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rabbitcruiser · 5 months

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National Salad Day

Hey there, salad enthusiasts! Get ready to celebrate National Salad Day, a day dedicated to our leafy green friends and their fellow vegetable companions. Get your forks ready and prepare to dive into some delicious, healthy, and colorful creations. This national day is all about celebrating the wonders of salads and encouraging everyone to incorporate more greens into their diets. So, let's explore the history and delights of National Salad Day!

When is Salad Day?

It's national salad day on the 1st May.

The Birth of National Salad Day

While salads have been around for centuries, National Salad Day is a relatively new addition to the calendar. It started gaining popularity in recent years as people became more conscious of their health and nutrition. The origins of this day are closely tied to the rise of social media and food blogging. Influencers and health-conscious individuals shared their love for salads online, inspiring a wave of salad enthusiasts.

On May 1st, 2015, the internet exploded with mentions of National Salad Day. It became an annual celebration, bringing people together to appreciate the wonders of fresh veggies and creative combinations. From tangy dressings to crunchy toppings, it's a day to experiment and create salads that satisfy both your taste buds and your nutrition goals.

Salads Around the World

Salads come in countless varieties, each reflecting the unique culinary traditions of different cultures. Let's take a whirlwind tour around the world to explore some famous salads:

Greek Salad: A refreshing mix of tomatoes, cucumbers, red onions, feta cheese, and olives.

Caesar Salad: A classic made with romaine lettuce, croutons, Parmesan cheese, and a creamy dressing.

Cobb Salad: A hearty salad with a bed of lettuce topped with avocado, bacon, chicken, hard-boiled eggs, tomatoes, and blue cheese. It's a meal in itself!

Caprese Salad: A simple and elegant combination of fresh tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, and basil, drizzled with olive oil.

Tabbouleh: A Middle Eastern salad made with parsley, bulgur wheat, tomatoes, and a lemony dressing.

How to Celebrate National Salad Day

Now that you know the history and some famous salad recipes, it's time to celebrate National Salad Day in style. Here are a few ideas to get you started:

Organize a salad potluck with friends and family. Each person can bring a unique salad creation to share.

Try out a new salad recipe you've never made before. Challenge yourself to experiment with different ingredients and flavors.

Visit a local farmer's market and stock up on fresh produce for your salads. Supporting local farmers is always a good idea!

Share your favorite salad recipe on social media using the hashtag #NationalSaladDay. Spread the salad love!

Did You Know?

Did you know that the largest salad ever made weighed a whopping 20,100 pounds? It was created in Romania in 2012 and included a mix of lettuce, cabbage, carrots, peppers, and onions. That's one gigantic and healthy serving!

History behind the term 'Salad'

500 BC

The Birth of Salads

Salads have been enjoyed for centuries. The ancient Greeks and Romans were known to eat mixed greens with dressing as a way to cleanse their digestive systems. They believed that the combination of raw vegetables and herbs had medicinal properties.

17th Century

Salad as a Symbol of Wealth

In the 17th century, salads became associated with wealth and nobility. It was considered a luxury to have fresh greens and exotic ingredients on one's table. Salads were often served as a grand gesture to impress guests.

1763

The Word 'Salad' Enters English

The word 'salad' entered the English language in 1763, derived from the French word 'salade.' The French had a significant influence on culinary customs during that period, and the term quickly gained popularity in the English-speaking world.

19th Century

Salads Evolve with New Ingredients

During the 19th century, salads started to incorporate a wider variety of ingredients. Fruits, nuts, and mayonnaise-based dressings became popular additions. Salads also became more decorative, with intricate garnishes and arrangements.

20th Century

The Rise of Salad Bars

In the mid-20th century, salad bars gained popularity in restaurants and cafeterias. Salad bars offered a wide selection of fresh ingredients, giving people the freedom to customize their salads. This concept revolutionized the way salads were served.

21st Century

Salads for Health and Green Living

In the 21st century, salads have become synonymous with healthy eating and green living. As more people seek nutritious options and environmental sustainability, salads have become a popular choice. From kale salads to quinoa salads, there are endless variations to suit different tastes and dietary preferences.

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podcastenthusiast · 1 year

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Sure it's all fun and games Tav telling Astarion to "say please" and calling him a good boy before having sex, but he'd have a mini panic attack if Tav explained safewords and like actually gave a shit about his wellbeing in bed.

#rotating astarion thoughts around in my head like a salad spinner #i don't think he's ace exactly although trauma is a valid reason to be but i do think his feelings about sex vary a lot #and sometimes he might not be comfortable with it even in the best circumstances. sometimes it's gonna be too much #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #lots of good smut but ngl i want more fics just processing this stuff. how to heal your trauma when all you know is pain and manipulation #maybe that means not having sex but also that's how his worth has been defined for so long so what then? uuugh #astarion romance

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valiant-if · 2 months

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I dunno if anyone around here plays Arknights, but (spoilers for future global server banners, i guess?)

I've just been vibrating with the need for Wiš'adel, because W is my favorite character in that game and I cannot fucking wait for her alter. (It's apparently OP as shit too, but tbh I don't really care, it could be the most dogshit kit they've ever made—which would be an impressive feat considering some of the characters that already exist—and I would still pull the shit out of that banner.)

But she's still months away for global server 😭

As a side story to this, I picked up Arknights on April 1, 2023, and I fell in love with W right away. She's a limited character, but I was lucky enough to get an off-banner pull of her when Texas alter came out on global. It was meant to be 🧡

#salad's gaming corner #i dunno dude i don't normally like character like W #but I just love W so fucking much #and Ines and Hoederer honestly #those three are my top favorites #i love the darknights squad #and i have all three of them 🧡#i dunno if not wanting to be spoiled on future banners is a thing but #i figured i'd put it in a read more just in case?

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i-can-even-burn-salad · 3 months

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Character inverse tag

I was tagged by @winterandwords and I think this will be the one and only time I am doing this, and that's only because a friend gave me an idea (💜)

📝 Describe who you think your character’s opposite would be.

So the opposite of Damien:

Is a happy guy with the right amount of limbs, with a big supportive family, alive parents and a great relationship to his siblings, who has absolutely no magic, helped enforce the law instead of being wanted, believes in the good in people, always stays positive, and is aro but not ace and not opposed to one night stands.

Sounds familiar?

(Find the original post of the artist here 💜)

#salad-tag #Character inverse tag #Damien is his own nightmare #Riordan has fancy boots #I'm not even pretending to tag anyone in this #I don't like this tag much and I won't inflict it upon anyone #feel free to take it if you want it

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spaghett-onaplate · 3 months

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I tried dieting yesterday but it was fucking awful I'd rather be happy than skinny

#i probably also went about it the wrong way. bc my goal was to not eat anything but dinner #which is stupid especially bc we have dinner between 9-10pm #i ended up caving and having a cheesy bacon roll and salad before dinner #but that was still just. not much food at all i was so hungry #and i don't want to start sobbing at work again and i feel much happier when I've eaten so #idk if i want to diet i could go about it in healthier ways but can i be bothered to do it at all?#not really. i choose happiness i like food #but there's also not really a need to lose weight bc I'm not that fat (and even if i was so what)#i had a look at myself in the mirror for the first time in months and like yeah im fine just incredibly dysphoric #so yeah. i choose food #i chose food when i finally did have dinner and was like my god this is much better than not eating #ofc. anyway knowing my fuckass metabolism i wouldn't even lose weight anyway #and if im going on T soon that will change all that so there's no point doing anything now #and when i go on T ill be hungry asf so i don't want to eat less then

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carnivalcarriondiscarded · 1 year

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what the hell is happening on this site some asks are Completely gone from my desktop inbox, but on mobile they're there???? mf i just spent ten minutes trying to find asks i was SURE i had received

#it was like Oh Fuck Have I Already Answered These????#starting to think that my memory is Worse than i thought #i still feel like one or two are missing...#i combed my archive and they arent there either #i Realized Something Was Off because some of them gave me the perfect set up for one of my favorite bits!!#now im very worried that some asks people have sent are just. gone.#maybe it was a reply...? i dont know....#oh to have a brain that Functions #cant remember jack shit!!#absolutely unprompted #im trying to answer some non-art asks #since i'm not sure if i'll scribble much of anything tonight #too much happened! vaccumed! readjusted my room after the Cleaning! watched a show with a good friend! played with cats! killed a spider!#formulated a response to a response! ate a salad! showered!#see: too much happened and now its almost 4 am #plus i just dont know if im feelin scribbly tonight #which happens it Happens #if i spend too much energy i simply don't have it in me anymore #tomorrow! tomorrow i will doodle!#i will do more laughingstock and make some ask responses and also draw more greaser au for my Friend <3 #unless something happens and i run out of energy again. ill try to be careful about it

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bugmistake · 2 months

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at what point am i gonna realize that i don't actually like eating meat all that much

#got myself a chicken salad sandwich for lunch today and it was nice! it was!#but about halfway through i was like god. this tastes like a fucking BIRD #and i don't eat meat at home bc i hate cooking it #so im like functionally vegetarian unless i'm out to eat and want a burger or something #but even that's iffy. if i start thinking about it too much i get freaked out #what i really actually need to do is learn more recipes and make sure im getting the right fucking. nutrients. and shit #it's about oils. omega 3s. proteins. get some FAT in your diet.#three meals a day. and two snacks. and dessert if you're nasty. if you're kinky.

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pollsforfun · 4 months

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Mmkay considering the last poll I'm curious.

#polls for fun #tumblr polls #food #salad #im on team neutral and Don't eat them as much as i should #i find it hard to eat a lot of lettuce and i don't like raw spinach or kale

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damnprecious · 3 months

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I cooked dinner from scratch for the first time in forever

#noopa rambles #food #now I'm just sitting here going 'huh - why was this so hard before'#I made a chicken sauce and some rice #shoved some pineapples in the sauce too bc that sparks joy #haven't cooked rice in Forever(tm)#like. I don't think I've actually cooked rice once in this apartment. I've lived here for over a year #I used to live on rice and then my brain went 'nope' abt rice and couldn't stand the thought of making it #like. I've just mostly been eating premade meals #and the most 'cooking' I've done has been tortillas and tacos which involve making a salad and building the things #it's not like cooking-cooking #no wait I did boil some new potatoes a few weeks ago?#I used to be so proud of the fact that I made dinner from scratch almost every day when I was at uni #if I had a super long day in the city centre then I didn't cook but I cooked so often #then some nurse commented how that one meal 'isn't enough' during a doctor's appointment #which she meant probably as a 'you need to eat more'#but which my brain interpreted as 'it's pointless'#my eating habits sure started to go downhill after that #I'm still very much at the bottom but perhaps not all hope is lost #food sure is something #I should grab a strawberry danish for a dessert

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galadae · 5 months

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I'm the fool and left my lunch sitting on the counter before I left this morning 😭 and my shift is over but I still have emails and I won't get them done unless I do them at work...clif bars save me

#I don't even like clif bars that much but they're all we have here at the gym besides candy and more expensive granola #i miss my taco salad...all alone on the counter...#hannah.txt

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i-can-even-burn-salad · 22 days

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*mentally takes the scribbled note "kidney infection/failure" and pushes it from one edge of the WIP to the other*

Here? Here? Perhaps here? Hm. What about here?

#salad-txt #those who know me know that I don't like illness whump very much #but damn if those stupid kidneys don't always get in the way after just a little torture 🙄

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icewindandboringhorror · 6 months

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Various images from the past year or so... posting my evil little photo diary collections once again..

#image commentary in tags once again since they don't allow captions anymore and I feel weird using the alt text for that --#1. one of the billions of pastel sky photos I take and post constnaly because I'm obsessed with the sky lol 2. I got #a gardening mama (like cooking mama) game from a friend a few years ago and don't really play it that much since it's not #as interesting to me in some ways but.. I do like the graphics a lot. It'd be cool if in real life when you did something correclty a bunch #of little rainbows and sparkles appeared in front of you lol. 3. Everyone makes fun of me but this is how I like to have sandwiches #.. basically a salad in between two pieces of bread. barely any meat and cheese but then like 2 inches of lettuce and tomatoes and stuff..#half an entire head of iceberg lettuce on one sandwich... the Cronch... 4. Weird little light colored spider doing a split on the netting #of this strawberry garden. 5. ice creambe... 6. tiny tiny babey strawberry son.. 7. Went to someone's house and they #had this weird channel (I guess for halloween?) where it was like 8 different channels playing at once and you could watch them all #simultaneously (I don't think this is the intended purpose of it I think it's more just to show what's currently airing)#but it's kind of surreal and interesting.. with how on tiktoc and stuff they have those weird sensory overhwleming #videos where its' like 3 videos playing at once with unrelated audio. I wonder if one day people will just watch 8 screens #of tv at once like this after everyone offically has only a 2 second attention span lol. To me its kind of hard to pay attention #to but is an interesting excercise I guess. Like it was a cool challenge to try to watch it all at the same time #8. THE temperature indoors at NIGHT during the late summer........... AUGH.....#9. a pleasant little breakfast of scrambled eggs with green onion. baked salmon. sauteed corn. and a few almonds pecans and pineapple #leftover from making smoothies with it the day before. I eat basically the same rotation of things for every single meal every single #day (like literally I have had the same exact breakfast for about 2 years with zero variation except for special occasion) so whenever I do #actually have the energy to make something different or I have some interesting food for some special occasion reason. I feel more #inclined to document it lol.. like.. oooooo...eggs.. Which are normal to some people. but to me it's like.. wow... revolutionary.. so #different from my usual Scheduled Bland Stomach Problems Safety Gruel lol.#photo diary #spiders tw

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arcaneyouth · 6 months

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i'm starting to think living with 5 other people may simply be a problem

#vent post #negative #i've come to the conclusion i'm not getting enough sugar in my daily meals #(which is. ironic in a lot of ways. but i don't know what else the problem would be)#and that's great that's cool that i've come to this conclusion. i don't think i can solve this one #we don't buy that much sugary or junk food stuff anymore #my dad's got diabetes that makes sense that's understandable #so a lot of our family meals are like rice and meat and a salad #but yknow i'm not really gonna ask my parents to change that! it's been like that for a long time now it's fine it's alright #but i don't think i can actually solve the problem #i. already have a lot of foods that the rest of my family isn't allowed to touch. because i am So Picky #and when they were eating my foods more often i was Starving #i don't. think. i can ask for more. and you know what that's fine! that's fine that's ok i like my meals they're tasty as hell #what about snacks then? can we get snacks for the whole family? well no #we stopped buying more junk foodish snacks because it was All my siblings were eating #and it was bad! it was bad they shouldn't have been doing that. but now i don't think my parents trust us to be responsible with snack food #so our snack foods are. protein bar. fruit snacks (i had to request these specifically). popcorn #that's. that's fine. that's fine maybe i should be focused on fruit instead! fruit is good sugar!#well we don't store fruit i like the way i like it (don't put it in the fridge) so i never eat any of it anymore #but everybody else seems fine with it so really i'm not going to win this argument cause everybody else actually eats it more when it's out #(i don't think this is true. but i think it's true for My Dad and My Mom specifically.)#and i just. it really got me thinking about how much i don't have foods that i like in the house or meals that i love because Somebody Else #likes it done differently and not the way i like it #and that takes priority #to the point where i don't know what the fuck kind of foods i like because we just don't. have. any #i prefer white rice. mom prefers brown so we get brown. i prefer crunchier potatoes. mom prefers them soft so we make them soft #i like my fruits cold. my parents prefer to be able to See the fruits so they stay on the counter. i only eat chicken breast not any other #part of the chicken. my parents prefer thigh meat so we get thigh meat (which i don't eat)#oh huh. this post was a lot longer but tumblr deleted half the tags. yeah that's fair

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naomiknight-17 · 6 months

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Too worn out to make a proper snack so just subsisting on a variety of granola bars

#don't worry too much #jon made a nice healthu salad with chorizo and chickpeas and spinach for dinner so i'm not gonna die of malnutrition #i just have the midnight munchies and can'r be bothered to like. open a yogurt or slice an apple or something #mod post #food

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mutantenfisch · 2 years

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I made Schnitzel out of celery roots and while they are ugly af because I ruined the breading by flipping them too roughly, they are delicious and definitely go on my list of new favourites.

#mutantenfisch cooks #i don't like stalk celery but root celery is yummy #and considering i got 15 slices out of a ca 1 kg root #this is so much cheaper than buying any kind of meat #i mean i love chicken/other poultry but 1 kg of celery is ca 1.50-2.00€#some rice or potatoes as side dish and a quick salad from lettuce and bell peppers and boom! tasty filling and cheap

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drawbudd · 1 year

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transfemme hunter truthers i am so sorry i ever doubted you i see it now

#the owl house #toh hunter #like don't get me wrong transmasc hunter will always hold a special spot in my heart because it resonates with me #but whereas before i did enjoy seeing it but it just not being my cup of tea for stuff i'd make #now i'm starting to grow a fondness of it #maybe transfemme hunter and transmasc hunter can coexist peacefully. in my mind #luckily i post just as much transmasc as transfemme hunter content #(this being 0)#(i just spin them around in my head all day like a salad spinner)

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