[NordP]

Thank you for being kind....I don't know WHAT she was thinking, really. It's in that book, "How to Be a Minnesotan" that our idea of a salad is a wedge of iceberg lettuce with French dressing. I guess she was just taking the Minnesota Salad idea a bit TOOOOOO far! ha ha

[snugs]

My mother's idea of salad when I was young was a plate full of lettuce, thinly sliced cucumber, tomatoes cut into wedges and salad cream drizzled over the top. If you were lucky she might put a few slices of hard boiled egg in with it.

Hence I did not like salad but have since learned that most people in Britain serve that with a slice of quiche or grated cheese or sliced cold meat.

Am I right in saying that to most Americans ham, cheese salad is actually the cheese and ham cut into cubes and mixed with dressing etc. Whereas if we said a meat or cheese salad it would be salad stuff such as lettuce, cumber, radishes, tomatoes etc etc served on a plate with slices of meat or cheese.