Chinese Chicken Salad (1968)

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   From the food section in Wednesday's NEW YORK TIMES, 9 October 2002 (about 
LA delis):
  
But perhaps even more than in New York, the local deli owners acknowledged, 
they were compelled to make significant changes in their menus because so 
many customers were health conscious. "When I started, you had three salads — 
chef's salad, cottage cheese and sour cream with canned peaches or pears, and 
Jewish chop suey, which is chopped vegetables with sour cream," said Mr. 
Ginsburg with a laugh. "Now we have a Chinese chicken salad, Cobb salad, you 
name it. Sour cream is on the way out. And God help you if you serve canned 
fruit."
  
   What's the deal with Chinese chicken salad?  Neither John Mariani's 
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN FOOD AND DRINK nor Jean Anderson's AMERICAN CENTURY 
COOKBOOK has it.  There are over 8,000 Google hits!
   The NEW YORK TIMES, 9 July 1978, pg. L16, has a recipe for it.
   The earliest I could find was an ad in the NEW YORK TIMES, 19 May 1968, 
pg. BR47, _The Art of Salad Making_ by Carol Truax:
  
And there are special international salads (from Austrian Apple-Potato Salad  
to Chinese Chicken Salad)...