Before you click that link.
Do you know the new names for…
Patagonian Toothfish
Prunes
Rapeseed Oil
Whore’s Eggs
click to find out
they forgot escolar new names
butter fish or when served raw super white tuna, king tuna lots of names for escolar - the diarrhea fish
Rapeseed oil is Canola oil. I don’t know about the others, but Edamame, is the new name for soy beans (I suppose because no one would eat soy beans).
Bob
Rapeseed used to be potentially toxic. Newer varieties from Canada aren’t but the name still had that old, dangerous stigma. So Canada called it Canola oil. Pam was introduced in the 70’s and the first canola oil I tasted.
I’m pretty sure the modern name for “prunes” is “prunes”.
Our local Fish & Chip shop sells lemon fish fillets, much more appetising than dogfish or shark meat.
I knew the first three.
Spider crab aka Alaskan King Crab
Brazil nuts used to be called nigger toes.
Nope. They’re dried plums now. Still just as tasty, but we’re eating more fiber these days so we don’t have to ask, “Is three enough, is six too many?” You probably shouldn’t eat a whole box, but just because of the calories.
I knew all of those except ‘whore’s eggs’.
Not on the list was the slimehead.
Yeah, I saw the link. So one company that sells them is trying to rebrand them for marketing purposes. I’ll bet you that the folks buying them still write “prunes” on their grocery list, though.
OK, maybe they’ll eventually succeed at changing the language, like the rapeseed growers have with Canola. But they haven’t yet.
Depends on the age of the writer of the list. My friends won’t touch prunes, due to the unfortunate geriatric connotations. They have excitedly shared dried plums with me, though. :smack:
Wasn’t the dolphin fish renamed “mahi-mahi” to avoid the confusion with Flipper?
Orange Roughy was “slime” something, iirc.
[Larry The Cable Guy] I thought that was what happened after eating too many Cheese Doodles. [/LTCB]
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Kiwifruit sells pretty well in the US. But it didn’t sell as Chinese Gooseberries or melonette
I already knew the story about prunes/dried plums. I would usually roll my eyes at the name change, but in this case, the name change is actually more consistent with food terminology. There’s no separate name for dried apricots or dried apples or dried cranberries.
Now if we could change raisins to dried grapes, all us nitpickers will be happy.
Anyone other Californians remember this circa-1980s commercial (sung to the tune of Okie From Muskogee)?
I’m proud to be a prune from California
I was born a plum, but just take a look at me
I’m plump and ripe and juicy just right for snacking
I’m a California prune and I’m plum good, naturally!
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An old one but I think escargot lets people avoid the thought that they’re eating snails.