Barney responds, "Well, these are my salad days." In a 1964 episode of The Andy Griffith Show (season 5, episode 19), Andy asks Barney how he can burn the candle at both ends. One of its songs, "The Time of My Life," includes the lyrics, "We're young and we're green as the leaf on the tree / For these are our salad days." It premiered in the UK at the Bristol Old Vic in June 1954, and transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre in London on 5 August 1954. Salad Days is a British musical by Julian Slade and lyricist Dorothy Reynolds. Paul Greenberg in "Tuna's End", his 2010 New York Times Magazine article wrote: "Aboard one Zodiac, Frank Hewetson, a 20-year Greenpeace veteran who in his salad days as a protester scaled the first BP deepwater oil rigs off Scotland, tried to direct his pilot toward the net so that he could throw a daisy chain of sandbags over its floating edge and allow the bluefin to escape." In film, television, and modern theatre The phrase has been used as the title of several books, including the novels Salad Days by Francoise Sagan and by Charles Romalotti, the autobiography The Salad Days by Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and numerous cookbooks. Queen Elizabeth II used the phrase during her Silver Jubilee royal address in 1977, referring to her vow to God and her people when she made her 21st birthday broadcast: "Although that vow was made in my salad days, when I was green in judgment, I do not regret nor retract one word of it." "Whether the point is that youth, like salad, is raw, or that salad is highly flavoured and youth loves high flavours, or that innocent herbs are youth's food as milk is babes' and meat is men's, few of those who use the phrase could perhaps tell us if so, it is fitter for parrots' than for human speech." Usage įowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage summarizes several other possible meanings of the metaphor: Her references to "green" and "cold" both suggest qualities of salads.
The phrase became popular only from the middle of the 19th century, coming to mean "a period of youthful inexperience or indiscretion." The metaphor comes from Cleopatra's use of the word 'green'-presumably meaning someone youthful, inexperienced, or immature. In the speech at the end of Act One in which Cleopatra is regretting her youthful dalliances with Julius Caesar she says, ".My salad days, / When I was green in judgment, cold in blood/To say as I said then!" The phrase first appeared in print in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra in 1606. The first English writer known to use "salad days" to associate the vigor and recklessness of youth was William Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra, Act 1, Scene 5.
The modern use, especially in the United States, refers to a heyday, a period when somebody was at the peak of their abilities, not necessarily in their youth. " Salad days" is a Shakespearean idiomatic expression that means a youthful time, a period of carefree innocence, idealism and pleasure associated with youth. For other uses, see Salad Days (disambiguation).
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