borscht circuit

borscht circuit
(sometimes caps.) the hotels of the predominantly Jewish resort area in the Catskill Mountains, many of them offering nightclub or cabaret entertainment. Also called borscht belt.
[1935-40; so called, facetiously, from the quantities of borscht consumed there]

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