Welsh rarebit considered to be a supper or tavern dish, based on the fine cheddar-type cheeses and the wheat bread [...] . Surprisingly, it seems there was not only a Welsh Rabbit, but also an English Rabbit, an Irish and a Scotch Rabbit, but nary a rarebit." Michael Quinion writes: "Welsh rabbit is basically cheese on toast (the word is not 'rarebit' by the way, that's the result of false etymology; 'rabbit' is here being used in the same way as 'turtle' in 'mock-turtle soup', which has never been near a turtle, or 'duck' in 'Bombay duck', which was actually a dried
Rabbit Is Rich Rabbit Is Rich Rabbit Is Rich is a 1981 novel by John Updike. It is the third novel of the four-part series which begins with "Rabbit, Run" and "Rabbit Redux", and concludes with "Rabbit At Rest". There is also a related 2001 novella, "Rabbit Remembered". "Rabbit Is Rich" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction This third novel of Updike's "Rabbit" series examines the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a one-time high school basketball star, who has reached a paunchy middle-age without relocating from Brewer, Pennsylvania, the poor, fictional city of his birth.