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Sausages ambushed by batter, baked until the batter forgets it was ever liquid.
means A British dish of sausages baked inside a Yorkshire-pudding batter until the batter puffs up golden around them.
from First recorded in the 1700s, when 'toad' was already slang for scraps of meat cooked inside a crust or batter — the amphibian comparison likely coming from the way the sausages peek out of the risen batter like a toad poking its head from a hole in the ground. No actual toads were ever involved; the name is pure visual whimsy, not folk zoology.
- no toad
- Zero amphibians, zero holes, all betrayal
- origin
- 18th century way to stretch scarce meat with batter
- shared dna
- Same batter logic as yorkshire pudding
- best served
- With onion gravy, obviously