If I want something light for a meal,even if the rest of the family is having something cooked, I combine various items – quite often leftovers, to make a cold collation… Is a cold collation generally meat? I’m not sure, but I make a salad type dish, dress it and enjoy it!
The other day I’d bought a fresh pineapple; then it became apparent that no-one else is very keen on it so I ended up having a very pineapple centred few days. I was going to make a salad… and there was the pineapple, sitting on its cut end at rather an angle and I suddenly thought it would be rather a vibrant addition to my salad!
On my shredded lettuce went pineapple, slivers of red pepper and celery, white and red onion slices, pistachio nuts, cucumber and a drizzle of Greek olive oil. I know other places make delicious oil, but I just prefer Greek. I must say I was very pleased with my salad, it tasted as good as it looked!
Back to the phrase, cold collation, apparently it came from the time when people would fast for religious reasons in the Christian religion, and they would be allowed only two small meals. An evening collation in a general sense was a small meal, weighing less than eight ounces… did they actually weigh it or just guess? I think they just guessed! The word collate comes from Latin and essentially means a bringing together. I think the phrase cold collation probably came into a general and not religious use when people were trying to be fancy – rather than offering their guests a light lunch or supper, maybe the preferred to offer a cold collation!
Lois Elsden 
There is, in my opinion, no better olive oil than Greek – especially when it comes from the Peloponnese!
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Just pour it on my bread, pinch of salt yum!
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I hadn’t heard that phrase, cold collation, for decades. It’s definitely one for Hermione Bucket.
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One of Hermione’s favourite!!
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And so much more refined than the American cold cuts 😁
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Cold cuts sound nasty – even though I know they aren’t!
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Hermione wouldn’t approve 😃
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Well sucks to Hermione!
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And she definitely wouldn’t approve of that lol 😁 I loved that programme, I knew people like her in my younger days ☺
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