The Original Caesar Salad from Mexico 

Does fruit salad count? I could eat my weight in a good fruit salad.

WALDORF

I do like a good Cobb

I make a simple salad out of lettuce leaf (iceberg or romaine, whatever looks good at the market that day), tomato, and cucumber, with a simple vinaigrette. Perfect for those apocalypse-is-coming climate change-induced summer heat waves.

A spinach, chicken and strawberry salad with Italian dressing

This comment is severely underrated

Good luck explaining it to non Britt. Hell, good luck explaining it everybody!

Now I'm going to have my mom try and pronounce it next time I see her lol

We call it in Brazil as well!

That’s funny, lol.

ET TU, BRUTUS

Lmao

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With anchovies and lemon.

Yes, it's still open. My sister just went there a few weeks ago. Said the salad and overall restaurant was really good.

Fat mexican american here went in 2022 its the best salad i had

Mark Wiens the food blogger went to the original restaurant .If I remember, they don't cut up the romaine into pieces. Worcestershire Sauce has anchovies in the sauce.

I stayed in that hotel where the restaurant is at in tijuana.

😂😂

I groaned out loud! 🤣

Rolling my eyes . . . . .

So clever, and so dumb. Perfect joke.

badoom tish! 🥁

😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Et tu, Crouton

I want to plant and grow Anchovies...

@@mrZavior - Beware of the neighborhood cats!

A Cesar salad made with Garum

I don't think the ingredients of a Caesar salad sound like "hard times" or "left overs" at all. I think that's a bit of theater. When we were very poor, we didn't have parmesan cheese, or Worcestershire sauce, or good-quality olive oil lying around. We certainly didn't have Romaine lettuce. A real hard times salad in Northwestern Mexico would be things like foraged wild dandelion or watercress leaves, wild berries, wind-fall nuts collected from some derelict orchard, a pinch of salt, a few drops of inexpensive cooking oil, perhaps some grilled squash blossoms in season, or foraged mushrooms, or grilled slices of peeled Nopales cactus.

My "struggle salads" were a daily part of life in the form of wild edibles. When freezers became a thing, we froze all the scraps and made Mystery Stew regularly, with wild edible greens added towards the end. And there was no bread. Just masa dumplings or tortillas. But we ate very healthy food and there was no real struggle. Just daily diligence and cooking from scraps. To this day, I forage wild edibles regularly or grow my greens indoors in the winter. Plus, garden, hunt, fish, trap, and preserve food. That reminds me--time to process the fall walnuts. We use the oil in cooking.

​@jeanvignes the guy was from Italy though, not northwestern Mexico. He moved there as an adult to work but the hard times salad he's taking about would've been from his homeland, which is Italy.

This sounds fantasy more than reality.

That sounds like an amazing idea for an episode! Especially if he finds other recipes which became well known/famous in their time &/or are still famous today! -In elementary school we had “vegetable beef” soup once every 7-10 days where the vegetables included *always* varied…bc you could easily identify every vegetable reasonably acceptable to be included in soup which we had been served during the past 7-10 days plus hamburger meat & a tomato base. They got a delivery every 7-10 days so the soup was used to use up any left over soup acceptable canned, frozen or sometimes fresh vegetables of which there wasn’t enough of to serve alone.😂 This was prior to the strict dietary rules enforced in schools today & when my elementary school still prepared as much food from scratch as possible with the limited supplies they were given/allowed to order. Sadly by the time I reached high school the new strict guidelines were in full force & *not only* was the food *EXTREMELY* bland with us not allowed salt/pepper but the portion sizes were *ridiculously* small!😒With the majority of the food being premade, pre portioned & simply heated up.🤢 And the school wondered WHY the % of students eating school lunch dropped from roughly 80% to less than 25%! And vending machine sales during lunch more than tripled.🤯🤨Well…until they began unplugging all but the drink vending machines during lunch.😒Which just meant student bought extra for lunch during morning break. The school’s required change it food was however *extremely* profitable for the gas station who sold food, the subway & sole local restaurant/pool hall near the school! ALL of which began selling limited lunch items in the morning before school in addition to their breakfast menu.😂😂 Which with the exception of *SOME* sandwiches/bowls Subway offered meant that the *vast majority* of students ended up eating *FAR MORE* unhealthy lunches than what was previously served by the school which most students enjoyed!! Literally the complete opposite of the entire goal of forcing schools to serve only approved healthy foods in strictly limited amounts!🤨🤦🏻‍♀️ Which is something that has been *PROVEN* to have occurred in virtually ALL public schools & still continues to this day in any schools which adhere to such meal plans! *YET* the gov CONTINUES to force schools without funds to not rely on gov funded food to adhere to similar foods! Which leads to literal TONS of food prepared but not eaten by students being thrown away DAILY! And kids who have *no choice* but to eat school lunches *almost ALL* come home starving even if their lunch period was only a couple hours before they came home due to the tiny portion sized & refusal of the school(per gov requirement)to allow students to purchase additional portions…which used to be common practice. Classic well documented case of government waste & gov oversight intended to help “fix/improve” a “problem” making that issue far worse!🤨😒🤦🏻‍♀️And despite literally 100+ studies PROVING the gov programs not only aren’t working but have made things far worse…they’re STILL continuing the same programs in most states!🤯Utter insanity & stupidity! But what do you expect from gov officials who neither themselves nor THEIR kids ever attended public schools & had to eat what they force them to serve?😒 Just another example of how the generationally wealthy politicians elected to supposedly represent average Americans have NO CLUE how average American live! Much less those living BELIW the average income bracket!!🤨😒🤬

AND EXPENSIVE FOR THAT. IT IS DELICIOUS BUT I WILL PREPARE IN HOME.

@@javierorterga666internet etiquette tip: don't type in all capital letters, people read it as you yelling at them

@@rico9163 No it´s just i forgive desactivate mayusc lettes, and apart of thjat i am form México, i don´t write well in english.

​@@javierorterga666 educación está sobrevalorada

@@rico9163racist

"Just blend in, if he doesn't see me he can't make me a salad."

The Bellsprout is subtle. I almost thought he forgot the Pokemon.

I didn't even see the sneaky sprout! Good eye.

And is that a Pikachu mixing bowl over his left shoulder?

I watched this video and hour ago and didn't see it and it bothered me so much I came back here to look at the comment 😅

I had Caesar salad for breakfast this morning. Frequently do, or spring mix with poached eggs and vinaigrette

I agree, I don't think it Caesar intention to steal the credit, more like give it the restaurant's brand

I wonder how the cook's mum was able to procure Wostershire sauce while in a refugee camp.

Life is too short to restrict breakfast to breakfast foods!

@@debras3806 My 15 y.o. loves to wilt arugula and have that with just a touch of EVO and poached eggs for breakfast.

That’s a hilarious image. “Sorry sweetie, new Tasting History vid just dropped!” **YEET**

@@alisaurus4224 🤣

Especially if the wine glasses are full!

If there’s wine in the glass, you should just take it with you to enjoy while you’re watching the video :)

He is star quality. The show is five stars. Entire production is A-1. Disney is watching knowing this show is epic. I pray he does not ever let Disney take it over and Ruin it!

It’s just not done!

When has this ever happened?

@@rob876 I know it's sarcasm, but...buy me a burger and I'll tell you some tales. I once worked for a guy who elevated it to an _art form_ to the degree where you almost had to admire him for it. Nobody ever got further on less merit than that guy.

@@SimuLord Was he by chance named Edison? ;)

@@magnusbergqvist2123 Sadly no-although he was the type who'd drive a Tesla! Amusingly, I ended up transferred out of his department once the manager of the department into which I got drafted figured out who was behind all the data (and ideas for what to do with it) she was getting. Minus his source of competence, the guy was fired a month later.

Mexican limes and key limes have been proven to be the same genetic line, they just let the Mexican limes fully ripen.

Oh, thank you, I was lost when he said "lemon" doesn't mean "limón". I wasn't aware of those Mexican limes.

What the heck is a 'limone'? 99% sure that's neither an English nor a Spanish word ...

@@halfsourlizard9319"Limone" is lemon in Italian; the Spanish word is "limón", and the usage varies: depending on the country, it may mean different types of limes or lemons. At least that's what I've heard, I don't speak Spanish, I'm Brazilian.

@@lucaslourenco8918 Aha! Thank you! While it may have seemed like trolling, as I suspect you're aware, lemons and limes specifically are quite confusing across languages / places.

Or even cheese

@@parkchimmin7913 Cheese would have been pretty hard but not *impossible* I feel, since it could be preserved for very long and would occasionally be stashed away by farmers/etc. Though in my experience, cheese and meat are also simply among the first things people in America added to 'poor' Italian recipes that contained none. Most importantly, of course... Sadly what they couldn't add was Honey Buddha chips.

@@Kiayin7 AYYEEE edit: True, although they can be preserved for a long time. I still question how they’re able to procure one in a refugee camp?

@@parkchimmin7913Trade with the locals (and... plain robbery). They may also have gotten some more officially, though admittedly it's been a long time since I last read anything on the subject and it was more focused on the bigger picture. It would depend on the area and when exactly during the war this happened. Refugee camps usually caused prices to climb even higher in the surrounding region and black markets to flourish even further. Still more likely than Worcester sauce, or even olive oil...

Did they even have wrocestershire sauce in italy

Before 9/11 ruined everything, it used to be so easy if you lived within driving distance to just hop over to another country for the day. Growing up in Boston, I made the trip to Montreal a few times (long drive, plan on a weekend, but still very reachable.) Always fun to tweak the locals by wearing a Boston Bruins jersey up there...

My friend's father took us to Caesar's in the 1980s and of course we had the salad. That was the only time I had the salad served with the Romaine leaves whole, and now I know the reason why.

I remember those days. So easy to cross over and drive in “TJ”. Roam Revolucion and barter with shop keepers for trinkets. We never went to Caesar’s. We drove farther south to the Rosarita Beach Hotel for lunch.

I do this at work all the time! Thought I was the only one 😂

Lies again? Cold Storage USD SGD

100%

One of the reasons why it was so popular for horse racing is that horse betting was illegal in most parts of the US along with Prohibition made it popular for Americans to come over to drink and gamble

The movie is one of the best horse movies ever made. The historian David McCullough (who passed last week) narrates the movie and the performances by the actors are great. Only "The Black Stallion" which has some of the best cinematography is better. Steven Spielberg's "War Horse" about WWI is great also.

The same thing happen somewhere else in Mexico which was how Nachos was invented.

Yes!! My first thought at the beginning of the video was Seabiscuit!! I was so beautifully captured in that film! One of the best movies ever made in my opinion.

If there was a big race on a day when Americans were already more likely to go out anyway, it’s even less surprising.

Yesss to the lemon.lemon and good amount of pepper are crucial ! I've made chicken Caesar 2 times in the past week cause my growing teenage son loves them and scarfs down a huuuuge individual salad bowl sized serving each time. It's definitely a late summer craving too seeing as we started wanting them last week and also here is the video a few days ago. Mmmm I love them haha

You know warcestershire sauce has anchovies in it…right?

@@doglover12345andfr The point is, it doesn't taste like anchovies. In contemporary caesar salads, the anchovy flavour is front and centre.

Isn't Tijuana a crime-ridden, drugs-war-filled shithole these days, or is that just propaganda from the Americans?

More specifically, why the island is called _Great_ Britain.

I'm gonna start calling it Weogorna-ceaster-shire-sauce now, thanks.

So, it was even worse to pronounce?? Hahaha

@@andreacarreiro5436 I assume it was intuitive to the people who lived there at the time.

Even Worcester, MA, is pronounced 'Wooster'.

Thank you 😊

@@KFrost-fx7dt a sponsor's better than several ads. I can't get ad block to work. I miss vanced.

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@@KFrost-fx7dt you have a fast forward button, use it.

Indeed!

Turkeys associated with Thanksgiving native to Mexico, nothing more American than a corn field in Kansas right? the milpa (cornfield) is the most Mexican thing there can be. Poinsettias remind you of a Christmas in Austria, Mexican too.

Or most likely Italy. At least the recipes if not the ingredients.

In this recipe there are literally no American ingredients. All of these are sourced from Europe or Asia.

In Italy and the Mediterranean tomatoes are essential, Xitomatl is the Aztec word from which "tomato" is derived. Many Asians love their chilies, they are Mexican too.

@@AggelosKyriou And tomatoes are essential for any Italian restaurant and those are not from Europe, what’s your point? Where do you think chocolate comes from

You probably went to the actual restaurant that invented it. It's been open in TJ for 100 years

@@stevencoardvenice No it was at La Bufadora, not TJ.

Most salad in most of the world is flat pieces of vegetables on a platter with salt, as the word salad originated from...salt

I find it surprising people chop it up! I've eaten in several places in Mexico and they all give it to you with the leaves whole, honestly I never knew they served it chopped up

@@RoboRoby321 That just seems crazy to me! She found it very difficult to eat, but if course she was trying to cut it with a knife and it wasn't working well for her. I find it so interesting that something as simple as a salad can be so diverse.

In my fam (also from Mexico) we eat romaine whole all the time. My favorite way is just lime chili and a lil salt. You eat most foods with your hands anyway so it's not that weird. Pretty much everything is eaten by hand if it isn't soup or Statesian dish.

Just wait until you go to a place that only offers a wedge. As much as I like the neat appearance of a wedge salad, they are abominations to eat, and embarrassments to the kitchen. Imagine a literal quarter of a head of flavorless, haphazardly washed iceberg lettuce, hastily poured over with dressing, a bit of garnish if you're lucky, all dashed together in probably about 15 seconds from ticket to service. Yikes!

@@its_clean I was invited to a very ritzy steakhouse by a properly wealthy acquaintance about ten years ago and was shocked when they served me a wedge. It was the first time I'd ever encountered one, and it was at one of the top three most expensive/exclusive places I've ever eaten. I'm still nonplussed about it

Yes! It would be a great series!

That's the one my grandmother used to make! With garlic toast 😋

🤍⚪️Hi Max , TH 🖐🤍 Thank You 😊 One of My very first jobs as a Teenager at a start up Cafe’ on Sunset Blvd in the mid 80s Los Angeles next door to Sushi on Sunset and Carlos and Charlies ... And that version was : Egg Yolk , Dijon , Worchestershire , Tabasco , Lemon , Garlic ( In the dressing ?? ) , Pepper , Anchovies ( some x s they would ask with or without , or lay the Anchovies on top like a French Restaurant I went to did one x. ) , Olive Oil , Red Wine Vinegar or Champagne Vinegar (?). And If I recall also a little of the Parmesan in the dressing { which I reserve for tossing and topping , for frugal sense. } …Garlicky Croutons , Parmesan , Dressing in the Tossed. The smaller Leaves And lots of fresh cracked Pepper served normally at the Table service at a Fancy Restaurant . They would typically ask if You would like extra Pepper on top of the Salad ? “ , if Yes “ , they would Pepper until You said or knodded Yes , thats enough : ) )) some x s they would ask or do enough too : ))) 💚🟢Nows ALLLL Love to ALLLL Love ~ Vegan Version I prefer . ALLLL due Respect , Care And Considerations🤍⚪️🤍😊🌞⭐️💖💗⚡️🙏🏻🌌🤍 A go to , Salad several x s a Week . I did Not like Anchovies | Fish too before . Not just because I was Vegetarian then , and Nows wannabee Vegan : ))))))))))🤍🌌⚪️🤍 I did a little research on the original recipe several Years ago . It was somewhere Restaurant in Mexico , NM on or near the Border closer to Texas . I dont recall if It was Tijuana . And at the Table Service I read that they rubbed the Garlic on the Wood Bowl ... And It was the basic recipe I learned as The Recipe. And I think a favourite of the Brown Derby and Moustache Cafe in Los Angeles🤍⚪️ 🟢💚⚪️🌌🤍

I've decided to find a middle ground for myself, because I find straight anchovies overpowering, and so I use this Asian fish sauce made from anchovies. It's perfect for those who can't get past the pungency.

@@Levacque use better anchovies.

@@fishguy911 man, that's an opinion of taste. I worked as a professional cook for over five years. I've tried a massive variety of foods and I know what I like to work with when cooking for myself.

Oh! A coworker had me over for a party and her sister in law made those cookies, so dang good! Yeah, most deserts there were dulche de leche, they were great ^.^ they're all from south america.

Got bad news for you buckaroo, dulce de leche/cajeta was exported by Spain to Latin America, the sugar and milk combination was made in Asia, between The Philippines and Indonesia, the Spaniards settled colonies in there and took that candy with them to Spain, then after colonizing latam they spread that candy and the former colonies adopted it. Argentina’s oldest claim goes back to 1804 however The Philippines and Indonesia have recipes of the same candy from about the 1500s, it was basically Spain’s fault we have dulce de leche in latam

Had no idea ....

Hope @tastinghistorywithmaxmiller will cover how it’s the worstest shire!

I love in how Japan, where pronouncing Rs and Ls is challenging to begin with, they gave up on saying the second half of the name and just call it "Wooster sauce". They're fully aware of the full name, and they write it correctly- it's just the pronunciation that's been shortened.

Garlic is the best!

Garlic is great, I could eat it raw, although I hope more people in the US realize that it isn't the only way to season something..

@@theblobconsumes4859 Its very healthy raw and not that spicy, considering more people eat chilies these days.

Garlic is disgusting and imparts no useful flavor to any food. I mean the ancient human that picked up a wild garlic had to be in a desperate situation to say, "maybe I can eat that."

@@timesthree5757 wow, you're going to anger every Italian ever. And, though I'm not Italian, you're just plain wrong...however, not everyone has the same taste in food.

6 cloves of garlic.

Caesar is my favourite salad because it's simple but every ingredient and the sauce are powerful enough for me to enjoy. Many people try to be edgy and contrarian and have a different salad as their favourite. But the simpler the salad the better. Also most of the ingredients in a Caesar salad blend together while other salads have contrasting flavours.

I always try to find another type of salad to be my favorite because I just want my taste buds to be able to explore a variety of things rather than just the basic ingredients of a Caesar but time and time again I just go back to the Caesar salad. Easy to make and easy to eat and there's just something that can't replace the creaminess of Caesar dressing.

Maybe start ordering two Caesar salads for your daughter so she won't try to pilfer yours lol 😂! But I also love me some Caesar salad 😋!

Et tu, Bruté? My parmesean?

Which caesar? You do know that caesar is a title and not a name (well, back then in Rome), which translates to king/emperor. So there have been hundreds of caesars of Rome. Which one are you referring to?

@@TheRealEtaoinShrdluI don’t know, Gaius Julius Caesar?

Lolwut? What evidence do you have that Luger's claims to have invented Caesar salad? I've been to Luger's more times than I can count and never heard anything about this ...

No one cares!

@PerogiXW - Interesting! Thanks.

@Bengt Carlsson - .^_^.

Even nowadays it is an ingredient that is very hardly found in the handouts of Italian kitchens, especially in southern Italy (you would find anchovies, or even a cheaper anchovy paste, or "colatura d'alici"). Instead, it made sense to find it in a restaurant with international customers.

I’ve heard that Worcestershire sauce is based off a Roman sauce called garam. The Romans based it off something from western India.

Yes, apparently so. Why John Daly never mentioned it I’ll never know.

ROTFL!🤣🤣🤣

@MaryLee - We use anchovies instead of Warstishistershireshuster Sauce and make the salad when we have friends over. My best friend told me that he loves our Caesar and hates anchovy, so is glad we leave it out. Hee! Hee! Hee! He got a shock.

@@MossyMozart much easier to say wustershuh sauce

Washyoursister sauce

@@MossyMozart lol I am sure it's fab, and I'd definitely sample it. Do you ship?

Jose is the same way now

It's because we make the dressing and croutons from scratch every day at Outback

Sold as Persian limon in Baja.

Might depend on the time period. Food words meanings sometimes shift over time. My favorite is "melchocha," that is gingerbread in my 1830's dictionary, but taffy in modern Spanish usage.

Actually, both Mexican limón and limón sin semilla are referred to as limes in English. "Limón (or Limón Colima)" is the Key Lime and "Limón sin semilla" is tha Persian Lime. Expanding a bit more, what's called a Lemon in English is known as "Limón Real/Amarillo" in México. And what Mexicans know as "Lima" is called a Sweet Lime.

@@xXMkThunderXx I have yet to see any american calling the acid lemon of colima as "lime". It wastes nothing like lime either way. It does not even look like limes (the smaller round lemons do not share anything with the larger limon sin semilla or persian lime or even the real limes) Not to be confused with the real lime of Mexico which also has a total different flavor.

@@CesarinPillinGaming Long story short... There's no scientific definition of what's a lime and what's a lemon. And thus, fate just made it so that Latin americans label as lemons a couple of fruits known as limes to the rest of the world.

That's actually because of colonialism. Arkansas is a French pronunciation of a local tribe, Kansas is an English pronunciation of a similar, but different (if I remember correctly) tribe. So, blame the French!

@@BurningTurtleIsland It's not my can saw, it's not your can saw, it's Arkansas.

@@BurningTurtleIsland yes! Yet another thing to blame the french for! Now, if only i can find a way to blame them for my personality lol

I agree! I tend to make the best meals when I'm running low on groceries and have to get creative!

Hmmmmmm... Garum instead of the Worcestershire sauce!

Ahh the naughties such a wonderful era

I say L&Ps

@@gaywizard2000 That's a good way around it!!!

Most British people just call it Worcester sauce & leave out the -shire.

Is the romaine served cut up now?

@@swish3432 Not that I've ever seen. Maybe people ask for that?

@@DougAdams I just wanted to know what to expect

That's what I thought. Santini making a quick lunch from what he could grab from scraps as it was a family scrap together, Caeser or his head chef saw him do it frequently. Then they run out of their regular dishes and just slapping them together and calling it food.

Mexican Italian dish . Caesar was Italian and it’s pretty much an Italian recipe

But it's not a mexican dish, it''s italian. That's like saying pizza is american because italians moved there lmao.

@@histatimaniples Nah, it's a Mexican dish

@@mrd7532 nah, its an Italian dish that gained mass public awareness in Mexico.

I was confused why he said it wasnt creamy. Ceasar dressing shouldn't need cream to be creamy, if the egg and oil mix well enough. Thanks for explaining it with a lil science, it makes so much sense.

Mustard powder does the emulsification best, especially if you whisk the dressing instead of using a spoon.

Doesn't it cost like $200 for a salad at. Caesars. You would go broke eating a salad for lunch

@@gballs007 Maybe you can't afford it, but she can 🤷

@@gballs007 its 155 Peso's or about 10 USD

Now I want to hear the Julia Child impression speech...

Absolutely. If you remember it sounds the same as in "Jeeves and Wooster" it's easy.

Yeah, but in the USA we have rooster sauce [aka cock sauce] and Worcester sauce would sound too similar considering they are also of similar popularity, versatility, and availibility. The brand on the bottle is the image of a barnyard cock, made primarily of finely ground red chile and garlic.

@@mytech6779 Sounds nothing like rooster. Listen to him again.

@@somegeezer worster sauce

Thank you so much

A lot of appetizers are still eaten with the hands today, and I imagine it was the same thing back then. When you go to a restaurant with friends or family, part of it is the socializing aspect. And one of the things that brings people together is sharing food, which is much easier to do by picking things up with your hands than everyone trying to scoop things out of the same plate with forks.

I mean she technically was never royal, he had to give up his title to marry her.

@@SeruraRenge11 I will readily admit my history is not perfect, and her name is more on the obscure side to me. Thank you for setting me straight on that! :)

@@Maria_Erias You definitely need a napkin to eat Caesar salad with your hands.

@@yuantheblue oh word hunny if you want a juicy history lesson- look up wallace simpson- there are a few docs on here about her...the royal fam hated the scandal that was caused and she and george basically had to run away in exile to spain i believe is where they ended up...he was her second hubby if i remember correctly and yeah he abdicated his role as king ta globe trot and love it up...cray cray story- so so worth tha watch imho- but i love doc films...anyhoo- happy sunday funday ;)

Glad you made it!