Maybe salad is like beer?

If you know me at all, you know that I am of the belief that 'you can't make friends with salad' and also: I don't eat salad, my food eats salad.

Salad, after all, is made with lettuce. Lettuce tastes an awful lot like grass. And I was taught at a very young age that you shouldn't eat grass, its bad for you. So why would I want to eat lettuce?!

Now, I realize that there must be some sort of health benefit to eating the stuff; that its not actually like grass, that it is actually good for you. And I've tried really, really hard to be open minded about it. I even let it remain on chicken burgers or subs instead of picking it off like I used to.

But to actually eat a salad.... that's a stretch.

I have a theory. In general, people, upon their first taste, do not immediately like beer. Its an 'acquired' taste. Now why on God's green earth would anyone willingly drink something they don't like in order to someday acquire a taste for it is a little beyond me. But I did it and will admit to liking a nice cold beer on a hot summer day. So my theory is: what if you need to acquire a taste for salad and I just haven't done so yet?

Going out on a limb, I actually purchased a bag of salad (that's right, the bagged stuff - you didn't actually think I'd make a salad did you?) to test out my theory.

Filling a bowl of the dreaded stuff to eat with my dinner, I topped it off with some fresh tomato and grated cheese, then doused the stuff in enough salad dressing to mask the taste of the lettuce. I managed to eat ....most of it. Ok, well, more than half of it anyway.

How long is it gonna take to acquire the taste of something I really don't like anyway? I still say it tastes like grass. And you know who eats grass don't you? My food. Moo.