I am not a fan of Mediterranean cuisine. Are you?
Oh, I love it! I love olives, bread, and wine. I especially love warm bread with olive oil.
I tried bread with olive oil one time and I got sick.
Oh no! That's terrible. I love olive oil, although sometimes I fry with it on too high of a heat and it smokes up my house. 
I have had that happen before too and it set off smoke alarms.
I guess it's safer to use it in salad dressing, where there's no risk of doing that!
That is very true. Ever since getting sick when I ate that, I have a hard time even using olive oil at all.
That's too bad. I hope you can have other salads like bean salad or tuna salad that don't use an olive oil based dressing
I would much prefer a lettuce salad with some french dressing!
Salade niçoise
Salade niçoise (), la salada nissarda in the Niçard dialect of the Occitan language, is a salad that originated in the French city of Nice. It is traditionally made of tomatoes, hard-boiled eggs, Niçoise olives, anchovies, and dressed with olive oil. It has been popular worldwide since the early 20th century, and has been prepared and discussed by many famous chefs. Delia Smith called it "one of the best combinations of salad ingredients ever invented" and Gordon Ramsay said that "it
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