[ noun ] a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation <noun.food>
borscht \borscht\ n. [Yiddish borscht, fr. Russian] a Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation, and often served with sour cream. Also, as used in the U.S., a sour cabbage soup, called in Russian {shchi}.
Specter, who lives in the land of the cheese steak, even laughed at Mason's Borscht Belt wisecracks.
We comics would go there and perform, year in year out, and it became known as the Borscht Belt.
The financial trouble is a far cry from the heydy of Grossinger's and other resorts in the Catskills, known as the Borscht Belt for the Jewish crowd that vacationed there and the Jewish singers and comics who entertained them.