The British pastry named after its resemblance to dead insects

At some point in British culinary history, someone looked at a pastry filled with currants and raisins and thought: those look exactly like dead flies. Rather than keeping this observation to themselves, they told everyone, and now "flies' graveyard" is an accepted regional name for these sweet treats across the UK. — Read the rest

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