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[mitsui]

Here is another one. In a sandwich if you add a slice of tomato, lettuce and an onion slice they are a salad. WTF? To me they are just vegetables.

[santi84]

A salad is, by definition, just a mixture of vegetables. Fancie pants vinaigrette or crappy Kraft dressing not required. True, in North America (speaking for Canadians), we don't commonly use the term "salad" to describe the mixture of vegetables between bread. The term is not incorrect. In Canadian French, the term made it across the pond ("salade", when asking for vegetables in a "sous-marin"), but for some reason it didn't in Canadian English.

[mitsui]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/salad?s=t

Don't see that mentioned.

I don't teach French. I teach American English.

[santi84]

Merriam-Webster has it, as does any basic cookbook.

[wangdaning]

[buravirgil]

Common usage is often derived from simpler terms. A salad can be any vegetable suitable for eating raw...meanwhile

Women Laughing Alone with Salad (Tumbler)

[santi84]

[mitsui]

So at best that is a non-standard variety.
Even in London people would not say that.

[3701 W.119th]

Add lettuce and tomato (and usually a bit of salad cream / mayo) to any sandwich and it becomes a 'X salad sandwich'. Chicken salad sandwich, ham salad sandwich, etc. Add it to a bacon butty and it becomes a BLT.

I've never considered the bacon or sausage butty to be a 'sandwich', but more a distinct breakfast item.

What are we talking about again?

[mitsui]

I really have to wonder if its thanks to Subway that anyone would use
this expression.

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