Welsh rarebit bread and butter and occasionally with the vinegar from pickled beetroot. The word "Welsh" may have been adopted because it carries a now-archaic sense in English to mean "foreign, non-native" - an etymological phenomenon seen in its ultimate ancestor, the Proto-Germanic "walhaz" ("foreigner") and many of its descendants like the dated sense of German (Romance-speaker). It is also possible that the dish was attributed to the Welsh because they were considered particularly fond of cheese, as evidenced by Andrew Boorde in his "Fyrst Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge" (1542), when he wrote "I am a Welshman, I do love
Welsh Rarebit (radio programme) Meazey, Gladys Morgan, Ossie Morris, Harry Secombe, Stan Stennett, Ann Walters, Albert and Les Ward. At its peak the programme attracted 12 million listeners and remains one of the most popular entertainment shows to have been produced from Wales. The wartime programmes came to an end in December 1944, but "Welsh Rarebit" returned on Saint David's Day 1948 in the BBC Light Programme and ran (now as an hour-long weekly show) from then until July 1951, with a final "Christmas Special" edition being broadcast in December 1952. Welsh Rarebit (radio programme) Welsh Rarebit was a British radio variety show broadcast