But is this even close to the biggest offender in the named after a non-ingredient food category? While you can certainly add pork to your ground meat, I would anticipate hamburger is a contender for the most volume of consumption for something with a mislabeling. And yes, insert Benn footnote/aside about knowing that it is named after Hamburg steaks, but perhaps we can do better on this one too. Hamburger with beef, but not ham, is like making a carrot cake from broccoli -- sure it is a vegetable, but not the one you just named.
"One of the miseries of life is that everybody names things a little bit wrong, and so it makes a little bit harder to understand things than it would have been if they had been named differently."
Good article and get the point. But it is called coffee cake because it is supposed to be eaten with coffee. Try the french coffee cake with sour cream and streusel, one of the best cakes ever to have with coffee. Madeira cake is supposed to be eaten while sipping madeira
But is this even close to the biggest offender in the named after a non-ingredient food category? While you can certainly add pork to your ground meat, I would anticipate hamburger is a contender for the most volume of consumption for something with a mislabeling. And yes, insert Benn footnote/aside about knowing that it is named after Hamburg steaks, but perhaps we can do better on this one too. Hamburger with beef, but not ham, is like making a carrot cake from broccoli -- sure it is a vegetable, but not the one you just named.
All good points, but if we renamed hamburgers, we wouldn't have this bit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GaDAjHKYC4
"One of the miseries of life is that everybody names things a little bit wrong, and so it makes a little bit harder to understand things than it would have been if they had been named differently."
-Feynman
https://youtu.be/EKWGGDXe5MA?si=63_rGbGLXpgY1P0D&t=296
Imagine how much more we could do, if only we got this stuff right.
"Tea Cake" in my parts of town is made partially with western teas (to be hip with western culture).
So this is news to me, in Australia/NZ coffee cake does usually contain coffee? https://edmondscooking.co.nz/recipes/cakes/pat-jacques-coffee-cake/
Yeah, apparently isn't a bonkers American thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_cake#American_coffee_cake
Good article and get the point. But it is called coffee cake because it is supposed to be eaten with coffee. Try the french coffee cake with sour cream and streusel, one of the best cakes ever to have with coffee. Madeira cake is supposed to be eaten while sipping madeira