I am sure, it was not that long ago that MacDonald’s used to sell salads. One strange aspect of it, they did not serve it with thousand island dressing. I say it is odd, because, to the best of my knowledge they put it on the Big Mac.

If you should find yourself in one of their stores, I think you will note, the salads are gone. They are no longer on the menu. I wonder who it was that made that decision. Well, truth be told, they weren’t all that good anyway. So, maybe not so many ordered them, especially without the thousand island.

There used to be a place just down the road that had a salad bar, a good one. The name of the place was Danver’s. They also had the best roast beef around. It’s no longer there. I don’t like that. I went there quite a bit. I do miss their salad bar, but I really miss their roast beef.

I can’t remember if Burger King had salads, but they don’t have them now.

Wendy’s still has salads. They have one I particularly like called a taco salad. They throw a bunch of lettuce and tomatoes in a bowl and give you taco chips and a bowl of chili to toss on top of it. For me, it is something of a meal in a bowl. It does taste far better than it sounds.

The hitch is, they don’t like me going into Wendy’s. It seems here, lately, every time I try to go in, the doors are locked. Well, they let me go through their drive through, but as you know, I don’t do drive throughs. Besides, I just can’t imagine me trying to eat one one of those salads in my car. For that matter, I can’t imagine eating one of their burgers in my car. After all, my car is just a little over a year old and the interior is still in good shape. Effectively, those salads are not available to me.

There was a day, before the virus that their dining rooms were full, even before that, they had a salad bar. Sometimes we went there after church and I would get a salad with my burger.

One day, I was fixing my salad and there were three elderly women who had opened the wrapping from the burger and they were all fixing themselves a salad on the wrapper. From the way they dressed, it was easy to tell they had just been to church.

Now, I ask you is that right. Not only were they stealing the salad, but they are putting a bad example before God. It’s what is known in the church as being a bad witness.

I mean, it appeared that when these old women arrived, maybe they need to watch them, or better, close the salad bar until they leave.

It is sort of the way things work in the capitalist system. It relies on people being honest. When people rob the businesses the businesses will go out of business. The more they steal, the faster the business goes under.

On the other hand, that goes the other way too, now doesn’t it. When a business gets a bad reputation, doesn’t that hurt their bottom line too.