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Thousand Island dressing, pink in color, is a variety of salad dressing, a variant of Russian dressing, commonly made of mayonnaise, ketchup, and a mixture of finely chopped vegetables, most often pickles, onions, bell peppers, and/or green olives; chopped hard-boiled egg is also common. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... —Cleopatra, in Shakespeares Antony and Cleopatra, 1606 A salad is a food item generally served either prior to or after the main dish as a separate course, as a main course in itself, or as a side dish accompanying the main dish. ... Russian dressing in United States cooking is a salad dressing composed of a base of mayonnaise or yogurt with ketchup, horseradish, pimentos, and chives and/or other spices added. ... For the song by The Smashing Pumpkins, see Mayonaise (song). ... This article is about the condiment. ... A deli pickle. ... For other uses, see Onion (disambiguation). ... Binomial name Capsicum annuum L. For green peppercorns, see Black pepper. ... Binomial name L. 19th century illustration The Olive (Olea europaea) is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, native to coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean region, from Lebanon and the maritime parts of Asia Minor and northern Iran at the south end of the Caspian Sea. ... An egg is a body consisting of an ovum surrounded by layers of membranes and an outer casing of some type, which acts to nourish and protect a developing embryo. ...

It is used both in salads and as a sauce on sandwiches, especially in fast-food restaurants. Fast food is food cooked in bulk and in advance and kept warm, or reheated to order. ...

It tastes (and appears to be) very similar to Burger sauce, which is a 'simpler' version of thousand island dressing and is commonly used in fast food outlets in the UK. Burger sauce is made out of similar ingredients, such as tomato ketchup, mustard and mayonnaise. In many areas of Europe, what is marketed as "American Dressing" is actually Thousand Island Dressing.

Origins

Thousand Island dressing has been cited in print since at least 1912, but there are multiple conflicting stories about its origins:

1. It was invented at Chicago's Blackstone Hotel in 1910.[1]
2. Sophia LaLonde invented it in the first decades of the 20th century, substituting mayonnaise for the yogurt used in Russian dressing, and added pickle relish, chives and, sometimes, chopped, hard-boiled eggs. The dressing was popularized by one of her dinner guests, actress May Irwin, who gave the condiment its name, after LaLonde's home, the Thousand Islands region of upstate New York and Eastern Ontario.
3. The name refers to the multitude of small specks of pickle usually found in the dressing.
4. George Boldt, of Waldorf-Astoria Hotel fame, popularized it by instructing his maitre d'hotel, Oscar Tschirky, to put the dressing on the hotel's menu. Boldt had a home called Boldt Castle on one of the Thousand Islands.

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Uses

Thousand Island dressing is an ingredient in a Reuben sandwich, along with corned beef, sauerkraut, and marble rye bread (although sometimes Russian dressing is used instead). One half of a Reuben sandwich. ... Sauerkraut and sausage on a plate Pickled Eisbein, served with Sauerkraut Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. ... Russian dressing in United States cooking is a salad dressing composed of a base of mayonnaise or yogurt with ketchup, horseradish, pimentos, and chives and/or other spices added. ...

In the 1950s, Thousand Island dressing became a standard condiment, used on sandwiches and salads alike. It is widely used in fast-food restaurants.

• Hardee's uses a type of Thousand Island dressing on its Big Twin sandwich.
• McDonald's special sauce for Big Mac hamburger sandwiches is similar to a sweet Thousand Island dressing.
• Arby's, a roast beef chain, uses Thousand Island dressing in their Market Fresh Reuben sandwich.
• Wendy's uses it on its promotional Wendy Melt.
• Burger King uses it on its Stacker line of sandwiches.
• In-N-Out Burger uses it on their hamburgers and animal-style fries.

• Steak n Shake, a combination diner/fast food restaurant chain, dresses the Frisco Melt, All-American Melt, Chicken Melt, and Turkey Melt with Thousand Island dressing.
• Corner Bakery uses Thousand Island on its "Turkey Derby" sandwich.
• Around half of the selections on the menu at Pizza Hut in Hong Kong use a Thousand Island dressing for the base, instead of traditional tomato sauce. [2]
• "Sandwich spread" sold by Kraft, and other condiment makers, is simply thicker Thousand Island dressing, which can be spread more easily on bread.
• Cooks in rural areas, where commercial salad dressings were slower to appear, often made a version of thousand island, with or without pickles, from ingredients which were commonly available. It was typically called simply salad dressing.

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