Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A marinated fillet of herring wrapped around a pickle or an onion and served as an hors d'oeuvre.
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- noun Plural form of
rollmop .
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- noun a pickled herring filet that has been rolled or wrapped around a pickle
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Dan is sipping from a bottle of DesignatedDriver (tm) nonalcoholic beer and feasting from an array of nutritional crack placed before him: Cheezie Nuggies, nitrite-soaked ham rollmops, and Nacho Nodules.
Shampoo Planet Coupland, Douglas 1992
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He carried his rollmops in his pocket and frequently, in art galleries or elsewhere, would draw it out and nibble it, while disseminating inaccuracies touching on pictures and statues and things.
Europe Revised 1910
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A rollmops consists of a large dilled cucumber, with a pickled herring coiled round it ready to strike, in the design of the rattlesnake-and-pinetree flag of the Revolution, the motto in both instances being in effect: "Don't monkey with the buzz saw!"
Europe Revised 1910
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Dine on a menu of pickled rollmops, grilled gurnard fillet and ginger three ways pudding, then toast Charles Dickens with a heady alcoholic punch.
Evening Standard - Home Emma McCarthy 2011
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Cut the rollmops into bite-sized pieces and mix gently with the potatoes, shallot and dill.
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So when six of us recently went on a Sunday afternoon trip to MSB, I inwardly shut down the grump switch and ordered the rollmops with tomato chutney.
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Some commercial rollmops are pickled in brutally acidic distilled vinegar, which obliterates their oily succulence and flavour.
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So when six of us recently went on a Sunday afternoon trip to MSB, I inwardly shut down the grump switch and ordered the rollmops with tomato chutney.
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Like mackerel, they are rich in oils, so do not keep well, which is why they are often pickled as rollmops
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Homemade herring rollmops: Many commercial versions use brutally acidic vinegar that kills the flavour of the fish, so it pays to do it yourself.
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