[Sca-cooks] Ceasar Salads, was Valentine's Day dinner.

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach <kingstaste at mindspring.com>:
>Has anyone else noticed this trend?  I remember very well lots of folks not
>liking Ceasar, it being the less-often chosen item on the menu.  Now, it
>seems to be relegated to the iceberg and creamy-ranch imitations, and from
>there bastardized further to mean "it contains lettuce, maybe even romaine
>if you're lucky".
>Christianna
>shaking my head and feeling like a snob...

Caesar is "in" at the moment. Actually, as with most food trends that 
make into the fast-food lexicon, it was in seven or eight years ago. 
(Can't wait till Wendy's serves something with a clear tomato 
reduction, maybe a lemon-grass-infused oil, can ya?)

But I think the fast-food usage seems generally to include both 
shredded lettuce (even Romaine, sometimes) and some species of bland, 
innocuous creamy dressing.

Now, I _like_ the creamy pseudo-Caesar dressing (sometimes I even had 
to add cream to it, under protest). The stuff I made was pretty 
universally recognized as killer stuff, and far from innocuous, in 
spite of having only one ingredient not in the classic dish.

But that, compared to a cool, crisp Romaine hearts tossed with a 
dressing tossed in the mixing bowl, still slightly warm from coddling 
the egg? No contest.

Adamantius