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The Hollywood Reporter published an article this weekend called “Hollywood’s 5 Favorite Salads.” Hahhaha! That’s a good idea for an article! I think my favorite thing about the article is the headline and also what it is about and also everything. Hahha. Hollywood’s 5 Favorite Salads. Good. Stop the presses, Vikki Vale, because we’re going to the Pulitzer Prizes. Here is the opening paragraph:
Hollywood just wouldn’t survive and stay thin — here, those being practically the same thing — without its marquee dish: the salad. And it’s no surprise that a town as calorie-conscious as Los Angeles has come up with many of the most famous ones in the world: The Cobb and the Chopped were first shredded here; the Caesar popularized. Restaurants jockey to claim the originals as their own, and just as ideas for movies and TV shows are ripped off, other eateries whip up well-selling imitations for their menus.
Hahhaha. RIGHT! The article is called “Hollywood’s 5 Favorite Salads.” What were you expecting? Something other than a very straight-forward article about salads and salad herstory in Hollywood? Well it was weird that you were expecting that. As far as I am concerned, this article delivers on its promise the way an article should, and I’m pretty sure this is what Season 5 of The Wire was about. In any case, NO SPOILERS, but the chopped salad at La Scala IS one of the five and there are four more. Collect them all!
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“Hollywood just wouldn’t survive and stay thin — here, those being practically the same thing —”
Ya burnt, Melissa McCarthy!
The picture of this totally reminded me of you, Facetaco. And then oddly enough, you were the first to comment.
Nicoise better than Caesar?? Outrage!
Whoops – commenting with my Stereogum hat on again.
Oh PLEASE! Caesar is SO commercial. Granted, Nicoise has lost a bit of its freshness now that it has received some attention from major labels (I’m thinking Chicken of the Sea, Starkist, etc), but having been into Nicoise AND Caesar before either had anchovies, I can say unequivocally that Nicoise is better. Caesar should just give it up and go be the house salad for some Olive Garden or something.
The Bon Iver salad is so overrated.
Always remember to put on your finest commenting palazzo pants when entering VideoGum territory.
I hope that tomorrow Gabe has a post on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s article on Wisconsin’s five favorite sausages.
Spoiler: each one is just a variation on bratwurst.
Speaking of tossed salads, did you hear that New York passed gay marriage? Yay!
“Where the hell did I put my knife?”
-OJ
(fooled you)
True story: salads are terrible without salad dressing.
I only bring it up, because I dislike salad dressings. All of them. There is not one that I’ve found that I like. I think it’s my distaste for vinegar, which is what any and all dressing are, right?
have you ever tried making your own? It’s fun if you get one of those bottles with a twirly propeller inside!
I love the twirly propeller!
Except for the very high-fat, high-delicious ones like blue cheese.
Hollywood just wouldn’t survive and stay thin — here, those being practically the same thing — without its marquee dish: the salad air.
I fixed that first sentence for you, Hollywood Reporter.
Dang it!
the saladairBetter:
the saladaircocaine.Chopping the salad means less discomfort during post-meal purging. Stay thin, Hollywood!
My all time favorite:
I wonder if Hollywood has special access to McDonald’s Salad Shakers of the 90s.
I would give anything for one of those top five to have been ‘Shit salad.’
In between recording lazy, uninspired dialogue for Cars 2, watching Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me on TBS, and taking a Scrooge McDuck swim in his vault of gold, Owen Wilson likes to look down his Colorado-river shaped nose at the shit salad on the table before him and say, “I am going to eat you, shit salad, get in my belly.”
I’m gonna call 6/27/11 “Frasier Day” on Videogum. Between this tossed salad and this morning’s scrambled eggs, I’m half-expecting Maris to make a surprise appearance. (Maris will not be making a surprise appearance)
She’s here right now, she’s just standing behind that GIF so you can’t see her.
Whenever I’m in Hollywood I order the Fraiser.
Im just shocked Pikachu wasnt one of the 5…. i have no desire to collect them all anymore…
What about the Eriksen Seven Layer Salad? It’s not a salad without mayo and a gummy bear layer.
16 cups of mayo….and there was definitely a potato chip layer!
Wow. The first (ans so far, only) comment on that article is interesting and fascinating. Maybe even more so than the article.
Salads! What will the crazies in Weirdowood think of next???
“Weirdowood” temporarily on loan from the Scharpling & Wurster Archive.
“Who invented Cobb salad? That’s it, Hollywood. You just made THE LIST.”