Sensational salads - Right Stuff - at fast food places - Brief Article

Back in the 1970s, you couldn't get a salad at a fast food restaurant. (You still can't get one most Burger Kings.)

Today, most chains a "garden salad." That usually means iceberg lettuce, a little tomato, and a sliver or two of cucumber or carrot. Or you might find a chef salad (a garden salad plus meat and cheese), a chicken salad (chicken and lettuce), or a Caesar salad (lettuce, Parmesan, and croutons). They're not bad, but they're not what you'd call exciting.

Wendy's to the rescue. It's new Garden Sensation Salads taste terrific ... and most of the extras come on the side, so you can pick and choose what you want.

Take the Mandarin Chicken Salad. Wendy's combines the mixed greens (not just iceberg), chicken, and Mandarin orange segments (160 calories). Then you can take or leave the sliced Roasted Almonds (1 30. calories), the Crispy Rice Noodles (60 calories), and the delicious Oriental Sesame Dressing (280 calories per packet, so use only half).

The other three salads--Chicken BLT, Spring Mix, and Taco Supremo--need a little help, since they each come with cheese. If you go easy on the cheese and choose your extras carefully (salsa instead of sour cream and taco chips, for example), you could end up with a decent, interesting salad.

Wendy's: (614) 764-6800.

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