Misleading Menu Monnikers.

[vivandorron]

Monnikers (names) of some traditional food items can, unfortunately, give the wrong impression.

For instance, Laverbread bears no relationship to any form of bread. It is basically boiled seaweed and resembles chopped cooked spinach. Very poular in South Wales and delicious when then fried and served along with bacon, cockles,sausage, mushrooms, fried bread,etc.(All on a single plate if you have a good appetite.)

Another name comes to mind.....Staffordshire Oatcakes, which are a sort of pancake made from an oat-flour batter.( Neither of which is of a cake consistency.)

There must be many more misleading menu monnikers. Do you know of any.?

[shaneystar2]

Bit like Bombay duck which is a fish ..or a vile conconction my Mum used to swallow down as a pick me up... Bombay Oyster ....which was in fact a mixture of raw egg and vinegar !

[Alibobs]

Devils on Horseback

Toad in the Hole

Fish Fingers

Spotted Dick!!

[My Angel Pie]

Crew Beans (sp) These are known to us all as Pigs Trotters (my Irish nen tells me!)

[Miss-taken]

Dorset knobs - no knobs (to my knowledge) actually involved - justboring plain biscuits made in a little Dorset village!

[rosieglow]

Pontefract Cakes..Round pieces of liquorice named after Pontefract but no cake?

[rosieglow]

Another thing, Salmon Fish Cakes. Why not just Salmon Cakes?

[glenis]

black pudding - it may be black but you wouldn't serve it with custard!!

[vivandorron]

Thanks to all who have responded on this item.

Perhaps there are other folk who can find further food fripperies to add to the list which is still growing. We have found some more:-

Sweetbread (pancreas or thymus gland of calf or lamb): Sweetmeat (crystallised fruit): Mince-meat (o.k. in the 19th cent. when minced meat was mixed-in with the fruit):Kendal mint cake (a very sugary minty sweet-bar):

It's now time for a little mid-day 'pick me up'....glass of sherry or two; certainly not a Bombay Oyster as detailed by shaneystar2......Best wishes..V & R.