Watergate salad

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Watergate salad is a sweet-tasting dessert salad made from combining pistachio-flavoured instant pudding, whipped topping, crushed pineapple, and mini marshmallows. There are many slight variations with additional ingredients. Watergate salad is similar to ambrosia salad.

No one is really sure of where the name came from. Kraft Corporate Affairs said, "We developed the recipe for Pistachio Pineapple Delight. It was in 1975, the same year that pistachio pudding mix came out." Kraft, however, didn't refer to it as Watergate Salad until consumers started requesting the recipe for it under the name. "According to Kraft Kitchens, when the recipe for Pistachio Pineapple Delight was sent out, an unnamed Chicago food editor renamed it Watergate Salad to promote interest in the recipe when she printed it in her column." Neither the article nor editor has been tracked down, however.