If you take all the fruits that people don't generally put in a fruit salad, and make a fruit salad out of them, you get either salsa, guacamole, or some weird jumble of squash cubes
@Felthry or just a salad
@noiob feels a bit weird to call it a regular salad without lettuce or spinach or some kind of leafy green, but I suppose you could do a cucumber-based salad!
@noiob oh, true! i think we tend to think of potato salad as a different thing from regular salad
same goes for pasta salad. don't think we've heard of tomato salad? is that just tomato-based but with all the regular salad stuff on it?
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@Felthry afaik tomato salad is usually tomatoes with vinegar-based sauce or sth, but you can add a lot of things
there's also Caprese salad (tomatoes, mozarella, balsamico, olive oil)
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@noiob Yeah, I guess either of those would count as fruit-based salads that aren't fruit salad!
Caprese salad has me thinking about a mediterranean version of salsa, with tomatoes and then olives and garlic and stuff instead of onion and chilis
@Felthry tomatoes and mixed bell peppers are basically a salad already