Word Salad (1956); "Capicolla" at Milano Market

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WORD SALAD

   How could I not do "word salad"?
   Andrew Sullivan today mentions Brit Hume's use of "word salad."  Here it is, from the Dow Jones database:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY Roundtable
Tony Snow, Bill Kristol, Mara Liasson, Juan Williams, Brit Hume
02/02/2003
Fox News: Fox News Sunday
(...)
BRIT HUME, FOX NEWS WASHINGTON MANAGING EDITOR: (...)
HUME: There's a smoking gun in place if you read U.N. Resolution 1441 carefully for what it says. It imposes all these obligations on Iraq to disarm and moreover to show that it has disarmed and to explain and demonstrate what it has done with the weapons the U.N. knew that Iraq had, the ones you asked the ambassador about and he responded with what amounted to word salad.

All of that is supposed to be done. Failure to do that constitutes a further material breach. Hans Blix's testimony before the U.N. last Monday demonstrated, it seems to me, to any reasonable person that we now have a further material breach calling for serious consequences. (...)


   This is the earliest hit (1979) on OCLC Worldcat:

Title: Word salad
Corp Author(s): Fischer-Z (Musical group) ; prf
Publication: Los Angeles, Calif. :; United Artists Records,
Year: 1979
Description: 1 sound disc :; analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ;; 12 in.
Language: English
Standard No: Publisher: UA-LA975-H; United Artists Records; LCCN: 95-789181
Contents: First impressions -- Acrobats -- The worker -- Spiders -- Remember Russia -- The French let her -- Lies -- Wax dolls -- Headlines -- Nice to know -- Billy and the motorway police -- Lemmings.
 SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Rock music -- 1971-1980.
Note(s): Brief record./ Participants: Performed by Fischer-Z.
Material Type: Music (msr); LP (lps)
Document Type: Sound Recording
Entry: 19951019
Update: 20020730
Accession No: OCLC: 33331045
Database: WorldCat

   The earliest hit (of 19 total) in the NEW YORK TIMES is from 1956:

   8 January 1956, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. SM7:
   It is hardly possible to communicate effectively with patients who (like many psychotics) refuse utterly to speak or are in a catatonic stupor; or who speak only "word salad" (incomprehensible gibberish) or are convinced the ward radio is delivering insults to them personally.

   21 March 1971, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. D17:
   On one level (Heathcote--ed.) Williams's play, which makes brilliant use of TV sets on stage, is a fantastic word salad, food for a high-energy inter-brain buzz.

   25 May 1987, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 21 (A story about Yale University, the leading college of New Haven, CT--ed.):
   "Giamatti had a very flamboyant rhetorical style," said Fred C. Robinson, a professor of English.  "He could make word salads by the dozen."

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"CAPICOLLA" AT MILANO MARKET

   I went out and re-checked.
   The Milano Market is on Broadway, between West 112 and 113 Streets.  It's about fifty feet away from Tom's Restaurant (made famous in SEINFELD).
   "WE NOW CARRY A FULL LINE OF PRIME MEAT & SAUSAGE" a sign declares.  The special is:

Citterio
cooked
CAPICOLLA
$5.99 lb.