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Abstract

The article is a review of several Polish and Czech names of dishes whose origin we cannot always find out from known and available etymological or descriptive dictionaries. It is especially about dishes with slightly misleading names such as, e.g., Czech “Spanish bird” or Polish “Breton beans”. To find out more about their origins, we need to consult the Internet and Wikipedia. The dishes described here constitute a small percentage of many older and new names of culinary delights ignored – unfortunately – by lexicographers, despite the fact that they are known and used very often by Czech and Polish language users.