What foods besides tea sandwiches, and coffee cake do not contain the actual ingredient the food is named for.
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February 3rd, 2019
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I made a coffee cake yesterday, and I’ve often heard people lament the fact that there is no coffee in coffee cake. It is meant to be eaten with coffee. Tea sandwiches are meant to be eaten with tea.
What other foods are named in a similar way, with none of the food being present in the dish?
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Bubble & Squeak
Toad in the Hole
Water Biscuits
Flapjack
Spotted Dick
Pigs in Blankets (small sausages wrapped in bacon)
Marble Sponge
AFAIK, lady fingers are actually finger-free.
angels/devils food cake, shit on a shingle, egg cream, shoo fly pie.
Hot dogs, baby food, american cheese, hamburger, wiener, hushpuppy, catfish.
Hot dogs (no dogs allowed!)
Sweetbreads (not bread, but revolting animal glands)
Buttermilk (what’s leftover after the butter’s been removed)
Eggplant (no shells to crack)
Headcheese loaf (the most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen, but no cheese)
Peanuts. No peas and technically not a nut.
Rocky Mountain Oysters. You don’t want to know.
Grasshopper Pie. No grasshoppers in it.
Tea cake which is actually a cookie and not made with tea.
Welsh rabbit – - nobody Welsh and no rabbits
Captain Crunch
Blueberry Buckle
Cottage Pie
Shepherd’s pie – - no shepherds anywhere in there
@Tropical_Willie I thought of that but the possessive means it is for shepherds not consisting of.
Because there’s no bread and it’s implied by the name, I nominate the knuckle samwich!
And let us not forget the cream pie.
Egg cream, which has neither
Rusty Nail – - – mixing Drambuie and Scotch whisky.
Something I haven’t thought of in 20 years or more – Little Birds without Heads. My mother would roll thin roast beef around stuffing.
I’ve never heard of or seen it anywhere else. Google says it’s called oiseaux sans tete in France, and the English language recipes I see are all decades old. Maybe it was a 1950s Better Homes and Gardens kind of thing.
Devils on Horseback – - – bacon wrapped dates and bleu cheese.
Hamburger. Has no ham. Candy corn. contains no corn.
It’s not called rabbit, the correct name is Welsh Rarebit
@ucme What about Hossenfeffer?
Thankfully not the pu pu plater.
How about eggplant?
Did you know that egg plants reflect infrared light so they don’t get so hot while in the sunlight? They look bright white through an IR viewer.
@ucme it is Rarebit for the silly Englishmen, the Welsh spell it Rabbit.
Gatorade, (no freshly squeezed ‘gators)
Girl Scout Cookies
Ghoulash (no ghouls, no ashes)
TV dinners – - no TV’s were harmed in the making of a TV Dinner.
I just thought of two that I am grateful are not literal: Cheez Whiz, and Cheese Balls.
Also Tater Tots.
And one that @ucme might know: Catholic Pie (also known as Butter Pie).
Sex on the Beach is’t literally.
Not heard of that @Kardamom, here’s another though…ploughman’s lunch
@ucme Catholic pie (or butter pie) is a specialty from Lancashire, England. It is a savory pie made with potatoes and onions that was, and maybe still is, a dish that was eaten in Fridays by Catholics, when they were abstaining from eating meat.
I looked up this information a couple of weeks ago when I was listening to a song by Paul McCartney and Wings (Uncle Albert Admiral Halsey) that mentions a butter pie. I was curious what it was. Now I want to make one.
I love a ploughman’s lunch and had the opportunity to eat one at a pub near Stratford Upon Avon the one time I got to visit England : )
For those of you not familiar with a ploughman’s lunch: https://www.thespruceeats.com/what-is-a-british-ploughmans-lunch-435331
“Admiral Halsey notified me,
He had to have a berth or he couldn’t get to sea
I had another look, and I had a cup of tea and a butter pie.”
“A butter pie?”
“The butter wouldn’t melt so I put it in the pie.”
Hands across the water (water)
Heads across the sky (2x)
French toast.
Irish stew.
Belgian waffles.
Spanish rice.
Cuban coffee.
German sausage.
Welsh rabbit.
English toffee.
Hamburger.
Finger steaks.
To name a few at least…
Well, there aren’t any girl scouts in girl scout cookies.
Yes there are. One of the main ingredients of Girl Scout Cookies is girl scouts. Kinda a Soylent Green deal..
How about Ice Cream—no damn ice, no damn cream.
@Yellowdog, there is always cream in Ice Cream (legally). It’s also frozen, hence the ice.
Oh. I thought, like hand cream or shaving cream. It isn’t those. Milk and rock salt and ice is at least used in the preparation. I guess you could use cream or creamer en lieu of milk if you didn’t have any.
How about a Poo Poo Platter at a Chinese restaurant?
Never any poo poo on it. Or I don’t k now. Maybe it does. Never ordered one.
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