subs. phr. (common).—Cold meat fried with potatoes and greens, originally nautical.
1772. BRIDGES, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, 507. BUBBLE,† they call this dish, AND SQUEAK. Note.† Fried beef and cabbage is a dish so well known in town by the name of BUBBLE AND SQUEAK, that it is only for the sake of my country readers I insert this note.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. BUBBLE AND SQUEAK, beef and cabbage fried together. It is so called from its bubbling up and squeaking whilst over the fire.
1786–89. WOLCOT (‘Peter Pindar’), Lousiad, i., 366.
| Such is the sound (the simile’s not weak) | |
| Form’d by what mortals BUBBLE call, AND SQUEAK | |
| When ’midst the frying-pan, in accents savage, | |
| The beef so surly quarrels with the cabbage. |
1853. BULWER-LYTTON, My Novel, VIII., viii. ‘Rank and title! BUBBLE AND SQUEAK! No, not half so good as BUBBLE AND SQUEAK. English beef and good cabbage.’
