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Why Don't People Get That Fruits And Vegetables Shouldn't Mix In Salads?

Get these fruits out of my goddamn salad.

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Hannah Loewentheil
Hannah Loewentheil
BuzzFeed Staff

Hi. Here is a picture of a salad.

Fresh, crunchy lettuce, ripe tomatoes, juicy onions, shredded carrot, and a creamy, savory dressing. This is a perfectly acceptable garden salad.
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Fresh, crunchy lettuce, ripe tomatoes, juicy onions, shredded carrot, and a creamy, savory dressing. This is a perfectly acceptable garden salad.

And here, a delicious-looking fruit salad.

Don't you feel magically refreshed just looking at this colorful bowl?
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Don't you feel magically refreshed just looking at this colorful bowl?

This, however, is NOT a salad.

Someone please tell me what these berries are doing on my bed of lettuce!?!
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Someone please tell me what these berries are doing on my bed of lettuce!?!

Allow me to explain: Fruits and salads DO NOT MIX, people. Vegetables are savory. Fruits are sweet. It is weird and unpleasant and sketchy to mix them in one bowl with salad dressing.

BTW: For the point of this exercise, tomatoes and avocados will be considered vegetables and not fruits, because we all know they are basically veggies, despite their official scientific classifications. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF
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BTW: For the point of this exercise, tomatoes and avocados will be considered vegetables and not fruits, because we all know they are basically veggies, despite their official scientific classifications.

For reference, I've gathered some salads that should not exist in the world.

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This one:

Hey kiwi, GTFO.
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Hey kiwi, GTFO.

And this one:

These blueberries are pretending to be olives. You will not fool me.
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These blueberries are pretending to be olives. You will not fool me.

Look away people:

I thought I trusted you, watermelon.

I thought I trusted you, watermelon.

This sheer ~horror~:

Oh god. Not you too, nectarines.

Oh god. Not you too, nectarines.

Avert your eyes:

WTF?
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WTF?

And finally:

This is a prank, right?
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This is a prank, right?

That is all.

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