Should all foods be named in relation to their ingredients? If they were, we would be all be missing out on some good laughs before dinner. Some of these foods taste better than they sound, others taste worse, but they are all very interesting. Here are eight of the strangest food names in the world:

Head-cheese

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Not a cheese at all, head-cheese is a cold dish made with meat pieces from a calf or a pig’s head, aspic, vegetables, pepper and salt. Meat jellies have been very popular in Europe, ever since the Middle-Ages and nowadays there’s a different recipe of head-cheese in almost every country in the world. In Africa and Australia, head-cheese is known as brawn.

Pigs in a blanket

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Another very popular, but strangely named food is the ‘pigs in a blanket’. Known also as devils on horseback, wiener winks or kilted sausages, pigs in a blanket are basically different kinds of sausages wrapped in biscuit, pancake or croissant dough. In Britain, sausages are wrapped in pieces of bacon as a religious link to Baby Jesus wrapped in swaddling clothes.

Bubble and squeak

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This traditional English dish is made out of vegetable leftovers sometimes mixed with cold meat. The main ingredients are potato and cabbage, but peas, mushrooms, carrots and brussel sprouts are often added. The vegetables are fried in a pan, with mashed potatoes, until they’re well-cooked and brown on the sides.

Bubble and squeak was a popular dish during WWII, a time when food was scarce and leftovers had to be eaten.

Garbage bread

This bread-shaped pizza is very popular in the US, especially because it’s very easy to make. All you need is some pizza dough and anything you can find in the fridge. That’s why it’s called garbage bread, because you can use any leftovers you might have lying around. Just sprinkle the ingredients onto the pizza dough, roll it up and stick it into the oven.

Toad in the hole

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Named because of its resemblance to a toad sticking its head out of a hole, this traditional English food is one of the simplest you can find. You just fill a preheated pan with Yorkshire pudding batter, add sausages and stick the whole thing into the oven until it’s cooked.

Faggots

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Faggots have no connection to the slang term referring to homosexuals or effeminate men. They are a popular English dish, made from pig heart, liver and minced bacon or meat, mixed with herbs and breadcrumbs. The ingredients are shaped into balls, wrapped in a membrane from the pig’s abdomen and baked.

Shit on a shingle

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Commonly known as creamed chipped beef on toast, this otherwise tasty food got its funny name during World War II. It was the favorite dish of American troops in the field and they gave it the name Shit on a shingle. This very simple dish is basically chipped, partially dehydrated beef on toast, covered with roux sauce.

Spotted Dick

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With what is probably the funniest name in the cookbook, Spotted Dick is also on of Britain’s favorite puddings. It contains flour, suet, currants, rum, golden sugar and is baked in a tin, surrounded by a water bath. During the 1990s some hospitals and restaurants changed the name to Spotted Richard, because people were too embarrassed to order the desert. The name came back eventually because even more people didn’t know what Spotted Richard was.

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