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Bon Appétit is trying to make 'hand salad' a thing, but no one is falling for it

Please stop.

Christine Wang

on March 28, 2017

Our attempts at living a healthy lifestyle may have just hit a new low.

On Monday, food magazine Bon Appétit tweeted out a link to a recipe for something called "hand salad." While the name is distasteful and can bring to mind some other horrible, more literal scenarios, the tweet came with a photo that shows you exactly what hand salad is in this case.

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Guess now we've reached a point in our society where we feel we can dip individual rom aine leaves into dressing and call it a "dish."

"We call this a hand salad because lettuce and dip just doesn’t sound like nearly as much fun," the recipe begins.

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Unfortunately for Bon Appétit, Twitter quickly started pointing out that the entire idea of hand salad isn't fun. It's actually terrible.

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Some people took the idea of the hand salad, and put their own spin on the recipe.

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And the others took "hand salad" very literally.

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It seems pretty clear that hand salads are dead on arrival. This will never become a food trend, and for that we are grateful. Unless...

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Now that is an intriguing idea we could get behind.

Christine Wang

Christine is a Web Culture Intern at Mashable. She has previously written for FanSided and Saturday Down South. She has a B.A. from the University of California, San Diego and an M.S. from Hunter College. Before she started writing, she worked in education as a teacher and school leader for four years. Her special talents include being able to quote The Office on command, playing non-stop Overwatch for hours, and composing only the wittiest of Tweets (her own opinion).