Salad Quotes

You have to love a nation that celebrates its Independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. - Erma Bombeck

You get a total of five hours. This means you get the chance to prepare your dish three times. Your best effort goes to the judges. In my case, I'm still puzzling over how we'll handle the fact that I wanted the chicken served hot over the cold greens. Do I get to tell the judges to throw the chicken back into the microwave if the salad sits around long enough for the chicken to cool? - Holly Young

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch. - George M. Humphrey

Yesterday, I hit the salad bar, tried our batch of chili and the cream of chicken soup. - Michael Turner

With the Chelsea salad we challenged Tana Ramsay to create a terrifically tasty all-season salad that - like the salad greats - is a simple combination of ingredients which produces a really memorable meal that customers will be tempted to re-order time and again. - Robert Allen

Why are children obese? Maybe it's because cheeseburgers are $.99 and salads are $4.99... - Unknown

Whoever eats anything at a wedding luncheon? They make the food out of papier mache. My salad had been used four or five times this week. - Peter Ruric

When we first pitched our idea to consultants, they thought it was out there, that there was no way people going to lunch in groups would all agree to have a salad. But we have offerings for die-hard vegetarians and meat-eaters alike. - Casie Caldwell

When Tim makes that first call, there is no subject. There is no project. There is nothing. It's just that I'm going to be having a salad with Tim in a week -- and it's always been that way. - Johnny Depp