What do you regard as a salad?

Side salad … lettuce, cucumber, tomato and perhaps some other leaves or watercress.

Lettuce (leaves), tomato, cucumber, finely cut peppers, beetroot. Nowadays I add seeds as a topping.

Side salads vary tremendously and it seems to bare little relationship to the cost of the meal

Slimming World consultant said that a salad should have at least 10 ingredients! Often a case of ‘what’s in the fridge?’ for me however.

We went to a restaurant a couple of days ago and were served an iceberg lettuce cut neatly down the middle with some blue cheese grated over the top and a creamy mayonnaise. It was delicious but very strange. Italian style, that came out on its own before the main course. Supposed to be a ‘salad’.

It depends if it's billed as an actual salad or if it's basically decoration.
Side-salads are usually paid for separately in my experience.

If it says "with salad" I expect almost nothing.
If it's with a salad I might expect more. I admit I usually ask these days.
At home my salads can be anything at all...

I have salad pretty much every day and even as a "side" mine are substantial!

I do like a salad and have lettuce tomato cucumber coleslaw, relish anything I fancy..