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[Globalti]

Meet the Cruffin; it's a croissant baked in a muffin tin and stuffed with a raspberry and some raspberry jam. Gloriously calorific. I ate this in CapeTown, home of several other interesting hybrid dishes including the Bunny Chow, which originated from Durban I think:

 

[Fnaar]

If they called it the Muffant, I might be tempted...

 

[jefmcg]

The recent gastromanteau* food craze started with the cronut, a <shudder> deep fried croissant, a couple of years ago. When that boomed, a lot of pattiseriers sat around with a pen and paper imagining hybrids. I just imagined one off the top of my head, the croissant/pizza, the croizza. Google tells me it exists.

The bunny chow is unrelated. It's a hollowed out white loaf, filled with curry, and as filling as that sounds, despite it being a small loaf. I assume it dates back to a time when the south asians in SA couldn't get rice, so needed another way to eat their curry. I've always wondered if the name was a corruption of biriani.

* that's a portmanteau of "gastronomy" and "portmanteau". You're welcome.

Edit: croizza may already exist as a word, but apparently I coined "gastromanteau"

 

[Markymark]

they like their sweet stuff down under.

Don't we all......

Well, not all of us obviously. Some prefer the savoury variety.

 

[MossCommuter]

Isn't that a googlewhack? Well done!

Alas, no

Googlewhack is any two word term that returns precisely one search result I think

 

[jefmcg]

Alas, no

Googlewhack is any two word term that returns precisely one search result I think

and the score is the multiple of the two words' individual google results count. So the more common both words are on the internet, the higher the score.

Haven't tried playing it for years. Suspect it would be nearly impossible these days.

 

[User169]

There is also the "turducken".

 

[Piemaster]

I was going to lay claim to inventing the 'pizzaan'.
A pizza made on a naan bread, unfortunately its trending on twitter. Pah.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

trending

That's a fairly new word too but not food related.

 

[jefmcg]

That's a fairly new word too but not food related.

Apparently rivers have been trending for centuries (thank you oed), but social media trending obviously post dates social media.