable way of bestowing an exotic aura to your fish sticks.
Badger Kitten
oof
Yep, mine too. Along with cold boiled potatoes in salad cream.
A ploughman's lunch was the acceptable form of salad in our house: bread roll, lump of cheese, coleslaw, iceberg leaves (no dressing, not chopped, just laid on the plate), tomato, (quartered), cucumber, (sliced), pickled onion, Branston's Pickle.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
I ate raw carrots and raw sprouts, but that's by the by.
Of course the working classes didn't eat spring onions and celery! I've never heard anything so ridiculous. You're obviously middle class.
Not just because they're both rubbish.
BK is right, boiled potatoes were involved. Slice of ham or tongue for meat content.
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
but that is salad
newme
Giant in Pastyland now
fail to understand why anyone with working tastebuds would eat celery.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
newbie
undisambiguated
I have been confused but now, thanks to your wisdom, I think I've got it. iceberg, which I thought was a modern product of supermarket chilled distribution, is proper but all that stuff that people grew in allotments and back gardens since the start of time- onions, celery, Cos, they're all poncy. Is that right?
newbie
undisambiguated
aye, raw or cooked it's vile. I can't stand lettuce either.
Herbsman.
Nah Lotion, Pet, Nor Powder.
it's good for flavour and aroma in vegetable stock and some sauces but it's worth fuck all raw
mrsfran
Well-Known Member
Along with everyone else, I concur that this is the correct definition of salad. Optional extra: cress.
Celery is very tasty raw. It is also quite a working class food. A stick of celery is sprinkled with salt and eaten in the hand, not chopped up as the upper classes would do. It is nice and crunchy.
As for iceberg lettuces, they are an abomination. True they are crunchy, which is their main selling point, but have no flavour whatsoever. They are also as suggested, a modern product of supermarket chilled distribution. Lettuce should be properly green not almost white. Marks and Spencer claim what they think is the 'credit' for their introduction, but I say the word should be 'shame'.
The best lettuce is the Cos (readily found even in supermarkets) or even the Webbs. These are green and tasty. Rather than an iceberg I would sooner have one of those floppy bits of green rag, the hothouse grown 'round' lettuce. They are proper working class salad items and very cheap by comparison. I quite like those Gina Lollobridgida lettuces as well.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
You wanna go all sophisticated on 'em and serve up
and that poncey dish with squashed avocado
and that poncey dish with squashed avocado
fen_boy
Exits gracefully.
indeed...shredded radishes with salt and red chili powder is ace too
Wow - that's the first picture of food you've ever posted that doesn't make me want to put my hand down my throat and pull the contents of my stomach out with my fist, well done.
madzone
Physically unfavourable
You're too old to have eaten iceberg lettuce thenthat's the salad my mum used to do
It was floppy lettuce
And sliced pickled beetrot
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
My mother used to top her salad with spoonfuls of cold baked beans 
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
Working class salad = 60s / 70s suburban school salad ?
Grated carrots would be de riguer - with sultanas in if feeling dangerous.
They were adventurous enough in my 70s comprehensive to do DIY cole slaw.
I don't remember much salad being eaten at home, but I can remember my (lower middle class ??) mother chucking loads of salt on lettuce.
Grated carrots would be de riguer - with sultanas in if feeling dangerous.
They were adventurous enough in my 70s comprehensive to do DIY cole slaw.
I don't remember much salad being eaten at home, but I can remember my (lower middle class ??) mother chucking loads of salt on lettuce.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Guacamole!! That's the poncey dish I was thinking of.
Well, it was poncey in the 1970s anyway
Well, it was poncey in the 1970s anyway
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
You're too old to have eaten iceberg lettuce then
It was floppy lettuce
And sliced pickled beetrot
lettuce spettuce, they were all the same to me then
rioted
redundant
Everything was poncy in the 70s. Orange juice? Only if you wanted sugar in it. And the only source of olive oil was the chemists for dropping in your ears. Eat it? yuck!
Blagsta
Minimum cage, maximum cage
You're too old to have eaten iceberg lettuce then
It was floppy lettuce
And sliced pickled beetrot
Actually, this is true. It used to be floppy "round" lettuce. Then iceberg was introduced and my mum thought it was tres sophiscated.
tangentlama
Nameless voices crying
norwegian working class potato salad
500g new potatoes; 150 ml mayonnaise; 4 tbsp sour cream; 6 spring onions
boil new pots. drain. whilst warm, mix in mayo and cream and chopped spring onions
indian working class onion relish
3 large onions, sliced into rings; Juice of 2 lemons; paprika; salt
layer onions, sprinkle each layer with paprika and salt, and cover with a saucer and put in fridge overnight
greek working class salad
chopped cucumber, tomato, feta, olives, onion, olive oil, season with black pepper, oregano and basil
500g new potatoes; 150 ml mayonnaise; 4 tbsp sour cream; 6 spring onions
boil new pots. drain. whilst warm, mix in mayo and cream and chopped spring onions
indian working class onion relish
3 large onions, sliced into rings; Juice of 2 lemons; paprika; salt
layer onions, sprinkle each layer with paprika and salt, and cover with a saucer and put in fridge overnight
greek working class salad
chopped cucumber, tomato, feta, olives, onion, olive oil, season with black pepper, oregano and basil
My mother used to top her salad with spoonfuls of cold baked beans
Cold baked beans are very tasty I think, and give a bit of substance to the salad so that you don't get hungry an hour afterwards. Some boiled new potatoes are more effective though.
Gavin Bl
terrible awful baaad
Actually, this is true. It used to be floppy "round" lettuce. Then iceberg was introduced and my mum thought it was tres sophiscated.
Yes, definitely this - before that it was round lettuce, sliced toms and cucumber, served along side boiled/new pots with ham or boiled egg. Salad cream of course.
My aunt and uncle only ate cucumber as a salad, after soaking it in vinegar for a couple of days in the larder (they had no fridge). Mind you these were the people who fed me raw sausage meat on toast, and called it pate.
remember when a tiny glass of orange juice was the alternative to soup as a starter?
