Does your family enjoy eating toad in the hole, heaven and earth, or hush puppies? Millions of people do!
Every country has some foods with funny-sounding names. Check out these examples, then think of some fun food names you know.
Toad in the hole (United Kingdom) is a sausage baked in a batter of flour, milk, and eggs. When cooked, the sausage looks like a toad peeking out of a hole.
Hush puppies (U.S.A.) are small balls of cornmeal deep-fried in fat. A favourite snack in the southern states, they were sometimes fed to dogs to keep them quiet.
Heaven and earth (Germany) is a side dish that combines apples, which grow on trees (heaven), with potatoes, which grow in the ground (earth).
Egg snowballs (Brazil) is a dessert made of beaten egg whites cooked into balls and placed on a pool of lemony sauce.
Bubble and squeak (United Kingdom) is a mixture of bacon and cabbage or other vegetables that gets its name from the noises it makes in the frying pan.
Dragon’s whiskers (China) are made from oolong tea packed in tiny, straw-like bundles and tied with red ribbon. Oolong is from the Chinese word for “black dragon”. The tied up package looks like a Chinese dragon with whiskers.
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