Vegetables. (See also LONG SASS.)
1833. I wanted cabbage or potaters, or most any sort o’ garden sarse.—John Neal, ‘The Down-Easters,’ i. 91.
[1852. You git my son, of the name of Conklin Neppins, which though brought up on shore-sass exclusive—that ’s ’isters, clams, and scollopses—I guess few can beat him in potry or a-prosin’, nary one.—Knick. Mag., xl. 546 (Dec.).]
1854. We cleared a couple of acres, and put it into taters, turnips, beets, and all kind-er garden sass.—H. H. Riley, ‘Puddleford,’ p. 118 (N.Y.).
1857. They get so that … fruit, and all kinds of garden sauce, are no rarity to them at all.—Brigham Young, Aug. 2: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ v. 98.
1859. We carried back with us a basketful of green peas, lettuce, and onions. This, we believe, is about as early as they have such “garden sass” in the White Settlements.—Rocky Mountain News, Cherry Creek, Kansas Terr., June 18.
