If you want some summer squash during a U.K. visit, keep an eye out for courgette instead of zucchini. The name also lends itself well to British “courgetti”—courgette spaghetti, a spin on the ...

Food names don’t always follow logic. Over time, the most peculiar ones stuck not because they made sense, but because people remembered them. It helps when they’re funny, oddly specific, or just ...