This attempt to load a bunch of protein on it and make it an adequate office drone's lunch ruins the basic simplicity and appeal of the salad. Hey, if I want chicken, I'll order it--I don't need a clammy, bland chicken breast need to be thrown on everything I eat.Other cases of overloading classics include:
- Chocolate chocolate-chip cookies--where's the treat of biting into the chip if the whole damn cookie is chocolate?
- Chocolate cheesecake--Isn't part of the appeal of the cheesecake the somewhat sour taste of the cream cheese? (Again) Why drown it in chocolate?
- I also feel this way putting a big blob of whipped cream on pecan and pumpkin pies, though I'm probably in the minority there.
I really hate the whole "death by chocolate" concept too.
ReplyDeleteSimilar to the mistake of thinking more chocolate is always better...I hate pizza places that think that overloading the pizza with cheese is always better. Like that one place (Domino's?) that was even putting cheese INSIDE THE CRUST. It's all about the proportion of cheese, not about consuming an ungodly amount of cheese in one sitting!
A huge amount of bland, generic, low-quality mozzarella--how much of that does one person need to eat?
ReplyDeletePutting milk on Kellogg's Raisin Bran or other dry cereal. A good way to ruin a crunchy (or at least not goopy) thing.
ReplyDeleteBeebo: Agree about "death by chocolate"... gross! Not to mention poisonous to cats. :[
Guy: You are totally off-base about the whipped cream on the pie. Why have pie? So you can put whipped cream on it.