Food Pseudonyms

[Alex]

Does this topic include pseudonyms that are less than appetizing corruptions? Like 'beef spew', 'catshit and mouse turd', 'goat meal'?

 

keys and parrots

[liuzhou]

Some of the locals here are partial to dog meat. It is usually described as 狗肉, literally 'dog meat'. They ain't shy about it.

 

However, it is sometimes referred to colloquially as 香肉 ‘fragrant meat' or 低柔 ‘earth mutton'. 

[IowaDee]

Texas caviar.  Sounds "fishy" in more ways than one. 

[Mjx]

I'm sure when I was in junior and high school, many of the dishes served up in the rather dire school canteen has pseudonyms. These weren't designed to make the food more appealing. It would haeve taken a lot more than a bit of wordplay to make these in any way appealing. 

 

These names were bestowed by the pupils and were intended to make things even worse.

 

The only one I can recall (it was in the middle of the last century!) is the current cake which was served with custard once a week. Universally known as 'fly cemetery'.

 

At the US school I attended, I recall the 'Chicken a la King' regularly served in the canteen being referred to by the kids as 'runover chicken on a roll'. This was still pretty generous, in my opinion, since It was atrocious, looked like cat sick.

[rotuts]

""  cat sick. ""

 

nice

[IowaDee]

How about the old favorite, Shit on a shingle?  

[liuzhou]

I'm sure when I was in junior and high school, many of the dishes served up in the rather dire school canteen has pseudonyms. These weren't designed to make the food more appealing. It would haeve taken a lot more than a bit of wordplay to make these in any way appealing. 

 

These names were bestowed by the pupils and were intended to make things even worse.

 

The only one I can recall (it was in the middle of the last century!) is the current cake which was served with custard once a week. Universally known as 'fly cemetery'.

 

I just spotted my typo. Of course, I meant "currant cake".         

Edited August 17, 2015 by liuzhou (log)

[Panaderia Canadiense]

you bet

 

CANadian OiLA

 

who would buy  Rape seed Oil ?

 

 

CANadian Oilseed Low Acid, actually.

 

I'm violently allergic to eggs, and as a kid I figured that Eggplant was just some evil way the vegetable kingdom had devised of trying to murder me over dinner - like, not only are chickens out to get me, but now there's this plant that lays eggs?  Nope, nope, nope, that's not going within a mile of my mouth.  Mom solved this by calling the various dishes she fed me "Berenjena, Basque Style," "Ratatouille" and "Aubergene Casserole" - she never ever mentioned the English name of the vegetable she was serving me.  I should mention that I absolutely *adore* eggplant in all its myriad presentations, probably because Mom fooled me into eating it while young.

Edited August 17, 2015 by Panaderia Canadiense (log)

[rotuts]

""  Eggplant was just some evil way the vegetable kingdom had devised of trying to murder me over dinner ""

 

this is universally true.

 

if your eat eggplant, and are not dead yet , think of those PurpleBombs just ticking away inside you right now.

 

just saying

[Toliver]

I can only serve tongue to my husband heavily sauced in gravy (another "pot roast") or on a sandwich with jus on the side ("french dip"). Even peeled I think he might recognize the musculature if it wasn't covered up.  

Pickled tongue is a local favorite...don't know if it's Basque-related or just an agricultural community thing.

Regarding tongue, I've posted this before but I make it a rule to never taste something that can taste me back. 

Some folks around here just call it "pickled beef" (which, technically, it is) to get the inexperienced to eat it.

 

edited to add the pseudonym 

Edited August 17, 2015 by Toliver (log)

[dcarch]

Buttermilk? Where is the butter?

 

dcarch

[sparrowgrass]

My kids loved pumpkin pie, but they wouldn't eat butternut squash pie, even though I made them with the same exact ingredients. Just had to hide the butternut rinds before they got home.

[Arey]

When my mother would put lima beans on the table I would balk at eating them.  This would just make her more insistent that I eat  them.  Sometimes she would tell me to pretend they were turkey, but this never worked for me.  A lima bean is a lima bean, and truthfully, her turkey wasn't that great either.

[cyalexa]

Pickled tongue is a local favorite...don't know if it's Basque-related or just an agricultural community thing.

Regarding tongue, I've posted this before but I make it a rule to never taste something that can taste me back. 

Some folks around here just call it "pickled beef" (which, technically, it is) to get the inexperienced to eat it.

 

edited to add the pseudonym 

Pickled tongue sliced thin and piled high on rye with mustard was how I grew up eating tongue. In fact the only way I ever had it until I was an adult. I pickled pork once for a pork and beans dish and have thought about pickling a tongue. Of course, I would have to call it bologna.

[Panaderia Canadiense]

Buttermilk? Where is the butter?

 

dcarch

 It's what's left over after the butter is taken off - didn't you grandparents ever make you work a churn, when you were disobedient?

[haresfur]

Uni cafeteria used to serve a bar cookie with a stripe of strawberry jam down the middle that was called a 'scar-bar'.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

In the US "buttermilk", the cultured kind, used to be called, by law, "imitation buttermilk".  Now I can't find real buttermilk to buy.  Lot's of Middle Eastern recipes call for "buttermilk" but I think they mean imitation buttermilk, not real buttermilk.  Not sure.

 

Needless to say, recipes should specify, because the ingredients are quite different.

[liuzhou]

I'm in the middle of translating a cookbook from Chinese to English. Just came across one dish called "杞子炖牛鞭" which literally translates as "Goji ()Wolfberries) Stewed Ox Whip".

'Ox whip' is actually ox penis.

[Norm Matthews]

Chicken fried steak.  Take a piece of inedibly tough beef, 'tenderize' the crap out of it, hide the crime by breading it and then pan fry it and conceal the whole thing with a white gravy. Or call it schnitzel. 

[Norm Matthews]

After the Norman Conquest, the English ruling class spoke French while the poor people who did all the work spoke Anglo-Saxon.  That is why the food "on the hoof" is called something different from the people who saw it on the table. Lamb- mutton, Deer-venison, pig-pork, cow-beef, etc.  

Edited August 18, 2015 by Norm Matthews (log)

[Ashen]

And cremini are just brown button mushrooms. They  are all Agaricus Bisporus.

 

exactly why I shop at the store that sells bulk brown mushrooms , instead of the one that sells bulk cremini.  $2.99 /lb vs 4.99

[Simon Lewinson]

What about the quintessential "Snot block"

Also known as a vanilla slice.

Simon

[gfweb]

And what is a vanilla slice?

 

Whatever it is I'd rather call it snot block.

[Simon Lewinson]

Refer to Lord Google and thou shalt discover that it is a type of Mille-feuille.

Two layers of puff pastry surrounding a thick layer of vanilla custard and topped with pink icing.

Simon

[Simon Lewinson]

And there is another Australian delicacy - the "rat coffin"

A pastry shell enclosing chunks of mystery meat dressed in thick brown gravy.. It also goes by the name of a meat pie.

Simon