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▲ oersted an hour ago

I really love this, it’s what I want to see in HN. But I can’t resist joining the pointless debate:

- A primarily cooked dish, particularly if it is cooked as a whole and/or it is served warm, is definitely not a salad.

- An “untossed salad” is definitely not a salad.

- English speaking people add the term “salad” to a bunch of concoctions that are definitely not salads.

▲HelloNurse 25 minutes ago | parent [-]

  >  An “untossed salad” is definitely not a salad.
I definitely agree, but grandfathering in this specific exception suggests a definition variant: a salad can be mixed and shuffled (possibly from an ordered initial state), and in this case it remains a salad; it isn't damaged, and on the contrary it usually improves (typically by increasing the entropy of solid component positions and distributing liquid condiments more uniformly).