Jennifer Aniston is placing a cease to a years-long mix-up concerning the salad she ate on a regular basis for lunch whereas taking pictures ’90s sitcom, “Pals.”
“I’m sorry, I really feel like I’m disappointing everyone, however that’s not my salad,” Aniston told Shape throughout a Zoom interview concerning the viral recipe Wednesday. “It seems to be scrumptious, however it’s not the salad that I had on ‘Pals.’”
The whispers started with Courtney Cox’s telling The LA Times in 2010 that Aniston ate the identical “doctored up cobb salad” on a regular basis whereas on set.
The salad — consisting of bulgur, diced cucumbers, parsley, mint, pink onion, chickpeas, crumbled feta cheese, and chopped pistachios — has been recreated hundreds of occasions on TikTok and Instagram, with many believing it was made well-known by its namesake.
That, nevertheless, will not be the case, as Aniston has no thought the place the “Jennifer Aniston Salad” recipe got here from, including throughout a Q&A with Elle that she, “would by no means have that a lot chickpea in a salad, to be trustworthy. Not good for the digestive tract.”
Her salad of alternative at time was “completely totally different,” consisting of shredded lettuce, rooster, egg whites, a few garbanzo beans, bacon, and a primary French dressing.
These days, the wonder is open to greater than salad on a day-to-day foundation, as well being has grow to be all about steadiness for the tv star, telling Form, “Concentrate on actually being good to your self but additionally permit your self the moments of indulgence.”