![]() ![]() Maybe San Diego diners will never make salads a craze, but I’m pretty excited that a place has shown up to prove you can make friends with salad, and that an all-salad concept can be done right. The website contends all the vegetables are organic or otherwise sustainably raised, including a few from the chef’s home garden. The leafy greens are crisp and all the other vegetables likewise fresh and firm. ![]() For example, the description of my Baja Ranchero ($14) reads: “chili rubbed breast of chicken, enchilada “croutons”, shredded napa and romaine lettuce with grilled Mexican zucchini, red bell peppers and purple onions, charred sweet corn, charred grape tomatoes, cilantro, avocado, cotija cheese and baja ranch with a charred jalapeño garnish.” Most of the salads feature so many different ingredients, I don’t have the word count to include them all. infamously had with the glove.The Baja ranchero, loaded with vegetables and a spicy, charred jalapeño Simpson’s murder trial in season 7, with Kramer losing a trial after Sue Ellen is acquitted by trying on a bra that doesn’t fit, just as O.J. Feeling that their altercation on the golf course may have incited Steve’s murder, the eccentric Cosmo Kramer takes him to see his pet fish by driving him in his white Ford Bronco, which quickly becomes subject to a low-speed car chase on the New Jersey Turnpike. The episode saw Kramer play golf with ex-MLB player Steve Gunderson, only to find out he murdered a dry cleaner later that day. Simpson Ford Bronco car chase that occurred in June 1994, only a few weeks before the episode aired. Keeping up with the cultural conscience of their day, Seinfeld’s season 6 episode “The Big Salad” parodied the infamous O.J. wouldn’t be associated with murder, but the ex-football player was still referenced several more times throughout the series. Seinfeld would never specifically amend their early joke that O.J. While sitcoms of the 1990s that still retain their immense popularity today are accused of poorly-aged jokes due to insensitivity and offensiveness - including Seinfeld itself - this specific quip by Elaine Benes’ character is terribly aged simply due to its profound irony. Simpson wouldn’t be associated with murder that truly makes it one of the worst aged jokes in sitcom history. The Joel Rifkin reference certainly grounds Seinfeld's episode in its own time, but it’s the idea that O.J. Serial killer Joel Rifkin was timely for Seinfeld’s episode because he had been apprehended the same year but, ironically, most people today have no idea who he is compared to the notoriety of O.J. Simpson murder trial was insurmountable, leading many to describe it as “ The Trial of the Century.” Simpson was arrested and charged with the double murders of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. In June 1994, only 7 months after Seinfeld’s episode aired, O.J. At the time of Seinfeld’s episode in November 1993, the writers had no idea what events would transpire only a few months later to make the name O.J. Simpson) as something less associated with murder. Ironically to anyone paying attention to the news in 1994, Elaine would recommend that Joel change his name to O.J. Related: Seinfeld: The Season 9 Controversy & Banned Episode Explained While looking through an NFL Gameday book, Seinfeld's Elaine Benes unknowingly suggests a name that would soon become subject to one of the most infamous murder trials in American history. Throughout the episode, Elaine tries to convince him to change his name to something “ cool” and less connected to murder. Elaine is truly interested in Joel but, in typical Seinfeld fashion, she can’t keep dating him with that name. Seinfeld’s episode “The Masseuse” follows Elaine as she begins dating a new guy she really likes - the only issue is that he shares a name with the prolific serial killer Joel Rifkin.
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