Is Snail Salad a"regionalism" (or even a word?)

[Peter A. McGraw]

--On Tuesday, January 28, 2003 1:43 PM -0500 "Baker, John"
<JMB at STRADLEY.COM> wrote:

>         Does "snail salad" refer generally to any salad containing
> snails, or does it refer specifically to only one specific kind of salad
> with snails?  (I've never encountered the term, so cannot say.)  If the
> latter, it seems to me that it has a much better claim than "committee
> chairperson" to being a genuine compound word.

Or, e.g., if it DOESN'T actually contain snails, but rather something that
reminded its inventor of snails.  I.e., if the term is something like
"dirty rice."

Peter Mc.

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                               Peter A. McGraw
                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu