If you can’t make your salad at the salad bar in 45 seconds or less, let somebody else have a try. If you are completely befuddled at the available options on the salad bar, you probably need professional help. Get back in your car and find a drive-thru before you starve.
What’s the deal with people who get zombied out at the salad bar?
OK, so you might be at a different salad bar than your home-field salad bar, but chances are good you’ve seen the same vegetables before. Act like it.
Frankly, most of the people I know create, or actually re-create, the same salad over and over again. At some point in your salad bar life, you realize what you want on your salad and you stick with it about 90% of the time. You might add a red onion this week as opposed to the regular onion you had last week, or maybe bleu cheese instead of ranch for lunch, but you’ve probably got lettuce on the bottom and your other favorites on top.
A few tips for you zombies out there:
- Scan multiple items at a time
- Get your lettuce first and your dressing last
- Never ever under any circumstances backtrack to retrieve an item, this ain’t the Marines. If you left something behind, you lose, move on, let someone else get a chance to hit.
- Salad bars are like golf, let faster players play through.
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I can sympathize with ya brother, but the fact of the matter is “I don’t eat at open salad bars anymore and I’ll tell ya why. One day while in Farm Fresh, a mother had her baby in the front seat of the shopping cart, which by the way was just the perfect height for baby to reach into the salad bar, touch and taste the item and then return it to the salad bar. The mother was oblivious to this because she was too busy loading up her own plate. I have also observed adults touching salad bar items and then putting them back.
puddles on May 3rd, 2007 at 12:41 pm | Link