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\"\"<\/a>Although you might expect spotted dick\u2014a kind of suet pudding\u2014to have been given its name by a man prone to whimsy or hypochondria, the name of the dish actually has a very sober origin. Since the early nineteenth century, dick referred to a cheese made in Suffolk, one of England’s many counties; the name of this cheese was originally spelt with a capital D, suggesting that it may have been derived from some now-forgotten Dick. Shortly after, the name of the cheese was borrowed as a synonym for pudding, and was often used in conjunction with other words that indicated the type of pudding. Thus, treacle dick was pudding served with a treacle sauce, while spotted dick was pudding made with currants that “spotted” the surface of the dessert. (Dick, incidentally, did not become a slang term for penis until the late nineteenth century, well after dick the pudding had established itself.) Another dish that appears to have a whimsical name is petticoat tails, a kind of butter-cake first referred to at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Like spotted dick, however, the name petticoat tails originated from what was once a straightforward name: the French petit gateau, meaning little cake, was simply corrupted by the English to the more familiar-sounding petticoat tails. Other dishes, however, have names intended from the start to be whimsical. Bubble and squeak, for example, a dish of meat and cabbage fried together, received its name in the mid eighteenth century from the sounds it emits as it cooks. Around the same time, a dish made by cooking sausages in batter came to be known as toad in the hole because of its resemblance to that zoological phenomenon. In the late nineteenth century, a more poetic resemblance led to the name angels on horseback, denoting a canape made by rolling oysters in bacon and then serving them on crisp toast. However, the name that best manages to be both whimsical and literal belongs not to a dish, but to a beverage: merry go down, a strong ale popular in the sixteenth century.<\/p>\n

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Although you might expect spotted dick\u2014a kind of suet pudding\u2014to have been given its name by a man prone to whimsy or hypochondria, the name of the dish actually has a very sober origin. Since the early nineteenth century, dick referred to a cheese made in Suffolk, one of England’s many counties; the name of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-s"],"yoast_head":"\nSpotted dick - Definition of Spotted dick<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Although you might expect spotted dick\u2014a kind of suet pudding\u2014to have been given its name by a man prone to whimsy or hypochondria, the name of the dish actually has a very sober origin. 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Like spotted dick, however, the name petticoat tails originated from what was once a straightforward name: the French petit gateau, meaning little cake, was simply corrupted by the English to the more familiar-sounding petticoat tails. Other dishes, however, have names intended from the start to be whimsical. Bubble and squeak, for example, a dish of meat and cabbage fried together, received its name in the mid eighteenth century from the sounds it emits as it cooks. Around the same time, a dish made by cooking sausages in batter came to be known as toad in the hole because of its resemblance to that zoological phenomenon. In the late nineteenth century, a more poetic resemblance led to the name angels on horseback, denoting a canape made by rolling oysters in bacon and then serving them on crisp toast. 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