Tasty salad
concoction. The base ingredient is
cabbage; other ingredients often include
mayonnaise,
vinegar (usually
cider vinegar, red and green
bell peppers,
celery seeds,
sugar,
salt,
pepper, and
carrots.
The Dutch origin of the name came clear to me one day when I was reading through Mijn Eerste Woorden Boek and found that kool (pronounced "cole") meant cabbage. I was highly and inexplicably amused.