Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1898 — Rabbit. Not "Rarebit." [ARTICLE]

Rabbit. Not "Rarebit."

Those who have accepted the tnconsistunt name of Welsh mbblt for toasted cheese on the assumption that it was a corruption of Welsh “rarebit," will have to re\i*e their view. According to a writer in MacMillan's Magazine, “Welsh rabbit is a genuine slang term, bfclottging to n large group which describe in the same humorous way the special dish or product of a peculiar district. For example: An Essex lion Is n cnlfii n Fieldane duck is n baked sheep’s head; Glasgow magistrates, or Norfolk capons, are red herring; Irish apricots nr Munster plums are potatoes; Gravesend sweetmeat* are shrimps."