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Do you call your child "sausage"?

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Fragmentedbrain · 24/06/2025 13:45

It's really annoying

No aibu I'm confident iabr

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LoveRules · 24/06/2025 13:59

My favourite memory of my small three year old from the top of the slide yelling at me ‘I can’t go down because Sausage won’t go down!’ He’d been patiently waiting while a dad cajoled his kid from the bottom saying ‘Come on Sausage you can do it!’
😆

ImthatBoleyngirl · 24/06/2025 13:59

JustGoClickLikeALightSwitch · 24/06/2025 13:51

I've got one Sausage, one Banana and a Moomin.

I've got a Moomin Poop! 🤣🙈

Bitchesbelike · 24/06/2025 13:59

Are you my neighbor? I called my son a wee sausage last night (not something I call him often). But I call him lots of different names “my baby angel cake”, “my little honey pie”. He usually makes names back for me, and then we make up silly songs.

My husband looks at me as if I’m nuts.
But my mum and I did the same thing too when I was a child: and her dad did too lol

FuckoffeeBeforeCoffee · 24/06/2025 13:59

I’m sure a Big Brother contestant called everyone “Chicken” and it exploded after that.

I find it far more annoying than sausage.

Sahara123 · 24/06/2025 13:58

Kpo58 · 24/06/2025 13:48

I was called chipolata as a kid as it sounded posher than sausage.

🤣

Westfacing · 24/06/2025 13:58

ClareBlue · 24/06/2025 13:53

OK. Going into a meeting at 2pm and going to call my manager sausage. Wish me luck.

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Oh, yes do!

Report back 😊

Witchling · 24/06/2025 13:57

Fragmentedbrain · 24/06/2025 13:48

I find this cute it's totally different

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why is it different?

Ihopeyouhavent · 24/06/2025 13:57

I'm 50 and my DH calls me sausage 😍

Hankunamatata · 24/06/2025 13:57

grumpygrape · 24/06/2025 13:46

Silly sausage 🌭

Yep

ColonelRhubarbBikini · 24/06/2025 13:57

Amongst a million other stupid names like pork chop, fluffy bunny, bobble (a la Friday Night Dinner). Sometimes if I’m feeling fancy I’ll call them ‘mes petites saucisses’. Everything sounds nicer in French.

Piggywaspushed · 24/06/2025 13:56

My DS used to say sausage wrong so for a while he was Squasage. Also Sweetpea, Sweetie. Sunshine but usually in annoyance.

I am guessing you are a frightful snob OP.

What do you call your offspring? Young Master and Mistress Fragmented?

SnakesAndArrows · 24/06/2025 13:56

JustASmallBear · 24/06/2025 13:53

I call my cat a little sausage.

He tells me he isn't a sausage, he's a furry boy.

So I get your pain.

Same.

I also used to call my (dear departed) cat “fishface” or if more formality was required, “fishfeatures”. He disapproved, obviously.

Apillthatmakesyousayalltherightstuff · 24/06/2025 13:56

Our 97 year old family friend has just started calling our 10 year old 'Snooks'.

imnotwhoyouthinkiam · 24/06/2025 13:56

dontforgetme · 24/06/2025 13:50

I raise you ‘Pickle’ op. Urgh.

Mine are called Pickle and Sausage Grin

WhatIsNapTime · 24/06/2025 13:56

I can’t help it I just like a rhyme. I’ve got Sammy sausage and Marnie muffin. Sorry 😬

iwentjasonwaterfalls · 24/06/2025 13:56

Yep. Sausage, chicken, 'nana, pumpkin, spud, squish. Many others, all for one child 🤣

I was called Moomin when I was younger.

tealandteal · 24/06/2025 13:54

No, but I call them pumpkin

stargirl1701 · 24/06/2025 13:54

First response nails it!

Ursulla · 24/06/2025 13:53

Nobody puts sausage in the corner.

JustASmallBear · 24/06/2025 13:53

I call my cat a little sausage.

He tells me he isn't a sausage, he's a furry boy.

So I get your pain.

ClareBlue · 24/06/2025 13:53

Westfacing · 24/06/2025 13:50

Sausage is a nice friendly way to address a child, or colleague!

Don't know why or its origins but it's affectionate 🌞

OK. Going into a meeting at 2pm and going to call my manager sausage. Wish me luck.

Ineedanewsofa · 24/06/2025 13:53

Saus, sausage, chick, chickadee, bab, baberino, monk, monkey and occasionally potato as in “you absolute potato!”
Not sure we’d get on very well @Fragmentedbrain 🤣🤣

Kamek · 24/06/2025 13:52

No, but mine is duck!

ihavebecomecomfortablynumb · 24/06/2025 13:52

I’ve never called my child sausage, but I do call my dog sausage.

OldFamilyTable · 24/06/2025 13:52

JustGoClickLikeALightSwitch · 24/06/2025 13:51

I've got one Sausage, one Banana and a Moomin.

my mum is Moomin ❤️

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