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Reflecting the culinary specialties of our regions and local traditions (from Montbéliard, Nantes, Britanny, Paris, Strasbourg, Lyon, Vendée, Franche-Comte, Landes, Perigord, etc.), salads with cooked meats are simple, authentic dishes. These are traditional salads (assorted raw vegetables, semolina, cooked vegetables, pasta, rice, etc.) to which meat products have been added (beef, pork, veal, chicken, etc.). The most famous are brawn in vinaigrette, saveloy salad, piémontaise salad (ham, saveloy, chicken), beef or pork salad, tabbouleh with chicken, potato salad with
sausages (Montbeliard, Strasbourg, etc.), salad with diced bacon (Franche-Comté, Ardennes, etc.) and salad with gizzards (turkey, chicken, duck, etc.), among others. Some also contain cheese (country, Vosges, Vendée salads, etc.).
Designed as a starter, although increasingly ordered as a main dish, cooked meat salads combine the nutritional virtues of all their ingredients (raw and cooked vegetables, semolina, dairy products, pasta, rice, meat products, etc.).
Production and consumption
Between 2004 and 2008, sales of fresh and refrigerated processed food products rose as a whole by 26% in value and 22% in volume. Salads went from 140,000 tons in 2004 to 180,000 tons in 2008 (+28%) and represent an estimated market share of 25%.
With a volume of 10,100 tons and sales of 34 million euros in 2008, cooked meat salads ranked in 4th place, after raw vegetable salads, tabboulehs and mixed salads. They have risen slowly, going from 5% of total salad sales in 2007, to almost 6% in 2008. (Source: Adepale)
At Rungis Market
“The salads we sell the most are the piémontaise, brawn in vinaigrette and Strasbourg salad, but we also propose Montbéliard salads and tabboulehs with chicken,” explains Mr Lofti Serjani, salesman for Le Delas. “Packaged in 500 g trays, we sell them all year round, but purchases in the summer are four or five times higher than for the rest of the year. Our customers are mainly restaurants, wholesalers and retailers on markets.”
