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Sainsbury's
Sainsbury's (J Sainsbury plc) is the UK's second largest grocer, founded in 1869 by John James and Mary Ann Sainsbury in Drury Lane, London. It runs 600+ supermarkets, 885 convenience stores, and brands including Argos, Habitat, Tu, Nectar, and Sainsbury's Bank, with a 15.2% grocery market share behind Tesco.
Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day
Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day, known in French as the fête nationale du Québec, is Quebec's national holiday, celebrated each June 24 and marked by francophone communities across Canada.
Saison
Saison (French for "season") is a dry, highly attenuated Belgian farmhouse ale from Wallonia, historically brewed in winter for summer farm workers; defined by peppery, estery saison yeast, 85–95% attenuation, high carbonation, and benchmark Saison Dupont.
Sajikdan
Sajikdan (사직단, 社稷壇) is the Joseon dynasty's state altar to the gods of soil and grain, built west of Gyeongbokgung in Seoul in 1395 and paired with Jongmyo as a metonym for the state.
Sake Museum Ponshu-kan
Ponshu-kan (ぽんしゅ館) is a Niigata sake museum and shop chain opened in 1995 at Echigo-Yuzawa Station, with branches at Nagaoka and Niigata stations, offering coin-operated tasting of all 89 prefectural breweries' brands (111 labels) and sake baths, bomb onigiri, and local foods.
Salad
Salad: cold dish of mixed vegetables, fruit, meat, seafood, eggs, or grains served with a dressing, from Latin herba salata (salted herb); a ready-to-eat food whose safety depends on refrigeration and low-pH dressings (pH ≤4.1).
Salad Bowls
Salad bowls: build-your-own mixed salad and grain bowls sold by fast-casual chains (nicknamed 'slop bowls'), also the name of a 1948–1955 Phoenix college football bowl game, a Jeffreys Bay surf break, and a St. Louis cafeteria.
Salade niçoise
Salade niçoise (salada nissarda), a composed salad from Nice with tomatoes, black olives, anchovies or tuna, eggs, and olive oil. Purists reject boiled potatoes and green beans; the Cuisine Nissarde label, created in 1998, certifies authentic versions.
Salami
Salami: cured, fermented sausage (Italian salame, plural salami) of minced pork, salted, fermented to low pH, dried, and eaten uncooked; distinguished from cooked sausages, with Genoa, pepperoni, and Felino variants and E. coli O157:H7 safety rules.
Salep
Salep is a flour of dried, ground wild orchid tubers used for a hot cinnamon-topped winter drink and maraş dondurma ice cream; distinguished from sahlab substitutes by its glucomannan content, at least 35 source species, and Turkey's export ban.
Salisbury steak
Salisbury steak is an American ground-beef patty with binders and seasonings, pan-fried and served in mushroom-onion gravy, named for physician James Henry Salisbury, whose Civil War-era 'muscle pulp of beef' health diet it descends from.
Salo (сало) (food)
Salo (сало), also called slanina or slonina, is salt-cured pork back fat eaten across Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Poland, and the Baltics; cured 3–14 days with salt, garlic, and pepper, it provides 770–870 kcal per 100 g and keeps without refrigeration.
Salsa macha
Salsa macha, a Mexican oil-based chili condiment from Veracruz (Orizaba), made of fried dried chilies, garlic, peanuts, sesame, and often vinegar; nuttier and tangier than Chinese chili crisp, with which it is often compared.
Salt Bae
Salt Bae is the nickname of Nusret Gökçe (born 1983), Turkish butcher-chef and founder of the Nusr-Et steakhouse chain, famous for a 2017 viral salt-sprinkling video, luxury pricing, and recent restaurant closures.
Salt bread
Salt bread (shio pan/sogeum-ppang) is a yeast roll developed in Japan in 2003 and first sold in 2004, known for its buttery hollow center and popular in South Korea.
Saltaire
Saltaire, West Yorkshire: Victorian model industrial village built 1851–1876 by Sir Titus Salt around Salts Mill (opened 1853), a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001 under criteria (ii) and (iv), now an arts and heritage destination with David Hockney works.
Saltimbocca
Saltimbocca, or saltimbocca alla romana, is a Roman dish of thin veal cutlets topped with sage and prosciutto, floured and cooked in butter with white wine; first recorded by Artusi in 1871, its origin is disputed with Brescia.
Saltine cracker
Saltine cracker (also soda cracker, soda biscuit): thin, square, perforated US cracker of white flour, baking soda and/or yeast, shortening, coarse salt topping; first made by F.L. Sommer in 1876, part of Nabisco from 1898.
Saltine cracker challenge
Saltine cracker challenge (saltine challenge): a food dare to eat six saltine soda crackers in 60 seconds without drinking, crumbs included. Hard because crackers absorb saliva; Guinness record is 6.
Salty liquorice
Salty liquorice, also known as salmiakki, is a candy popular in the Nordic countries and the Netherlands, flavored with ammonium chloride for a sharp, salty, slightly sour taste over a sweet licorice base.
Salvatore Ferragamo
Salvatore Ferragamo (1898-1960), Italian shoe designer and founder of the Ferragamo house; Hollywood "Shoemaker to the Stars" from 1923, returned to Florence in 1927, patented the cork wedge heel and built a global luxury group.
Sam's Club
Sam's Club is Walmart's membership-only warehouse club chain, founded by Sam Walton April 7, 1983 in Midwest City, Oklahoma, with about 600 U.S. and Puerto Rico clubs, $93.0 billion fiscal 2026 net sales, $50 Club and $110 Plus tiers, and Member's Mark private label.
Samantha Hoopes
Samantha Hoopes (born 1991, Doylestown, Pennsylvania) is an American model and actress, a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit rookie in 2014 who posed for the issue seven years through 2020, a Guess model, and a Carl's Jr. commercial star; not the Rho research scientist of the same name.
Samarra culture
Samarra culture: Neolithic/Chalcolithic Mesopotamian archaeological culture of the middle Tigris (c.6300–5200 BC), distinct from Hassuna and Halaf, known for fine painted pottery and the earliest secure irrigation farming at Choga Mami.
Samarra ware
Samarra ware is the luxury glazed pottery of ninth-century Abbasid Iraq, first recovered from the palace city of Samarra in excavations of 1911 to 1913.
Samba (Brazilian dance)
Samba (Brazilian dance): Afro-Brazilian dance genre, also samba de roda, with circle-based umbigada movements from Bahia's Recôncavo; UNESCO intangible heritage 2005; distinct from ballroom DanceSport samba.
Sambal
Sambal (sambel) is a Southeast Asian chili paste or relish family from the Indonesian-Malay world, pounded with aromatics like shallot, garlic, and shrimp paste, with over 110 named Indonesian varieties and contested origins.
Sambar (சாம்பார்) (dish)
Sambar (சாம்பார்), a South Indian lentil-vegetable stew of toor dal, tamarind, sambar powder and tempering, served with rice, idli, dosa, and vada; its Thanjavur Maratha origin legend is disputed.
Sambo's
Sambo's was an American pancake-house chain founded in Santa Barbara in 1957 by Sam Battistone Sr. and Newell Bohnett, peaking at 1,117 restaurants in 47 states before 1981 bankruptcy; its last location became Chad's in 2020.
Samgyeopsal (삼겹살)
Samgyeopsal (삼겹살), "three-layer meat," is unmarinated pork belly grilled at the table, the default Korean barbecue meal eaten as ssam wraps. Key figures: ₩21,321 per 200 g Seoul restaurant average (Aug 2026), 33.2% of chilled pork consumption in 2022, Samgyeopsal Day March 3.