crazy bread en · NOUN
Etymology
The pizza sense is derived from a brand name used by the Little Caesars pizza chain.
Meanings
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(historical, uncountable) A mixture of dried herbs and grains infected with ergot, eaten during the hungry gap in medieval times.
Poppies, hemp, and darnel were scavenged, dried, and ground up to produce a medieval hash brownie known as "crazy bread".
1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 102:
- (US, uncountable) Garlic bread stuffed or sprinkled with cheese.