For as long as I can remember I have always hated
salad. Mainly what I hate about salad is the lettuce. It's just
gross. This all goes back to a childhood trauma I suffered when my mom
forced me to eat a salad against my will and I promptly threw it up.

I've always wondered if I was alone in
my hatred. Watching Judging Amy the
other night, Bruce said he never eats lettuce. "It's
cold. It's wet." Okay...Bruce is fictitious, but there are
some people who share
my disdain.

Recently I've been thinking I should be eating healthier. It's not that I eat
completely un-healthy, I just think I don't get enough green stuff in my
diet. So part of my goal is to overcome my phobia of salad.

Since I have no experience making salad, my attempts have been limited to when I
eat out. Here is what I have discovered so far. The house salad at Z'Tejas
is gross. The Old World Classic at Nello's
is very good, but most everything there is.

I bought a bag of that pre-washed salad stuff the other day. It was like
eating weeds and leaves. I think that is why I don't like lettuce. It looks too much like stuff I
associate with dirt and bugs. It was gross, so I threw it away and had cinnamon
rolls instead. (So much for my claim about not eating completely
un-healthy. "Cinnamon Rolls - It's What's For Dinner")

The Roommate is back and she is a salad eating aficionado, so I'm hoping she'll
give me some pointers. After all, I haven't even begun to think about
salad dressings. That just seems complicated.