huevos divorciados!!!! I got a little carried away with the salsas so the eggs are a bit hard to find
honestly it’s more of an amicable separation than a divorce though, since our plate-bowls aren’t quite large enough
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@regehr surprised no one brought up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangers_and_mash
one of my lowkey obsessions is foods with funny names. of which there are depressingly few. besides this one:
- stargazy pie (don't look it up)
- oyakodon
- spaghetti alle vongole fujute
if you know of more, tell me!
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@regehr The r/52weeksofcooking challenge did "oddly named" a few weeks ago. We saw "Poor Knights of Windsor," "Pu pu platter", "Cullen Skink", "Ropa Vieja", "Hoppel Poppel", "Slumgullion"... my own dish was "Smack Barm Pey Wet."
@regehr How did I forget camel slobber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_de_camelo?
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@regehr Only one mention of spotted dick! Toad in the hole is also British: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toad_in_the_hole
Pigs in a blanket is American: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigs_in_a_blanket
And I'm sure the banana boat is too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_boat_(food)
@[email protected] The Italians refer to trifle (the jelly and cream dessert) as 'zuppa inglese' (English soup)
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@[email protected] I only just thought about it, but I've also just realized that vermicelli (the type of pasta) is a derivative of vermi (worms).
@[email protected] also, saltimbocca - literally 'jump in mouth'. It is, in fact, very tasty.
@regehr Related to 'oyakodon', 'tanindon'. This is a beef and egg bowl, and the name is a play on the fact 'oyako' means 'parent and child', while 'tanin' means 'stranger, unrelated person'.
@regehr there's a Swedish ~80s dish called Flygande Jakob (Flying Jacob). I have no clue what was going through the inventor's mind.
@regehr ants on a log, shit on a shingle, po boy. We're too used to it to notice, but "hot dog" is a really weird name.
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@munificent it really is
@regehr "shit on a shingle", and of course, strozzapreti ('priest strangler') are the first two that jumped into my mind that haven't been mentioned. I think there are tons of foods with weird names!
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@geofflangdale these are good!
@regehr What's funny about oyakodon? It's made with chicken (parent: oya) egg (child: ko) in a bowl (don). There's also tanindon ("strangers bowl") with pork or beef.
Anyway ... Spotted Dick, Bubble&Squeak, Pets de Sœurs ("sisters' or nuns' farts"), Toad in the Hole, Parson's Nose (although that's not really a dish), Calpis, harusame ("spring rain") noodles, matrimonial cake (made with dates and nuts, except most recipes don't have nuts), shoofly pie, baguette ("stick", also used for chopsticks), scrumpy, Newfie Screech, headcheese (has no cheese in it) sweetbreads (neither sweet nor bread), shoku-pan ("eat/food bread"), melon-pan (doesn't have any melon in it), ..., ..., ...
And let's not forget anpanman (azuki-bean paste bun man)
And the literal translation of any Chinese menu will have lots of "poetic" names.
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@PeterLudemann ah these are good!
imagine my surprise when I learned about "baguette magique" -- not a food, but funny anyhow
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@regehr And "baguette de chef d'orchestre" is a conductor's baton (and "bâton" is a French word meaning "baton").
@regehr hushpuppies? shoofly pie?
@regehr banana, famously
@regehr seven layers of shit dip
@regehr
I fail to see a problem. :)
