A legacy is a terrible thing to taste.

by effenheimer at 01:01 PM on July 14, 2003

While watching a rerun of TNT’s original film “Caesar” (you know I like a well-told story with Romans in it), I noticed Taco Bell was advertising their latest new chicken Caesar wrap thingy that is basically a salad in a tortilla. It didn’t register at first like so many other things on TV that wash over and through the subconscious mind, but about the third time it hit me: this was a tie-in. Somebody at Taco Hell wanted to advertise this thing and might have even held the release of this concoction for this movie.
Fact: The Caesar salad is not so named because of Gaius Julius Caesar, it is so named for the Mexican chef Caesar Cardini of Tijuana who invented the dish in 1924.
The Napolean is named for Napolean though which is cool because almost anything can be Napoleaned if you stack a few items like a sandwich and dump sauce over it. It’s just that easy.
Beef Wellington is named after Lord Wellington. Not a bad dish. Filet mignon wrapped in a pastry crust with mushrooms covered in gravy.
If I had a food item named after me, I would like it to be something savory like a meatloaf pot pie or a meatloaf with a hollow center of cheese covered broccoli or portabella mushrooms or something completely different like a hamloaf.