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How Florida's Signature 1905 Salad Came To Be By Joe Hoeffner Sept. 28, 2025 4:20 pm EST

There are many things one could say about the state of Florida, but "possessing a sense of restraint" is not necessarily among them. Alligators, plastic flamingos, everything about Miami — it's just a lot, all the time. So it may come as a surprise that one of the state's best-loved dishes is a sensible salad. Perhaps you haven't even heard of it before. But before you polish off your Cuban sandwich and your key lime pie ( which is weirdly not Florida's state dessert ), why not whet your appetite with a 1905 salad, which was invented in a Florida restaurant in the 1940s?

If you've never had it before, a 1905 salad is a tremendously flavorful salad made from a whole host of diff

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