Arin writes: I recently saw my husband open a box of salad greens, grab a handful and stuff them in his mouth. He doesn’t like salads, and he says that this is the best way for him to reap the benefits of eating greens. I think this is unhinged. Should he be allowed to continue to eat lettuce by the handful?
I’ve been on tour with the Judge John Hodgman live show lately, so my diet has been very roughage-low and jerky-high. If gas stations sold packs of washed spinach, you can be sure I’d be shoving those leaves hard into my iron-deficient face. True, your home is not a truck stop. But as long as he’s pawing at his own box, I see no wrong in normalizing dark leafy greens as a hand snack. But lettuce? No. There isn’t enough nutritional density there to justify this antisocial green-groping. I ask: Would he sit on the couch eating a head of iceberg as if it’s a giant Granny Smith apple? Actually, I’m afraid I can guess the answer.
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