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Watergate Salad: A Fluffy Green Bite Of Washington, D.C.'s Past

We may think of salads as leafy and green, but the Watergate salad is only the latter. A combination of pistachio pudding mix, canned pineapple, whipped cream and chopped nuts, the salad is the shade of a Shamrock Shake ... sort of a minty chartreuse. Tyrone Turner/WAMU hide caption

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Watergate Salad: A Fluffy Green Bite Of Washington, D.C.'s Past

Thirty years ago, if you walked into a deli in Washington, D.C., you might find a dish called "Watergate Salad." And it's not bad. Soft. Tangy. You can taste why this caught on. And why it went away.

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9 Killed In Ohio Shooting

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9 Killed In Ohio Shooting

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Protesters In Hong Kong And Moscow On Their Motivations

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El Paso Latest

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El Paso Latest

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Middle East

Iran Seizes Foreign Oil Tanker, State Media Say

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Iran Seizes Foreign Oil Tanker, State Media Say

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Sunday Puzzle: Great Crate

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Sunday Puzzle: Great Crate

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2 Shootings In 24 Hours

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Coal Workers Waiting On Paychecks After Company Declares Bankruptcy

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Coal Workers Waiting On Paychecks After Company Declares Bankruptcy

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'Bernadette' Is A Cautionary Tale About Putting Creativity Aside After Kids

Cate Blanchett stars as a mom on the run in the new movie adaptation of Where'd You Go, Bernadette. Wilson Webb hide caption

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'Bernadette' Is A Cautionary Tale About Putting Creativity Aside After Kids

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'Bernadette' Is A Cautionary Tale About Putting Creativity Aside After Kids

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Feel Again OneRepublic

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Rep. Veronica Escobar On El Paso Shooting

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Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley On Shooting

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El Paso Shooter's Connection To Far-Right Violence

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El Paso Shooter's Connection To Far-Right Violence

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Seattle Housing Experiment

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Seattle Housing Experiment

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Mass Shootings In 2019

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Observatory Ry Cooder

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Watergate Salad: A Fluffy Green Bite Of Washington, D.C.'s Past

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Watergate Salad: A Fluffy Green Bite Of Washington, D.C.'s Past

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National

Update On El Paso And Dayton Shootings

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World

Canadians Respond To U.S. Medication Import Plans

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Canadians Respond To U.S. Medication Import Plans

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Author Interviews

A History Of The Mosquito, 'Our Deadliest Predator'

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Hannah Brown On 'The Bachelorette'

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The World in the Evening David Pritchard

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National

Volunteers Help In El Paso

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