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*ABBREVIATONS* –>
“DELI”
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(a delicatessen is a ‘retail establishment’ that sells a selection of ‘unusual’ or ‘foreign’ prepared foods)
“how cosmopolitan!”
“wish i’d thought of that!”
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(‘delicatessens’ originated in ‘germany’ during the 1700s and spread to the ‘united states’ in the ‘mid-1800s’)
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(european immigrants to the ‘united states’ (especially ‘ashkenazi jews’) popularized the ‘delicatessen’ in ‘american culture’ beginning in the ‘late 1800s’)
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