Out of the mouths of babes . . .

[Fat Guy]

Carr's Table Water crackers = "matzoh crackers"

[Luckylies]

"cardboard"

okay, I'll play too.

as kids...

gefilte fish = filtered fish or gefiltered fish

Edited July 8, 2007 by Luckylies (log)

[Anna N]

We always enjoyed (and still enjoy) pasghetti and meatballs!

[mizducky]

We always enjoyed (and still enjoy) pasghetti and meatballs!

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I had one friend whose childhood term for the above-referenced pasta item sounded more like "piss-getti"! (with appropriate amounts of childish giggling). And when my kid sister was very young, it was just "sketties."

Another one from childhood: "sparrow-grass."

[dockhl]

My friend John M. tells a story of his childhood.

John had a bit of a lisp as a kid, and when he'd go to his friend Alan's house where they had a lovely Baby Grand, he'd ask Alan's Mom,

"May I please play the piano?"

Her response was, inevitably,

"Why, John, of COURSE you can have a banana!"

(She thought he was such a polite little boy )

[Alchemist]

We always enjoyed (and still enjoy) pasghetti and meatballs!

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I had one friend whose childhood term for the above-referenced pasta item sounded more like "piss-getti"! (with appropriate amounts of childish giggling). And when my kid sister was very young, it was just "sketties."

Another one from childhood: "sparrow-grass."

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It's interestinng how this thread and the Kitchen Language thread happen to be so very, very similar.

[srhcb]

My GS Zack is almost four, and although his language skills have improved markedly over the past year, he still has some unusual ways of naming and categorizing foodstuffs.

Anything roundish, reddish and foodish was always "appo", including tomatos. Even though they had the same name, he loves apples but wouldn't eat tomatos, at least until they're made into sauce and combined with anything including melted cheese, which becomes "pizzi".

He also loved ketchup, which he applied liberally to any kind of meat and called it all "tukey". Lately ketchup has been supplanted as his favorite condiment by "wanch".

It's been kind of fun, and I'll miss it when he's learned to talk better.

SB (luckily his sister, Baby Jenna, should start "talking" about then )

Edited July 9, 2007 by srhcb (log)

[kategoldston]

my baby sister and my mother were in the grocery store when she started screaming : "baby jesus." My mother who raised with no religion whatsoever thought maybe it was time to talk about all the different types of beliefs in the world. So of course she starts rambling off about Baby Jesus and all. Well my sister took off running and grabbed a package of Bonneybell cheeses and brought it back to my mother. : Baby Jesus. (baby cheeses.)

[insomniac]

when my son was about 3 he would come home from his friend's place (in Hong Kong) and ask me for 'one woolies'...which took me a while to transmogrify into 'wah mui' (salted preserved plums)

ps. they do get a bit wooly if you put them in your pocket

Edited July 9, 2007 by insomniac (log)

[Pan]

Me, from my childhood:

"Rock gornisht game hen." (Gornisht is Yiddish for "nothing" -- presumably because the bird is so small compared to a "real" chicken.)

[Marlene]

From my son when he was little. Beef Stroganoff = honeys and rice. I have no idea why.

[Domestic Goddess]

My niece used to say iskapegi for spaghetti. LOL

[pax]

My 5 yo asks for "skettis and meatballs without the meatballs".

Apparently one day I called her a goober at the same time I was giving her ranch dressing. Now ranch dressing is "goober sauce". She asked me for goober sauce for her carrots. She finally had to get up on a chair in front of the fridge to show me what she meant.

[sparrowgrass]

Raisins at my house are "zee-zees". The child who named them so is now 6'4" and 28 years old.

But they are still zee-zees to me.

[Fat Guy]

A few we've noted lately:

Minnows = tomatoes

Dunkles = dumplings

Cook-cook = cookie

Black-bear-bears = blackberries

Straw-bear-bears = strawberries

(and so on for various berries)

Big-kiss = brisket

Foon = spoon

Ficy = spicy

[Kouign Aman]

hangaburger

opatus

For a longtime, cowjuice was 'nilk' and mango juice was 'mangle juice'.

I wish I'd written more of them down.

[patti]

Godmothers down my way are often called "Nanny" by their godchildren. My first name is Patti, hence, I am Nanny Patti to a nephew or two. When one such nephew was visiting my mother (his grandmother), she asked him what he wanted to have for supper. Imagine her surprise when he insisted that she cook some Nanny meat. It took her awhile to figure out that Nanny meat = hamburger patty.

A few years later, she was taken aback when my toddler son asked for some Maw Maw milk. She knew that when I breastfed him, we referred to it as Mommy milk, so she was afraid he expected her to breastfeed him. Much to her relief, he pointed to the milk container in her fridge. He was smart enough to know that MawMaw milk came from a different container than Mommy milk!

[dinwiddie]

When my son was quite young, he called the Duck Sauce in Chinese restaurants (it's an east coast thing for you folks in San Francisco) boy sauce since only little boys ate it (because the adults wanted the hot mustard) on their egg rolls.

Edited July 9, 2007 by dinwiddie (log)

[CaliPoutine]

"Fine, I'll have the Aunt Vagina's then" = A friend's son responding to his mother telling him he can have the frozen waffles that are on sale rather than the Eggo's.

[hummingbirdkiss]

my boys when they were little

hamburgers = hanga burrs

pea soup=poop soup

if they saw breastfeeding babies= "look that baby's got some mommy munchies!!"

[eskay]

When I was little I thought at one point that girled cheese (grilled cheese) was for girls only

[jgarner53]

In my husband's family, hamburger was "hangamer" and (later) the broccoli chicken casserole was dubbed "brock&chickoli shit."

Husband and I usually refer to mustard (as on the grocery list) as "moo-tard." (usually cuz it's dijon).

[petite tête de chou]

Absolutely the funniest I've heard is douche bag for juice bag.

[maggiethecat]

Chinese food = shiny boots

[ruthcooks]

I used to prepare mock cocktails for the kids when we had company, consisting of a light colored soft drink or orange juice with grenadine added. My daughter referred to these drinks as "children's booze".