17th Jun 2009, by admin, filed in Uncategorized
This is the salad:
- 1/2 cup of decent mixed greens, though by no means transporting
- 5 halved grape tomatoes, not especially flavorful
- a quarter cup of chopped red and golden beets
- 6 string beans
- a really blah vinaigrette
HOW COULD THIS SALAD COST 12 DOLLARS??? And why are people paying for it? I just assumed a salad like this would be 8$ tops and so I didn’t look at the price. When the bill came, I was flabbergasted. Last night, at a cute hole in the wall place called Weird Fish, my sister and I spent 60$ on a salad, two sides and a fish dish (and two glasses of wine). The kicker is, I was so hungry after dinner, I ended up grabbing a 4$ taco. I just want to state for the record that no salad is worth more than $10 dollars, and that salad must have some kind of wildly flavorful protein accent–house cured salmon, or grilled prawns, or skirt steak. I really need to get out of San Francisco.
oh man. salad prices are insance considering how cheap the ingredients are and how you don’t have to actually use man power to cook them. i mean, there wasn’t even cheese on your salad so this one is especially infuriating.
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I used to work at this big corporation with its own cafeteria and you’d see these ultra nerdy dudes with gigantic 9 months pregnant bellies making themselves salads at the salad bar, thinking they were being all healthy. They’d pop those things on the scales and they were always over ten dollars. I especially liked one of their guts would rest on the checkout counter as they reached up to put their “salads” on the scale.
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