Hello, what do you think about this dish?
You might find more success over in /food/, where this topic is infinitely more on-topic than the wave of shitposts and off-topic postulations that particular board has become as of late.
Why are Russian bots posting on here? Did Putin accidentally tell them to go to the wrong site?
Anyways, if you want real discussion on ANY topic, just post to DQN, you might actually get replies then.
I will never forgive Nicolas II for losing the Russian Salad.
> The original version of the salad was invented in the 1860s by a cook of Belgian origin, Lucien Olivier, the chef of the Hermitage, one of Moscow's most celebrated restaurants. The exact recipe—particularly that of the dressing—was a zealously guarded secret, but it is known that the salad contained grouse, veal tongue, caviar, lettuce, crayfish tails, capers, and smoked duck, although it is possible that the recipe was varied seasonally.
> At the turn of the 20th century, one of Olivier's sous-chefs, Ivan Ivanov, attempted to steal the recipe. While preparing the dressing one evening in solitude, as was his custom, Olivier was suddenly called away on some emergency. Taking advantage of the opportunity, Ivanov sneaked into Olivier's private kitchen and observed his mise en place, which allowed him to make reasonable assumptions about the recipe of Olivier's famed dressing. Ivanov then left Olivier's employ and went to work as a chef for Moskva, a somewhat inferior restaurant, where he began to serve a suspiciously similar salad under the name "capital salad" (Russian: столичный, tr. stolichny). It was reported by the gourmands of the time, however, that the dressing on the stolichny salad was of a lower quality than Olivier's, meaning that it was "missing something."
like most russian things, it's a cheap, shoddy ripoff of a celebrated foreign innovation
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No, but I certainly wasn't expecting the second and fourth replies to be so earnest.
>the salad contained grouse, veal tongue, caviar, lettuce, crayfish tails, capers, and smoked duck
I always thought salads were mainly green veg....
Borscht
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAu6nakL9lA
by Goldthread
Eat your greens
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Grow mint in your backyard or balcony.