There’s this great youtoobs channel I watch a lot. It’s this attorney who shows you how to select smoked salmon in the supermarket.
It’s the Lox Picking Lawyer.
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fucking got me, good one
I’m proud of that one. Sometimes the stars and my ADHD align.
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Omfg why do we bother calling it smoked salmon when lox is much cooler?
Many people call it lox. You can too!
Not me. Tis a silly word. Now begone peasant. I must get back to mine shrubberies.
For me, those are two different (but equally delicious things): https://www.foodnetwork.com/how-to/packages/food-network-essentials/lox-vs-smoked-salmon
Ya for sure it’s a difference. Both are awesome. I’m an east coast Jew, obviously raised in bagels and lox. But now I live on the west coast where Jews are rare and strange. People here don’t know words like “lox” or “shmear”, so sometimes I just call it smoked salmon the way you might call latkes “potato pancakes”.
But now my new brother in law manages a salmon hatchery and gives us jars of smoked salmon he makes and it’s so unbelievably good. Is lox cured instead of smoked? Idk. Both great. It’s splitting hairs really, isn’t it? Salmon is so good!
Lox means specifically smoked salmon? Odd. "Lax" is the swedish word for just "salmon". I really thought lox was just another word for salmon.
The German word for salmon is "Lachs" but it's pronounced "Lax". I wonder who had the word first
A couple thousand years ago German and English hadn’t even split off from each other — they were the same language.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but English didn't exist 8000 years ago. Olde English was synthesized from numerous Germanic dialects in the 5th century, which was about 1600 years ago. Not only that, but "lox" isn't an English word, it's Yiddish, and it wasn't introduced into the English speaking world until 1934 when a wave of Jewish immigrants moved to Western Europe and North America.
Yes, English didn't exist 8000 years ago. Instead, there was a language called Proto-Indoeuropean spoken on the steppes of Ukraine. Just like how Latin spread and local dialects slowly became Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian, etc., PIE spread out and its descendants became Greek, Sanskrit, Russian, Latin, German, etc.
Part of what happened over time was sound shifts. For example, PIE p morphed into an f in Proto-Germanic. Father and the Latin word pater go back to the same PIE root word, but father exhibits the sound change of p -> f you saw in Germanic languages.
Similarly, Spanish has a sound change where f changed into h. So the Latin word fabulari (to chat) became hablar in Spanish and falar in Portuguese.
The point of the article is that the PIE word for salmon, laks, by random chance didn't really morph much in Germanic languages. So you have lax, lox, lachs, etc.
Interestingly, the Old English word for salmon was leax, and that made its way into Middle English and early Modern English as lax. It died out in favor of the French-derived salmon, and then we borrowed lox back from Yiddish.
It's like if beef entirely replaced cow, then we borrowed back koe or kuh from Dutch or German.
Try reading it differently.
It's a really old word (oldest) that is currently used in the English language.
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Liquid Oxygen? Wow I didn't know it was that old.
disclaimer
This is sarcasm.
Ancient Sumerian refrigeration technology was seriously underrated: -297°F was no problem for them
As a native English speaker who'd never heard of this word - TIL x2
Me neither lol. Ive lived my whole life in Ireland for context. I've seen and heard smoked salmon plenty of times but never lox
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This is cool enough that all Indo-European languages should start calling salmon Lox again.
With the right strategy and current technology, we should be able to evolve all current Indo-European languages back to a singular language over a thousand years or so. That would unite half the world in language.
A highly noble goal. We could call it, the Lox plan.
German already calls it Lachs.
And in Swedish it's Lax. Pretty sure it's Laks in Norwegian as well.
Indeed it is! And lax in Icelandic as well, which remains the closest to old Norse.
It's just the British trying to be fancy with their salmon.
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Excellent. One step in the right direction. Good guy Germany.
Now that's interesting. The German word for salmon is "Lachs" [laks] which is basically the same as "lox" [lɔks]. The change from the "ɔ" sound to the "a" sound likely has to do with the Great Vowel Shift
The English word comes from the Yiddish "laks," which comes from German. So while it is pronounced the same in English as it was 8,000 years ago, it was also introduced to English relatively recently, in 1934.
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finally, I understand now, what means first part of my nickname, besides Liquid OXygen
I work for a small company owned and run by a Jewish family
One of their favorite jokes goes like this:
You can't hold us in a prison cell! We eat lox for breakfast!
(And we do indeed have bagels and lox brought in regularly)
The most important words are the oldest
Important words undergo sound changes all the time.
For example, in Germanic languages, Proto Indoeuropean p sounds consistently morphed into f sounds. So the PIE word pods became Proto Germanic fots became English foot. pəter became fader became father. The preposition per became fur became for.
Lox is mostly unusual in that it didn't have any major sound changes affect it in Germanic languages.
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The coolness of this is not lox on me.
Mmm laks
It's also a common abbreviation for liquid oxygen in rocket engineering.
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