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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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My youngest child said to me this morning dad why are they called pancakes they arnt a cake.
I said its because you cook them in a pan. But she was right its not a cake so why call it a cake??
And there are other foods like it to toad in the hole there is no toad why??? Spotted dick anyone I mean it just sounds wrong |
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Toad in the hole became popular in Victorian times, as when they started excavating tunnels etc for the new railways they allegedly came across frogs and toads "encased" in rock...which became a news phenomenon....and then a dinner   |
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"Toad in the hole became popular in Victorian times, as when they started excavating tunnels etc for the new railways they allegedly came across frogs and toads "encased" in rock...which became a news phenomenon....and then a dinner "
You learn something new every day thank you |
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over a year ago
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"My youngest child said to me this morning dad why are they called pancakes they arnt a cake.
I said its because you cook them in a pan. But she was right its not a cake so why call it a cake??
And there are other foods like it to toad in the hole there is no toad why??? Spotted dick anyone I mean it just sounds wrong "
From Wikipedia
"While "spotted" is a clear reference to the dried fruit in the pudding (which resemble spots), "dick" and "dog" were dialectal terms widely used for pudding, from the same etymology as "dough" (i.e., the modern equivalent name would be "spotted pudding"). In late 19th century Huddersfield, for instance, a glossary of local terms described: "Dick, plain pudding. If with treacle sauce, treacle dick."
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"My youngest child said to me this morning dad why are they called pancakes they arnt a cake.
I said its because you cook them in a pan. But she was right its not a cake so why call it a cake??
And there are other foods like it to toad in the hole there is no toad why??? Spotted dick anyone I mean it just sounds wrong
From Wikipedia
"While "spotted" is a clear reference to the dried fruit in the pudding (which resemble spots), "dick" and "dog" were dialectal terms widely used for pudding, from the same etymology as "dough" (i.e., the modern equivalent name would be "spotted pudding"). In late 19th century Huddersfield, for instance, a glossary of local terms described: "Dick, plain pudding. If with treacle sauce, treacle dick."
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Small pudding-tiny dick.
Pudding with Cheddar-cheesy dick
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"Toad in the hole became popular in Victorian times, as when they started excavating tunnels etc for the new railways they allegedly came across frogs and toads "encased" in rock...which became a news phenomenon....and then a dinner "
Nah, I'm calling BS on that one, far too contrived. Railway construction didn't start in any real form until the early 19th century, but there are references to the dish in cookbooks from the mid to late 18th century. |
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"Toad in the hole became popular in Victorian times, as when they started excavating tunnels etc for the new railways they allegedly came across frogs and toads "encased" in rock...which became a news phenomenon....and then a dinner
Nah, I'm calling BS on that one, far too contrived. Railway construction didn't start in any real form until the early 19th century, but there are references to the dish in cookbooks from the mid to late 18th century."
That was in one of those "Tales of the Unexplained" books I had as a kid
You'll be telling me the Yeti doesn't exist next!  |
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"Toad in the hole became popular in Victorian times, as when they started excavating tunnels etc for the new railways they allegedly came across frogs and toads "encased" in rock...which became a news phenomenon....and then a dinner
Nah, I'm calling BS on that one, far too contrived. Railway construction didn't start in any real form until the early 19th century, but there are references to the dish in cookbooks from the mid to late 18th century."
My dad lives on Prescot and their claim to fame was having the first rail tracks in the country. I swear they were built in the late 16th century. They were used to transport coal from a mine. |
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"Why is a blow job called a blow job ?, When its getting sucked,lol"
My ex told me years ago its because it was originally called a "below job" but over the years it got shortened.
Not sure how true that is but she was positive haha |
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"Toad in the hole became popular in Victorian times, as when they started excavating tunnels etc for the new railways they allegedly came across frogs and toads "encased" in rock...which became a news phenomenon....and then a dinner
Nah, I'm calling BS on that one, far too contrived. Railway construction didn't start in any real form until the early 19th century, but there are references to the dish in cookbooks from the mid to late 18th century.
That was in one of those "Tales of the Unexplained" books I had as a kid
You'll be telling me the Yeti doesn't exist next! "
If you want, imho, an interesting and mostly true fact involving the railways, that I was told at university...
NASA's rocket boosters for the shuttle were limited in size by the railway tunnel they had to pass through from the factory. The tunnel width was relative to the width of the tracks, and the track width was specced _ased on the distance between the wheels on a horse and cart. This in turn dates back to the design of roman chariots which would make grooves in roads thousands of years ago, which were naturally sized around the width of two horses arses.
So the rocket boosters are _ased around horses arses. Snopes even agrees, so must be true. |
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"Toad in the hole became popular in Victorian times, as when they started excavating tunnels etc for the new railways they allegedly came across frogs and toads "encased" in rock...which became a news phenomenon....and then a dinner
Nah, I'm calling BS on that one, far too contrived. Railway construction didn't start in any real form until the early 19th century, but there are references to the dish in cookbooks from the mid to late 18th century.
My dad lives on Prescot and their claim to fame was having the first rail tracks in the country. I swear they were built in the late 16th century. They were used to transport coal from a mine."
That wasn't the railway though! |
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My dad lives on Prescot and their claim to fame was having the first rail tracks in the country. I swear they were built in the late 16th century. They were used to transport coal from a mine. That wasn't the railway though!"
Prescot along the route of the Liverpool to Manchester railway that saw Stephenson's Rocket trials at Rainhill so there's been a railway there for an awful long time. Probably why the modern trains don't run properly  |
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My dad lives on Prescot and their claim to fame was having the first rail tracks in the country. I swear they were built in the late 16th century. They were used to transport coal from a mine. That wasn't the railway though!
Prescot along the route of the Liverpool to Manchester railway that saw Stephenson's Rocket trials at Rainhill so there's been a railway there for an awful long time. Probably why the modern trains don't run properly "
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"My youngest child said to me this morning dad why are they called pancakes they arnt a cake.
I said its because you cook them in a pan. But she was right its not a cake so why call it a cake??
And there are other foods like it to toad in the hole there is no toad why??? Spotted dick anyone I mean it just sounds wrong "
if you've got a spotted dick or eat a spotted dick thats not good   |
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"Toad in the hole became popular in Victorian times, as when they started excavating tunnels etc for the new railways they allegedly came across frogs and toads "encased" in rock...which became a news phenomenon....and then a dinner
Nah, I'm calling BS on that one, far too contrived. Railway construction didn't start in any real form until the early 19th century, but there are references to the dish in cookbooks from the mid to late 18th century.
My dad lives on Prescot and their claim to fame was having the first rail tracks in the country. I swear they were built in the late 16th century. They were used to transport coal from a mine."
Rainhill was the home of the locomotive trials |
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By *andKBCouple
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"Why is a blow job called a blow job ?, When its getting sucked,lol"
Oh I actually know the answer to this one. Because I'm random like that. Its was initially known as a 'below job' and it got shortened. Or so I read somewhere several years ago anyway |
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"Toad in the hole became popular in Victorian times, as when they started excavating tunnels etc for the new railways they allegedly came across frogs and toads "encased" in rock...which became a news phenomenon....and then a dinner
Nah, I'm calling BS on that one, far too contrived. Railway construction didn't start in any real form until the early 19th century, but there are references to the dish in cookbooks from the mid to late 18th century.
My dad lives on Prescot and their claim to fame was having the first rail tracks in the country. I swear they were built in the late 16th century. They were used to transport coal from a mine.
Rainhill was the home of the locomotive trials "
Already said that |
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"Toad in the hole became popular in Victorian times, as when they started excavating tunnels etc for the new railways they allegedly came across frogs and toads "encased" in rock...which became a news phenomenon....and then a dinner
Nah, I'm calling BS on that one, far too contrived. Railway construction didn't start in any real form until the early 19th century, but there are references to the dish in cookbooks from the mid to late 18th century.
My dad lives on Prescot and their claim to fame was having the first rail tracks in the country. I swear they were built in the late 16th century. They were used to transport coal from a mine.
Rainhill was the home of the locomotive trials
Already said that "
The train spotting thread is over that way.... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My youngest child said to me this morning dad why are they called pancakes they arnt a cake.
I said its because you cook them in a pan. But she was right its not a cake so why call it a cake??
And there are other foods like it to toad in the hole there is no toad why??? Spotted dick anyone I mean it just sounds wrong "
It is a cake though, as someone has said it's basic cake mix in a pan. |
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