Talk:Devils on horseback

So Basically
So basically,it's anything wrapped in anything? Or should it be wrapped in bacon? The orange segments wrapped in another fruit seem imprecise. Flight Risk (talk) 15:41, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Anything wrapped in anything? Like sausage wrapped in bacon? Or cheesy stuffing in an edible fungus? Or an Egyptian princess wrapped in a carpet? Obviously not: the ingredients may vary a bit, but the basic elements are the same; a fruit, preferably black, wrapped in a meat, preferably red. And it if the fruit is pitted, something distinctive as a stuffing. Moonraker12 (talk) 14:00, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Regional Dish?
I have lived in the UK my entire life (27 years), and have never heard of (or eaten) anything like this food. Perhaps it is specific to one region of the UK? ← an unsigned comment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.204.156.192 (talk • contribs) 16:33, 3 April 2016 (UTC)


 * If it is from the UK, I'd like to know where. I am 53.  My father comes from North West England and my mother - a superb cook - from Yorkshire.  They never mentioned anything like these.  I have, with my wife, lived in the North West, the South West, London, the home counties North of London, South Wales and Anglesey and never come across or heard of these.  My wife's family come from Wales and she has never heard of them.  I find it hard to believe these come from any part of England or Wales.  We first heard of them today on a Radio 4 Extra broadcast of a Dr Who radio programme: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08thzv7  SandJ-on-WP (talk) 18:15, 14 September 2019 (UTC)


 * I’ve never had one either, but It says it is an appetizer, so it probably depends on what kind of parties you get invited to, rather than where you live. Moonraker12 (talk) 13:50, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Bacon as armour?
I've re-written the part about the origin of the name ("Norman raiders (who) would ride into towns wearing rashers of bacon over their armor to scare villagers"); I'd say it was bollocks, but it turns up in a number of sources, so I've explored it a bit. The earliest mention I found was from 2008, in Factopedia (a reliable source?) and says it's from Cornwall (so, a tale told to tourists, maybe?). But as it post-dates the first mention of the dish by 200 years, and the Normans by a lot longer, it seems pretty fanciful. And the only mention of bacon as armour I could find was this. Seriously? Moonraker12 (talk) 13:43, 13 April 2021 (UTC)