on my very first day at work in russia, i go to have lunch in the office kitchen. the cook handed me my plate, as well as some salad. without any dressing. because, as she explained me, the salad dressing is on the table and i can just serve myself of it as much as i want.
okeydokey, i think, cool. i look around the table and i just can't find any salad dressing. so i ask my new colleagues about it and they hand me something. mayonnaise. pure mayo. i look at them and go "but that's mayonnaise"? they reply "of course, you said you wanted salad dressing".
that was my first encounter with salad dressing a la russe.
by now i have come to understand that, indeed, salad dressing in russia means PURE MAYONNAISE and nothing else.
needless to say that i have gone off eating too many salads unless i can do the salad dressing myself...
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