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I also ate something that came in a package, and they called it "Bubble and Squeak."
What a ridiculous name for a foodstuff! 
I saved the front of the package to put in my scrapbook, because with a name like that, it'll never last.
I should have read up before buying this!
"In England, if one had leftovers of a roast beef dinner, one could enjoy a breakfast of bubble and squeak. The name of the dish is onomatopoeic; said Mr. Beeswing ('an epicure') in Sir George Webe Dasent's 1872 'Lady Sweetapple, or Three to One,' he and his private school classmates were sometimes served the dish for breakfast 'thirty or forty years ago,' and that 'with us bubble-and-squeak was no metaphor; it was an awful reality. Still I have not told you what bubble-and-squeak is.
Well, it is the remains of that badly-corned cow-beef cut into slices, and fried with greens and cabbage. I believe that it contains about five parts of nutriment to ninety-five of innutritious matter. All the good as been boiled and fried out of it; it tastes like leather and smells like cabbage; and a boy,if he has good teeth, no taste, and no sense of smell, may eat it for half an hour, and rise up taking nothing away with him except an indigestion.'"
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Very popular in england pre-war and post-war, again when people had no money it was a way housewives recycled food to save waste. It was a monday thing after roast on sunday. Probably started fading out in 60s n 70s n 80s as people had more money and that generation passed away. Probably like TG n Xebec i had it couple times as a kid but rare. Since early 70s, never.
"Heres yer bubble n squeak, Pops"
"Oooh lovely, tell ya mother"
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Well, who knows what they get up to in the north!! 
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Posted: Oct 24, 2018 - 11:27 AM
By: Jim Phelps (Member)
Yes, and on a more newsworthy note, I have to postpone--not cancel--my Ireland visit until 2020.
Did JP make it to Ireland before the pandemic?
Or if he did, did he get permanently quarantined?
The FSM Hive Mind will never know...
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Never mind jaws 3, I thought the shark in the original Jaws waz a bit gay, well, it waz very bendy.
I'm still trying to figure this comment out. My British Slang recollection is only a little help, telling me that a Bendy Bus is one of those long ones with an accordion in the middle.
Oh, wait a sec'. The EOP wrote the comment. That means I'll never figure it out! 
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When i was a kid DiB, cockney slang for gay in darkest toughest East London was a bender. Its ok. I was expecting only me to get it.
This was back when gay meant happy.
Im afraid it has nothing to do with bendy bus, which were invented about 40 years later.
Although possibly stolen from Thunderbirds.
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When i was a kid DiB, cockney slang for gay in darkest toughest East London was a bender. Its ok. I was expecting only me to get it.
This was back when gay meant happy.
Im afraid it has nothing to do with bendy bus, which were invented about 40 years later.
Although possibly stolen from Thunderbirds.
In my usual "reading a post too fast" mode, my response is.....
So you have gay busses in London and I missed them when I was there?????
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Im afraid it has nothing to do with bendy bus, which were invented about 40 years later.
Truth be told, Billy-Bob, when I first heard the term "bendy bus" (on a radio show), I thought it was "Bendhi Bus." Which I thought had something to do with their high population of people from the Indian subcontinent.
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