Not sure of that Wikipedia article where it says that “A variant lobscaws or lobsgaws is a traditional dish in North Wales, normally made with braising or stewing steak, potatoes, and any other vegetable available, or made with mutton it is known as cawl.”
I know that Cawl where I am could be made with any meat (the favourite of my family bring pork!), and what makes Cawl particularly different from other vegetable/meat soup elsewhere is the vegetables being cut into larger pieces.
I don’t know though if the article implies that that is how the words are used only in north wales though- I hadn’t heard the word “lobsgaws” until relatively recently- “Cawl” was the traditional soup round here.* It would be interesting to know if the word is used differently in the north?
- “Cawl”, of course, also just means soup- but the context and use made it clear that you wanted “proper” Cawl with large hunks of vegetables
