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Caesar salad was invented in Mexico, not Italy.

Why it is true

It was created in the 1920s by Italian-American chef Caesar Cardini in his restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico, to serve Hollywood celebrities fleeing Prohibition.

Source: Food History

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