When it comes to food, the Caribbean doesn’t just bring flavour; it brings fun, quirky names that instantly make you smile. The Oxford English Dictionary has recently added 12 new Caribbean words, and a handful of them are all about food, as reported by AP. From cakes to salted fish, here are five bizarre-yet-delicious food names now officially recognised:

Cou-Cou

Sounds playful, right? This Caribbean staple combines okra, butter, and cornmeal into a comforting dish often paired with flying fish. There’s also the “cou-cou stick”, used to stir the dish into perfection.

Bulla

Derived from the Spanish word 'bollo' (bread roll), this Jamaican treat is a flat, round cake made with flour, molasses, brown sugar, and spices like ginger and nutmeg—sometimes with coconut or pineapple for an extr

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