Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> In article >, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
>
>>Between Russian Dressing and Thousand Island Dressing? Recipes for
>>each overlap the other with so many of the ingredients that's it's
>>difficult to tell one from the other in many cases. Some histories
>>claim that Russian Dressing was the progenitor of TID.
>>
>>I make my own version of "something", but I'm not sure which one to
>>call it. Any ideas on the definitive difference
>
>
> I always think of Thousand Island as pink and with bits of stuff
> visible; I think of Russian dressing as smooth and red. I could be
> wrong. Definitive? Yeah, sure. 8-)

The smooth pink/reddish one is French Dressing. Russian Dressing has
bits of stuff in it, just as does the Thousand Island Dressing, at
least in New York City.