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As a french, I'm deeply horrified. I mean, Iceberg is basically the cheapest blandest salad you can buy. That's the thing you want to eat out of the fridge as
by jylam 3y ago
As a french, I'm deeply horrified. I mean, Iceberg is basically the cheapest blandest salad you can buy.
That's the thing you want to eat out of the fridge as a filler, cold with some sort of fat sauce (also directly out of the fridge, like a ranch or something) because otherwise it has no taste nor recognizable texture. Yes it's crunchy, but there are so many crunchy salads which are way tastier and better (like the "Sucrine", can't find an English name, that's not even the better, but that's readily available (fresh, not in a bag you need to refrigerate))
“I think when it comes to just sheer deliciousness, people always loved iceberg lettuce,” says Angie Rito, chef and co-owner at Don Angie." Wat. I guess that was a century ago, before the industrialization and selection of bland lettuces that are bland but can survive without darkening for a week in a plastic bag.
I'm always dumbfounded hearing about the American way to think about food, all you can readily buy is so industrialized, you miss so much.
- Angostura 3y agoYeh - as a Brit, I concur. Romaine, for me.
- JohnFen 3y agoIceberg definitely has a flavor. Very mild, to be sure, but it has one.
- dekhn 3y agoiceberg lettuce is, as you say, a sandwich lettuce, not a salad lettuce. It has a very clear crispy texture (as you say). Radicchio is only crispy in the center part. It was a revelation when I moved to california and had my first real salad. it was intensely bitter with nutty and other flavors. Later I found out that arugala, endive, radicchio, are all great when properly dressed with a good salad oil, but they definitely have wayyyyy more flavor. I'd be surprised if anybody could even really say what iceberg lettuce "tastes" like- to me it just tasts like crunchy water.
- stronglikedan 3y agoAnd even worse, hardly any nutrients compared to other leaf veggies.
- crazygringo 3y agoAs a french, you may be misunderstanding the article. Iceberg is not a salad, it's a lettuce first of all. And this is not about being torn up to use for the "cheapest blandest salads" you're referring to, it's a wedge "salad" which is an entire large piece of solid iceberg lettuce dressed in creamy blue cheese and bacon. You say it has "no recognizable texture" but it's all texture, the entire point of a wedge salad is the amazing, crunchy, ribbed, fresh texture. Contrasting with the rich fat of the cheese and the crispiness of the bacon. It's a pairing made in heaven, just like strawberries and cream, or melon and prosciutto. I'm always dumbfounded when people assume their own country/cuisine/whatever is so superior to another, especially when they don't even seem to understand the item in question in the first place.
- Pigalowda 3y agoJingoism about lettuce? Jfc
- rootusrootus 3y ago> I'm always dumbfounded hearing about the American way to think about food, all you can readily buy is so industrialized, you miss so much. I think you're dumbfounded because you don't understand how Americans think about food, except what you hear on the Internet. Which, I shouldn't have to point out, is mostly a load of horseshit. America is the land of farms as far as the eye can see, growing all kinds of different foods. We have wonderful foods. I can go into a bog standard Kroger right now and there's an entire wing of the store with fresh fruits and vegetables, another area with hundreds of different cheeses from around the world. I can even buy common European brands of butter (though I prefer our local stuff). And this is a bland everyday American supermarket, not one of the many local farmer's markets. Sometimes I wonder where Europeans get their crazy ideas about what it's like to live in America.