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RocketKid97 asked in PetsRodents · 1 decade ago

has anyone else called their rats bubble and squeak?

it seems these names are very popular for rats.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    They are indeed quite popular.

    Myself, I would suggest calling them something original that you find suits them as individual pets.

  • 1 decade ago

    My first pair of roborovski dwarf hamsters were called Bubbles and Squeak (they're sadly dead now).

    I have never had a rat but they seem so smart i want one.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I have quite a few friends who have called their GP's Bubble and Squeak

  • 4 years ago

    beginning The dish as we presently are conscious of it somewhat is frequently created from chilly vegetables that have been left over from a prior meal, frequently the Sunday roast. by we I advise predominantly the inhabitants of the united kingdom; there are few references to the term in American literature or media and the few there are element decrease back to the U. ok. beginning. The dish did no longer unfold to the countries of the British Empire the two - probable because of the fact they had unsuitable climates for roast dinners or, extra possibly, they only did no longer like it. it somewhat is somewhat much less many times used interior the U. ok. than in the previous, which isn't staggering because of the fact the Sunday roast is way less elementary too. those that do difficulty to cook dinner could desire to be horrified to understand that 'bubble and squeak' is now attainable in packaged, microwaveable form. the 1st connection with the meal is from a marginally staggering source - Thomas Bridges' 'A burlesque translation of Homer', 1770: "We subsequently cooked him up a dish Of lean bull-pink meat, with cabbage fry'd, ... Bubble, they call this dish, and squeak." The Homer in that paintings could be extra at residing house interior the Simpsons as interior the Iliad, so possibly that is not any longer all that staggering. Francis Grose replaced right into a collaborator in that paintings. He is going directly to furnish a definition of 'bubble and squeak' in his 'Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue', 1785, which indicated how the dish have been given its call: "Bubble and Squeak, pink meat and cabbage fried jointly. it is so called from its effervescent up and squeaking on the same time as over the hearth." by 1951, and probable till now, bubble and squeak misplaced meat as a factor. this could have been because of the rationing in rigidity interior the U. ok. for the duration of WWII, whilst meat replaced into scarce. This replaced into committed to print interior the 1951 version of the nutrients bible of the day, the solid residing house projects - residing house Encyclopedia: "interior the wide-unfold version of bubble and squeak the beef is frequently ignored." In a throwback to the Greek delusion hyperlink in first citation we've the present rhyming slang use of the term - meaning Greek. it somewhat is by no potential elementary yet replaced into recorded in 1968 by Leila Berg in her e book Risinghill: demise of a finished college: "'Why do they call Greek babies Bubbles?' suggested Mr. Colinides to me ... Later it dawned on me that it replaced into brief for bubble-and-squeak'; rhyming slang.

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  • 1 decade ago

    I haven't, personally, but my cousin named her rat Bubbles.

    My rats are Bonnie and Chloe. :) I don't prefer the cutsie names.

  • 1 decade ago

    Nopey... I know a few people who have though they are rather popular.

    My ratties are called Milo and Jazz. :)

    Source(s): Owned by Milo and Jazz!
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