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[–] Bonifratz@piefed.zip 64 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I'm intrigued by the border between salad and broth.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Salad-broth supercritical phase

[–] Zorcron@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago

Salad-broth-soup triple point

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If the "broth" in this case is ranch dressing, that's just a midwest salad

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Me too. There should be soup in between, right?! Not all soup needs noodles.

[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

Salad but >50% water = vegetable broth

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So if I just pour enough water on my salad it becomes a broth? Awesome!

[–] ghen@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

I guess we could make an assumption that water content includes anything as fluid as water. So a nice vinaigrette drowning a bunch of cucumber chunks would be a salad and not a soup.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

Nalley Fresh in the US puts broth on greens salad.

OK, what greens would you like? Summer mix please

What veggies? green peppers, onion

What protein? Bacon please.

What broth? huh?

What Broth? broth?

Yeah we have vegetable and chicken and.... O.o umm none please...

Are you sure? uhh ok let's try chicken?

It wasn't horrible, but I never went back, even knowing I could just say no.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Think tuna salad, or chicken, or potato.

Keep adding water. The consistency then divides between broth and soup.

Roll it in your hand. If you can form a ball with the leftover material you're likely in soup territory. If there's nothing left over or there's not enough consistency to form a ball it's a broth.

...If you can form a ribbon with the ball it's got some noodle content, I guess.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Lettuces are mostly water