Show J ROW DISHES GOT TZaEIB NAMES The sandwich is called for the earl of Sandwich Mulligatawney is from an East India In-dia word meaning pepper water Waffle is from wafel a word of Teutonic Teu-tonic origin meaning honeycomb Hominy is from auhuminea the North American Indian word for parched corn Gooseberry fool is a corruption of gooseberry foule milled or pressed gooseberrIes Forcemeat is a corruption of farce meat from the French farce stuffing I e meat for stuffing Blancmange means literally white food hence chocolate blancmange is something of a misnomer Succotash is a dish borrowed from the Narragansett Indians and called by them mslckquatash Charlotte is a corruption of the old I English word charlyte wnlch means a dish of custard r chocolate russd is Russian charlotte Gumbo is simply okra soup gumbo being the name by which okra is often known in the south Chicken gumbo is a soup of okra and chicken Macaroni is taken from a Greek derivation deri-vation which means the blessed dead in allusion to the ancient custom cus-tom of eating It at feasts for the dead |