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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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SouthLondonMum22 · 24/06/2025 14:57

DS is 2.5 and our thing is calling each other food names. So I might call him my pudding and the other day he called me his carrot and spent approx 45 minutes laughing hysterically about it. 😂

crumblingschools · 24/06/2025 14:57

You are reading far to much in to it @Fragmentedbrain I've only ever seen it used as a term of endearment

LittleGreenDragons · 24/06/2025 14:57

x2boys · 24/06/2025 14:05

Not sausage, but munchkin, chicken pumpkin ,sweetpea.

Silly sausage
Cheeky monkey
Little monkey
Munchin
Pumpkin
Sweetpea/Sweetie
Hunnybun
Petal
Madam

Saves me having to explain why I call everyone by the first cat's name. Even the second cat gets called the first cat's name (or any of the above) 😬 It's not dementia, honest!

imisscashmere · 24/06/2025 14:57

No, but… Baby, Bubby, Darling, Doodles, Deedles, Smeedles, Smeedley Deedley, Deedley, Boodles, etc etc.

JudgeJ · 24/06/2025 14:56

Kpo58 · 24/06/2025 13:48

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

Called a chipolata? That's even Wurst

WhereYouLeastExpect · 24/06/2025 14:56

I sometimes call her silly sausage, but more often silly banana. I wouldn't call her just sausage though.
I called her sweet potato the other day and her response was "I'm not a sweet potato!" Her usual nickname is bean/little bean/beanakin.

Unorganisedchaos2 · 24/06/2025 14:56

Yep 😁

DD is either a silly sausage or a clever sausage

MyMilchick · 24/06/2025 14:55

No, I'm Irish though, it's not really used as a term of endearment here 😂

Sthoremouse · 24/06/2025 14:55

Yes I do. I also call my children pumpkin, penguin, prince, princess, munchkin and bobble.

FuckoffeeBeforeCoffee · 24/06/2025 14:55

@Herewegoagain84so your grandma is to blame??

WhatMe123 · 24/06/2025 14:55

I do and I have no idea where it's come from tbh it's stupid isn't it 😂😂😂😂😂🙈

Sharptonguedwoman · 24/06/2025 14:55

Guilty as charged.

Enchanted82 · 24/06/2025 14:54

’dude’ is far worse imo

noworklifebalance · 24/06/2025 14:54

SoftPillow · 24/06/2025 14:53

I’m not English and call mine saucisse, hopefully that’s international and therefore fine 😄

Oh yes, I forgot - I also call them by food items and animals in different languages with a terrible attempt at accents, e.g. Mon petit pois

CaptainMyCaptain · 24/06/2025 14:54

Apparently 'puppyshit' (in Dutch obviously) is a term of endearment for a child in Holland.

Sparklybanana · 24/06/2025 14:54

Sausage, monkey shoes, monkey, sweetie, poopie pants, stinky pants. All terms of endearment and i have no idea why. The last two may have come from childhood explosions which stuck. Not literally...

SoftPillow · 24/06/2025 14:53

I’m not English and call mine saucisse, hopefully that’s international and therefore fine 😄

Pickingmyselfup · 24/06/2025 14:52

Monster and Baby here although the baby is turning 8 in a few months so he's far too old but it's stuck since he was an actual baby.

ErmineAndPearls · 24/06/2025 14:52

I call mine "prawn". Sometimes "prawn ball". Because when she was a baby she was small and pink.

Kittybway · 24/06/2025 14:52

I have a kitten and a chicken. I even give myself the ick 😂

TiptoeThroughTheToadstools · 24/06/2025 14:51

I often refer to my children as 'my little sausages'

Balloonhearts · 24/06/2025 14:51

Sausage, monkey, ducky, flower, poppet, sweetpea, cupcake. I work with kids a lot so they get called all sorts.

noworklifebalance · 24/06/2025 14:51

I use all sort of food items as terms of endearment for my DC including sausage.
Also various animals.
And also various semi insulting terms - they absolutely know it is in jest/lovingly done and not to insult them

BreakingBroken · 24/06/2025 14:51

Peanut and Sweetpea

Herewegoagain84 · 24/06/2025 14:49

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.

No chicken has been around much much longer than big brother… even my great grandmother said it!