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If you are still in Dunedin, you need to continue your culinary quests. Because of your failure, I have to lower your position on my Highly Esteemed Pedestal down a notch or two. But, first, whisper to your hawkeyed proofreader she missed the missing N in Morning Glory.

Now about the potato salad in the Greek Salad or whatever it was called. Drive a few miles north to Tarpon Springs, talk to the proprietors of some of the Sponge Dock restaurants, and you will learn historically significant reasons -- culinary, cultural, and economic -- why potato salad has a rather revered placement in this salad.

A fellow seeker on this never-ending journey for "why this food in this place" -- Marcie

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Also. Will work hard to move myself back up a notch or two.

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Love this comment. Would love recommendations. Also love potato salad! Intrigued by the history. (Almost seemed Japanese or Hawaiian.) And thanks for the correction.

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https://www.tampabay.com/things-to-do/food/dining/how-did-potato-salad-get-in-the-middle-of-tarpon-springs-greek-salad/2280459/

Another expert on this subject is my culinary pal Pat Ernst Dugan, from (Corning) Finger Lakes now living in Dunedin when she isn't traveling all over the globe with her musical husband, the founder of world-famous "New Horizons" bands for seniors. She included said dish in Greek class taught pre-Covid at 92-year-old Ginger Howell's famous "Seasonal Kitchen" in Pittsford (Mendon) NY.

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