Misnamed dishes and foods (fun)

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Top bothers:


Butter chicken*
not sure where or why the name came about, but it's a terrible name. Butter chicken to me is the browned butter chicken dish from Sweetwater (do they still make that). Anywho, butter chicken is about the best thing on earth so should be called Nirvana chicken or Ambrosia chicken or something else.

Eggplant
Yes, yes we all know the unripened ones are white like eggs. We all know and eat the purple though. Aubergine is a good name.

Shrimp
Prawn is a better word. Shrimp is a size. And jumbo shrimp is just crazytown.

What are yours?


*In 1975, the English phrase "butter chicken" curry first appeared in print, as a specialty of the house at Gaylord Indian restaurant in Manhattan. (wikipedia)
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianFood/comments/1ab93lt/indias_courts_to_rule_on_who_invented_butter/

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Jello salad

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Spatula is the rubber scraper.

The flipper flips food.

Cucumber, squash and peppers are all fruits, not vegetables.

I'LL DIE ON THESE HILLS.

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I agree with everything you said! Mostly because I'm French and aubergine is one of my favorite words

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Yorkshire pudding. It’s bread. Not pudding.

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Anonymous wrote:Yorkshire pudding. It’s bread. Not pudding.

Technically it's components historically make what is a German Pancake.

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Anonymous wrote:Jello salad

But it is a bizarre-o salad made with Jello. So I mean, other than "Yuck", I don't know what to call it.

My mom would serve it on lettuce.

I was mortified as a young child every time I saw it...

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Butter tart (this might be too canadian). Yes, they do have butter, but most of them are just full of raisins. Its a raisin tart.

Sweetbreads - I have no idea how these got their name.

Chowchow - Its like a relish of sorts, but also a dog breed?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yorkshire pudding. It’s bread. Not pudding.

Technically it's components historically make what is a German Pancake.

I always think of yorkies as mini dutch babies. Which is also a funny name for the german pancake!

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Well thinking of the SNL skit, we have

Hamburger not being made of ham.
Hotdog not being made of dog.
Buffalo wings not made from buffalo.

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Mincemeat, which has zero meat.

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I love British food names. Spotted d!ck, anyone?

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Anonymous wrote:Mincemeat, which has zero meat.

Mincemeat did have meat back in the day, and was often bound with suet.

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Anonymous wrote:I love British food names. Spotted d!ck, anyone?

Yes.

All of them

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yorkshire pudding. It’s bread. Not pudding.

Technically it's components historically make what is a German Pancake.

I always think of yorkies as mini dutch babies. Which is also a funny name for the german pancake!

Came here to post Dutch Baby.