Meat does not belong in a salad!

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Meat does not belong in a salad.

Why do we need to include meat in everything? Is this only reserved for North Americans or does this phenomenon also exist in Europe and Asia?

Almost every restaurant here has chicken Caesar on their menu. Is the chicken really necessary? If it’s not chicken, it’s bacon. Even more appalling, while looking for pictures online I also saw a STEAK SALAD.

The way I look at it, is once you add steak to a salad, the dish’s name should be “Steak with vegetables on the side.”

If you ask me, meat salads are a way for people to make themselves believe that they’re eating healthy. Fast food restaurants are especially capitalizing on this, by including these kinds of salads in their menus. For instance McDonald’s has:

- California Cobb Salad (Grilled or Crispy Chicken)

- Caesar Salad (Grilled or Crispy Chicken)

- Bacon Ranch Salad (Grilled or Crispy Chicken)

Let’s be honest now, wouldn’t be much healthier if all of those salads just had vegetables? Well, let’s see…

I went to the McDonald’s website, and there I checked for the nutrition facts for the Bacon Ranch Salad with Grilled Chicken. The nutrition sheet has a breakdown of the contribution of calories, fat, etc for each ingredient in the salad.

Here are some numbers for you:

Total Calories Including meat = 260 cal

Total Calories without meat = 140 cal

So almost half of the calories come from the chicken!! Oh, and those numbers don’t include the 190 calories from the dressing.

And we complain about having an overweight population… We have succeeded in bringing something healthy, into something fattening and health destructive.

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