Funny recipe names

[GTO]

I just got to thinking, what funny looking recipes have you come across? Ones perhaps, that don't seem to make sense due to their wording. For example, I was looking for some coconut recipes on Food Network and came across:

"Grilled coconut wings with Thai peanut dipping sauce"

Flying coconuts? I smell disaster!

[jackal10]

Not the standard set traditional names, that cause merriment among our transatlantic friends such as Toad in the Hole, or Spotted Dick, or even Pasta Puttanesca. Many dishes are named after famous demi-mondes of their day.

The strangest name I have seen recently was "Freedom Fries". Fried freedom, perhaps.

Edited January 25, 2007 by jackal10 (log)

[Kerry Beal]

Sex in a Pan

[GTO]

jackal: We're not the greatest at naming recipes or meals are we? "Haggis with Neeps and tatties" for example.

Kerry: Surely, that involves a flambe at some point?

[srhcb]

Pigs in a blanket is funny.

[Kerry Beal]

Kerry: Surely, that involves a flambe at some point?

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Apparently not, as I recall it is a layer of cookie made with pecans, butter, flour and confectioners sugar, baked and topped with cream cheese mixed with whipped cream, instant chocolate and vanilla puddings, chocolate shavings or crushed chocolate cookies. Some versions have cherries (and that of course would be a virgin sex in a pan).

I recall having it at a party once - it was pretty darned tasty.

[GTO]

Pigs in blankets are awesome. We had Pigs in Prosciutto this Christmas just gone.

Kerry: That sounds more like "Sex with absolutey everything".

[srhcb]

It's not a recipe name, but it's part of lots of recipes; I always get a good laugh when I see mise en place, (mice in place).

[markk]

Curried Lamb Balls

[srhcb]

Pate Choux and Hors Dourves are funny if you pronounce them phonetically?

SB (as is just about anything French)

[SuzySushi]

I've always wondered about Gypsy's Arm. I've seen the name used both for a roast piece of meat and for a rolled cake.

[purplewiz]

Crocked Ox.

It's a really simple crockpot recipe calling for Knorr Oxtail Soup that I got from Usenet about 20 years ago.

The funny thing is that Knorr Oxtail Soup is now Knorr Tomato Beef soup, so the name makes absolutely no sense anymore.

Marcia.

[munchymom]

"Grilled coconut wings with Thai peanut dipping sauce"

Flying coconuts? I smell disaster!

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Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?

I like "chicken fingers" and "buffalo wings" (yes, I know they're named for the city, but it still sounds funny...)

[choux]

Snickerdoodles

[mkayahara]

Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?

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Only if they're being carried by swallows!

(As to African or European, I'll let you be the judge.)

[fiftydollars]

anything with the word "wiener" in it... although the only example I can think of is wiener schnitzel

uh, huh... wiener

[insomniac]

I used to always smile at 'battered fish' and 'battery hens'

altho I guess the hens aint smilin

Edited January 26, 2007 by insomniac (log)

[Daniel Rogov]

How about the Turkish dish known a kadin budu kofte which translates into Woman's Thighs?

Or the favorite of the Prince of Wales - nymph's thighs (frogs' legs)

[Andrew Fenton]

Curried Lamb Balls

I'll see that, and raise you a "fish ball soup."

(Do you have any idea how many fish it takes to make one bowl of that soup?)

[GTO]

Andrew: I'd forgotten about fish ball.

We don't get this in the UK but I've always wondered about the origins of those Jell-O "salads". I've even seen them without any actual fruit, so what part of that constitues a salad?

Am I missing the obvious joke about it being the absolute anti-salad, touted as one because of it's fruit content?

[Andrew Fenton]

We don't get this in the UK but I've always wondered about the origins of those Jell-O "salads". I've even seen them without any actual fruit, so what part of that constitues a salad?

Am I missing the obvious joke about it being the absolute anti-salad, touted as one because of it's fruit content?

Gelatin salads are salads in the same way that potato salad or pasta salad are salads. They're served cold, as a side or separate dish, and they incorporate fruits or vegetables.

I'll grant you, it requires an expansive definition of "salad". Purists might refer to this sort of semi-salad as a salaud.

[insomniac]

my daughter thinks that the fact that the french for faggot is gayette is hilarious.....I must have raised her wrong

[GTO]

Cool, thanks Andrew. I know my salad from my salaud!

At least your daughter has a good sense of humour, insommniac, which probably means you raised her very well. Gayette is funny, what's not to like!?