Originally Posted by
moondog
Personally, I detest the stuff, especially arugula. I used to like side salads when they consisted of normal lettuce, a tomato, and maybe some onion. Apart from Caesar salads and iceberg wedges, spring mix now seems to dominate all salads and produce aisles.
I'm guessing my opinion is in the minority. To those of you who like it, are you old enough to have experienced salads during the 80s and 90s?
I'm old enough to have experienced salads even before that, doused in Wish Bone dressings, and when Ranch was not a.flavo(u)r, but merely a packet of seasoning made by the Hidden Valley Ranch, where you added the appropriate liquids and shook in a carafe.
So, spring mix is fine so long as it is not more than a small percentage of icky spinach. In fact, yesterday's salad lunch had a 100 percent arugula base for the greens.
So, to directly answer the topic,.spring mix is fine enough.