> The best part? The "absolutely outraged" response by officials of the Pudding Club. Sheesh, people, get a life! :-)
>

I hardly see why anyone should get upset over the name "Spotted Dick" (Spotted Dog, Spotted Duff, Spotted Dough, etc.) when there are so many OTHER names in British cuisine which are equally alarming and amusing. My Mother used to cook Bubble & Squeak and Toad-in-the-Hole, and I have a black blood pudding in the fridge right now. There's a bunch of dishes which I think would be neat to cook at least once... if only for the novelty of Extreme Adventure Dining™.

I like the idea of food that tells you plainly what it is. But -- to take an indirect but previously-discussed example -- if names of dishes in *Mexican* cuisine are characterized by a playful personification (e.g. "los huevos divorciados"), then what are *British* food names trying to convey?


Bangers and Mash
Black Blood Pudding
Blank Manng of Chicken
Bloaters
Bubble and Squeak
Chelsea Buns
Clotted Cream
Clootie Dumpling
Cock-a-Leekie Soup
Dead Man's Leg
Devilled Kidneys
Faggots
Finnan Haddie Rarebit
Golden Wardens
Groaty Dick Pudding
Jellied Eel
Lampery in Brewet
Liver and Lights
Love in Disguise
Oxtail Brawn
Ploughman's Platters
Plum Duff
Potted Hough (Scottish?)
Poor Man's Goose
Rock Cakes
Singin' Hinney
Skirlie with Mushrooms
Snippets of Venison
Spotted Dick
Spratley Cake (or Fly Pie)
Suffolk Raisin Roly-Poly
Toad-in-the-Hole (Pigs in a Blanket)
Treacle Tart
Tripe & Onions


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