Why Do We Call It ‘Horseradish’?
Fortunately (or unfortunately?), it doesn’t have to do with horses.
The word horseradish in English was first recorded in the 1590s. It’s believed that the ‘horse’ was used figuratively to mean ‘strong’, along with the word ‘radish’, due to the root.
In other Europeans languages, it’s usually spelled like “khren” and you might also hear it called can de bretagne, cranson, great raifort, moutain radish, moutardelle, pepperrot, among many others.
