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Do you call your child "sausage"?

378 replies

Fragmentedbrain · 24/06/2025 13:45

It's really annoying

No aibu I'm confident iabr

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Dominoeffecter · 24/06/2025 17:27

It’s not the name per se, I just find it cringy when people call kids ‘buddy’ or ‘bud’

Gilead · 24/06/2025 17:26

Sausage, rosebud, chou fleur and Moomintroll!
Seeing it written down seems weird!

OldSchoolCasualty · 24/06/2025 17:25

DD doesn't get sausage, she does get called Chicken, Cheeky Chicken, Nugget and 'Little Dickens' (because when she was smaller she looked like a little haunted victorian orphan child 😂

BIossomtoes · 24/06/2025 17:19

Bromptotoo · 24/06/2025 17:03

Absolutely I do even though they're both over 30.

There's a story somewhere about somebody who could lipread attending an event attended by the late Queen and her husband. They were certain he'd said 'cheer up sausage' to his wife.

I thought he called her Cabbage.

Hanovercrosse · 24/06/2025 17:19

Mine got ‘Billy Bobs’

EverythingElseIsTaken · 24/06/2025 17:18

Wow! My two were sausage and pickle. Sausage was the eldest and it doesn’t suit her any more but my youngest (in his 20s) is still pickle!

JohnTheRevelator · 24/06/2025 17:17

I call my cat 'sausage'. 😂

Grendel7 · 24/06/2025 17:16

Fragmentedbrain · 24/06/2025 13:45

It's really annoying

No aibu I'm confident iabr

It is a term of endearment. Get over yourself. I call my daughter chickenpie,so what?

Grendel7 · 24/06/2025 17:15

Usernumber12356 · 24/06/2025 13:50

No but I call them chicken. Is that better or worse?

Yeah I still call my daughter chickenpie. She's 40! She calls her son sausage, I think its just terms of endearment.

alwaysupforanap · 24/06/2025 17:14

No, but yes to: monkey, monks, bum bum, sweets, bub, bubs, bubba, monster, terror, funny little frog, and more common terms of endearment

oncemoreuntothebeachdearfriends · 24/06/2025 17:13

My aunt was called kip or kipper by her father, because as a child she slept a lot.
She hated it, but her wreath at his funeral was from "Kipper".

TheCurious0range · 24/06/2025 17:13

Not my DS, but I knew someone at uni everyone called sausage no idea why, but the first time he came out dressed in a tux for a formal my housemate called him Saucisson - sausage but fancier 😂

greengreyblue · 24/06/2025 17:13

Mine were always chicken or petit pois. Posh eh? 😂

greengreyblue · 24/06/2025 17:11

No but various other names!

Squalidae · 24/06/2025 17:10

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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NotPerfectlyAdverage · 24/06/2025 17:03

CustardySergeant · 24/06/2025 16:26

I really detest 'little man'. 😡

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Random men call my ten year old dd with waist length hair lil fella and little man. Went she has her hood up.

Westfacing · 24/06/2025 17:03

notasillysausage · 24/06/2025 16:59

I feel my username speaks for itself here

Rather like the MrsGusset who joined my recent thread on wide-gusset knickers! 😀

Bromptotoo · 24/06/2025 17:03

Absolutely I do even though they're both over 30.

There's a story somewhere about somebody who could lipread attending an event attended by the late Queen and her husband. They were certain he'd said 'cheer up sausage' to his wife.

Dagnabit · 24/06/2025 17:01

No, but I call my kids “spud”

dizzydizzydizzy · 24/06/2025 17:01

Like PPs, I do occasionally call adult DC1 'silly sausage'. Never DC2 - not sure why.

notasillysausage · 24/06/2025 16:59

I feel my username speaks for itself here

LittleGreenDuck · 24/06/2025 16:58

KurtShirty · 24/06/2025 15:35

We have fish faces

Give them back, the fish look odd without them.

PansyPotter84 · 24/06/2025 16:58

Dominoeffecter · 24/06/2025 16:55

I really don’t like ‘Buddy’ or ‘Bud’ unless that is actually their name but everything else goes

Interesting. Genuinely interested to know why.

Did you have a bad experience with somebody called Buddy or Bud?

Totally understand if you would rather not give details, of course.

Happyher · 24/06/2025 16:56

My DC were sausage, chicken poppets and are still loveys despite being adults

Dominoeffecter · 24/06/2025 16:55

I really don’t like ‘Buddy’ or ‘Bud’ unless that is actually their name but everything else goes