Weird family names for food - can you guess what 'Snuffaluffs' are?

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That's what we call falafels started by dd when she was little.

Who else has weird food names?

Fly Pie (Eccles cakes)
Cow Biscuits
Cow Pie (beef stew and dumplings)
Noodle Doodles
Popover (fried cheese sandwich)

Sparrows Arse = asparagus in our family.

I'm not sure who started it, could've been DS1 when he was 2, or my lovely but bonkers MIL

Tree for broccoli.

Cocoons...

My dcs word for croissants ever since they saw the picture of the cocoon in The Hungry Caterpillar book and thought it was the same thing!

Poppadoms are poppinpoms according to my 2yr old.

Cow biscuits - malted milk

They are horse biscuits in our house ever since my ds mistook the cow for a horse! He came home from nursery and told me that he'd had a biscuit with a horse on it took me a while to work out what he meant!

Hard boiled eggs are 'eat it like that' eggs because DD was trying to explain eating one like an apple..

Ha! so we are not the only household who eat cow biscuits and squashed fly biscuits. We also have pig biscuits (fig rolls).

My shopping list requires translation to the uninitiated:
Normality (regular tea)
Blue tea (decaff)
Noigs (onions - childhood mispronunciation)
Loot (squash - childhood again, from diluting juice)
Loomi (halloumi)
50/50 (half and half rolls)
Cucs (cucumber)

I'm sure there are lots more, I think growing up my family mostly spoke some kind of pigeon English!

We call salmon "Vincent" which somehow evolved from Vincent Salmone but I've not idea where that came from. Quite normal for me to tell DH we're having Vincent for tea

Struzzi for tomato pasta sauce - comes from a Richard Pryor routine about the mafia (would take way too long to explain)

Sketti on the naise - what ds called spaghetti bolognese as a toddler, I always think it sounds like a rural area.

Boodles - dd's word for noodles

Dh and I used to listen to Mark and Lard on Radio 1 and their pet names for food have stuck, especially "brod" and "cheed"

We always call profiteroles 'coffee trollls' after I misnamed them as a child

Burnt bread (toast)
Morridge (porridge)
nudies (noodles)
Happy Fruit PIe (apple pie)
slamslam (Salami)
Helllooo Meeeeee (Halloumi)
Sizzle (Cereal)
Gutlumber ( generic junk food)
Teddy Bears (pears...)

From my STB 5 year old...

No chocolate rice crispies - rice crispies
Chocolate rice crispies - cocoa puffs
Circles - cheerios
Squares - shreddies
Cheese butter - philadelphia
wiggly worms - spaghetti

Generally his descriptions make sense when you know what he means.

Axe Eem was how my children pronounced ice cream, and I still tend to call it that, even though they are now in their twenties!

I couldn't say lucazade when I was little so I called it unca-luca, it's still stuck😂
My son calls spaghetti bolognese 'sketti bolla Hayes'

My granddaughters (age 1 to 4) say topa for toast, bumato for tomato, slingerbrella for cinderella, egg sauce for mayonnaise, will think of some more.

Booferies are blueberries!

Dead flies biscuits. Garabaldi
Worms. Chow mein
Burp Lasagne ( think Garfield)
Curry jam. Mango chutney
Turkey jam. Cranberry sauce
Bejinegar. Vinegar

Coffee tops = cough toffees

Quasimodo, apparently I found that easier to pronounce than croissants as a child 🤷‍♀️

Mud and Worms = Spaghetti Bolognese

Onions are nungies. Onion rings are nungy rings!
DH and DD both call asparagus as-par-gwah

@fourquenelles I LOVE messy bridge dinner!

Weetabix is bliblix in our house, as that's what toddler DS calls it and biscuits are bitchards, same reason there's more but I can't remember them at the moment!

We drink decapitated coffee in the evenings.