Thread: Caeser Salad...
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Old 01-22-2004, 04:53 PM   #3
Davros
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Well if you are looking for history that stems all the way back to good ole Julius then I wish you luck in finding it. The reason being that a "Ceasar" salad, or more importantly a "see Sir" salad was a much more recent invention.

The history of the salad stems back to the Great War, which of course most people know as WW1. Captain Sir Archibald Pompsingay was dining with a firebrand young American volounteer - a Leftenant by the name of J Dough. They were behind the lines by about 10 miles in a little French village of D'Uriage, and Archie's batman was the guy that actually invented the salad.

The basic story is that the faithful servant - one William Robbins served up the salad to the pair of them with a host of explanations about what he had done. See sir - I added some crispy bacon bits, and see Sir, there are real croutons, and see Sir this funny lettuce I have used is fantastically crunchy. You just see Sir - you'll love it sir - you just see Sir. At that point, Archie with a broad smile and a grin dubbed the fabulous new creation the "see Sir" Salad.

His good friend John was delighted with the meal, and decided to take back the details of the salad to his own officers mess. When asked what it was called he told his fellow Americans that it was a "see Sir" salad. Sadly though, the Americans and the British are countries divided by a common tongue, and far too quickly the American version was corrupted on the spelling side to what we currently know as the "Ceasar Salad". It is sad to see that the history of this great salad has been almost forgotten.
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