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  "role": "butcher",
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  "what": "A Santa Maria market manager who, in the late 1950s, took a triangular piece of bottom sirloin that was going into the hamburger grinder, seasoned it and put it on a rotisserie. The cut he sold as tri-tip is now the whole town's dish.",
  "story": "The account comes from Larry Viegas, a butcher who worked with him at a Santa Maria Safeway: an excess of hamburger meat, a piece nobody wanted, salt, pepper and garlic salt, forty-five minutes to an hour on the spit. Other people claim the cut elsewhere — an Army butcher in southern California during the war, an Oakland butcher, a New York restaurateur — and the tri-tip record lays those out side by side."
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   "key": "california",
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   "note": "from Anderson Valley to the Santa Maria bench, wherever fog reaches"
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   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "licence": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
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