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

Ah, what a great way to discourage people from trying new things. And I'm referring to the titles and the blog post.

That's spam musubi! Does that make the name more or less weird than spam sushi?

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.

My mother made a mean Jaundiced Chicken. I later found out it was chicken with yellow curry, and my dad just called it that.

I'm from Hawaii now living on the EC and you just made my mouth water with the pic of the musubi. YUMMMMM!

Spotted dick!

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

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.

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.

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*