<ranck@vt.edu> wrote in message news:f985rp$lg3$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu...
> Phred <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Another difference: We [sorry to confuse you Dee Dee, this is NOT a
>> Royal plural, it's just referring to myself and several mates] went a
>> bit hungry when in the USA 30 years ago until we realised that until
>> you ate your bloody salad the buggers wouldn't serve your main course!
>> Here in Oz [at least in the parts I inhabit, Dee Dee] we [that's all
>> of us in those parts] would either have the salad on the plate with
>> the rump steak or whatever, or served simultaneously as a side dish.
>
> I rather like the French way of serving the salad after the
> main course. I don't know why American restaurants have ordained
> the salad must be first. Well, probably because it gives them
> something to serve that can be made quickly while the steak or
> whatever is cooking.
>
> Bill Ranck
> Blacksburg, Va.

Many eons ago I use to eat in a French family-style restaurant in San
Francisco, where they always served a wonderful salad at the end of the
meal. It was always refreshing there, but I don't think I could ever get
into a habit of doing it here at home. Possibly if I served/cooked more
French-style food, but I rather doubt it.

It was a fun place to eat - Des Alpes, San Francisco.
Dee Dee