As far as oddly name food goes, I always think of "Johnny Cake", something my mom would make once and a while. Years later when I moved down south, I discovered the exact same stuff was known as "cornbread" down south. Seems it was unknown in New England until after the Civil War. The soldiers brought it back from the war and it became known as "Johnny cake", short for "Johnny Reb's Cake". They still call it that now.