Comments on: 19th Century Street Vendor: Woman Selling Salop http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/ This Jane Austen blog brings Jane Austen, her novels, and the Regency Period alive through food, dress, social customs, and other 19th C. historical details related to this topic. Wed, 22 May 2013 18:29:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tea Temptress http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/#comment-32863 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:17:32 +0000 http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/#comment-32863 That was really very interesting! Most especially since she was using a samovar it piqued my curiosity as to the mix of tea and herbal cultures happening there. How confusing ready terms of the period to mixed messages of what it truly could be in root form. Very nice research. Thank you

]]> By: Marguerite http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/#comment-25682 Mon, 28 May 2012 10:03:49 +0000 http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/#comment-25682 Not that they do everything that well – I’ve happily bought an unpeeled fruit from a vendor only to have him slice it open and pour filthy water over it. But the cups are neat! (and earth friendly.)

]]> By: Marguerite http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/#comment-25681 Mon, 28 May 2012 09:59:49 +0000 http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/#comment-25681 I love the Indian solution – little lightly-fired clay cups, you smash yours on the pile when done, and they make new cups out of it.

]]> By: Christopher J Squire http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/#comment-25367 Mon, 14 May 2012 10:32:50 +0000 http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/#comment-25367 OED offers:
‘saloop, n. 1. = salep n.

salep, n. Etym: = French salep . . < Arabic thaʿleb (pronounced in some parts saʿleb), taken to be a shortening of khasyu 'th-thaʿlab orchis (lit. ‘fox's testicles’; compare the English name ‘dogstones’.)
A nutritive meal, starch, or jelly made from the dried tubers of various orchidaceous plants, chiefly those of the genus Orchis; formerly also used as a drug.
. . 1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. vii. 365 The root [of Orchis mascula] being washed, baked, and ground to powder, is salep.’

]]> By: bluffkinghal http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/#comment-25147 Mon, 07 May 2012 09:36:11 +0000 http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/#comment-25147 Love the things you choose to write about! I first saw the title and thought it was going to be something completely different, since my brain made the connection to the French word ‘salope’.

Regarding the hygiene bit, I am sure that until thirty years ago, it must have been a common occurrence in many countries. It is possible they may have built up an immunity to it that we don’t have today.

]]> By: Iwona http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/#comment-25021 Wed, 02 May 2012 07:37:42 +0000 http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/#comment-25021 Such a great webside! I love Austen and the 19th century. I have got Polish webside about your national novelist: http://www.jane-austen.cba.pl

Regards.

]]> By: kfield2 http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/#comment-24984 Tue, 01 May 2012 01:56:39 +0000 http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/#comment-24984 Interesting post!

]]> By: Vic http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/#comment-24944 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:59:36 +0000 http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/#comment-24944 Indeed, along with many other unhygienic habits, among which the worst was placing privies too close to wells and other sources of communal water. At least salop was made with boiling water, which killed the germs. But then again, pouring the clean liquid into filthy bowls negated even that benefit.

]]> By: Vic http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/#comment-24943 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:56:38 +0000 http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/#comment-24943 I wonder if vendors used a cloth to wipe the bowl, Jean. Still, that’s only cosmetic. One shudders at the thought of how dirty those bowls must have been at the end of her work day.

]]> By: Vic http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/#comment-24942 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:55:31 +0000 http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/#comment-24942 Thanks, Diana, only if I said the phrase it would sound like “Pass the slop, please!”

]]> By: hospitality301 http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/#comment-24940 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:48:35 +0000 http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/#comment-24940 It certainly gives light to one of the many reasons why disease were so rampant and easily passed along.

]]> By: Jean | Delightful Repast http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/#comment-24939 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:43:26 +0000 http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/19th-century-street-vendor-woman-selling-salop-4/#comment-24939 Vic, I don’t suppose I would ever have had occasion to try salop as I don’t do a lot of wandering around in the middle of the night! And even if I were to do so (it would have to be sleepwalking), you wouldn’t find me drinking anything out of unwashed bowls! Give me a nice cup of tea anytime.

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