Meanings
nounGlasgow salad (countable and uncountable, plural Glasgow salads)
plural Glasgow salads
- countablehumorousslanguncountableA serving of chips/fries.
Nor was I ever able to treat myself to the national drunkard's delight that is the ‘munchy box’: a foot-square pizza carton crammed with onion rings, doner meat shavings, hunks of nan bread and nuggets of assorted bhaji, all served on a bed of Glasgow salad.
2012, Tim Moore, You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Around Unloved Britain, Vintage, →ISBN, page 149
Origin
From the Scottish predilection for fast food.
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