Does anyone know why its called this? Only, to me, a sausage looks nothing like a toad. :loopy:. Just wondered where it had come from. :D

Haven't a clue, but I just popped one in the oven, mmmmmmmmmmmm yorkshire pudding AND sausages (and of course a bit of agent orange)

They used real toads before sausages were invented? :gag:

It's an old Black Country tradition of burning food because men worked in factories and were thus unable to get home for their supper.

From Wikipedia: The origin of the name 'Toad-in-the-Hole' is vague. Most suggestions are that the dish's resemblance to a toad sticking its little head out of a hole provide the dish with its somewhat unusual name. [1] An 1861 recipe by Charles Elme Francatelli does not mention sausages, instead including as an ingredient "6d. or 1s. worth of bits and pieces of any kind of meat, which are to be had cheapest at night when the day's sale is over." [2]

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I suspected as much. Nothing.

They used real toads before sausages were invented? :gag:

Aahh, but does that mean yorkshire puds were invented 1st then? :D

Toad in the hole - this is how strange i am, i can eat both Pudding and Sausages seperate but if you put them together, i won't touch 'em.....:hihi: :hihi:

Possibly related to an old pub game..

More likely though that toads were used if you ask me.

The original geordie inventor of the dish was misheard one day. It's really terd in the hole.

which came first? the sausage or the yorkshire pudding?
hmmmmmmm
im just gonna go and ponder that for an hour