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As you can probably deduce by its name, Pensacola Gaspachee Salad is one of the more region specific recipes from Lari Robling's Endangered Recipes. According to Florida food historian Wilmer Mitchell, this salad was inspired by Spanish and Italian sailors who would make gazpacho and dip their hardtack into it. Although I've never given much thought to sailors eating gazpacho, I suppose it would do a good job of keeping scurvy away.
Somehow soup and crackers evolved into salad with crackers. In Pensacola there are dozens of variations on this salad. Robling's version is a crunchy concoction of tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, and bell peppers in a slightly sour mayonnaise dressing.
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