Salad

[saparris]

Back to salad.....

If salad was originally a form of preserving food, is the term salad pickles redundant?

[LukeJavan8]

Probably in caroliner or appelchooey.
Never heard of them myself. Are they green??

[saparris]

Salad pickles are also called bread and butter pickles, but I've seen them marketed both ways--and not just in the South.

Personally, I'd rather not eat pickles with bread and butter. I prefer honey, jelly, or preserves.

[LukeJavan8]

I totally love bread and butter pickles. Forgot about them
since I do little cooking, burn water trying to boil it, as
you know: so I put them on my grocery list.

Don't eat much bread and butter, with or without
pickles: usually PB & J, for the reasons above.

Still never heard of salad pickles, will check out labels
when in the pickle section of the grocery, wherever that
is

and I usually buy my salads pre-made with a little packet
of dressing. Saves on Iceberg (which has no food value)
romaine, etc. Like spinach too!

[saparris]

Be careful in the salad section. That's where they keep the rape.

[LukeJavan8]

Another appelchooey - ism?
You lost me on that one.

[saparris]

Rape is a leafy green vegetable, much like spinach.

[LukeJavan8]

Not sold here, at least not in the produce section of
any store I have ever been in. Maybe some specialty
place I never visit. But I am usually careful in the
produce section: that is where most pick-ups are
supposed to be, according to TV which is all-knowing
in everything.

[saparris]

If you're picking up anything but groceries (or being picked up) in a supermarket, you're in the wrong supermarket.

However, if it's buy one, get one free........

[Slava]

Rape is a leafy green vegetable, much like spinach.

It's also the leftovers from squishing grapes to make wine.

[Slava]

Going all the way back to the salt of salad, it appears that souse is also related. One would souse their veggies or whatnot, which meant soaking them in a brine-like liquid.

This is what we do when we pickle things, which is what the Russian "solyonnie" means: pickled.

So, if you're pickled you're soused, and vice-versa.

How booze entered the picture, i do not know. Last I knew, it wasn't particularly salty. Liquid, yes. Salty, no.

[beck123]

Rape is a leafy green vegetable, much like spinach.

The brain police have changed the name of "rape" to "canola." In my area, the leaves are generally not marketed, but the oil, pressed from seeds, is quite common everywhere. If I remember, it's a cold-weather plant, and most of ours comes from Canada.

[beck123]

Rape is a leafy green vegetable, much like spinach.

It's also the leftovers from squishing grapes to make wine.

The more commonly-used word for the grape leftovers is "must," and its presence or absence in the subsequent steps of wine-making are very influential in the outcome of the product. Without must, for example, our red wines would not be red, because the greatest part of the red color is derived from the skins. Even some champagnes are actually made with red grapes, minus the must.

[beck123]

How booze entered the picture, i do not know. Last I knew, it wasn't particularly salty. Liquid, yes. Salty, no.

Vinegar was a common alternative to salt for preserving foods, and vinegar was derived exclusively from wine in the old days, so there's the link.

Of course, alcohol itself is a good preservative, too. Charles Darwin later complained that many of the specimens he send to England on home-bound British vessels never made it, because the sailors would open the kegs (in which the specimens were preserved in alcohol) and drink the liquid. To this day, British seamen use the phrase, "having a sip of the admiral" to mean having a drink, because Admiral Nelson's body was sent home from Trafalgar in a keg of rum.

[LukeJavan8]

Going all the way back to the salt of salad, it appears that souse is also related. One would souse their veggies or whatnot, which meant soaking them in a brine-like liquid.

This is what we do when we pickle things, which is what the Russian "solyonnie" means: pickled.

So, if you're pickled you're soused, and vice-versa.

How booze entered the picture, i do not know. Last I knew, it wasn't particularly salty. Liquid, yes. Salty, no.

I volunteer at an Alcoholic's rehab: the word "soused"
comes up all the time.