Rhode Island credited with giving the world chicken salad

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THE HISTORY of chicken salad apparently can be traced back to a meat market in South Kingstown in 1863. / COURTESY STOP & SHOP SUPERMARKET CO.
THE HISTORY of chicken salad apparently can be traced back to a meat market in South Kingstown in 1863. / COURTESY STOP & SHOP SUPERMARKET CO.

PROVIDENCE – Move over clam cakes and coffee milk, Rhode Island is apparently the “birthplace” of another beloved consumable: chicken salad. In marking National Chicken Salad Day on June 3, Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. noted that it’s believed that the American form of the dish was first served in South Kingstown in 1863 by

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  1. Bravo! Props to Liam Gray, owner of Town Meats in the Village of Wakefield. Who in 1863 introduced Chicken Salad to the world!

    And we can certainly add Coffee Syrup, Clear and Red Chowder as well as Grilled Pizza to this list of “other dishes that are said to have originated in Rhode Island include stuffed clams, bakery pizza, hot wieners, dynamite sandwiches, doughboys and johnnycakes.”!

    And contrary to the popular belief that Coffee Syrup was first manufactured in a “neighboring state”, we have the timeline to prove it originate in Cumberland, Rhode Island by chemist Daniel Abelson circa 1927! The Arabian Brand Coffee Syrup brand debuted with their first commercial ad as documented by the D. Abelson & Son company in the 1927 Detroit Convention Center publication: The Ice Cream Trade Journal.

    Our RI State Drink is Coffee Milk, and we have the claim-to-fame that the first coffee syrup it was made with originated in Rhode Island!

    Feel free to contact me for the documentation, Steve Maciel.