Waldorf Salad
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A Waldorf salad is a salad consisting of apple, nuts (especially walnuts), celery, and mayonnaise or a mayonnaise-based dressing. It was first created in 1896 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York by Oscar Tschirky who was the maître d'hôtel. (An alternative theory is that it was created by the Waldorf Lunch System, an early 20th C. lunchroom chain- starting in the 1920's the company logo was an apple.) To the contrary, in 1896 Waldorf Salad appeared in "The Cook Book by "Oscar of the Waldorf". It is traditionally served on lettuce. Dried fruit is often added — usually chopped dates or raisins.
Cultural references
"Waldorf Salad" is the title of a 1979 episode of Fawlty Towers which concerns a bad-tempered American guest's increasing frustration with Basil Fawlty's incompetence, symbolised by Fawlty's continuing inability to produce the salad of the title: "Well, I'm afraid we're fresh out of Waldorfs." He asks the question 'What is a Waldorf anyway, a walnut that's gone off?'.The song "You're the Top" from the Cole Porter musical Anything Goes contains the line: "You're the top, you're a Waldorf salad".
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