Bookshire 
Of course, the real problem isn't whether or not a hot dog is a sandwich. It's what *isn't* a salad.
Nov 9, 2024 at 10:42pmWeb
Show threadPapa Musk Nov 10, 2024

@MrBookshire see now i want to make the etymological argument that a salad must equal anything with a sauce

no matter how many leaf plates that excludes from the definition

Show threadBookshire Nov 10, 2024
@muskwalker The rough definition from my culinary training days was something along the lines of 'bite sized or smaller pieces with a dressing' and a dressing can be anything from a liquid to a semisolid.
Honestly I think the more helpful definition is that a salad must have a higher-than-usual acidic content balanced against whatever starches and proteins are in it. Many salads fail at this, which is the usual source of my disappointment.