misleading food names

Here are just a few:

•  French fries probably originated in Belgium, and have nothing particularly French about them.
•   Head cheese is not cheese, but a terrine made from the meat of a calf or pig's head (in England called brawn)
•  Rocky Mountain oysters, also known as "prairie oysters", are not oysters, nor are they from the Rocky Mountains, particularly. They are calf's or bull's testicles, which some people consider to be a delicacy.
•  Elephant ears is a sweet fried-dough dish which contains no elephant parts.
•  Bear claws are sweet pastries which resemble a bear's claws.
•  Hamburgers do not contain ham, nor do they originate from Hamburg.
•  Grape-nuts cereal — no grapes and no nuts, ever.
•  Spotted dick is not a sexually transmitted disease, but in fact a steamed suet pudding containing currants, popular in the United Kingdom.

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via J-Walk blog