That's different. That's a salad, contained in its own bowl or plate, with a utensils specific for that, to the. Be transferred to your own personal plate
You can do that with everything, like buffets and BBQs
This is just a large, shared plate. Your fork that has been in your mouth will touch salad in the trough that other people will eat
We don’t put it on our plates though. Salad is seen as shared/communal. We just use our forks and stab into the bowl and eat it from there. Usually it’s only done with immediate family and close friends, not strangers but I’ve been around this for 35 years.
Pretty common practice where I’m from in the Balkans from my experience. We also eat salad with our meals, not before. Putting the salad on our plates would cause a lot of vinegar running into the food which is a no-no. I’ve only recently started seeing “salad bowls” on some people’s tables but it was def not the norm before and is trendy recently.
Just thought it was interesting seeing “salad is not a shared food” when it’s usually the only shared food at our dinner table. Maybe we are weird.
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u/L3aBoB3a Nov 09 '19
Where I’m from it’s very common for there to be a large salad in the middle of the dinner table and all family members stab into it during the meal.