Chopped Garden Salad
$11 play money
Everything chopped small so each forkful gets a bit of all of it. On the ChowChow Feast menu it costs $11 in play money, which puts it in the Snack tier ($1 to $14). It is one of the small, cheap things that make an order feel real.
No payment, no address, no delivery. This is a game.
Key facts
- Cuisine
- American
- Menu section
- American
- Price tier
- Snack ($1 to $14)
- Play-money price
- $11
- Main ingredients
- lettuce, tomato, cucumber, egg, dressing
- How it is served
- A bowl of finely chopped colourful salad arranged in rows
History, tradition and origin
Vegetable cooking has moved to the centre of the plate in many restaurants. Stewed summer vegetables are a Provencal tradition, and grilled vegetables in olive oil are found all around the Mediterranean. Chopped salads and creamy herb dressings are Californian inventions of the twentieth century, and avocado on toast spread from Australian cafes.
Food economy and industry
California and Spain supply much of the fresh salad eaten in North America and Europe, and Mexico grows most of the avocados traded worldwide. Fresh vegetables need fast, chilled transport and are picked largely by hand, so labour is the main cost. Greenhouse and vertical farming are growing, especially for leafy greens.
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