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Salmagundi is purportedly a meal served on Pirate ships. It is a stew of anything the Cook had on hand, usually consisting of chopped Meat , Anchovies , Egg s, and Onion s, often arranged in rows on Lettuce and served with Vinegar and Oil , and Spice d with anything available. The name was later corrupted to Solomon Gundy in the eighteenth century. It seems likely that the name is connected with the children’s rhyme, Solomon Grundy . Solomon Gundy retains its food connotation today as the name given to a spicy Caribbean paste made of mashed pickled-herrings, peppers and onions. --- Sal-ma-gun-di -n- 1. a salad plate consisting of chopped or sliced meats, anchovies, hard-cooked eggs, pickled vegetables, olives, radishes, endive, and watercress that are arranged in rows for color and flavor contrast and dressed with a salad dressing 2: a heterogeneous mixture Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language: Unabridged. G.& C. Merriam Co., Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, © 1971 --- |
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