Grimmer Girl here, I'm Mignon Focardy and you can think of me as your friendly guide

to the English language, writing, history, rules, and cool stuff.

Today, we'll investigate some food names that are fake, some food names that are real,

and we'll hear a family-led story about a disappointing food.

Also, I have a quick addition to last week's segment about slang words for money.

AJ from Lake Bluff, Illinois wrote in and provided some sources saying that using the word

bread for money comes from cockney rhyming slang.

Bread and honey rhymes with money.

The way that works is if you want to say something like, do you have any money?

You'd say, do you have any bread and honey?

Which eventually gets shortened to, do you have any bread?

It's a great kind of secret in-group language because the meanings are so obscure.

If you aren't part of the group, it's really tough to figure out what people are talking

about.

And if you think that's fun, I've already had it on my list to do a show about cockney rhyming

slang, so hopefully I'll have more for you about that in a future show.

And thanks AJ.

And now onto our real or fake food names.

One, Brussels Sprouts.

The ancestors of modern day Brussels sprouts were likely first cultivated in ancient Rome,

not Brussels.

Although the first written record of these miniature cabbage-like vegetables came in 1587,

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