When did Coleslaw....

Coleslaw literally means cabbage salad in late Dutch language. Where it originated. So if you’re calling it slaw and it contains cabbage you’re a dunderhead. If it hasn’t cabbage and you’re calling it coleslaw, likewise. Cole is from the late Dutch work kool, meaning cabbage. Slaw or sla is from the Dutch word salade. Koolsla.
 
When my son was very little, he referred to everything in an American sense. Called lifts elevators, fridges were iceboxes, and rubbish garbage etc.
When corrected his reply was "but why do they say that on the telly?".

I still take the Mick these days and he's 24 🤣
 
Pak_Doo_Ik said:
More importantly when did the devils work that is margarine become ‘spread’
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I was pedantic further up so i may as well be now too.

Butter, spread and margarine are 3 separate entities. Margarine is high fat content and has a minimium fat threshold to be classed as margarine. Spreads are similar to margarine in that they can be spread easily, but they are ;lower fat and are actually called spreads. So what you're calling margarine probably isn't margarine and is in fact called spread.....(hope that's clear....)
 
wilkos_perm said:
I was pedantic further up so i may as well be now too.

Butter, spread and margarine are 3 separate entities. Margarine is high fat content and has a minimium fat threshold to be classed as margarine. Spreads are similar to margarine in that they can be spread easily, but they are ;lower fat and are actually called spreads. So what you're calling margarine probably isn't margarine and is in fact called spread.....(hope that's clear....)
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Not pedantic at all. 10 years I worked in a supermarket and always thought there was butter and everything else (apart from Vitalite & icbinb) was margarine , you live and learn 😁
 
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