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Old 12-13-2006, 10:35 PM   #164
Urbane Guerrilla
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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl
3 - Salls-bri Steak
Now you have to explain what a Salisbury Steak is!
Cube steak (maybe a burger patty) served up kind of de luxe by smothering it well in wine-and-mushroom gravy, usually with mashed potatoes on the side. Popular in Swanson TV dinners and military chow halls. I somewhere got the idea the Salisbury in question may have been in South Africa. ??

The first of 357 S.s. recipes on Cooks.com when I googled the critter. Wikipedia explains it also -- no wonder I've only seen the item in frozen dinners and chow halls/school lunch circumstances.

But foodreference.com refutes the S.A. idea, crediting the dish to one Dr. James H. Salisbury, fl. 19th century, a food faddist.
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