What about that radio ad that offers a perfect Tomahawk steak? It seems weird to me to name something after a weapon. Here’s what AI says it is:
“Tomahawk steaks are expensive because they are essentially thick-cut, bone-in ribeyes with a long, frenched (cleaned) rib bone, requiring skillful butchering, more meat (the bone adds weight but no flavour), and premium quality beef, all leading to a dramatic, high-end presentation and culinary experience that justifies the higher cost, often priced per pound higher than regular steaks.”
All the articles say this is no ordinary cut of meat - it is a culinary experience. It weighs approximately 2 pounds and is sliced at about 2 inches.
There’s no origin story that explains its name. And it was introduced in 2008 in New York City, so it should be known. It is also known as a cowboy cut in the U.S. so I guess one could have a battle of the cowboys and indians.
If one wanted a meal of weapon-named foods, one would serve a submarine sandwich, grenade (what the French call pomegranates because the clustered seeds look like grenade shrapnel). The weaponry dessert is Bombe glacée - a spherical ice cream dessert resembling a cannonball. Or a serving of Pineapple which has a nickname of hand grenade. And don’t forget the British call sausages bangers, a nickname for firecrackers.
There are lots of crazy names for food besides weapons. The British have bubble and squeak is the sound that wilted vegetables make as they fry in a hot pan - that’s brussels sprouts in particular. There’s toad-in-the-hole, another British classic made of sausages in Yorkshire pudding. More refined are Ladyfingers, a French cookie delicacy. Would you reject luncheon meat named headcheese if you knew it contains hog’s heads? I think so. Monkey bread supposedly looks like a monkey’s furry coat as the cinnamon-coated dough balls rise and expand to make a breakfast bread. Pigs in a blanket are mini hot dogs (another crazy name) wrapped in puff pastry, And Jerusalem artichokes, known as sunroots to the American native population, got the Jerusalem name by Italians mispronouncing girosale - the Italian word for sunflower. And with the similar taste to artichokes, that was added on.
Cute hockey decorations on a tree at the Fantasy of Trees. Those Canadian flags are showing up everywhere.
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