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What foods besides tea sandwiches, and coffee cake do not contain the actual ingredient the food is named for.

Asked by Kardamom (33484points) February 3rd, 2019 from iPhone

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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ucme's avatar

Bubble & Squeak
Toad in the Hole
Water Biscuits
Flapjack
Spotted Dick
Pigs in Blankets (small sausages wrapped in bacon)
Marble Sponge

Brian1946's avatar

AFAIK, lady fingers are actually finger-free.

stanleybmanly's avatar

angels/devils food cake, shit on a shingle, egg cream, shoo fly pie.

ragingloli's avatar

Hot dogs, baby food, american cheese, hamburger, wiener, hushpuppy, catfish.

stanleybmanly's avatar

rock lobster.

Love_my_doggie's avatar

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)

filmfann's avatar

Grape nuts

JLeslie's avatar

Peanuts. No peas and technically not a nut.

Rocky Mountain Oysters. You don’t want to know.

Grasshopper Pie. No grasshoppers in it.

chyna's avatar

Tea cake which is actually a cookie and not made with tea.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Welsh rabbit – - nobody Welsh and no rabbits

janbb's avatar

Captain Crunch
Blueberry Buckle
Cottage Pie

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Shepherd’s pie – - no shepherds anywhere in there

janbb's avatar

@Tropical_Willie I thought of that but the possessive means it is for shepherds not consisting of.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Checkerboard cake

Brian1946's avatar

Because there’s no bread and it’s implied by the name, I nominate the knuckle samwich!

ragingloli's avatar

And let us not forget the cream pie.

Love_my_doggie's avatar

Egg cream, which has neither

janbb's avatar

Brown cow ice cream soda

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Rusty Nail – - – mixing Drambuie and Scotch whisky.

Call_Me_Jay's avatar

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.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Devils on Horseback – - – bacon wrapped dates and bleu cheese.

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

Hamburger. Has no ham. Candy corn. contains no corn.

snowberry's avatar

@Call_Me_Jay I thought you’d be interested in this. The recipe translated into English is “larks without heads“. Here are two recipes.

http://articles.latimes.com/1990-10-07/magazine/tm-2638_1_white-wine

http://www.cookitsimply.com/recipe-0010-013q036.html

ucme's avatar

It’s not called rabbit, the correct name is Welsh Rarebit

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

@ucme What about Hossenfeffer?

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

Thankfully not the pu pu plater.

LuckyGuy's avatar

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.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

@ucme it is Rarebit for the silly Englishmen, the Welsh spell it Rabbit.

Yellowdog's avatar

Gatorade, (no freshly squeezed ‘gators)
Girl Scout Cookies
Ghoulash (no ghouls, no ashes)

Tropical_Willie's avatar

TV dinners – - no TV’s were harmed in the making of a TV Dinner.

janbb's avatar

Baby food!

ucme's avatar

@Tropical_Willie “silly englishmen” are you like 6? :D

Kardamom's avatar

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).

janbb's avatar

Sex on the Beach is’t literally.

janbb's avatar

Hoppin’ Johnny

ucme's avatar

Not heard of that @Kardamom, here’s another though…ploughman’s lunch

Kardamom's avatar

@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

Yellowdog's avatar

“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)

kritiper's avatar

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…

filmfann's avatar

Well, there aren’t any girl scouts in girl scout cookies.

Yellowdog's avatar

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.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

^^^^ You on drugs @Yellowdog ? ? ^^^^

Kardamom's avatar

@Yellowdog, there is always cream in Ice Cream (legally). It’s also frozen, hence the ice.

Yellowdog's avatar

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.

Yellowdog's avatar

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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