Top Ten Weird Recipe Names

James Oliver Cury has a list of the top ten weirdest recipe names he's come across in his work at Epicurious. We agreed that some were odd; others not so much - but we're curious about your own weird recipe names.

He says:

Some catch my eye because they sound so delicious. Others force a double-take thanks to the name alone. "Ugly but Good" cookies? What's the advantage of making that?

We were especially intrigued by "Shaking Beef" and "Pink Cuts." What...? Take a look at his list and tell us the weirdest, oddest, and downright strangest recipe names you know.

• Top 10 Weirdest Recipe Names

Related: Strange Strawberry Recipes

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Comments (11)

The Slanted Door in San Francisco serves a dish called Shaking Beef. I assumed it was the English translation of the Vietnamese name.

posted by Julie on July 17th 2008 at 11:20am
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Ah, what a great way to discourage people from trying new things. And I'm referring to the titles and the blog post.

posted by squidlette on July 17th 2008 at 1:22pm
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That's spam musubi! Does that make the name more or less weird than spam sushi?

posted by chow.baby on July 17th 2008 at 6:42pm
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The Awful Awful burger is found in the Reno Nugget/John Ascuaga's (Sparks Nevada) and the Carson Nugget in Carson City. The burger's names come from it being awful big and awful good.

posted by Darlene on July 17th 2008 at 7:07pm
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My mother made a mean Jaundiced Chicken. I later found out it was chicken with yellow curry, and my dad just called it that.

posted by cate918 on July 18th 2008 at 3:10am
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I'm from Hawaii now living on the EC and you just made my mouth water with the pic of the musubi. YUMMMMM!

posted by wwoolsey on July 18th 2008 at 5:21am
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Spotted dick!

posted by melanie on July 18th 2008 at 8:15am
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Well, there's always SOS (sh*t on a shingle, or creamed beef on toast)....

but my personal favorite is Steak with Worms. Not only does it sound gross, but its terrible looking.... And fabulous

posted by mangabanga on July 19th 2008 at 8:09pm
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Family favorites here include Presto Cheapinni (a variation of pesto made with parsley) and Dreaded Soup. The latter is a recipe for Pasta Fagioli, dreaded because I made it rather more often than my family liked during one particularly crazed period.

But my favorite restaurant recipes were from Buddha's Delight in Boston: Gluten balls in Sauce. There were other delightful sounding gluten recipes, too.

posted by Dulcibella on July 20th 2008 at 7:41pm
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The best strange recipe titles always come from small-town church cookbooks. My friend, Laci, and I once found one called "Drunken Squirrel", that had something to do with actual squirrel meat and beer.

I also find it a bit weird to see "Fragrant Pork" on a Chinese menu.

posted by lemongelatin on July 21st 2008 at 7:32am
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Spam musubi is normal to me, and split pea soup is weird to me. Maybe unconventional or any other word than weird would have been better. *shrug*

posted by madamelai on July 22nd 2008 at 11:56am
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