Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in July, 2022. It has since been updated.
The year was 2017.
I was but a younger writer for this website, and I decided one slow July sports day to rank the greatest salads of all time. Why? Because salads are great and who doesn’t like to rank stuff and debate about it?
But here’s the catch: In the past year or so, I shared these rankings with my fellow For The Win colleagues.
And, like a veggie that’s going in a hot salad, they roasted me. And it didn’t stop then. Whenever food takes came up in our work chat, inevitably some form of “Well at least they’re not the salad rankings” would be uttered.
So I’m here to redeem myself. And this time, we’re opening the rankings up to ALL salads, by name OR practice: