Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1901 — Origin of Food Names. [ARTICLE]

Origin of Food Names.

The sandwich is called for the Earl of Sandwich. Mulligatnwney Is from an East Indian word meaning pepper water. Waffle Is from wafel, a word of Teutonic origin, meaning honeycomb. Hominy Is from anhuminae, the North American word for parched com. Succotash is a dish borrowed from the Narragansett Indians and called by them m’sickquatash. Blanc-mange means literally white food; hence chocolate blanc-mange is something of a misnomer Charlotte is a corruption of the old English word Charlyt, which means a dish of custard, and charlotte russ# Is A Russian etotsferttt.