Definitions

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  • noun A type of non-rendered underskin pig fat consumed in Central and Eastern Europe, usually seasoned

Etymologies

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From Proto-Slavic *sadlo.

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Examples

  • "There is nothing more important to a Ukrainian than 'salo'," Poltava mayor Andriy Matkovsky told a reporter from the German News Agency dpa, "Salo (raw pork fat) is our national food, it is to us what hamburgers are to Americans or sausage is to Germans."

    China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper 2010

  • An estimated crowd of 10,000 braved temperatures below 20 degrees Celsius to throng Poltava's main pedestrian avenue, and sample and purchase portions of 1.5 tonnes of "salo" raw fat on sale from kiosks and picnic tables pitched on snowy sidewalks.

    China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper 2010

  • "There is nothing more important to a Ukrainian than 'salo'," Poltava mayor Andriy Matkovsky told a reporter from the German News Agency dpa, "Salo (raw pork fat) is our national food, it is to us what hamburgers are to Americans or sausage is to Germans."

    China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper 2010

  • 6 March 2009: yet another disturbing film to make you queasy enough to regurgitate your dinner, the 1975 italian film "salo"!

    NAACHGAANA 2009

  • 6 March 2009: yet another disturbing film to make you queasy enough to regurgitate your dinner, the 1975 italian film "salo"!

    NAACHGAANA 2009

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    CBS is Born to Rock 2008

  • We sank our butter knives into the large lump of opaque, garlicky white salo, the lard spread that gleamed whitely from a glazed saucer of hardened clay next to the woven-straw bread basket.

    Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

  • We sank our butter knives into the large lump of opaque, garlicky white salo, the lard spread that gleamed whitely from a glazed saucer of hardened clay next to the woven-straw bread basket.

    Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

  • He said that the Ukranian Jews eat their salo salted pig fat with garlic instead of with onions, which is the Christian tradition.

    Israeli SC Okays The Other White Meat: Khazzar | Jewschool 2004

  • I was given the first serving of Lviv's chocolate salo.

    Archive 2004-06-01 2004

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