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[Clodfobble]

It's just a particular salad green. Maybe you call it colewort or roquette? I've never heard those names, but they sound Britishy.

[Sundae]

Rocket I think.
Or coriander.
I get confused. Which could cause a problem were I ever ordering salad in the States. Omg! something else to worry about!

[xoxoxoBruce]

Something food eats.

[DanaC]

Yeah, it's rocket.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by Sundae

I get confused. Which could cause a problem were I ever ordering salad in the States. Omg! something else to worry about!

Oh no, because you see ordering a salad is such a rare occurrence for anyone here, it would just come with whatever one green the restaurant kept on hand in the kitchen for the two salads on their menu, which are really both the same except one comes with egg and bacon and the other comes with cheese and croutons. You'd be lucky if it weren't iceberg, and the waitstaff wouldn't know the specifics if you asked.

[Undertoad]

Where here is Texas

[Clodfobble]

True enough.

[Sundae]

How about Wyoming & Colorado?

Nah - here, I have to ask what a salad constitutes too, so I'm not being all Billy big bollocks.
Most small places make salad the same way Mum & Dad did in the 70s - limp lettuce, big chunks of tomato and cucumber and a dollop of Heinz salad cream. Sophistication is a sprinkling of cress.

This is why Mum STILL thinks I don't like salad (it came up over Christmas 2014) because I love 85% of ingredients I consider to be salad ingredients but dislike all of the above (I'll eat limp lettuce and dice tomato if it's free, but you'd have to pay me to eat cucumber or celery).

Ditto vegetables... because I don't like cauliflower or Brussels Sprouts.
Meh. Mums & daughters, eh?

But when I get squired to the North Western States I promise to eat meat til I sweat blood.
Well, maybe not quite that much. But not to moan anyway.
And when Clod osts me in Texas I'll eat avocado on burgers without even a bun in sight.

I can adapt.

[Clodfobble]

Ha! We're having avocados on burgers tonight! Except there will be buns, coconut-flour style.

[footfootfoot]

Arugala is a party in your mouth. Yummy and spicy.

[BigV]

Pooch with paparazzi: Catching up with Seattle's bus-riding dog

SEATTLE -- A solo Seattle dog is winning the hearts of millions worldwide.
Since making her television debut this week, Eclipse, a bus-riding black Labrador retriever mix, has made headlines across the globe. News outlets from London to Japan picked up the story of the Seattle pooch who has learned to navigate the city transit system to get to the dog park.

Jeff Young, Eclipse's owner, said random people are stopping him on the street to ask him about his dog's unusual talent.

"The FedEx guy - he wasn't stopping us for a package. He was stopping to inquire about Eclipse," Young said. "I get messages from friends that say, "is that Eclipse (on the news)? Is that your Eclipse?' This is just what she's been doing for the last year-plus."

Young said he's been interviewed by national and international outlets since the story first broke about his dog, who gets on the bus near their house by herself and knows when to get off at the dog park, a handful of stops later.

And from USA Today

SEATTLE (AP) — A black Labrador named Eclipse just wants to get to the dog park.

So if her owner takes too long finishing his cigarette, and their bus arrives, she climbs aboard solo and rides to her stop — to the delight of fellow Seattle bus passengers.

KOMO-TV reports that local radio host Miles Montgomery was amazed to see the pooch get off the bus, without an owner, at a dog park last week.

The dog and her owner, Jeff Young, live right near a bus stop.

In Young's words, "She's a bus-riding, sidewalk-walking dog." Young says his dog sometimes gets on the bus without him, and he catches up with her at the dog park three or four stops away.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Wo-Multi-Pass-of.

[DanaC]

Cute but:

News outlets from London to Japan picked up the story of the Seattle pooch who has learned to navigate the city transit system to get to the dog park.

It's one stop, and always the same one stop. Somewhere out there an assistance dog is saying 'ffs.

[monster]

I miss mustard and cress grown on wet paper towel. Sneak me a couple of packets when you come over here, Sundae. no, don't you'll probably get arrested. dangerous things, those seeds....

Salad here come with way tooo many choices. like coffee and sandwiches. I be afraid.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Mustard and cress.