h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Waffles is a very, very, very silly name. What's wrong with the name Wiffle?

Wiffles is also a very silly name, so you're just as well off calling them waffles, because people know them as waffles and it is silly changing the public's view on something when it's pointless to change it.

I do quite like the name though!

Don't care what they are called we will still eat them.
i say compromise call them wiffle waffles!

When they first invented the waffle, nobody could decide whether to call them "waffles" or "wiffles." As aresult of all this wishy-
washiness and indecision, somebody shouted out "Stop all this waffling about and just pick a name!" The rest is history. Of course,
this story may very well be apocryphal, and another, equally valid belief is that they were named after the waffle iron, the tool with
which waffles are made.

I was quite happy in the knowledge that the chicken came after the egg and now you've gone and given me a new imponderable: What came first - the waffle or the waffle iron.
Help!!!

It would have to have been the waffle first. Then the waffle iron was built around it.

The waffle iron was an inquisition-era torture device designed to impart a grid-shaped brand on the back of a heretic. The omelet pan was originally used to sterilize Protestants. I don't even want to get into what a grapefruit knife was designed to do...

And now I won't be able to look at a lemon squeezer without wincing. All those months of therapy ruined by three postings on a website. This place should come with a health warning!
But you still haven't answered my question - was the waffle iron invented as a labour saving device after the waffle, or did the chief torturer accidently drop some batter onto a hot brand and invent a new confection?
Also, what came first - the wiffle or the ogg?