"Any city worth its salt has its own sandwich ... but how many cities have their own salad?"
-- Andy Huse, author and Florida studies curator at the University of South Florida’s libraries
Over half a million bowls of it are whipped up tableside every year at Columbia Restaurants in Sand Key, Sarasota, St. Augustine and Celebration.
Tourists munch on the dish at Tampa International Airport before catching a flight home.
The recipe has been prepared on live television for Kelly Ripa and is plastered across the internet on food blogs and TikToks.
But some swear the Original 1905 Salad tastes different in Ybor City, washed down with a pitcher of sangria and sopped up with a chunk of La Segunda Cuban bread at the restaurant’s original location.
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