I would suggest that any restaurant that calls a Caesar salad a Caesar salad without including anchovies is misleading the public. anchovies are ground into the salads along with a raw egg. Its like calling a Greek salad a Greek salad with Greek olives.

Usually a customer might tell the waiter to tell the chef not to add the raw egg but the anchovies are the main ingredient that gives the salad its taste.

This practice is disturbing and instead of charging the OP more for anchovies the restaurant ought to have reduced their price because they skipped the anchovies.

goodie an I don't like the restaurant charge post that's current. We're all over this.
If I ask for something extra and I want to know what the charge is I ask.
this is from Wikipedia which I trust as far as I can throw it if I don't need an academic answer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_salad
It says the original Caesar did not have anchovies. I never got one with anchovies, but if I knew you could,
I would be careful to get them and ask how much? And I'd order Caesar salad instead of thinking it's dull.

You do that!

um, what does your post mean?

My my...such drama when it comes to Caesar Salad!

FROM KITCHENPROJECT.COM

There are many claims as to who invented Caesar salad.

Caesar (Cesare) Cardini Caesar was born near Lago Maggiore, Italy, in 1896; he and his brother Alex emigrated to the U.S. after World War I. The Cardini's lived in San Diego but operated a restaurant in Tijuana to circumvent Prohibition.

Where was it Invented?

According to Caesar's daughter Rosa, on July 4th 1924 the salad was created on a busy weekend at Caesar's Restaurant. It is said that Caesar was short of supplies and didn't want to disappoint the customers so he concocted this salad with what was on hand. To add a flair to this he prepared it at the table. This story is not certifiable however but it very well could have happened. I can vouch for the fact that this happens frequently in the restaurant business. The salad soon became a hit and people came to the restaurant just to get the salad. In particular the Hollywood set loved Caesars

Some of Caesar's friends and family dispute this claim.

Paul Maggiora, a partner of the Cardini's, claimed to have tossed the first Caesar's salad in 1927 for American airmen from San Diego and called it "Aviator's Salad. Caesar's brother Alex had claimed to have developed the salad (he too allegedly called it "aviator's salad"). Livio Santini claimed he made the salad from a recipe of his mother, in the kitchen of Caesar's restaurant when he was 18 years old, in 1925, and that Caesar took the recipe from him.



Carla Cardini making Aviator salad for a class

The original name was the Aviator's Salad. Alex Cardini, my grandfather, was a pilot for the Italian Air Force during World War I before he moved to Tijuana to join my great-uncle Caesar. Remember,

it was Prohibition, and Tijuana was where people went to party. Caesar's Place, my great-uncle's bar and restaurant, was very popular. After a long night of drinking and missing curfew, a group of Rockwell Field Air Force pilots woke up at Caesar's, and what Alex made for them for breakfast that morning is what we know today as Caesar Salad. That day he called it the Aviator's Salad in honor of his flying buddies, but as the salad gained popularity with visitors from Southern California it evolved into the Caesar Salad. “Let's go to Caesar's and have that salad …”

Subsequently, when Alex Cardini moved to Mexico City, where he opened three restaurants, the salad was listed on his menu as "the original Alex Cardini Caesar salad."

raw egg? no one serves anything with raw egg anymore. including caesar salads.

If you coddle the egg it works!

Which is why you never get a true Caesar Salad anymore, and why they quit making it at the table. (Cracking the egg into the bowl and whisking it up would probably cause a riot.)

salmonella anyone? that is why there is no more raw egg! I did love it when they prepared the whole thing table-side.

Several comments:

Caesar Dressing requires the use of only the yolk of the egg. Properly done, the egg is coddled, (lightly or barely cooked) and then the yolk is whisked into the dressing. Addressing your health risk concern, the chances of contracting Salmonella from a coddled egg in Caesar dressing is 1 : 30,000.

This thread has gotten very far off track. My original post addressed the hidden charge of $1.99 for 4 crumby Anchovy filets at Cane Garden. Now we are into sharing Caesar Salad recipes and talking about health risks associated with eating raw eggs. Someone should monitor this stuff and not allow comments that have noting to do with the original subject of the Thread.

I do. Been doing it for nearly 50 years and no one has had any ill effect.

Remember as kids, we were given eggnog with raw egg? YUM.

Over easy isn't fully cooked either.

Who knows? I think that the issue with raw egg is if it stays for a long time at room temperature, you can have bad stuff growin' in it.

That in itself is off topic! :icon_hungry:

I think everyone was just trying to add value to the thread.

Dang I love you Steve. I hope Robin doesn't mind.