liberty cabbage

liberty cabbage (Englisch)

Substantiv

Singular	Plural
the liberty cabbage	—

Worttrennung:

lib·er·ty cab·bage, kein Plural

Aussprache:

IPA: US-amerikanisch: [ˈlɪbəɹti ˈkæbɪdʒ]

Hörbeispiele: —

Bedeutungen:

[1] US-amerikanisch, geschichtlich (1918–19), nationalistischer Sprachgebrauch: Sauerkraut

Herkunft:

im Ersten Weltkrieg entstanden und verwendet, um das deutsche Wort „sauerkraut“ zu vermeiden

Synonyme:

[1] sauerkraut

Beispiele:

[1] Guinea Fowls with Liberty Cabbage […] Clean and disjoint guinea fowls. Season pieces by rolling them in a little flour […] Cover Liberty cabbage with hot water, add smoked bacon and sausages.

[1] September.—Made 8 hhds. of Liberty Cabbage; housed onions, tomatoes, canteloupe, watermelons; began the apple picking; supplied the house with vegetables and fruits. N. B.—The frost hit and killed our tender crops on September 11, 1917.

[1] We noticed the monstrous cabbage weighing eighteen pounds, but this was nothing new to us as in the past few days we have made thirty barrels of liberty cabbage.

[1] A glance at the following menus gives an idea of the quality and variety of food served the employe[e]s: […] Supper—Cream of Barley Soup, Wieners and Liberty Cabbage, Pork Chops, Fried Potatoes, Stewed Corn, […]

[1] The largest quantity of vegetables prepared was Liberty cabbage, 661 barrels. If these barrels were placed lengthwise in a row, they would reach a distance of almost one-half a mile.

[1] Utica State Hospital Regular Dietary for Patients week ending June 1, 1919 […] Breakfast: Cereal, milk, syrup, bread, butter, coffee, (toast, fried Hamburg steak). Dinner: Corned beef, gravy, potatoes, coffee, liberty cabbage, bread, […]

[1] "Liberty cabbage," made in Germany and there still known as sauerkraut, has been served at many American army messes during the week, five carloads of the edible having been left behind by the withdrawing German army.

[1] Sauerkraut was rechristened “liberty cabbage,” and hamburgers became “liberty sandwiches.” Libraries removed works of German literature from their shelves, and Theodore Roosevelt and others urged school districts to prohibit the teaching of the German language. Patriotic school boards burned the German books in their districts.

[1] Sauerkraut became liberty cabbage; frankfurters became liberty sausage. (Could the creative members of Congress who coined the term freedom fries in a spasm of anti-French sentiment in 2002 have known of this earlier linguistic inventiveness?) German faculty members were fired from universities. German musicians were fired from orchestras.

Übersetzungen

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Deutsch: Sauerkraut Französisch:

Referenzen und weiterführende Informationen:

[1] Englischer Wikipedia-Artikel „Liberty cabbage“

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