It's not as exotic as they make it out...just leafy greens, but a different texture than romaine. Iceberg doesn't really have nutriment in it. See...I know that. I never have fit in around here. Although I do tend to drown it in Thousand Island like Real Americans. And, yeah, I can say "Fuck Arizona," just like I can call my brother a freak. I know both of them very well. A stranger doing that? makes me want to beat their asses. And a boycott looked like a better idea when I was sheltered sixteen and didn't have to think about where money for things came from. I could just sort of go "Well, I guess they should have thought about *that*" But things are no longer that simple, and the economy is a cripple like me.

I don't really like arugula. It's too bitter for me. It's OK if it's mixed in with a bunch of other greens, but I don't like it on its own.

Come to think of it, I think I've only had it in a bag salad called "mixed greens" or what-have-you.

I had an arugula salad last night that wasn't too bitter, it had a creamy avocado dressing and I think it helped the bitterness.

I served an arugula salad at Thanksgiving. Called it Liberal Elitist salad. Made me laugh.

bonny, insent.

Arugula pesto is yum!

My father usually says that the only salad greens he likes are iceberg and romaine, but he'll eat arugula if it's served to him, so that he can honestly call himself an arugula-eating liberal elitist. (My family is weird about political foods. My sister started eating broccoli when Bush said that he'd always hated it and, now that he was president, he wasn't going to eat it anymore. I gave it another try then, but still couldn't stand it.)

iceberg gets a bad rap because normally people eat about 20 calories worth with 150 empty calories in the form of dressing. Iceberg actually has a pretty good fiber to calorie ratio. For that matter about 40% of the calories in iceberg is protein. And it has a decent vitamin A to calorie ratio as well.

If you want iceberg as part of a healthy meal, increase the quantity of iceberg, and make the "dressing" something healthy (not neccesarily low calorie, just non-empty calories). For example 8 oz of iceberg is not at all a bad basis for a taco salad, depending on other ingredients. But if it would be a healthy meal without the lettuce, it will be even healthier with 8 oz of shredded iceberg.

That's interesting...I didn't know.(And sometimes people serve it with one leaf in the grave, too.)