Originally Posted by BillyD

No, it's not the knife. Let's break it down. All those ingredients to be chopped . . . celery has to be washed first, carrots have to be washed first, onions have to be peeled first, the same with garlic . . . and that assumes all those are in supply in the household and fresh.

Even to make a fresh garden salad, you have to wash the lettuce even if store-bought and "pre-washed", peel & slice the cucumber, wash & slice the tomato, wash & slice the bell pepper, peel and slice the onion. Avocado is the least labor intensive of all salad fixings. Yaaay! And how many times have you sat down only to find you forget to grab the salad dressing?

There's times I wish we didn't have to eat at all.