Worms on Toast, Anyone?

Toad in the Hole
@owlwings (43915)
Cambridge, England
April 24, 2016 7:45am CST
When I was at school, the weekly menu hardly ever varied. “If it’s fish, it must be Friday” was an invariable rule. On Wednesdays we had something which all the boys (and some of the staff) referred to as “Camel in the Desert”. This was actually a rissole made of potato and some unidentifiable meat, covered in breadcrumbs (“sand”) and fried. It wasn’t a very inventive mind which could imagine them to resemble the sort of thing one might pick up after a camel had passed that way! We sometimes also had tapioca pudding which most of us disliked and was generally known as “Frogspawn”. Something else which was a real favourite when I was a kid was “Toad in the Hole”. This is a well-known dish made by cooking a Yorkshire pudding with sausages embedded in it. Pigs in blankets? Welsh Rabbit? (it’s really ‘rarebit’, not ‘rabbit’!), Buffalo Wings? Fish Fingers? … What foods do you eat which are called by names of things which you wouldn’t usually dream of eating?
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@Drosophila (16573)
• Ireland
24 Apr 16
I do miss a good toad in the hole! actually a sticky toffee pudding as a desert does nicely too
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@Drosophila (16573)
• Ireland
25 Apr 16
@pgntwo not had it for years...
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@pgntwo (22412)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
25 Apr 16
@Drosophila Yummy. Oh, and crumble too, any variety. Fruiter is better.
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@pgntwo (22412)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
24 Apr 16
Sticky toffee pudding is a delight. Bread and butter pudding's great too!
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@katsmeow1213 (28719)
• United States
24 Apr 16
We have one that we call Sh*t on a Shingle. Usually it's creamed chipped beef on toast, but my mom who didn't eat much beef had a tuna version of this.. which is basically tuna casserole without the noodles served over toast. She also once made this parmesan broccoli pasta dish and my brother said it looked like puke, so the dish actually came to be known as puke... what's for dinner? puke! So I've done some of the same with my kids.. calling stuff cat food or dog food or something like that. That worms on toast looks interesting and something we might like.. is there a recipe for it?
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
24 Apr 16
The picture actually shows Toad in the Hole. It's very easy (but needs a hot oven). Just put sausages to cook in the oven and when they are done quickly pour a Yorkshire pudding batter mix round them and put back in the oven till puffed up and brown, like the picture. "Worms on Toast" is what we used to tease the children with when they had tinned spaghetti on toast.
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• United States
24 Apr 16
@owlwings Ah, well yorkshire pudding is not really popular around here.. I'd have to find a recipe for that.
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
24 Apr 16
@katsmeow1213 The batter is easy (just a rather thin pancake batter) but the secret is to have a very hot oven and a hot pan and fat. Then it puffs up nicely and crisps in a few minutes. If things aren't hot enough, it is just soggy and flat.
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@much2say (53665)
• Los Angeles, California
24 Apr 16
"Deviled eggs" come to mind! I've always loved deviled eggs, but never thought of them as evil .
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
24 Apr 16
I like deviled eggs, too, and always wondered where the devilment came from. Apparently it dates (in print) from the late 18th Century but may have been used earlier to mean cooking anything with hot spices.
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@much2say (53665)
• Los Angeles, California
26 Apr 16
@owlwings I figured the same too about the hot spices - though I've never had deviled eggs that burned my tongue off . But hmmm, then how would they explain devil's food cake?
@much2say (53665)
• Los Angeles, California
26 Apr 16
@Marty1 I love deviled eggs too! I didn't grow up on pigs in a blanket - though I'm sure I've had them at parties. Interestingly as I was mentioning "deviled" foods with @owlwings , I just read that in the UK, pigs in a blanket can be accompanied by "devils on horseback" which are bacon wrapped prunes (I have never heard of those!).
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
24 Apr 16
being boys I am surprised it wasn't called camel poo.
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
24 Apr 16
Actually, now I come to think of it, I believe that it was our Matron (a buxom lady in starched nurse's uniform and with a fascinating moustache) who called it "Camel in the Desert"!
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• Centralia, Missouri
25 Apr 16
@owlwings prob to make it funny but keep the poo from being attached to it! lol
@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
24 Apr 16
I did not really care for school dinners... but school puddings I really enjoyed... I loved frogs spawn ..lol's I can't think of any different names, other than the ones you've mentioned....
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
24 Apr 16
@pgntwo ooohhh I did .... and angel delight..mmmm yumm ...but funnily enough I really disliked blancmange... do you remember them..??
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@pgntwo (22412)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
25 Apr 16
@sueznewz2 Angel Delight, better than Instant Whip. Jelly Fluff, where jelly was whipped with evaporated milk, was a favourite. I was not keen on blancmange either.
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@pgntwo (22412)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
24 Apr 16
Semolina pudding... Rice pudding.. I never liked the tinned fruit salad, though.
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@poehere (15126)
• French Polynesia
24 Apr 16
I always thought my mom's spaghetti looked like blood and worms. She had the most bizarre way of making it. It wasn't until I left France did I have a decent plate of spaghetti. For some reason she loved to add chili powder to her spaghetti and cook it all in one pan. The noodle were chopped up into small bits and pieces and she had some sort of dried chunks of hamburger floating around in a red sauce that you had to skim the grease off of in order to eat it. I forget where we were living at the time, but one afternoon I was with a group of kids when a Hearse drove by. One of the boys started to sing a song about the Hearse. I remember a few of the words of the song. It had to do about - If you see a Hearse drive by You'll be the next to die Not sure of the rest of the song but I do know it ended with - The worms crawl in The worms crawl out They eat the gue between your toes Anyhow, that night my mom served her horrid spaghetti for us. I picked up one of the noodles and started to sing the son I had heard that day. My younger sister threw a fit at the dinner table and my mom was ready to choke me. My dad just sat there laughing and he thought it was quite funny.
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
24 Apr 16
Welcome back, Ann. I was wondering when we should see you again. I guess you've been busy! I remember a spooky song with words something like that, too. And my children were just as good at teasing their younger siblings and putting them off their food as you.
@poehere (15126)
• French Polynesia
24 Apr 16
@owlwings Yes, been a bit busy the last few months and also needed a break. This weekend it is a rainy weekend and a very gray and dark day. So I came here to see what was happening. I saw your post and it brought back some funny memories of what I use to do and how I could call food by all sorts of different names.
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@celticeagle (157593)
• Boise, Idaho
24 Apr 16
You are making me hungry. I do love sausage and chorizos too.
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@pgntwo (22412)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
24 Apr 16
Lovely pic of Toad in the Hole. Bubble and Squeak is an odd one, named after the sound the cabbage and bacon makes as it is cooked in a frying pan.
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@Poppylicious (11133)
24 Apr 16
I love toad in the hole. I was very fussy with food as a child/teen so school dinners were not a favourite of mine!
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
24 Apr 16
I don't think that we ever had toad in the hole at school - it was always something my mother cooked (and generally served with a tomato sauce made from tinned tomatoes).
@JudyEv (323672)
• Rockingham, Australia
25 Apr 16
Tapioca we called frogs eyes which isn't much different to frogspawn. Toad in the Hole was an unknown to me in childhood but early in our married life I made it. My husband immediately christened it Turd in the Hole and I haven't made it since!
@miniam (9154)
• Bern, Switzerland
24 Apr 16
That will have to be hotdog,the name does not appeal at all
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@BettyB (4117)
• Summerville, South Carolina
26 Apr 16
I can't think of any offhand. I'm too tired to think tonight, but I love the name Frogspawn. I like most things but tapioca pudding is one that I could never stomach.