Caesar is a pleaser.  In the kingdom of salads, Caesar is king.  Caesar is the mayor of Saladville.

So says the food section of yesterday's Post in an article entitled "Hail Caesar," a strangely boisterous celebration of Caesar salad.

An  excerpt:

America cannot get enough of the Caesar salad. In the last two decades, the simple combination of romaine lettuce, creamy dressing and Parmesan cheese has:

• Become America's most popular main-dish salad, showing up virtually everywhere from fast-food chains to white-tablecloth restaurants to the takeout counter in the supermarket.
• Dramatically altered the lettuce industry as the demand for romaine has skyrocketed.
• Turned the chicken-topped Caesar into the chicken item most frequently found on restaurant menus — more often than wings or even that perennial kid favorite, chicken fingers.

And still we want more.

Two things stand out to me here:

1. I was not even aware that there is a lettuce industry, but I think that's a great thing.  But I suppose they probably gather for yearly conventions and stuff.
2. Even better: we serve a God that is so creative, he even created different kinds of lettuce.  I did some research: the California Lettuce Research Board (I'm not kidding) says that there are five kinds of leafy lettuce: Butterhead, Romaine, Iceberg, Greenleaf, and Redleaf.  Would we have thought of this?  If I were creating the world, different kinds of birds, sure.  Different kinds of trees, maybe.  Different kinds of lettuce?  I wouldn't have thought of that.  You've got cabbage, you've got lettuce, what else do you need?  But here it is, in all it's leafy, verdant, quint-variety splendor: a salad testifying to the greatness of God.

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