Ponte Fresco is a make-your-own-salad sort of place in my building, where you pick a green base (romaine, spring mix, spinach) and they mix in your choice of additional ingredients (vegetables, legumes, meats) and chop it all up for you. Here is what the woman behind me ordered today:
[she has a container of spinach selected]
Staffperson: What would you like on it?
Woman: Bacon, and two scoops of cheddar cheese.
Staffperson: And?
Woman: That's it.
Why even get a salad if that's what you're going to do to it?
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