It Is On Your Salads,

but what is it? and where did it come from?

it is Thousand Island, one of the classic salad dressings, but there's a lot of confusion over who lays claim to the recipe, consisting of mayonnaise, ketchup, relish, and seasonings, what makes this topping so popular it even appears on Big Macs? photograph Wikimedia Commons, the one aspect of the condiments origin story that remains consistent throughout various tellings is that it comes from the Thousand Islands region of Upstate New York, this archipelago, actually made up of more than 1800 islands, sits in the St. Lawrence River between Canada and New York, for the full story of where the salad dressing originated have look here, as it happens as with most stories like this there are two contenders, so a mix of the two might be near what really happened!