Is bubble and squeak a Cockney dish?

Is bubble and squeak a Cockney dish? If you’re familiar with British Cockney rhyming slang (if you’re not you will have to do a Google search to know what I’m talking about), Brits often refer to Greeks as Bubbles (as in bubble and squeak = Greek). It is said that the dish originates back to 1770 and originally contained meat; boiled beef, actually.

If you’re familiar with British Cockney rhyming slang (if you’re not you will have to do a Google search to know what I’m talking about), Brits often refer to Greeks as Bubbles (as in bubble and squeak = Greek). It is said that the dish originates back to 1770 and originally contained meat; boiled beef, actually.