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https://lifeoftaiwan.com/food/not-what-they-seem-strangely-named-foods-in-taiwan/   

British cuisine includes spotted dick and toad-in-the-hole, while Americans sometimes eat hush puppies or Dutch babies. But they’re not the only countries where people enjoy delicacies made from everyday ingredients yet carrying bizarre names. Read on to discover some of Taiwan’s strangely named foods!

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‘Field chicken’ (田雞) 

One particular amphibian species is known to Holo speakers as chui-ke (‘water chicken’), to Mandarin speakers as tian-ji (‘field chicken’), and to researchers as Hoplobatrachus rugulosus (East Asian bullfrog or Chinese/Taiwanese edible frog). These common names were not coined to save face; in Taiwan, there is nothing shameful about eating frog. Some say this species is so called because, when young, it sounds like a chicken, and the meat looks and tastes a bit like chicken. An alternative explanation has it that, during the Song Dynasty (960—1279) in China, there was a ban on the consumption of frogs because they ate insects which would otherwise destroy crops or spread disease. To keep the authorities off their backs, frog-meat aficionados were forced to devise a euphemism.  

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