Caesar salad con exposed

[TWINSET]

I done two things wrong today,

1) Bought salad for lunch - They moved the sarnies and I got all confused.

2) Bought 2 different types of Sainsbury's Caesar salad;

The Chicken Caesar Salad (200g);

Not very good at all, 15% chicken and 20% dressing - go figure that one out

I strongly recommend avoiding this salad at all cost - It has a green band across the sticker (to signify it contains plants?) and some wierd dark colour lettuce.

The 'lid' is a bit of cellophane.

Taste's a bit rough, not nice at all.

Chargrilled Chicken Caesar Salad;

A lot nicer, 180g, 22% chicken, 22% dressing

Only got normal lettuce in it, and cut into little bits, not whole leaves like the other one. Also has Italian hard cheese in it - obviously a good thing?

Cheated a bit on this one, drowned it all in Kraft Thousand Island Dressing, tasted really rather good for a bowl of weeds.

This one has a 'real' plastic lid on it too.

So anyway, avoid the one with the green sticker on it, it aint nice.

Normal service will be resummed as soon as I find the Pepperamis or the 20 pack of cocktail sausages

The numbers;

Bad Salad

£2.66/250g of which 15% is chicken - 37.5g chicken

Nice salad

£2.50/180g of which 22% is chicken - 39.6g chicken

So the cheaper chicken salad has more chicken!

[richytanimal]

Salad![:0] um, I had a bit of cucumber the other day(does that count)[][:I]

[theshopkeeper]

Don't mention Lunch - if I had the time, my plan for this spring was to form a "League against Mayo" site... something like holdthemayo.com - I mean why is it that all these shops sell seemingly hundreds of sandwiches with "creamy mayo". I don't want it EVERY day, in fact I don't want it AT ALL - worse culprits in this I think are Boots - they've got standard sandwiches, sandwiches with virtually nothing in them for slimmer but where's the fat b******d range? Even better, Greggs bakers told me that they could only make a limited number of sandwiches on their list - as any other combination (e.g. butter instead of a gallon of mayo) might breach "health and safety". (!) Worse sandwich in Greggs if anyone cares must be the ploughmans - one roll, half a litre of mayo, half a litre of brown pickle, a small piece of cheese and half a lettuce leaf... and just don't get me started on Subway...

[TWINSET]

And there's the layer of salad they always try to put in a Turkey, Ham and Prawn sarnie - I've fallen out with people about that before.

On the whole, I'm not 'a lover of the leaf' I prefer meals to have had legs at some point (preferably four) but Caesar salad doesn't have all the other manky tat like cucumber, celery (rabid dog of the salad family) and shredded carrot in it.

[fatboyslim]

A REAL Ceaser salad should be made with ROMAINE lettuce which is dark green and slightly bitter tasting, a creamy cheese dressing made with parmesan cheese and topped with crunchy croutons, the rest of the ingredients are pretty much down to the person making it!!

I'm with Andy on this I have canine and incisor teeth so I was designed to eat meat!!

[Shodog]

Shopkeeper, I am with you. I hate Mayonaise with a passion. Nothing ****es me off more than when I am in a meeting and they bring in sandwiches with mayo on all of them. It's not like I can go out of the office and get something else as I am stuck in the meeting. then when other ask why I am not eating, they think my distaste for Mayo is some type of medical condition.

[jozza]

I love Mayo [] but only good quality stuff, and enough to flavour and texture the food, not so much that it's drowned. The quality of the premade salads does vary wildly, I tend to go for Tesco ones as that's what's closest to me; the Chicken and Bacon layered salad is okay, and for mayo haters, the mayo is lumped in one layer in a blob, so at least it's easy to scrape most of it off and chuck it in the bin, rather than having it all mixed into the salad.

I like meat, but like it to have some rabbit food in it to give it a fresh taste. But not soggy salad in burgers, that sucks.

[theshopkeeper]

Don't get me wrong - I like Mayonnaise (light yellow, actually seen an egg at some point, like you would have in a decent bistro in France for example with your starter, but would taste rather odd in a sarnie) but "creamy mayo" which has the colour and consistancy of white emulsion paint and a total lack of any flavour at all just serves to make all the bread wet!

Even worse, discovered yesterday that Marks & Sparks has a new range of sandwiches all entitled "NO MAYO" [] but on closer look it had "Creamy low fat yoghurt" instead... []

[TWINSET]

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Originally posted by theshopkeeper

Even worse, discovered yesterday that Marks & Sparks has a new range of sandwiches all entitled "NO MAYO" [] but on closer look it had "Creamy low fat yoghurt" instead... []

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I'm really getting worried about all this xxx instead of yyy cuisine they're trying to get me with.

What supermarkets should do, if they insist on trying to please everyone, is sell plain sarnies and give away sachets of whatever dressing the buyer wants.

Egg mayo is a great sarnie, until the idiots sneak watercress in and don't rename it

We even went to a pub a few weeks back for a Sunday roast, and that came with salad on the plate too - I'd rather have had more spuds [!]

[jozza]

quote:Originally posted by TWINSET

What supermarkets should do, if they insist on trying to please everyone, is sell plain sarnies and give away sachets of whatever dressing the buyer wants.

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id="quote">id="quote">Now that's a top idea, dry sarnies and then you could add whatever you wanted to suit your taste, it would cater for all, and would avoid the problems with soggy bread and prepack sandwiches.

That creamy low fat yoghurt muck is horrible, don't like it at all. And I wonder what goes in there to replace the fat to plump it up? Probably something artificial, or pure sugar or something equally as bad for you (how many "low fat" products have you seen which have loads of sugar in them, that's something I think is really bad)

[theshopkeeper]

quote:Originally posted by jozza

[brThat creamy low fat yoghurt muck is horrible, don't like it at all. And I wonder what goes in there to replace the fat to plump it up? Probably something artificial, or pure sugar or something equally as bad for you (how many "low fat" products have you seen which have loads of sugar in them, that's something I think is really bad)

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"Go Ahead" choccy bars are a great one for "low fat". 90% fat free is says on the wrapper for one of them, of course I'd only be tempted to buy it if they put "10% Pure Fat" and stored them by the pork pies...

I think they stick arrowroot in the "yoghurt" slime to stop it running out of the sandwich. Whatever it is they use, it ends up tasting like "bitter creamy mayo"!

[battleaxe]

the answer is......

make your own sarnies!!!

you get EXACTLY what you want and less than half the price.[]

ps: I am a meat freak too..and you can keep your soggy egg mayo and grotty yoghurts!

[jozza]

Hehe, good idea Battleaxe, but the only problem with that is that in the morning I don't really know what I'm going to fancy at lunchtime, and I'm in a rush so I would probably end up with something dull like cheese (1 slice) and ham (1 slice) and when I unwrap them at lunch I wouldn't really fancy them []. Perhaps for that genuine pre-packed taste I could get a tin of Dulux white and a bottle of vinegar, much cheaper than Hellmans []

I do sometimes make my own pasta salads for work, but very rarely. When I do, they are always much nicer than something that's been slapped together in a prepack factory the night before.

[MonkeyFooty11]

Having worked for a company that sold pre-packed sandwiches I can tell you why they nearly all have mayo. It stops the bread drying out and going hard and stale.

I guess the mayo will be here to stay then [V]

[jonny_bravo]

Worst place for "over mayo-ing" - The Kebab Shop ,.

Just try and stop the guy squirting when he's halfway through his 'Tom Cruise in Cocktail' routine with the squeezy bottle!,. as i found out last Saturday night [xx(]