>>Amazingly, neither of those is my favorite cat name from those days.
>>That honor goes to my Swedish friend Heléne's cat Snabblagad, whose
>>name was Swedish for "easy to cook". This is immortalized in UF as
>>the name of the popular dish "snabs and belgad" (which contains no
>>cat).
>
>I was always curious about what that dish was intended to be...

A snab is a Salusian root vegetable, similar to a white potato. Belgad is the meat of a Corellian herd animal of the same name, and is more or less interchangeable with beef (as indeed it must be in many 25th-century implementations of older Earth recipes, since belgad are much more commonly raised around the galaxy than Earth cattle).

Snabs and belgad takes many forms; the most common are something not too dissimilar to pot roast and a slightly more elaborate version that is basically cottage pie.

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