# Foods/dishes whose name does not compute **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [April 3, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-dishes-whose-name-does-not-compute/982092 "2023-04-03T16:11:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-dishes-whose-name-does-not-compute/982092/21 "2023-04-03T19:04:20Z")
The Bison neighborhood of Hamburg, of course! ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-dishes-whose-name-does-not-compute/982092/22 "2023-04-03T19:12:53Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Okay, Mr. Smartypants, then where are bison burgers from? 😛 Buffalo, NY. The home of buffalo wings. And boneless wings. Rochester is the home of the garbage plate, which is not garbage until the leftovers are thrown out. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-dishes-whose-name-does-not-compute/982092/23 "2023-04-03T19:12:59Z")
> [@carnut](#): > > Shepherd’s Pie does not contain shepherds nor are shepherds the only folk who consume it. > > **Same goes for Irish Stew, as far as I’m aware.** đŸ€” - Tom Lehrer: [The Irish Ballad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_jjRNMOopA) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-dishes-whose-name-does-not-compute/982092/24 "2023-04-03T19:18:47Z")
> [@carnut](#): > > Same goes for Irish Stew, as far as I’m aware. Someone made a modest proposal related to fixing that. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-dishes-whose-name-does-not-compute/982092/25 "2023-04-03T19:24:08Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Someone made a modest proposal related to fixing that. That’s what initially came into my head. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-dishes-whose-name-does-not-compute/982092/26 "2023-04-03T19:25:09Z")
Hmm, I’ve always thought of [these](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okra) as Lady’s (Ladies’??) Fingers! ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-dishes-whose-name-does-not-compute/982092/27 "2023-04-03T19:29:15Z")
As we are in Germany by now, I must mention Kinderschnitzel, [JĂ€gerschnitzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A4gerschnitzel) and Zigeunerschnitzel here. Neither is made of what it promises. And [cat’s tongues](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_tongue) are made of chocolate or biscuit! Then I will repeat that buffalos have no wings until the cows come home. (hmmm
 ninja’d?) ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-dishes-whose-name-does-not-compute/982092/28 "2023-04-03T19:34:31Z")
Wow, never heard that name, but Okra doesn’t grow well in Minnesota. We import it from down south where they have a longer growing season. ---
**Author:** ![mtnmatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@mtnmatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mtnmatt)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-dishes-whose-name-does-not-compute/982092/29 "2023-04-03T20:08:34Z")
as a kid, I was pretty nervous after my mom told me she was making “porcupine balls” for dinner, but they were just beef meatballs with rice (some grains did in fact stick up like a quill) and became one of my favorite dinners she made us ---
**Author:** ![Tarataratara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-dishes-whose-name-does-not-compute/982092/30 "2023-04-03T20:09:08Z")
pets de nonne ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-dishes-whose-name-does-not-compute/982092/31 "2023-04-03T20:25:17Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > As we are in Germany by now, I must mention Kinderschnitzel, [JĂ€gerschnitzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A4gerschnitzel) and Zigeunerschnitzel here. Neither is made of what it promises. And [cat’s tongues](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_tongue) are made of chocolate or biscuit! A special case for a special German region: in the Kölsch dialect of the city of Cologne, “e halve Hahn” translates to High German “halber Hahn” and “half a chicken” in English. Everywhere else in Germany, if you order “ein halbes HĂ€hnchen” (HĂ€hnchen is the diminutive of Hahn), you’ll get just that, a half roast chicken, but if you order a “halve Hahn” in a Cologne pub, you’ll get half of a bread roll with a thick slice of Gouda and mustard. Those Colognians are a strange bunch
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**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-dishes-whose-name-does-not-compute/982092/32 "2023-04-03T20:27:58Z")
What do you expect from someone that drinks beer [out of test tubes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6lsch_(beer))? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-dishes-whose-name-does-not-compute/982092/33 "2023-04-03T20:30:17Z")
Yeah, Kölsch, the only dialect in the world with its own beer. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-dishes-whose-name-does-not-compute/982092/34 "2023-04-03T21:11:25Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > There’s no dog meat in hot dogs. At least not that I’m aware of – who knows what’s in those things! Or dachshunds, either! They were originally called red hot dachshund dogs and changed to just red hots, and then simply hot dogs. ---
**Author:** ![Stana\_Claus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stana_claus/32/13874_2.png) [@Stana\_Claus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stana_Claus)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-dishes-whose-name-does-not-compute/982092/35 "2023-04-03T21:14:18Z")
I’m pretty sure Girl Scout Cookies don’t contain any Girl Scouts. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-dishes-whose-name-does-not-compute/982092/36 "2023-04-03T21:14:59Z")
A Coney Dog does not contain any dogs or rabbits, I would hope. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-dishes-whose-name-does-not-compute/982092/37 "2023-04-03T21:15:00Z")
Boston cream pie is actually a cake, not a pie. ---
**Author:** ![ashtayk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@ashtayk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ashtayk)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-dishes-whose-name-does-not-compute/982092/38 "2023-04-03T21:34:54Z")
And then you have turkey that does not come from Turkey. In Turkey it is called Hindi (from India), but it does not come from India, in Arabic it is called “Roman chicken” and you guessed it - it does not come from Rome. And the Portuguese - they call it Peru and funnily enough that’s what it is called in India as well! ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-dishes-whose-name-does-not-compute/982092/39 "2023-04-03T21:36:35Z")
Guinea pig (cuy) is eaten in South America, but it’s not from Guinea and is not a pig, either. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-dishes-whose-name-does-not-compute/982092/40 "2023-04-03T21:56:31Z")
Cheesecake does contain cream cheese, but it’s not very cake-like. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-dishes-whose-name-does-not-compute/982092.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-dishes-whose-name-does-not-compute/982092.md?page=3)