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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 11, 2009 17:00:54 GMT
This idea came to me when reading LaGatta's tourtières thread, with its mention of "oreilles du Christ". A jelly roll in Spain is a "brazo de gitano" -- gypsy's arm. A jelly roll here is a "niño envuelto" -- wrapped child. |
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Post by bazfaz on Dec 11, 2009 17:30:21 GMT
At the hotel in Queyssac-les-Vignes I have eaten the deep fried little balls of batter known as pets de nonne - nun's farts.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2009 17:37:21 GMT
I always thought that it was strange that in the U.S. South we called the icky crab 'lungs' ladyfingers (not that they are a food item), while the Indo-Pakistanis call okra ladyfingers.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 11, 2009 18:52:18 GMT
"Ladyfingers" for crab lungs is kind of nice. I always heard "dead man's fingers" for them, though.
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Post by livaco on Dec 11, 2009 22:20:10 GMT
I think of cookies when I hear "ladyfingers".
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Post by livaco on Dec 11, 2009 22:22:03 GMT
Other funny food names:
Bubble & Squeak
Spotted Dick
Pigs in a Blanket
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2009 22:22:03 GMT
Ewwww...! Making cookies out of crab lungs!  |
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Post by hwinpp on Dec 12, 2009 3:02:19 GMT
Toad in a hole, to add to Livaco's choices.
Here we get rat shit chillies and cloud ears (a brown fungus that grows on trees, you all know it in its dry form).
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