Fred's Fun Fact: About Caesar Salad

Fred shares a little known fact about Caesar Salad! 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Fred Show is on Fred's Fun Fact, fredawn so much,
Let's learn so much. So, guys, when you think of
the caesar salad, do you think of Italian food? Do
you think of Italy? I feel like yeah, because it's

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always offered at an Italian spot. I think of heaven
right right, which could yeah, exactly well. It feels like
something that would have been inspired by Julius Caesar in Rome.
But actually it was invented by an Italian American restaurant
tour in Mexico named Caesar Cardini in Tijuana. Actually, according

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to Food and Wine, he moved to the city, which
is close to the California border, to escape the confines
of prohibition, and he developed the caesar salad during the
Fourth of July Rush in nineteen twenty four with the
only ingredients he had left. Wow, So the guy was
like a little bit of this, a little bit of that,
a little bit of this for calling this thing this
caesar salad after your boy, right salad? Nobody ever says

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cesar salad. And if you said that, if you went
to this place and he said I'll have a cisar salad,
they would say, are you Fred from the Fred show
who makes everything sounds fancier than it needs to be
And you say, no, I'm not. I listened to the
fun fact though, and I happen to know that it
was invented in Mexico, so there, but it was by
an Italian American man named Caesar Cardini in Mexico. That's

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where the Caesar salad was invented. Are you are you?
Are you blown away? Kiki? Yes, that's a life lesson.
That man made something out of nothing. That's right, and
look at it, it's still around. Did you making a
positive message out of this? Is what we do every day,
makes something out of nothing and we're still around. It's
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