Spring has sprung, and grass is rizzy –
With mowers we will soon be bizzy?
This picture is to say Rabbit – but this month I’ll do it in Welsh.
‘Aha!’ I hear you cry triumphantly. ‘That isn’t “rabbit”, it’s “rarebit”!’
Not so, smarty-pants. It started out in the fifteen hundreds as ‘rabbit’ and then the silly-PC-type-language-Nazis pointed out that it isn’t really a rabbit, so people started calling it ‘rarebit’. As if a toad-in-the-hole is actually a toad! Or a strip of bread dipped in boiled egg yolk is a real soldier!
The picture was lifted from here, where a wonderful recipe (it includes beer!) and some good giggles are available.
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A rare bit of rarebit is rare indeed, but I did not know that it was once rabbit. good word sleuthing there !
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What amazed me is that these oh-so-proper killjoys were in evidence, and sticking their sharp noses in, that far back!
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Maybe really awful rhyme, but really awfully funny
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Unlike most of mine, it had the virtue of brevity!
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😀 Beat yer to it!! hehehe
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But my rabbit pie had to be cooked!
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Not your goose? 😉
Thanx for the pingback!
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*confession time* ‘Twas an error – meant to be to the rarebit recipe lady. I have no idea how I got you instead! Quickly corrected after my test run had a crash.
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So that’s why I couldn’t find the promised beer anywhere!
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Happy 1st of Spring 🙂
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Yoo-hoo too!
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Welsh or not, I’d happily share it with you 🙂
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If you blink, there would be nothing left to share!
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LOL! I’m not surprised.
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I live in the Welsh countryside, and the occasional Welsh rabbit hurtles across our lawn, but I’ve yet to consciously eat one.
Incidentally, rabbit in Welsh is cwningen, plural cwningod, so you should be shouting “Cwningod!” (The ‘w’ by the way is a double-w, pronounced ‘oo’.) I suppose it’s related to “coney”…
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The relation to ‘coney’ seems likely. Of course, the Welsh part didn’t originally relate to origins of the dish at all, but to a racist perception that the Welsh are mad about cheese.
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Well, they’re well cheesed off about it!
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I just love toasted cheese (in the broadest sense) – a rare(bit)treat as Cheddar is hard to find in France.
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I imagine a rarebit made from wishy-washy cheese would be bland, mustard and beer notwithstanding!
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A pity that I’ve just had lunch (Dutch salted herring) otherwise I’d have some rabbit/rarebit plus toad in the hole and a soldier for good measure 😉
Spring has sprung just a little bit here in Gauteng, too. Lovely sunshine today.
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Amazing the way the weather seems to have looked at the calendar. August blew itself out with gusto yesterday. Today is light-breezy and distinctly warm.
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I checked out the authentic recipe you linked not, and the writing is charming. A bit like yours, my friend!
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I corrected the link fairly smartly – I always test them after posting.
I love the asides she gives with the recipe!
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Looks tasty enough to be a rarebit treat!
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The sight of it certainly sets my tastebuds tingling!
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