Is it the case that it was originally named Turd In The Hole?
2006-11-11 23:42:00 · 14 answers · asked by chocolatefudgesunday 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
The book called the World's Greatest Mysteries explains this in it's section called Living Fossils.
It says that in October 1862 a live toad was found encased in bedrock 7 feet underground during the excavation of a cellar in Spittlegate, Stamford. In 1865 a live toad was found 25 feet underground in limestone during the construction of the Hartlepool Waterworks.
These & other findings lead to ghoulish attempts to bury toads alive to see if they could survive. These attempts eventually stopped after a letter was published in the Times 'lambasting the directors of the Great Exhibition' who were planning to display a toad alledgedly found alive inside a lump of coal in a Welsh Mine.
The book says that "the whole of his era is commemorated in the legacy of the meal of greasy sausage meat hermatically sealed in a skin of thick, suffocating batter, which the Victorian children immediately dubbed 'toad in the hole'".
2006-11-12 00:09:48 · answer #1 · answered by Solow 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Toad in the hole was named after a sexual act between two men during the first world war in the trenches, the toad was the male organ and the hole was the runny waste soaked mans bottom.
2006-11-14 13:53:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I just saw a recipe for it and I think it is called that cause when you dip the sausage in batter and fry it, it looks like a brown toad and when you cover it with the gravey and green veggies it looks like its in a hole
2006-11-12 19:01:36 · answer #3 · answered by charlie 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Have you ever cooked a toad? Fried up real nicely they'd probably resemble a sausage
2006-11-12 18:38:26 · answer #4 · answered by J P 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
To answer Carnival Queen who asked why this qu was in Ethnic Cuisine. . .because T in the H is a British meal of sausages cooked in pancake batter. Very Ethnic. I have not seen or heard of the dish in any other country, and I have travelled and eaten lots of places. Why it should be called that is a mystery to me, as is the naming of "burgoo", and "cheese cake" and "Trifle"
2006-11-12 13:52:06 · answer #5 · answered by thisbrit 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Because, one in the hole's, better in the bowl. And that's the ambition
2006-11-12 08:03:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have to agree with Miki P, pmsl.
2006-11-12 22:10:10 · answer #7 · answered by jen 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cause it sounds better than "Dicks in goo"
2006-11-12 08:04:44 · answer #8 · answered by Miki P 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
this whole thing - the question and most of the answers - is horrible and should be stopped at once!
2006-11-15 08:51:35 · answer #9 · answered by Alyosha 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why do you keep asking this question?
2006-11-12 07:59:20 · answer #10 · answered by Pat R 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋