Spotted Dick is a traditional English pudding. It is a heavy suet sponge (usually cylindrical in shape) with raisins and other dried fruit (these are the spots).
Richard English
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quote: When you learn that muscatel in Italian means "wine with flies in it," you may conclude that the Italians are gastronomically out to lunch, so to speak, but really their names for foodstuffs are no more disgusting than our hot dogs or those old English favorites, toad-in-the-hole, spotted dick, and faggots in gravy.
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Faggot, as an offensive term for a homosexual, does not have that meaning in the UK.
A faggot is rather like a large meatball made from offal. It was very popular in the North of England; less so in the South. Faggots in gravy is an excellent meal.
The abbreviation, "fag" again has different meaning in UK English.
Firstly it is a rather old-fashioned slang word for a cigarette.
It is also the term given to a younger pupil who is under the charge of an older one for whom he has to perfom various housekeeping type duties. Fagging is something that happens only in the most expensive boarding schools (our so-called "public" schools - the most exclusive and expensive private schools in the UK)
Richard English
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