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Smoothie
Smoothie: thick blended drink of fruit or vegetables with juice, milk, or yogurt. Also called frappé aux fruits. Distinct from juice by retained fiber; word dates to 1957, health-drink boom from 1980.
Smørrebrød
Smørrebrød, the Danish open-faced sandwich on rugbrød rye bread, literally 'butter bread'; distinguished from everyday rugbrødsmad, with a documented restaurant tradition from 1883 Nimb and Oskar Davidsen's famous 140 cm menu list.
Snack
Snack: a small serving of food or drink eaten between meals; also called snacking. Distinguished by no fixed scientific definition, ~24% of US adult calories, protein-rich snacks giving the strongest satiety, and mixed evidence on weight.
Snake wine (蛇酒)
Snake wine (蛇酒, Vietnamese rượu rắn) is a traditional liquor with a whole venomous snake steeped in rice wine or grain alcohol, traced to China's Western Zhou dynasty, sold across Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and southern China as folk remedy and souvenir.
Snap, Crackle and Pop
Snap, Crackle and Pop are the cartoon mascots of Kellogg's Rice Krispies cereal, created by illustrator Vernon Grant in 1933 after a radio jingle; Snap debuted alone, Crackle and Pop joined the box in 1941, and a fourth elf, Pow, briefly appeared in the 1950s.
Snapple
Snapple: American iced tea and juice brand founded 1972 as Unadulterated Food Products by Marsh, Golden, and Greenberg; famous for glass bottles, cap pop, Real Facts; owned by Keurig Dr Pepper.
Snickerdoodle
Snickerdoodle: American drop cookie, a sugar cookie variant defined by cream of tartar (potassium bitartrate) and a cinnamon-sugar coating; tangy, soft, crackled top; first printed 1891.
Snickers
Snickers (formerly Marathon in the UK) is a Mars, Incorporated chocolate bar of nougat, caramel, and peanuts, launched in Chicago in 1930, named after the Mars family horse, with about $3.5 billion in 2012 sales.
Snow globe
Snow globe (Schneekugel; also snow dome, water globe): sealed glass or plastic sphere with liquid, snow particles, and a miniature scene that swirls when shaken. Invented by Erwin Perzy I in Vienna, patented 1900; first shown at the 1878 Paris Exposition.
Snuff (tobacco)
Snuff, also called nasal or dry snuff, is powdered smokeless tobacco inhaled through the nose or held in the mouth, delivering nicotine without burning the leaf.
Snus
Snus: Swedish moist smokeless tobacco used under the upper lip, loose or in pouches; pasteurized for low nitrosamines, legal mainly in Sweden and Norway, with FDA-recognized lower risks than cigarettes and a tobacco-free variant, white snus (nicotine pouches).
Soba (蕎麦)
Soba (蕎麦) is a Japanese buckwheat-flour noodle, typically bound with wheat flour (nihachi soba) or funori seaweed (hegi soba). Defined by the earliest 1574 sobakiri record at Joshō-ji in Nagano, Edo-era popularity, Kanto versus Kansai broth, and mandatory allergen labeling.
SoBe
SoBe (South Beach Beverage) is an American herbal tea and 'healthy refreshment' drink brand founded in 1995 by John Bello and Tom Schwalm, named for South Beach, Florida, with its two-lizard logo; PepsiCo bought it in 2000 for about $370 million.
Sobeys
Sobeys (Sobeys Inc.) is one of Canada's two national grocery retailers, founded in 1907 in Stellarton, Nova Scotia, wholly owned by Empire Company Limited, with about 1,600 stores, a 19% grocery market share, and a 2026 consent agreement ending property controls.
Social semiotics
Social semiotics is the branch of semiotics that studies human signifying processes as social practices, originating with M. A. K. Halliday's 1978 work and treating language as one resource among many cultural resources for communication.
Sock
Sock: a knitted or woven foot covering, a type of hosiery. Known from Ötzi's grass shoe lining, Egyptian nålebinding socks, William Lee's 1589 stocking frame, nylon in 1938, and modern moisture-managing synthetic blends.
Sock monkey
Sock monkey: American folk toy doll sewn from socks, classically the gray Rockford Red Heel work socks of Nelson Knitting (red heel added 1932), popularized in the Great Depression, patented by Nelson in 1955, now linked to Rockford, Illinois.
Soda bread
Soda bread: quick bread leavened with baking soda and an acid, usually buttermilk, no yeast. An Irish staple since the 1840s; traditional four-ingredient loaf, Americanized sweet raisin version.
SodaStream (סודהסטרים)
SodaStream (סודהסטרים), Israeli home carbonation company founded 1903 in London, acquired by PepsiCo in 2018 for $3.3 billion; makes sparkling water makers using CO2 cylinders and reusable bottles.
Sodexo
Sodexo (formerly Sodexho) is a Paris-headquartered food services and facilities management group founded by Pierre Bellon in Marseille in 1966, with 430,000 employees in 43 countries, €23.7 billion Fiscal 2023 revenues, and the 2024 Pluxee benefits spin-off.
Sodium iron EDTA
Sodium iron EDTA (NaFeEDTA, ferric sodium edetate, sodium feredetate), CAS 15708-41-5, is a chelated iron fortificant approved by JECFA for supervised food fortification, used in high-phytate flours, sugar, soy sauce, and fish sauce.
Sodium nitrite packaging film
Sodium nitrite packaging film, or nitrite-embedded film (GRN 228), is active packaging with 113 mg/m² sodium nitrite on one side that keeps vacuum-packaged raw beef and pork bright red via nitric oxide myoglobin, with FSIS 7/30-day dating and labeling conditions.
Sodium potassium hexametaphosphate
Sodium potassium hexametaphosphate (SKMP, CAS 67183-30-6) is a glassy mixed sodium-potassium polyphosphate, GRAS via FDA GRN 316 (2010) and permitted in Canada since 2015, used to replace sodium hexametaphosphate in reduced-sodium foods.
Sofia Richie
Sofia Richie Grainge, American model, influencer, and designer, youngest child of Lionel Richie. Signed with Select Model Management in 2014; known for quiet luxury style, her 2023 Chanel-dressed Antibes wedding, Tommy Hilfiger capsules, and her 2025 SRG label with Revolve.
Sofrito
Sofrito is an aromatic flavor base of vegetables and herbs in fat, central to Spanish, Caribbean, and Latin American cooking; Puerto Rican recaíto is its raw green, culantro-based, tomato-free variant.
Soft drink
Soft drink: nonalcoholic, usually sweetened, often carbonated beverage (soda, pop). Includes sugary and diet sodas like Coca-Cola (1886) and Dr Pepper (1885); linked to obesity, diabetes, and taxed via levies like the UK SDIL.
Soft serve
Soft serve: semi-soft frozen dairy dessert dispensed from a continuous freezer and eaten immediately; lower milkfat (about 3-10%) than ice cream, high air overrun, served around -6 C; also called soft cream in Japan.
Sohla El-Waylly
Sohla El-Waylly is an American chef, cookbook author, and TV personality; CIA-trained, ex-Bon Appétit editor, creator of Stump Sohla and Ancient Recipes with Sohla, judge on The Big Brunch, and James Beard-winning author of Start Here.
Soho House (club)
Soho House (club), also Soho House & Co, is a private members' club chain for creatives founded by Nick Jones in London in 1995, with about 48 Houses, tiered memberships, Cecconi's restaurants, and a 2025 £2bn take-private by MCR Hotels.
Soju (소주)
Soju (소주) is a clear Korean spirit made by distilling fermented grain or diluting neutral ethanol, first documented around 1375 and described as Korea's national drink.