Talk:Toad in the hole

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In medæval times meat was in short supply. Residents in some impoverished villages, particularly those in areas such as the Carrs regions around Selby, took to eating frogs and toads. They would often supplement the protein with a baked mixture of powdered grains to protect the delicate meat from the heat of the fire. Children and the poorer members of the community would be given the remnants of the baked grain coating and be required to extract the "toad from the hole"
In the many years that I have been researching medieval cooking, I have never come across anything that would remotely support this assertion.  It reads like the worst kind of backderived urban myth - which is exactly what I believe it to be.
I'll try to track down the origin of this dish.  As a guess I would place it in the 18th century, and it certainly doesn't have anything to do with cooking frogs.
--Doc halidai 00:01, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It was usually referred to as “Frog In The Bog” at my skool in the 1970s. This had little to do with the ingredients either. Mr Larrington (talk) 21:03, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
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message: This sounds delicious. I demand some this instant. Why don't we have it in the States? Do import some.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.122.63.142 (talk) 20:34, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You have got to try some! :D Chevymontecarlo. 19:51, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
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message: I grew up in regional Australia and we always referred to the egg in toast dish as 'toad in the hole', so it has been used in Australia for at least 30 years. My family has no U.S. connection. Steve (talk) 02:41, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
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message: My understanding was that the name comes from the discovery of flints with toads in them. 
http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/477/toad_in_the_hole.html
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message: me as german was wondering about the name , and i discovered that "toad" and german "Tod" (the death) or "tot" (being dead) sound very similar , and it makes a visual sense to me , death in a bomb crater , it is what it may look like , and then the reception of humans as poor sausages ( german : armes  Würstchen) . sry for 2 wars . --Konfressor (talk) 21:30, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
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message: Does anybody else think the picture is misleading and looks nothing like the toad in the hole we got in school? As far as I can remember the sausage meat was always covered with batter and rather sparse. The picture shows luxury toad in the hole perhaps served in a gastro-pub but hardly ever to ordinary mortals. Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 22:24, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
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