Have you ever been to a salad bar and thought: “Gee whiz, I am so hungry for salad that I want to create a 16 inch salad tower, post it online for the world to see, eat a few bites, and then throw the rest away”? Patrons of several Chinese Pizza Huts apparently did, and the salad-stacking fad was born.
The trend began when Pizza Huts in China decided to offer fruit and salad bars as a way to promote healthy eating. The problem was that they only let you make one trip. Some ambitious Chinese Jenga-enthusiasts (I can only assume) took this as a challenge to create incredibly wasteful salad towers, using carrot sticks and stacked cucumbers as a base. The fad took on, Pizza Hut lost money, many fruits and vegetables lost their lives, and an online trend came into being. Chinese Pizza Huts have since removed the bars, but the evidence remains circling the Internet, just waiting for a resurgence.
The only real question is, why would a country as completely over-populated as China be wasting food? I don’t know that much about politics, but I am pretty sure India wouldn’t turn down a hand-out.
