Anyone know?

[Jemisa]

My nephew at the dinner table tonight asked "Aunty why do they call this Horseradish sauce?" Mmmm! I couldn't answer him, but said I'd ask the AB. Any idea's?

jem

[mike11111]

The Ancient Greeks also used the radish (rhaphis in Greek) as an instrument of punishment for adulterers. They even had a verb 'to radish', which in the small lexicon used by schoolboys was defined as 'to punish as an adulterer' whilst the full lexicon (published in the 19C) defined it as 'to thrust a radish up the fundament'. Bet that made their eyes water!

[Jemisa]

Mike11111
I left a message for you on the 2nd.
check my profile.

jem

[mike11111]

Jemisa

Just found it. I knew he died in a car crash but was under the impression it was in the early 60s. False memory syndrome.

[Jemisa]

I saw him several times at Barking Odeon Tony. You must be of my era. tee-hee!

Jem

[tamborine]

Mars bars were invented in Slough, Berks. The Mars family employed an au pair Caribbean lady who made choc-bars for their kids in the 1930s.

[Jemisa]

Oh Dear Indeed. - Mantovani - The Mudlarks - Jimmy Young. over to you.

[heathfield]

I concluded years ago that 'horse' is a corruption of 'coarse'. Other examples are 'horse mushrooms' and 'horse chestnut', etc. Apparently the word 'cors' was used circa 1500 a.d. to mean 'ordinary'.