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May Is National Salad Month, Here’s How We Like Ours

Author Bob Bronson
I seriously could eat this every single day of my life and be happy! Tried out the 110 Grill in the South Bay Center and had this salad twice this week. Shout out to our server Quan and Chef Steve for serving me happiness on a plate. Lots of delicious fresh veggies, fruit, nuts, and a mustard vinaigrette so good you'll want to lick the plate. They're going to get sick of seeing me there.

If you’re thinking about reining in your diet before summer, this could be the nudge you need:  May is National Salad Month.   To celebrate the occasion my wife and I enjoyed a delicious fresh garden salad with mixed greens, peppers, hot house tomatoes and red onions. We topped it off with blackened chicken thighs that we cooked in the air-fryer.

Salads have come a long way

When people used to think of having a salad it usually was as an appetizer before the main course. It was probably a basic salad with some sort of salad dressing the restaurant offered. Now salads are the main course and come in hundreds of different kinds of variety.
Also, when you walk through the grocery store and peruse the produce section you can choose from dozens of different greens and lettuce types. That’s not to mention the huge variety of other vegetables that you can have in your salad. When it comes to the aforementioned salad dressings, you can spend all day choosing what you want to top it with.

There are tons of restaurants that feature salads of all types. There’s Cava, Sweet Grrens, Sweet Tomato and even Mexican style salads from Chipotle and Qdoba.
You can order a wedge salad at any decent restaurant and add whatever proteins you prefer.

Let’s dig into some interesting salad polls

A new poll asked people for the STRANGEST things they like to put in their salads, and people get REAL creative.  The answers include:  Banana, peanut butter, peppermint, popcorn, marshmallows, meatballs, beef jerky, and hotdogs.

Overall, the #1 salad topping is:  Cheese, followed by tomatoes . . . bacon . . . croutons . . . and cucumbers.  (Remember:  Salads are not automatically healthy.  It depends on what you put in them.)

The most popular salad dressing is Ranch, followed by Italian and Caesar.

As for the actual GREENS, the most popular base is:  Romaine, followed by iceberg lettuce . . . spinach . . . spring mix . . . and crunchy green lettuce.

And if you’re just not feeling salads AT ALL, there’s this:  May is also National Hamburger Month. 

(OnePoll)

Bob is a native New Englander, growing up (sorta) in Maine where his love for radio started at a young age. While in high school he hosted radio shows on a local radio station, and he has never looked back. Bob joined the US Navy and served onboard the Sixth Fleet Flagship as a radio and TV host. After serving for 3 years, it was off to Emerson College in Boston. Bob hosted shows in Boston on WMEX, WVBF and WSSH in the 80’s and 90’s before heading to radio stations in Raleigh, NC, Manchester, NH, and New York City. Bob has been married for almost 25 years to Carolyn, a Woburn gal and they have 3 daughters, Nicole, Taylor, and Bridget. Bob and Carolyn are proud first-time grandparents to baby Caroline, who they plan to spoil every chance they get! “I started my career in New England and could not be happier to come back to Boston where I can root for all the Boston sports teams and eat lots of lobster rolls and clam chowder (okay not lots)… It is an honor to host the WROR morning show with LBF and wake up the World’s Greatest City!” Bob writes about recipes and restaurants, pop culture and trending topics.

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