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Sensational salads. (Right Stuff).


Back in the 1970s, you couldn't get a salad at a fast food restaurant. (You still can't get one most Burger Kings.)

Today, most chains a "garden salad A garden salad is a salad consisting of lettuce and simple vegetables found in a small vegetable garden such as tomatoes, carrots, onions, and dressing. ." That usually means iceberg lettuce iceberg lettuce
n.
A crisp, round, compact head of lettuce with light green, tightly folded leaves.



[From its pale color.
, a little tomato, and a sliver or two of cucumber or carrot. Or you might find a chef salad Loosely based on the Cobb Salad (1937), a Chef salad (or Chef's salad) consists of hard- External links
  • Various recipes for this salad
 (a garden salad plus meat and cheese), a chicken salad (chicken and lettuce), or a Caesar salad caesar salad
n.
A tossed salad of greens, anchovies, croutons, and grated cheese with a dressing of olive oil, lemon juice, and a raw or coddled egg.
 (lettuce, Parmesan, and croutons). They're not bad, but they're not what you'd call exciting.

Wendy's to the rescue. It's new Garden Sensation Salads taste terrific ... and most of the extras come on the side, so you can pick and choose what you want.

Take the Mandarin Chicken Salad. Wendy's combines the mixed greens (not just iceberg), chicken, and Mandarin orange segments (160 calories). Then you can take or leave the sliced Roasted Almonds (1 30. calories), the Crispy Rice Noodles (60 calories), and the delicious Oriental Sesame Dressing (280 calories per packet, so use only half).

The other three salads--Chicken BLT 1. BLT - /B-L-T/, /bl*t/ or (rarely) /belt/ Synonym for blit. This is the original form of blit and the ancestor of bitblt. It refers to any large bit-field copy or move operation (one resource-intensive memory-shuffling operation done on pre-paged versions of ITS, WAITS and , Spring Mix, and Taco Supremo--need a little help, since they each come with cheese. If you go easy on the cheese and choose your extras carefully (salsa instead of sour cream and taco chips, for example), you could end up with a decent, interesting salad.

Wendy's: (614) 764-6800.

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Publication:Nutrition Action Healthletter
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Date:Apr 1, 2002
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