Jane Elliot

We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.

American Actress

I don't eat meat - chicken, fish, none of that. I eat a lot of vegetable sandwiches, like lettuce, tomatoes, sprouts, cucumbers, whatever I can put on bread with mayo and eat, y'know.

American Musician

Joey Chestnut

There are times when I'm not eating buns if I'm on a low carb diet. I'll have hot dogs and romaine lettuce, but if I'm at a baseball game, I'm always eating a hot dog.

American Celebrity

Chance The Rapper

I hate eating vegetables. The only vegetables I eat are lettuce on a burger.

Cesar Chavez

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

American Activist

Beatrix Potter

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

English Author

Dashiell Hammett

Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.

American Author

Rebecca Romijn

It's pronounced 'Romaine', like the lettuce.

Ray J

Peter Sunde

Swedish Businessman

Lettuce is often a base for salads, not the topping.

Salad Base

Lettuce in food adds a crisp, fresh taste, which can be a refreshing element.

Freshness Cue

Lettuce comes in varieties like iceberg and romaine, with differences in texture and taste.

Not Just Green

As slang for money, 'lettuce' is casual and might confuse non-native speakers.

Slang Context

Using 'lettuce' to mean money is informal and best for casual, spoken conversation.

Informal Speech

This meaning of 'lettuce' is primarily North American, unknown in many English-speaking areas.

Cultural Nuance

 We think it's very important. We think it probably accounts for a lot of the north-south health divide within Britain, It's of relevance to us. We think that the skin -- well, we know that the skin has got very large stores of nitric oxide as these various other forms. We suspect a lot of these come from diet, green leafy vegetables, beetroot, lettuce

Richard Weller: Could...

 Is this just a pick your own lettuce patch for dorks? This was the first time that many people in the Media Lab had ever ripped the roots off of anything. You know, it's just a reality. We get our salad in bags, and that's there's nothing wrong with that, we live in the city but you know, this created a spark of inspiration that said

Revolutionizing the Way...

 You all got crisper drawers? The drawer that you put your lettuces in? Lettuces have a habit of going soggy in the crisper drawers, don't they? Yeah? Soggy lettuces? In the U.K., this is such a problem that there was a government report a few years ago that actually said the second biggest offender

Leyla Acaroglu: Paper...

 And I think it's a more useful concept than sustainability, as I said. When our supermarkets have only two or three days' worth of food in them at any one time, often sustainability tends to focus on the energy efficiency of the freezers and on the packaging that the lettuces are wrapped up in.

Rob Hopkins: Transition...

 and I would staple them together, and I would fill those blank pages with words and pictures just because I loved using my imagination. And so these characters would become my friends. There was an egg, a tomato, a head of lettuce and a pumpkin, and they all lived in this refrigerator city,

Jarrett J. Krosoczka:...

 they had such a symbolic view of mathematics, they couldn't actually see what was going on on the lettuce in front of them. It turns out that the natural world is full of hyperbolic wonders. And so, too, we've discovered that there is an infinite taxonomy of crochet hyperbolic creatures.

Margaret Wertheim: The...

 and also a few of the gems that at least so far, have not only survived that process, but have been accelerated by it. Last year we killed a project in automated vertical farming. This is some of the lettuce that we grew. One in nine people in the world suffers from undernourishment.

The unexpected benefit...

 to find out how much longer this river can sustain us every time i come to hoover dam i'm struck by how important this place is in the growth of the western united states it's the water supply for 40 million people 5 million acres of farmland the lettuce you eat all winter the

The Water Crisis PIPE...

 I said the world is no longer yours we became the Generation Y before you could arks it so now it's ours so whether it's cupcake machines kennel computers or driverless cars we don't believe in war or lettuce on World of Warcraft we don't have time to care about your race or

An ode to the millennial...

 That little glucose molecule then helps to build bigger and better carbohydrates like cellulose. Cellulose is a type of carbohydrate found in plants that our body cannot break down. We call it fiber and we eat it in vegetables like lettuce, broccoli, and celery.