--- title: Salad-Filled Bodega Sandwich Raises Controversy on Twitter description: A lettuce-heavy bodega sandwich has ignited controversy online, with many contending that the meal is both a salad and a sandwich. canonical: https://time.com/5749744/salad-sandwich/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-12-13T18:14:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:08.440Z og:title: Extreme Salad-Stuffed Sandwich Is Raising Some Eyebrows og:description: The ratio must be seen to be believed og:url: https://time.com/5749744/salad-sandwich/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Extreme Salad-Stuffed Sandwich Is Raising Some Eyebrows twitter:description: The ratio must be seen to be believed twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Entire Salad Appears in Man's Sandwich for Sneaky Unknown Reasons > Sponsored content. 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Depending on who you ask, [a hot dog is a sandwich](https://time.com/4868201/hot-dog-sandwich-corrections-newspaper/), a cup of yogurt is soup, and a bowl of pasta could be salad. For sandwich enthusiast and [_Desus & Mero_](https://time.com/5567654/desus-and-mero-late-night-show-interview/) producer Josh Gondelman, however, a sandwich was also a salad, thanks to the greens enthusiasm of his local bodega. Gondelman took to Twitter on Thursday to share a photo of the turkey sandwich he ordered, which had a 1:1 ratio of spinach to turkey and bread. “I don’t know what message she’s trying to send, but the lady at my bodega snuck an entire salad into my turkey sandwich,” he quipped in his tweet caption. His salad-as-a-sandwich predicament resonated with the Internet, with the tweet receiving over 56k likes and over 3k retweets. Gondelman later tweeted that he took out the plethora of spinach from his sandwich and ate it as a salad with a fork. See his salad-sandwich below. > [](https://twitter.com/joshgondelman/status/1205208929715793920) > [](https://twitter.com/joshgondelman/status/1205243447537471489) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5749744/salad-sandwich/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5749744/salad-sandwich/"},"headline":"Entire Salad Appears in Man's Sandwich for Sneaky Unknown Reasons","datePublished":"2019-12-13T18:14:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:08.440Z","description":"That's one way to get your greens","url":"https://time.com/5749744/salad-sandwich/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5749744/salad-sandwich/","name":"Entire Salad Appears in Man's Sandwich for Sneaky Unknown Reasons"}}]}] ```