salt goose

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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goose meat pickled in salt.

Quotations

1898

While here [York Factory] we some days had "salt goose" instead of beef for dinner.

1941

Salt Goose [was] . . . a staple article of diet, the daily meat ration being one goose per man. Some years the numbers preserved were phenomenal.