Any Wierd Names Of Foods

[Old School 3319]

Are there any foods that have a good name but if you new what it was you wouldnt eat it?

 

[Old School 3319]

ie Rocky Mountain Oysters

 

[lawdawg]

Kind of the flip side of your Rocky Mountain Oysters, but I've got one. I've heard that Mahi Mahi was once more commonly known as "Dolphin Fish." The name was gradually changed on restaurant menus to "Mahi Mahi" (which is apparently the Hawaiian name for the species) because restaurant patrons would think of a bottle-nosed dolphin when seeing "Dolphin Fish" and thought they'd be eating Flipper, so they didn't order it much. Needless to say, restaurants sell a lot more "Mahi Mahi" than they did "Dolphin Fish."

 

[Old School 3319]

Kind of the flip side of your Rocky Mountain Oysters, but I've got one. I've heard that Mahi Mahi was once more commonly known as "Dolphin Fish." The name was gradually changed on restaurant menus to "Mahi Mahi" (which is apparently the Hawaiian name for the species) because restaurant patrons would think of a bottle-nosed dolphin when seeing "Dolphin Fish" and thought they'd be eating Flipper, so they didn't order it much. Needless to say, restaurants sell a lot more "Mahi Mahi" than they did "Dolphin Fish."

kind of like cottage cheese. nobody wants to eat clambered milk

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

Escargo - Snails are tasty especially when cook in a sh!t ton of butter and garlic!

 

[BROBS]

Pu Pu Platter. On both sides of the spectrum. ?

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Sweet breads.. what a deceptive name.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

I cooked at a restaurant years ago. The snapper was a fish called a beeliner, and the grouper was stripped swahi.

 

[Old School 3319]

Sweet breads.. what a deceptive name.

is that like the Hawaiian Kings Rolls

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

is that like the Hawaiian Kings Rolls

nope.

 

[Old School 3319]

Of coarse if people new what was in hot dogs few would eat. I like headcheese but i know whats in it

 

[peregrinus]

Haggis.
Perhaps not a particularly nice sounding name but still much sweeter sounding than: “sheep or calf's offal mixed with suet, oatmeal, and seasoning and boiled in a bag”.

 

[lawdawg]

Haggis.
Perhaps not a particularly nice sounding name but still much sweeter sounding than: “sheep or calf's offal mixed with suet, oatmeal, and seasoning and boiled in a bag”.

I think people already don't eat haggis though, regardless of knowing what's in it

 

[peregrinus]

I think people already don't eat haggis though, regardless of knowing what's in it

I’m pretty sure the Scotts are people, but your right, not legally available in the U.S.

From that legal beacon we call Wikipedia:
“In 1971 it became illegal to import haggis into the US from the UK due to a ban on food containing sheep lung, which constitutes 10–15% of the traditional recipe”

 

[BROBS]

WHEN YOURE SO POOR YOU EAT SHEEP LUNG......

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

nope.

Thymus gland of a calf

 

[Old School 3319]

Thymus gland of a calf

I have ate most of a pig but never a thymus of a calf. I have had kidneys but you have to boil the piss out of them

 

[peregrinus]

WHEN YOURE SO POOR YOU EAT SHEEP LUNG......

Or hotdogs... when I read Upton Sinclair in school it kinda put a damper on hot dogs for me.

 

[Old School 3319]

Or hotdogs... when I read Upton Sinclair in school it kinda put a damper on hot dogs for me.

never been a huge fan of hot dogs unless its a Nathan's, but love some brats

 

[BROBS]

Or hotdogs... when I read Upton Sinclair in school it kinda put a damper on hot dogs for me.

WHAT, YOU DONT LIKE HOG FORESKIN AND FLOOR SWEEPINGS?!