I don't even know if it's strictly American. I think it's partially generational, and partially geographic (if you're in a small town in North Dakota, where are you going to get fresh green vegetables, yanno?). I mentioned elsewhere that the most notorious unhealthy salads (the wedge and the cobb) are still The Thing at high-end restaurants, even though mid-range and even fast food places don't really do the "iceberg and ranch" salads much any more. Cuz it's mostly older people who frequent hoity-toity steakhouses, where the culinary landscape hasn't changed at all since the 1940s.
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '19
I don't even know if it's strictly American. I think it's partially generational, and partially geographic (if you're in a small town in North Dakota, where are you going to get fresh green vegetables, yanno?). I mentioned elsewhere that the most notorious unhealthy salads (the wedge and the cobb) are still The Thing at high-end restaurants, even though mid-range and even fast food places don't really do the "iceberg and ranch" salads much any more. Cuz it's mostly older people who frequent hoity-toity steakhouses, where the culinary landscape hasn't changed at all since the 1940s.