Glasgow salad

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From the Scottish predilection for fast food.

Noun[edit]

Glasgow salad (countable and uncountable, plural Glasgow salads)

  1. (slang, humorous) A serving of chips/fries.
    • 2012, Tim Moore, You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Around Unloved Britain, Vintage, →ISBN, page 149:
      Nor was I ever able to treat myself to the national drunkard's delight that is the ‘munchy box’: a foot-square pizza carton crammed with onion rings, doner meat shavings, hunks of nan bread and nuggets of assorted bhaji, all served on a bed of Glasgow salad.
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Glasgow_salad&oldid=75850067"