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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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LittleGreenDuck · 24/06/2025 16:54

Ha! No, it's actually Blobby.

PansyPotter84 · 24/06/2025 16:52

PansyPotter84 · 24/06/2025 16:51

Is their first name “Noel”?

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And do you have lots of house parties?

PansyPotter84 · 24/06/2025 16:51

LittleGreenDuck · 24/06/2025 16:50

Oh and my youngest gets "Actual name Von Crinkle Bottom". No idea where that came from.

Is their first name “Noel”?

LittleGreenDuck · 24/06/2025 16:50

Oh and my youngest gets "Actual name Von Crinkle Bottom". No idea where that came from.

DrPrunesqualer · 24/06/2025 16:50

PansyPotter84 · 24/06/2025 16:47

That said… best avoid anything which might be offensive in future…

Sausage- offensive to vegans, veggies and faiths who don’t eat pork.

Poppet- offensive to anyone who has ever choked on a small, hard, marble-like sweet.

Chicken- (and variants) see above.

Monkey- I probably don’t need to explain that one.

Sweetie- offensive to people with diabetes.

Little man- offensive to people with Dwarfism and vaguely adulting.

Pud/ Pudding- offensive to people with body issues.

Am I being goady? 😜

At least two vegetarians on this site have already said they use sausage as a nickname. Including myself

Sausages are not just made of meat

Goady- yep- but MNetters can handle that. It’s a nice day 💐

CaptainMyCaptain · 24/06/2025 16:49

Unorganisedchaos2 · 24/06/2025 16:33

Ah must be a Welsh thing then 😍

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Eggs are referred to as Chucky eggs in Derbyshire too.

Bundleflower · 24/06/2025 16:49

I’ve gone with ‘dude’, I’m afraid.

PansyPotter84 · 24/06/2025 16:47

That said… best avoid anything which might be offensive in future…

Sausage- offensive to vegans, veggies and faiths who don’t eat pork.

Poppet- offensive to anyone who has ever choked on a small, hard, marble-like sweet.

Chicken- (and variants) see above.

Monkey- I probably don’t need to explain that one.

Sweetie- offensive to people with diabetes.

Little man- offensive to people with Dwarfism and vaguely adulting.

Pud/ Pudding- offensive to people with body issues.

Am I being goady? 😜

DrPrunesqualer · 24/06/2025 16:46

Groundhedgehogday · 24/06/2025 14:12

Yes he's a sausage. We're vegetarian, so technically he's a veggie sausage.

When his cousins are round they are all sausages.

Vegetarian here too and one of ours was called sausage. He’s grown up now so call him hotdog instead 🤣

Shhhhitsmagic · 24/06/2025 16:46

My parents called me sausage, and I call my kids sausage or chicken or darling 😂 Never really given it much thought!

LittleGreenDuck · 24/06/2025 16:46

Mine is Bean. Stems from my first pregnancy scan when the midwife told me he was the size of a bean. He's taller the me now, but still my little Bean.

normanprice62 · 24/06/2025 16:45

Why do you care.

Needtosoundoffandbreathe · 24/06/2025 16:43

I think calling kids "darling" is worse.

PansyPotter84 · 24/06/2025 16:43

I promise I’m not a troll, but DD has one friend who’s parents always address her as (name)-ypoos

🤮

scalt · 24/06/2025 16:41

comeandhaveteawithme · 24/06/2025 13:47

Occasionally. Usually in a "silly sausage" context, but sometimes just sausage.

There's a school dad who always calls his child sausage. Always. I have never heard him use her name and I don't know what it is. But he's sweet and kind and she's a happy child so I while it's very mildly annoying, I don't really care.

Perhaps her name is Anna Magdalena; a character in a book who hated people shortening her long name, and her uncle called her sausage.

Soubriquet · 24/06/2025 16:39

Yep

Hey sausage. How was school

permanentdamage · 24/06/2025 16:37

My youngest is sweetpea when he's good, and shitpeas when he's naughty (but only behind back!).

IDontHateRainbows · 24/06/2025 16:34

I do actually yes.

When they were younger we used to make a 'sausage roll' which was a kind of cuddle where you roll around. Jeez that sounds weird. They'd kill me if I did that now.

Butchyrestingface · 24/06/2025 16:34

I was

the wean
teeny bash
baw jaws

Don't think I was ever "sausage". I have no aversion to it though. My mum LOATHED the ubiquitous (in our neck of the woods) "hen".

Unorganisedchaos2 · 24/06/2025 16:33

SatsumaDog · 24/06/2025 15:02

My grandparents were Welsh and my Nana used to say that too.

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Ah must be a Welsh thing then 😍

MsFelicityLemon · 24/06/2025 16:32

I've a Sausage, s Rasher, an Egg and a Waffle.

As diminutive it's Sausie, 'Sher and Waf. Egg is just Egg, however people think we named her after a character in This Life, which is terribly embarrassing.

Sometimes people think Waf is American, but what can you do? They're just old fashioned.

GloryDias · 24/06/2025 16:31

Don't know about sausage but I call my daughter 'pudding' or 'pud', she's 23 and I still occasionaly say it 😁

SuburbanSprawl · 24/06/2025 16:30

Fragmentedbrain · 24/06/2025 14:05

I think I interpret sausage as passive aggressive is one thing

Like you're annoyed with someone else present and say "COME ON SAUSAGE" then stalk off

I concede that's probably reading too much into it

What has a sausage ever done to you?

WimbyAce · 24/06/2025 16:29

For some reason I call mine boobie or boob 🙈 I try not to in public.

PopeJoan2 · 24/06/2025 16:28

JustGoClickLikeALightSwitch · 24/06/2025 13:51

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

Cute!