Glasgow salad

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A joking name for a plate of chips often served with haggis

noun

Slang

: ensalada de Glasgow

After a night out, he ordered a Glasgow salad made of crispy chips topped with haggis.

Examples

Their menu humorously listed chips and haggis as a Glasgow salad.
I ordered a Glasgow salad with haggis on the side.
After a night out, he ordered a Glasgow salad to satisfy his hunger.
She laughed when the waiter offered her a Glasgow salad as the healthy option.
Have you ever tried a Glasgow salad?
On the menu, the Glasgow salad featured traditional Scottish ingredients like chips and haggis.
When she visited Glasgow, she couldn't resist trying the local specialty known as a Glasgow salad.

Surface Forms

Glasgow salad singular

Glasgow salads plural

Morphology

Glasgow + salad

A learner who knows 'Glasgow' and 'salad' can reasonably infer a dish associated with the city (place-name + food), so there is some compositional clue. However, the humorous/regionally specific sense (i.e. referring to chips/fries or a haggis-related joke) is culturally conditioned and not directly derivable from the constituents, making the expression only partially predictable to learners.

Etymology

Glasgow salad is a joking name from Scotland for a plate of chips. People call fried chips a salad to make a funny contrast with a green 'salad', so the phrase now means a hearty plate of chips often served with haggis, not a healthy salad.