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unusual facts about salad



Ana Marie Cox

In 2009 on an Amtrak train from New York to Washington Cox had a severe allergic reaction after eating a lentil salad.

Angry Salad

Angry Salad's recording of the Bob Dylan song "My Back Pages" was used as the theme song for the short-lived WB Network series D.C. (starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Kristanna Loken)

Batata vada

Gujarati people eat Bataka Vada (બટાકા વડા) with Gujarati style Fruit Salad.

Bitter orange

In Turkey, juice of the ripe fruits can be used as salad dressing, especially in Çukurova region.

Blood type diet

A study by The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that has been cited to support D'Adamo's theories reported that the edible parts of 29 of 88 foods tested, including common salad ingredients, fresh fruits, roasted nuts, and processed cereals, were found to possess significant lectin-like activity (as assessed by hemagglutination and bacterial agglutination assays).

Bob Herbert

Herbert is mentioned in the Seinfeld episode "The Big Salad" when character George Costanza's girlfriend Julie is discussing her favorite writers, and says "And Bob Herbert's great. He's the Daily News," to which Costanza compares Herbert's name pronunciation with Atlanta Falcons quarterback Bobby Hebert.

California roll

Sometimes crab salad is substituted for the crab stick, and often the outer layer of rice (in an inside-out roll) is sprinkled with toasted sesame seeds, tobiko or masago.

Carrot salad

In Brazilian cuisine, churrasco service often includes potato salad and carrot salad made with mayonnaise, raw onion, green peas, sweetcorn or sometimes chayote squashes.

Celebrity Cooking Showdown

In a 34-33 decision, Cindy's menu of Chinois Chicken Salad, Pan-seared Szechuan Beef and Baked Alaska narrowly edged out Tony's Caprese Salad Tower, Penne á la Vodka with Salmon and Affogado Italian Sundae.

Centella asiatica

In Indonesia, the leaves are used for sambai oi peuga-ga, an Aceh type of salad, and is also mixed into asinan in Bogor.

Chamerion latifolium

This arctic plant provides valuable nutrition for the Inuit, who eat the leaves raw, boiled with fat, or steeped in water for tea, the flowers and fruits raw, and as a salad with meals of seal and walrus blubber.

Chicken salad

The American form of chicken salad was first served by Town Meats in Wakefield, Rhode Island, in 1863.

Chinese chicken salad

The pleasing combination of ingredients have given Chinese chicken salad widespread popularity, thus establishing it on many restaurant menus, including the fast food establishment Wendy's and the exclusive Spago.

D. nobilis

Deckenia nobilis, the millionaire's salad, a flowering plant species endemic to the Seychelles

Franconia

Food typical for the region includes Bratwurst (especially the famous small Nuremberger Bratwurst), Schäuferla (stewed pork shoulder), Sauerbraten, dumplings, potato salad (typically made with broth), fried carp, Obatzda (seasoned cheese spread), Presssack (a type of Head cheese: pressed or jellied pork trimmings, like tongue, cheeks, etc.).

Frank Pastore

Shortly after he was released by the Rangers, Pastore set a new record at the The Big Texan Steak Ranch restaurant in Amarillo, Texas by eating a meal of 72-ounce ribeye steak, salad, baked potato, shrimp cocktail, and roll in 9 minutes, 30 seconds.

Gatton, Queensland

As part of the "Salad Bowl" of the Lockyer Valley, the area is primarily agricultural, with vegetables making up the majority of crops.

Ginsters

Since the 1990s the product range has been extended to include a variety of pasties, savoury slices, sausage rolls, pork pies, hot pies, snacks, sandwiches, flatbreads, wraps and packaged salads.

Ham Hill, Wiltshire

The main species in the plant communities here are Upright brome (Bromus erectus), Sheep's Fescue (Festuca ovina), Quaking-grass (Briza media), and downland herbs such as Burnet-saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga), Salad-burnet (Sanguisorba minor), Common Milkwort (Polygala vulgaris) and Dwarf Thistle (Cirsium acaule).

I Am Empire

On June 7, 2012, drummer Eric Martin officially announced via a blog post on Tooth & Nail's website that the band was recording their second album with producer Brian McTernan at his Salad Days Studio in Baltimore, Maryland.

Ignatius Jones

In November Jones directed the 2002 Gay Games Opening Ceremony, he greeted the audience of 38,000 with "Australia and the gay and lesbian community is not so much a melting pot ... We are more of a mixed salad, where every part remains separate, yet adds to the wonder of the whole ... I have been lucky, I have never had to come out, I was never in".

Kapsalon

Kapsalon is a Dutch food item consisting of fries, topped with döner or shawarma meat, grilled with a layer of Gouda cheese until melted and then subsequently covered with a layer of dressed salad greens.

Michel Tcherevkoff

Working as the creative eye for important clients, Tcherevkoff has created a couture dress made from toothbrushes for Johnson & Johnson, a massive “sensorium” where visitors could experience fragrance visually for Firmenich, morphed a salad spinner into an amusement park ride for Bed Bath and Beyond.

Mike Schleibaum

Schleibaum has had the opportunity to work with legendary metal producers: Fredrick Nordstrom (Studio Friedmen, Gothenburg Sweden), Devin Townsend (Greenhouse Studios, Vancouver, BC), and Brian McTernan (Salad Days Studios, Baltimore, MD).

Pittington Hill

Blue moor-grass, Sesleria albicans, a characteristic plant of such grassland, is present but not abundant in the primary grassland on the hill slopes, where herbs such as rock-rose, Helianthemum nummularium, are more common; blue moor-grass is more plentiful in the secondary grassland on the quarry floor and spoil heaps, where it is associated with species such as quaking grass, Briza media, salad burnet, Sanguisorba minor, and autumn gentian, Gentianella amarella.

Puntarelle

The name also refers to the salad produced in two municipalities in the province of Latina, Formia and Gaeta.

Salad Ali Jelle

On January 5, 2007, after the victory over the ICU and the Fall of Mogadishu, Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi, accompanied by Salad Ali Jelle, held a review of the former troops of the government who took part in the campaign to retake the capital.

Salad Oil Scandal

The scandal involved the company Allied Crude Vegetable Oil in New Jersey, led by Tino De Angelis, which discovered that it could obtain loans based upon the inventory of its salad oil.

Salad spinner

In 1971, Jean Mantelet filed a patent for a "Salad Dryer" a hand-operated, centrifugally-driven device along with another called the "Household Drying Machine" which could also be used for salads.

Sangrita

A popular recipe in Guadalajara (Jalisco's largest city) was said to have originated from the leftover juices (mainly orange) of an equally popular regional fruit salad covered with fine chilli powder, usually piquin.

Schnitzel

Parmo is popular in north-east England, particularly Teesside; it is covered in bechamel sauce and served with chips and salad.

Sde Warburg

Major General (Res.) Doron Almog, Chairman of Aleh Negev was present to accept the donation and commended the residents, who had grown the lettuce and prepared the salad on the moshav.

Side Salad Records

Side Salad Records’ third release was Noisettes third single, Scratch Your Name.

Singju

Singju (pronounce as sing-zoo) is a typical Manipuri salad-type cuisine.

The Blonde Salad

The Blonde Salad is a fashion blog created and run by Chiara Ferragni (born 7 May 1987), an occasional fashion writer and model who attends Bocconi University in Milan as a full-time law student.

Urnebes

Urnebes (Serbian Cyrillic: Урнебес) (translation: disorder, mess) is a type of salad characteristic of Serbian cuisine prominent in the city of Niš and southern Serbia.

Watergate salad

Watergate Salad took off in popularity during and after the presidential scandal which shares the same name.

Yourself!Fitness

In a 2006 fitness promotional campaign with the popular fast-food chain McDonald's, purchasers of an "Active Meal" (consisting of a salad and bottled water) could receive one of four Yourself!Fitness DVDs, playable in a standard DVD player, which contains a rigid workout regimen also led by Maya.


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