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Greece
38.5000°N 23.0000°E · Q41
2 English words in this atlas trace back to Greece. It sits in Greece.
Greek yogurtnoun · 20th century
Well attestedStrained yogurt is named for one country among many that make it.
Straining is common across the eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. English-speaking markets settled on the Greek label.
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Greek saladnoun · 20th century
Well attestedIn Greece nobody calls it Greek.
The Greek name is horiatiki, meaning village salad, and it says nothing about the country; the qualifier Greek exists for people ordering it abroad. It contains no lettuce, and the feta is laid on top in a single slab rather than crumbled through it. English acquired the dish with mass tourism to Greece from the 1960s.
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