ProbableNamed from the place
Glasgow salad
noun · first attested 20th century
A joke about Scotland's diet, told in the form of a menu item.
A portion of chips.
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- 20th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Glasgow salad
The humor is the substitution of fried potato for anything green, aimed at the city with the worst health statistics in Britain. It belongs with the deep-fried Mars bar, which was invented in a chip shop in Stonehaven in 1992 and has been a national joke ever since. Glasgow also supplies English with the Glasgow kiss and the Glasgow smile.
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