why is there a fruit salad and no vegetable salad?

Answer 1

aren't most salads vegetable salads????????/

Answer 2

Hi:I have a vegetable salad everyday. Some call it a garden salad but it is the same,just a different name.Although fruit salads have a longer shelf life,vegetables are more sensitive to light,temperature and storage and in a salad form will wilt and brown in color so must be eaten shortly after it is made.Hope this clarifies this for you. It is a great appetizer, summer or winter. Nan

Answer 3

A salad is generally considered of being of the vegetable variety. However after people began using fruits to make a "salad", there had to something to distinguish between the two. Fruit salads are usually eaten as a light dessert or a snack. Garden salads are mostly eaten as entrees now.

Answer 4

There is - it is called 'Vegetable Salad' and it comes in a tin and is manufactured by that well known producer of foods Heinz (see link). I think the reason people say fruit salad is to differentiate between the two as most people when ordering a salad would expect a vegetable variety the fruit kind would not be very good with spag bol or chips

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Heinz+vegetable+salad&gbv=2

Answer 5

Of course there are vegetable salads. Salads are primarily made with veggies in combination with other things like croutons, olives, cheese, etc. Just about any imaginative combination of ingredients comprise a salad, and that includes, meats, fish and pasta, as well as fruits and vegetables.

Answer 6

Three Bean Salad is a vegetable salad. It's just not called "vegetable salad."

Answer 7

A veggie salad is just called a salad, but we couldn't call anything else that because it would get confused so we had to add fruit salad so obviously "salad" was created first

Answer 8

Salad IS vegetable - fruit salad tells you its the fruit version.

Answer 9

Well, it depends on the person. I'm a vegetarian and a carnavor at times, but I would prefer the vegetable salad ANY day. I say so because I like vegetables :]

Answer 10

Ummmm. Other than fruit, macaroni and jello salad, aren't most salads made with vegetables?

Answer 11

There is, Russian Salad is made of vegetables