Salisbury steak was health food before it became cafeteria nostalgia
by Jason Weisberger from Boing Boing on (#77543)
Before becoming a 1980s TV-dinner hall of famer, Salisbury steak was a 19th-century health fad. Dr. James Salisbury looked at chopped beef and somehow saw medicine; America looked at it and covered it in gravy.
Dr. Salisbury wanted to start a high-beef-scraps diet, and apparently only missed on the "please cover it in cholesterol" attractant. - Read the rest
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