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The British pastry named after its resemblance to dead insects

Ellsworth Toohey
Dec 14, 2025
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By User:Dave souza - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, Link

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 acr…

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