-style Greek salad with lettuce Outside Greece, "Greek salad" may be a lettuce salad with Greek-inspired ingredients, even though the original dish is distinguished by the absence of lettuce. Meanwhile, the variant without lettuce may be called , 'peasant salad', or 'village salad'. However in most European countries, including the UK, the dish broadly resembles the original. In an American-style Greek salad,
lettuce, tomatoes, feta (often served in multiple cube-shaped cuttings mixed with the vegetables), and olives are the most standard elements, but cucumbers,
peperoncini (pickled hot peppers), bell peppers, onions,
radishes,
dolmades, and anchovies/
sardines are common. Regional variants may include unusual components, e.g. in
Detroit,
beets, and in the
Tampa Bay area,
potato salad. Dressings containing various herbs and seasonings are frequently used in the U.S. These styles of Greek salad are rarely encountered in Greece. Various other salads have also been called "Greek" in the English language in the last century, including some with no apparent connection to
Greek cuisine. A 1925 Australian newspaper described a Greek salad of boiled
squash dressed with
sour milk; a 1934 American newspaper described a
mayonnaise-dressed lettuce salad with shredded
cabbage and
carrots. == Other salads in Greece and Cyprus ==