Is ambrosia a salad? (From Homer's The Odyssey)

There is such a thing as ambrosia salad, but in classical mythology, ambrosia is the food of the gods, thought to grant immortality.

As she spoke she drew a table loaded with ambrosia beside him and mixed him some red nectar, so Mercury ate and drank till he had had enough, and then said . . .

From Homer's The Odyssey (Book V).

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