where did the term "Bubble and Squeak" come from?

Question

for when you fry up left over cabbage and stuff?

Answer 1

its the noise that it makes whilst it is cooking

Answer 2

I am a former chef and the ones who stated the name comes form the cooking method, as you sauted the mashed potatos and boiled cabbage in either bacon fat, lard or oil, you press it into the pan to flatten it out and the air gaps and the frying of the materials make a bubbling sound and as you press it with the spoon or lifter it squeaks in the pan, I use a nice sturdy cast iron one, and put mine in the oven to finish it, I like it crispy and dark brown, almost like a cake, served with some boiled ham or Irish bacon and a nice cold beer, it is a great mid-week dinner, good for you too.

Answer 3

It's just the noise it makes while you are cooking it.

Bugger all to do with the Greeks....!!!

Happy New Year......xxx

Answer 4

The name is thought to be either a description of the action and sound made during the cooking process, a reference to the gas "bubbles" the dish causes and the "squeak" one's body makes upon releasing them, or from the fact that the ingredients are leftovers; 'the bubble of the stew and the squeak of the pig'

Answer 5

It's what your belly and a*se do'es after you've eaten it.
I have some for my supper and when I woke during the night my duvet was on the ceiling.

Answer 6

Bubble and Squeak’ is also used in cockney rhyming slang to describe a Greek person (geddit? Bubble and Squeak -> Greek) and is often shortened to just ‘Bubble’ as in ‘Nick the Bubble’ meaning ‘Nick the Greek’. Anyone who saw the movie Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (and if you haven’t, then do so) might remember Nick the Bubble as a dodgy Greek geezer…now you know what the ‘Bubble’ bit means.

Answer 7

i think it is from Aero (chocolate).
you know from the advert with the mouse

Answer 8

Because it makes you poot?

Answer 9

It's meant to be the noise it makes when it's cooking in the pan.