"of their diehard fans were really giving them shit because of it. Anyone who had anything to say to them, they would welcome them with their open arms, they would invite them to backstage. And one night in Pittsburgh, these kids approached the band with all these insults about the direction of the band while eating the band's food and drinking their beer! And that's where the title came from, these guys eating a peanut butter sandwich, like ""You guys are terrible, but I'll eat your food, I'll eat what you've been rewarded as a touring band"". The song is"
"meal due to his gambling habits, he would order his valet to bring him meat tucked between two pieces of bread. Because Montagu was the Earl of Sandwich, others began to order ""the same as Sandwich!"" However, the exact circumstances of the invention are still the subject of debate. A rumour in a contemporary travel book called ""Tour to London"" by Pierre Jean Grosley (although not confirmed) formed the popular myth that bread and meat sustained Lord Sandwich at the gambling table. An alternative suggestion by Sandwich's biographer, N. A. M. Rodger, is that due to Sandwich's commitments to the"
"and served with currant and other sauces, while smaller portions went into soups, stews, sausages, pies, and pasties. Venison was the most popular game. The plentiful meat was often potted or jerked, and its tripe was popular as well. Venison was especially popular during the Thanksgiving season. Buffalo was an important protein source until roughly 1770, when the animals were over-hunted in British America. Bear were numerous in the northern colonies, especially in New York, and many considered the leg meat to be a delicacy. Bear meat was frequently jerked as a preservation method. In addition to game, mutton was"
"vital ingredient, bread, has a different history. Bread had always been part of the development of many types of foods, including sauces, such as those described by Marie-Antoine Carême in his compendium entitled ""L'art de la cuisine française au XIXe siècle"". The word ""sandwich"" was not recorded until the 18th century. Many cultures claim invention of the sandwich, but it was given its name around the year 1765 in honor of the English aristocrat John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, who preferred to eat sandwiches so he could play cards without soiling his fingers. However, it was not until 1840"
"with cream"", appears in Agnes Marshall's 1888 cookbook. The 18th-century English aristocrat John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich is best known for his links to the modern concept of the sandwich which was named after him. When he ordered his valet to bring him meat tucked between two pieces of bread, others began to order ""the same as Sandwich!"". In the city of Leeds in 1767, Joseph Priestley made his ""happiest"" discovery when he invented carbonated water (also known as soda water), the major and defining component of most soft drinks. Carbonated lemonade was available in British refreshment stalls in"
"mustard, to enhance its flavour and texture. As well as being homemade, sandwiches are also widely sold in restaurants and can be served hot or cold. There are both savoury sandwiches, such as deli meat sandwiches, and sweet sandwiches, such as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The sandwich is named after its supposed inventor, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. ""The Wall Street Journal"" has described it as Britain's ""biggest contribution to gastronomy"". The modern concept of a sandwich using slices of bread as found within the West can arguably be traced to 18th century Europe. However, the use"
"meat; hens have more rich brown meat. Dishes include ' (crab meat arranged in the cleaned shell, sometimes with decoration of other foodstuffs), soups such as bisque or bouillabaisse, ""pâtés, mousses"", and hot ""soufflés"". According to the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, ""Cancer pagurus"" was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, in the tenth edition of his ""Systema Naturae"", which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature. It was chosen to be the type species of the genus ""Cancer"" by Pierre André Latreille in 1810. The specific epithet ' is a Latin word, deriving from the"
"all but the most destitute. The alternative protein sources would rather have been legumes, eggs, cheese and the amino acids available in the tandem staples of bread and beer. Mice and hedgehogs were also eaten and a common way to cook the latter was to encase a hedgehog in clay and bake it. When the clay was then cracked open and removed, it took the prickly spikes with it. Foie gras, a well-known delicacy which is still enjoyed today, was invented by the Ancient Egyptians. The technique of gavage, cramming food into the mouth of domesticated ducks and geese, dates"
"Mangú Mangú is a Dominican traditional side dish served for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Mangú is made up of boiled (either ripe or green) plantains. The plantains are then mashed with butter, margarine or oil in the water in which they were boiled. The dish is topped with sautéed red onions that have been cooked with vinegar. Queso Frito (fried cheese), fried Dominican ""salami"", eggs, and avocado are often added as side dishes. ""Los tres golpes"", literally ""the three hits,"" is a term meaning ""mangú"" with cheese, salami, and eggs. Boiled mashed plantains can be traced back to Africans in"
"a very conversant gambler, the story goes, and he did not take the time to have a meal during his long hours playing at the card table. Consequently, he would ask his servants to bring him slices of meat between two slices of bread, a habit well known among his gambling friends. Other people, according to this account, began to order ""the same as Sandwich!"", and thus the ""sandwich"" was born. The sober alternative to this account is provided by Sandwich's biographer N. A. M. Rodger, who suggests that Sandwich's commitments to the navy, to politics, and to the arts"
"than in later times, often containing fruit as well as meat, game and spices. The Tudor Christmas Pie was a rich pie of traditional birds such as partridge, chicken and goose with a recent addition, the turkey, which had been introduced to England from the New World in 1523. Game pie was not restricted to the rich. Until the 1816 Gaming act, country people had the right to catch small game such as rabbits and pigeons to supplement their diet. More valuable game were reserved for the rich, but perhaps not entirely successfully. Shakespeare in ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"""
"the hungriest had the courage to try it. Surprisingly, he liked the dish and exclaimed ""Man, this is good!"" as he continued to eat it. According to the story, every soldier decided to eat that dish as they all agreed at how good that was. Since then, the townspeople would present it as Mangú (man, good) to the soldiers to follow. Mangú Mangú is a Dominican traditional side dish served for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Mangú is made up of boiled (either ripe or green) plantains. The plantains are then mashed with butter, margarine or oil in the water in"
"of a man carrying bowls of ostrich eggs and other large eggs, presumably those of the pelican, as offerings. In ancient Rome, eggs were preserved using a number of methods and meals often started with an egg course. The Romans crushed the shells in their plates to prevent evil spirits from hiding there. In the Middle Ages, eggs were forbidden during Lent because of their richness. The word mayonnaise possibly was derived from ""moyeu"", the medieval French word for the yolk, meaning center or hub. Egg scrambled with acidic fruit juices were popular in France in the seventeenth century; this"
"being a healthy, young man. His experiment started with a basic diet of bread and water with a little sugar for thirty-one days. He became 'dull and listless' so ate better until he recovered. He resumed experimenting by adding various foods, one at a time - olive oil, milk, roast goose, boiled beef, fat, figs, and veal. After two months, his gums were red and swollen, and they bled when pressure was applied, a symptom of scurvy. By November 1769 he was living on nothing but pudding, albeit with black currants to celebrate Boxing Day. He had considered testing fresh"
"and fill their meat into buns shaped roughly like human heads (round with a flat base). The buns were then thrown into the river. After a successful crossing, he named the bun ""barbarian's head"" (""mántóu"", 蠻頭, which evolved into the modern 饅頭). Another version of the story relates back to Zhuge Liang's southern campaign when he instructed that his soldiers who had fallen sick from diarrhea and other illnesses in the swampy region be fed with steamed buns with meat or sweet fillings. Prior to the Song dynasty (960–1279), the word ""mantou"" meant both filled and unfilled buns. The term"
"from the spice blends that the wives of Portuguese sailors used in an attempt to replicate European dishes. Its ingredients and seasonings include those from Europe, South America, Africa, India, and Southeast Asia, as well as local Chinese ingredients. Typically, Macanese food is seasoned with various spices and flavours including turmeric, coconut milk, cinnamon and bacalhau, giving special aromas and tastes. Famous dishes include minchi, capella, galinha à Portuguesa, galinha à Africana (African chicken), bacalhau, Macanese chili shrimps and stir-fry curry crab. Pork chop bun, ginger milk and Portuguese-style egg tart are also very popular in Macau. In general, football"
"15th-century cookbook gives a bake mete recipe for a pear custard pie. Describing the franklin in the 14th-century classic ""The Canterbury Tales"", Chaucer said: """"Withoute bake mete was nevere his hous, Of fissh and flessh, and that so plentvous"""". The best meat might be reserved for the wealthy, while their servants ate inferior pies made of the left-over ""umbles"" – liver, heart, tripes, and other offal, hence the term ""eating humble pie"". In medieval times, birds that might be found in a game pie included heron, crane, crow, swan, stork, cormorant, and bittern as well as smaller birds trapped by"
"Heaven with The Hungry Monk"". Dowding has stated that his ""pet hates are biscuit crumb bases and that horrible cream in aerosols"". It was Margaret Thatcher's favourite food to cook. The recipe was adopted by many other restaurants throughout the world. In 1984, a number of supermarkets began selling it as an American pie, leading Nigel Mackenzie to offer a £10,000 prize to anyone who could disprove their claim to be the English inventors. The word ""Banoffee"" entered the English language and became used to describe any food or product that tastes or smells of both banana and toffee. A"
"Game pie Game pie is a form of meat pie featuring game. The dish dates from Roman times when the main ingredients were wild birds and animals such as partridge, pheasant, deer, and hare. The pies reached their most elaborate form in Victorian England, with complex recipes and specialized moulds and serving dishes. Modern versions are simpler but savoury combinations of rabbit, venison, pigeon, pheasant, and other commercially available game. Game pies were consumed by the wealthy in the days of the Roman Empire. Wilhelm Adolf Becker states that the emperor Augustus consumed pies that contained chicken, pheasants, pigeon, and"
"period manufacturing the enormous quantity of five tons a-week !"" (1828) In later years, dog biscuits began to be made of meat products and were sometimes treated as synonymous with dog food. In 1871, an ad appeared in ""Cassell's Illustrated Almanac"" for ""SLATER'S MEAT BISCUIT FOR DOGS - Contains vegetable substances and about 25 per cent of Prepared Meat. It gives Dogs endurance, and without any other food will keep them in fine working condition."" In England, Spratt's Dog Biscuits not only obtained a patent but seems to have claimed to have invented the food: In at least one case"
"also popular in Medieval Europe during Lent, which prohibited the consumption of warm-blooded animals, eggs, and dairy products. Chopped almonds and grapes were used as a substitute for mincemeat. Diced bread was made into imitation cracklings and greaves. The American medical physician, inventor and businessman John Harvey Kellogg developed meat replacements variously from nuts, grains, and soy, starting around 1877, to feed patients in his vegetarian sanitarium. Some vegetarian meat analogues are based on centuries-old recipes for seitan (wheat gluten), rice, mushrooms, legumes, tempeh, yam flour or pressed-tofu, with flavoring added to make the finished product taste like chicken, beef,"
"ago in the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent. Chicken as a meat has been depicted in Babylonian carvings from around 600 BC. Chicken was one of the most common meats available in the Middle Ages. It was eaten over most of the Eastern hemisphere and a number of different kinds of chicken such as capons, pullets and hens were eaten. It was one of the basic ingredients in ""blancmange"", a stew usually consisting of chicken and fried onions cooked in milk and seasoned with spices and sugar. In the United States in the 1800s, chicken was more expensive than"
"A 2006 ""Food & Wine"" article by Pete Wells declared that if he could put one dish in a time capsule to explain the food trends of the past year, it would be Cantu's cotton candy paper, not because of its taste, but rather because of the copyright notice on the paper. He explained: ""If chefs in the future call their lawyers every time they change their menus, we'll be able to look back on this two-dimensional treat and say, 'This is where it all began.'"" Cantu created a business called Cantu Designs to license his food-related inventions. Inventions included"
"and stale chips, as well as air in the bags. Baur spent 2 years developing saddle-shaped chips from fried dough and invented the tubular can as the chips container. However he could not figure out how to make the chips taste good and he eventually was pulled off the task to work on another brand. In the mid-1960s, another P&G researcher, Alexander Liepa of Montgomery, Ohio, restarted Baur's work and succeeded in improving the chip taste. Even though Baur was the true inventor of the Pringles chip, Liepa's name is on the patent. Gene Wolfe, a mechanical engineer-author known for"
"and laced with spices. In 1764, a new variant appeared. Advocated by Dr David MacBride and Sir John Pringle, Surgeon General of the Army and later President of the Royal Society, this idea was that scurvy was the result of a lack of 'fixed air' in the tissues which could be prevented by drinking infusions of malt and wort whose fermentation within the body would stimulate digestion and restore the missing gases. These ideas received wide and influential backing, when James Cook set off to circumnavigate the world (1768–1771) in , malt and wort were top of the list of"
"or toads date from circa 1775 and continued to be popular until the end of the 19th century. An unsuspecting drinker would be surprised as he quaffed his beer to see a frog or toad emerging from the typically cloudy beverage of those days as it was fully consumed and the amphibian came into view, with predictable results. In some cases the creature would gurgle and spit at the drinker through a hole in its mouth as the vessel was tilted and the dregs consumed. Some larger examples had two or three handles and might contain several frogs/toads. Naval references"
"first invented in the era of the Three Kingdoms, around 225 AD. Zhuge Liang, a general and minister of Shu Han, dammed up a poison marsh on his southern campaign against the Nanman with dumplings instead of the heads that the Nanman used. However, this legend is more commonly associated with the mantou (the name is supposedly evolved from ""蠻頭"", also pronounced as ""mantou""). The ""jiǎozi"" () is a common Chinese dumpling, which generally consists of minced meat and finely chopped vegetables wrapped into a piece of dough skin. The skin can be either thin and elastic or thicker. Popular"
"a hot lunch. I was cook: – Bovril, chocolate and plasmon biscuit, two spoonfuls of jam each. Grand!"". A variety of plasmon biscuit, said to be like digestives, was also made by Jacob's in 1915. Victor Whitechurch's fictional vegetarian detective Thorpe Hazell ate them daily. The journal of actress Ellen Terry records that George Bernard Shaw ""generally dined off a plasmon biscuit and a bean!"". George Strachey Fawle (1856–1936), a director of the company, said he attributed his recovery from serious illness to plasmon. Plasmon itself was a powder, milk albumen, which could be mixed into various other foods to"
"a ship, while they eat a dish of king fish, konbu cured halibut, ballotine of mackerel with 5 different seaweeds, sea jelly beans and monks beard served on ""sand"" made from tapioca starch, toasted Japanese breadcrumbs, miso paste and dried seaweeds. Blumenthal is also known for his use of scented dry ice. Blumenthal and his restaurant ""The Fat Duck"" have been credited as instigators of the bacon dessert ""craze"". He was preparing sweet and savoury bacon-and-egg ice cream as early as 2004, and news ""about the intriguingly odd confection quickly spread through the food world."" Blumenthal uses British history in"
"in England. As techniques for meat preserving improved in the 18th century, the savoury element of both the mince pie and the plum pottage diminished as the sweet content increased. People began adding dried fruit and sugar. The mince pie kept its name, though the pottage was increasingly referred to as ""plum pudding"". Although the latter was always a celebratory dish it was originally eaten at the Harvest festival, not Christmas. It was not until the 1830s that the cannonball of flour, fruits, suet, sugar and spices, all topped with holly, made a definite appearance, becoming more and more associated"
"Jugging Jugging is the process of stewing whole animals, mainly game or fish, for an extended period in a tightly covered container such as a casserole or an earthenware jug. In French, such a stew of a game animal thickened with the animal's blood is known as a civet. One common traditional dish that involves jugging is jugged hare (known as civet de lièvre in France), which is a whole hare, cut into pieces, marinated and cooked with red wine and juniper berries in a tall jug that stands in a pan of water. It is traditionally served with the"
"milk and vegetables, and soon regained his health. He began publicly recommending his diet for everyone suffering from obesity. In 1724, he wrote ""An Essay of Health and Long Life"", in which he advises exercise and fresh air and avoiding luxury foods. The Scottish military surgeon, John Rollo, published ""Notes of a Diabetic Case"" in 1797. It described the benefits of a meat diet for those suffering from diabetes, basing this recommendation on Matthew Dobson's discovery of glycosuria in diabetes mellitus. By means of Dobson's testing procedure (for glucose in the urine) Rollo worked out a diet that had success"
"the rulers and their courtiers to stage elaborate feasts where the attraction was as much the entertainment provided by musicians, comedians, jugglers and acrobats as the food itself. Sometimes the two were combined. Around 1630, at a dinner attended by Charles I, a huge game pie was placed on the table. But when the crust was removed, a dwarf armed with sword and buckler sprang from the coffin. On another occasion, the king was served a surprise pie containing live birds, perhaps the origin of the rhyme ""Sing a Song of Sixpence"". The game pies of that period were sweeter"