Me too! That one looks more delicious than the previous one.
The cole in cole slaw refers to cabbage. It comes from the Latin word for cabbage: caulis. Interestingly the word kale, a whole different vegetable, also comes from caulis. Cabbage is usually the foundational vegetable in slaw, although I've seen it made with finely chopped broccoli or other ingredients. Cabbage is particularly well suited for it because it doesn't get soggy as quickly as lettuce. So while a lettuce salad with dressing would probably be inedible the next day, cole slaw is still OK.
I used to make a delicious dish called colcannon, a traditional Irish dish of mashed potatoes and finely chopped cabbage and onions. I added cheese to mine, though I don't think that's a traditional element.
There's a department store chain here named Kohl's, which is the German form of caulis. Either the store is named Cabbage's, or the founder's last name was Cabbage. But they may not have known that, because in modern English the word Kohl has no meaning.
My ex-mother-in-law calls it
cold slaw.
