On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:18:55 GMT, "James Silverton"
wrote:

when I was growing up grated cheddar cheese melted in the
broiler on buttered toast was called "Welsh Rabbit".

Oh, I've eaten that MANY times... but it was never called Welsh
Rarebit.

Welsh
"Rarebit" is a bit of a cleaning up of the original jocular
slander on the Welsh as too poor to afford rabbit. The English
were good at such slanders, see "Scotch Woodcock" too!


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