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or borsch
: a soup made primarily of beets and served hot or cold often with sour cream
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Blaming the left for all things seen as anti-capitalist is as American as apple borscht.
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Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2025
Grocery stores sell sauerkraut, borscht and blinis with cottage cheese.
—Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025
For their late lunch, Lauper ordered a potassium-rich borscht soup and traditional brown bread and butter caviar for the table.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
Aunt Sophia’s kitchen was bustling with the preparation of our dinner; borscht (beet soup,) fish, pierogi (dumplings} and cabbage.
—Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2025
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Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2025
Grocery stores sell sauerkraut, borscht and blinis with cottage cheese.
—Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025
For their late lunch, Lauper ordered a potassium-rich borscht soup and traditional brown bread and butter caviar for the table.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
Aunt Sophia’s kitchen was bustling with the preparation of our dinner; borscht (beet soup,) fish, pierogi (dumplings} and cabbage.
—Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2025
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“Borscht.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/borscht. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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from Yiddish borsht and Ukrainian and Russian borshch "beet soup"
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