I’m all for a wacky food trend.
I love a good cronut, quite enjoy my dinner deconstructed and I have been known to literally queue for two hours to get my hands on the choc-chip-crammed cookies that are all over Instagram.
But I draw the line at ‘hand salad‘.
Let’s just say it’s stirred up a lot of emotions and exactly zero of them are good ones.
We also don’t need the name of a food to tell us how to eat it. I don’t see fork-pasta or hand-sandwich or wipe-your-mouth-after pork crackling on the menu at any other restaurants, do you?
At best, it’s deconstructed salad which – spoiler alert – SALAD IS ALREADY.
Listen: It’s no avocado toast, that’s for sure. Post continues after audio.
Second of all, lettuce and dip is nowhere near as enticing as chip and dip. Or even carrot sticks and dip. Literally, give me anything and dip (even just the dip by itself) and I will be more grateful than this hand salad business.
Fortunately, it seems I’m not alone in my anger.
Social media erupted with responses to the recipe.
I know salad isn’t typically the most exciting dish. Add some fetta, a fancy dressing, even some watermelon or pomegranate seeds. But please, keep your hands to yourself.