Bon Appetit tried to make ‘hand salad’ a thing and it seriously backfired

The internet is far from impressed

It’s literally just individual romaine lettuce leaves and a not-so-fancy sauce (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Food snobs are forever trying to come up with new words for gimmicky trends, but people decided to draw a line when a highly respected foodie mag tried to make ‘hand salad’ a thing.

Bon Appetit recently unveiled a guide to throwing a dinner party that included a recipe called “Hand Salad With Yogurt-Lemon Dressing.”

But, far from some complicated recipe entailing all manner of delicious vegetables, its simplicity derailed everyone on the Internet.

It’s literally just individual romaine lettuce leaves and a not-so-fancy sauce.

Despite the magazine’s plea for us to “not focus” on the name of the dish, people responded instantaneously to ruthlessly mock it.

Taking to Twitter in their droves, users ridiculed the ‘dining experience’ by inventing their own hand foods.

One person decided to share an image of them dipping a slice of bread into a jar of peanut butter, or as they like to call it, a hand sandwich.

While another enjoyed some hand salad on bread, aka a slice of pizza.

Despite the backlash, it turns out Bon Appetit aren’t the first ones to coin the term.

Back in 2011, streetwise lingo site Urban Dictionary described hand salad as “a late night salad created by taking a large leaf of lettuce, placing several different items inside such as bacon bits, cheese, tomatoes and salad dressing.

“Fold the lettuce over like a burrito, hold it in your hand with no plate or utensils and eat it.”