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jimswhims
7 months ago
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Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics – A safe, ergonomic a...
Think it comes from the german word for salmon, "Lachs", or at least an earlier version of the word.
unwind
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Swedish is even closer, there it's "lax" [1].
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravlax
miramba
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I learned about „lox“ in NYC, a native told me it comes from jiddish, which is kind of a german dialect.
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