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Russian salad on a breadstick ring · Anchovy on top

Marinera

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Murcia and Cartagena both claim it; one story says a waiter made it for a sailor who wanted his salad 'to go'.

A crunchy ring-shaped breadstick (rosquilla) piled with ensaladilla rusa and topped with one salted anchovy, eaten in two bites at the bar.

Why it's made this way: It appeared in the late 1970s to early 1980s; Cartagena and Murcia both claim it, and the first known press mention, in 1984, ties it to bars on Murcia's Plaza de las Flores.
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