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Shower beer
Shower beer: beer consumed while showering, a 2000s slang term and internet meme with a Reddit community, branded beers (PangPang/Snask, Champion), and practical style and safety guidance.
Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad (શ્રી મહિલા ગૃહ ઉદ્યોગ લિજ્જત પાપડ)
Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad (Lijjat Papad), the Indian women's worker cooperative founded 15 March 1959 by seven women in Girgaum, Mumbai, with Rs 80; ~45,000 sister members, Rs 1,600 crore turnover, 54% of organized papad market.
Shrimp and grits
Shrimp and grits, also called breakfast shrimp or shrimp and hominy, is a Lowcountry dish of shrimp in bacon-fat gravy over stone-ground corn grits, created in Gullah Geechee kitchens and popularized nationally by Bill Neal and Craig Claiborne in 1985.
Shrimp paste
Shrimp paste, called kapi, belacan, terasi, ngapi, mam tom, or bagoong alamang, is a salt-fermented condiment of tiny shrimp or krill from Southeast Asia and southern China, valued for umami, with 20-25% salt and Tetragenococcus-driven fermentation.
Shroud
A shroud is a cloth or garment for wrapping a dead body before burial, also called a winding sheet. Covers Islamic kafan rules, Jewish tachrichim, English woolen-shroud laws of 1666 and 1679, Roman Egyptian painted shrouds, and modern shroud-only burial.
Shrub (drink)
Shrub (drinking vinegar): a fruit, sugar, and vinegar syrup diluted with water, soda, or spirits. From Arabic sharab; popular in colonial America, revived by the 2000s cocktail renaissance; distinct from switchel and oxymel.
Shrunken head
A shrunken head, or tsantsa, is a ceremonial trophy made by Amazonian peoples of Ecuador and Peru by shrinking human head skin, until the mid twentieth century.
Shtreimel
Shtreimel (Yiddish שטרײַמל, shtrayml): wide donut-shaped fur hat worn by married Hasidic men on Shabbat and holidays; thirteen fur skins symbolize the thirteen attributes of mercy; distinct from the taller black spodik of Gur and the brown kolpik; costs up to 25,000+ shekels.
Shu brocade
Shu brocade (蜀锦) is a figured silk jacquard brocade woven in Chengdu, Sichuan, the oldest of China's Four Famous Brocades, produced for over two thousand years.
Shumai (烧卖)
Shumai (烧卖, shāomài, Cantonese siu maai) is an open-topped Chinese steamed dumpling; the Cantonese pork-and-shrimp dim sum form differs from northern mutton shaomai sold by liang in Hohhot.
Shweshwe
Shweshwe, also called isishweshwe or seshoeshoe, is a discharge-printed cotton cloth, originally indigo with white patterns, worn across southern Africa and manufactured by Da Gama Textiles in the Eastern Cape.
Shweta Bachchan Nanda (श्वेता बच्चन नंदा)
Shweta Bachchan Nanda (श्वेता बच्चन नंदा), born 1971, is an Indian columnist, author of Paradise Towers (2018), and co-designer of the MXS label with Monisha Jaising; she is the daughter of Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan and wife of Nikhil Nanda.
Si King
Si King (Simon James King, born 1966, Kibblesworth, County Durham), British chef and TV presenter, one half of the Hairy Bikers with Dave Myers; 33 books, 6 million copies; Myers died 2024; King now runs PROPA! pies and solo projects.
Siblings Day
Siblings Day, or National Siblings Day, is an unofficial April 10 holiday founded by Claudia Evart in 1995 for her late siblings, promoted by the Siblings Day Foundation and celebrated in 14 countries.
Sichuan cuisine (川菜)
Sichuan cuisine (川菜), a Chinese regional cuisine from the Sichuan Basin, one of the eight great cuisines, defined by 27 compound flavor types, mala numbing-spice, late-Qing maturation, national intangible heritage status, and 2025 provincial legislation.
Sichuan pepper
Sichuan pepper, huajiao (花椒), also called Szechuan pepper or Chinese prickly ash, is the numbing citrus-family spice from Zanthoxylum husks; sanshools cause the tingle central to Sichuan mala cuisine.
Sicilian pizza
Sicilian pizza, or sfincione (sfincione), is a thick rectangular pan pizza from Palermo topped with tomato, onion, anchovy, caciocavallo, and breadcrumbs; the American New York version uses mozzarella and simpler sauce, and it spawned Detroit-style pizza in 1946.
Sickday
Sickday (SICKDAY) names a Wellfleet, Massachusetts surf and skate shop founded by Olaf Valli in April 2005, and Sickday, LLC, a New York City medical house-call service operating since 2007; also a Line ski line and a band.
Side dish
Side dish: a small portion of food, such as salad or vegetables, served alongside a meal's main course; also called a side or accompaniment. Distinct from the main course; central to Korean banchan and Japanese staple-main-side meal structure.
Sideburns
Sideburns, also called side-whiskers or British sideboards, are facial hair grown in front of the ears. Named via reversed 'burnsides' for Civil War general Ambrose Burnside; the word dates to 1880 in American English.
Sidecar (cocktail)
Sidecar: classic IBA sour of cognac, triple sec (Cointreau) and lemon juice, shaken and served up, often with a sugar rim; first printed 1922 by MacElhone and Vermeire, ratio disputed (equal parts vs 2:1:1).
Sierra Mist
Sierra Mist was a lemon-lime flavored soft drink produced by PepsiCo, introduced in the United States in 1999 to compete against Sprite and 7 Up, and discontinued in January 2023.
Siesta
Siesta: an early-afternoon nap, from Latin sexta (hora), sixth hour. Traditional in Spain, Mediterranean, and Latin America; short naps of 20-30 minutes aid alertness, while habitual naps over 60 minutes correlate with higher cardiometabolic and mortality risks.
Sign of the horns
Sign of the horns (mano cornuta, corna): hand gesture with index and little fingers extended. Meanings: rock/metal salute popularized by Ronnie James Dio, evil-eye ward, cuckold insult in the Mediterranean, and Texas's Hook 'em Horns (1955).
Silla goldwork
Silla goldwork is the gold ornaments, above all crowns, belts, and earrings, made by the Silla kingdom (57 BCE – 676 CE) and buried in royal mound tombs at Gyeongju.
Silly String
Silly String, also called party string or crazy string, is a trademarked aerosol toy spraying plastic-foam string, invented accidentally in 1969 by Leonard Fish and Robert P. Cox as a spray-on bandage and sold by Wham-O from 1972; also used by troops to detect trip wires.
Silog
Silog is a class of Filipino breakfast plates of sinangag (garlic fried rice) and itlog (egg) plus a named protein, such as tapsilog (beef tapa), longsilog (longganisa), tocilog, or bangsilog; coined in the 1980s around Vivian Del Rosario's tapsilog.
Silphium
Silphium (Greek σίλφιον), also called laser, was a spice-and-medicine umbellifer of ancient Cyrenaica, Libya, first recorded human-driven extinction. Candidates include Ferula drudeana; contraceptive claims are contested.
Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II
Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II, 1977 celebration of her 25th accession anniversary: church services in February, 56,000-mile Commonwealth and UK tours, Jubilee Day on 7 June with a Gold State Coach procession to St Paul's, and protests including the Sex Pistols.
Simmering
Simmering: a moist-heat cooking method, also called gentle boiling, in which food cooks submerged in liquid bubbling softly at about 185–200°F (85–94°C), below boiling; used for stocks, stews, and tough cuts.