I was at a castle just outside London at the weekend and inside they had a banquet display with a menu that had been used on the table of King James, there were culenry delights such as blackbird pie and dried hogs cheek and as if that wasnt appertising enough 'boiled sprod' was also on the menu, what the heck is it? and if it was good enough for king James is it good enough for us? needless to say he wasnt our longest reigning king
2006-10-01 22:52:53 · 4 answers · asked by bloko 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
LOL - perhaps King James ran into some *spoiled* boiled sprod!
Actually, "sprod" refers specifically to a salmon that is in its second year:
http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Sprod
That's a current source, but I also found this in a newsletter of sorts that was originally published in 1850:
"Can _saliu_ be a mistake for _salar_, and _sprote_ the Anglo-Saxon form of the corresponding modern word _sprod_, i.e. the salmon of the second year?"
The quote is from "Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850 by Various" on the Gutenburg site; it's in a section called "Ælfric's Colloquy" on this page:
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=188929&pageno=18
2006-10-01 23:06:57 · answer #1 · answered by jclog 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Salmon
2006-10-02 05:57:43 · answer #2 · answered by barbara 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A spoiled broad is your girlfriend if you do too many nice things like take her places or tell her she's beautiful or something like that. She'll learn to expect those kinds of things, so be careful.
2006-10-02 06:11:59 · answer #3 · answered by Komika 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its kind of like donuts -- lumps of dough "boiled" in fat. british food makes me sick just thinking about it. sprod is salmon but boiled sprod is lumps of dough in fat -- oh and blackbird pie doesn't have blackbirds in it so eat up!
2006-10-02 06:08:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋