@regehr in Germany we got a sandwich called "Strammer Max" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strammer_Max) with the etymology relating to an erected male body part. We also have "Kratzete" which kinda just means "scratched ups" and is ripped apart pancakes. And of course there are our dumplings which are called "Maultaschen" which translates to "(animal) mouth bags"

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In Adelaide I had a pie floater - meat pie served on a bed of mushy peas. Excellent!

Turducken - a deboned chicken stuffed into a deboned duck, further stuffed into a deboned turkey - sounds unpleasant.

@regehr you know the derivation of oyakodon, right? The meaning is funnier than the sound

@regehr quoting Wikipedia because I didn't remember the details:

In Eastern Germany, hot Blutwurst mixed together with liverwurst and potatoes is called "Tote Oma" ("Dead Grandma").

tastes amazing btw

@regehr Dutch Baby and Savory Dutch Baby

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the brits seem to have a gift for this:

bubble & squeak
bangers & mash

@regehr île flotante is fairly amusing

crocque monsieur/madame are a bit silly

@regehr does Squashed Fly Pie tick some good boxes?

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Swedish "Gubbröra" - grandpa mix or geezers mix.

Anchovies or pickled herring, boiled egg and onion, finely chopped and mixed with mayonnaise or sour cream. Often you also add some boiled potato. Serve on Swedish hard bread ("knäckebröd"). Works great as a late night snack with beer.

@regehr "Welsh Rarebit" sounds funny and has a few different stories about the name's origin as a bonus

@regehr banana should have a honorary inclusion in any such list

@regehr guaranteed way to get me to look something up

@regehr Tablier de Sapeur!
(from where I'm from in France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablier_de_sapeur)

@regehr just this week I learned of the existence of “groaty dick”

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Stamppots are mashed potato dishes, and so_ of them have funny names:
- ‘Hete bliksem’ is hot lightning, an odd name for
‘Blote billen in het gras’ is mashed potatos with white beans and green beans, and perhaps it even looks like bare bums in the grass.

‘Hete bliksem’

@regehr in Swabia you can get „Herrgottsbescheisserle“ (roughly meaning „god cheaters“ with a diminutive and some extra vulgarity formlos measure)

They’re basically pasta stuffed with meat and spinach, and the name comes from folklore about a bunch of monks who invented them so that they could eat meat without getting caught.

Quite tasty.

@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 pasta puttanesca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_alla_puttanesca

@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)

@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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https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=popcorn+mixed+with+pepsi&ia=web

@regehr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mousefood

@regehr one of my favorite Sichuan dishes is 夫妻肺片, which translates literally as "husband and wife's lung pieces"

@regehr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesinha

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumquat

@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!

@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.

@regehr hushpuppies? shoofly pie?

@regehr banana, famously

@regehr seven layers of shit dip

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