This seems an impractical suggestion, at best. To spend $450 and fly 2000 miles, to then spend $21 on a lunch-menu salad. Made with iceberg lettuce. Instead of any of the fresh oysters on that menu that I cannot get at home.

That recipe seems to be for disappointment.

If the only way to redeem an otherwise boring and useless chunk of iceberg lettuce is to put better foods on top of it, like steak, why not just throw out the lettuce and eat the other foods instead?

Can you suggest any use for iceberg lettuce that I can test at home that would not be vastly improved by either leaving the iceberg out, or substituting Romaine, Bibb, or leaf lettuce in its place?

What use do you have for romaine, bibb, or leaf lettuce that doesn't involve putting better foods on top of it?

Now that you mention it, none. They're all just better than iceberg.

Green cabbage is the lowest vegetable on the hierarchy that I'll actually eat by itself. Though even with that, I sometimes put a red cabbage leaf on top of it.

Also, FWIW, the lettuce wrap version of a jimmy johns sandwich is done with Iceberg. Works really well.