DCHP-3

Eskimo salad

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the half-digested moss found in the stomach of a caribou and highly prized as food by the Eskimos.

Quotations

1882
[He then regales himself with some of the spinach-like contents of the paunch, and by way of filling in the time and the little crinkles of his stomach, cuts off and eats such little portions of fat as are exposed in the process of butchering.]
1942
Removing the stomach [of a caribou] full of "Eskimo salad". . . .
1948
Some Eskimo tribes even eat the half digested contents of the stomach. It is chewed-up moss and we call it Eskimo salad.