In our house it is the LAW to say

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"Basil!" in a screech à la Sybil

"Brown sugar!" In the style of Mick Jagger.

"Mangetout, Rodney, mangetout!" à la Only Fools.

OR

"What the hell is Mang-e-tout?!" À la the (American) boyfriend of a pal of mine who had never heard of it.

"Aubergine!" In a horrified tone in memory of DD2 when offered some.

What foodie (or otherwise) catchphrases do you have?

Ah so many of these plus

Lovelovelovelovelove when saying goodbye to DH from Bruce Almighty

“Yeah right and monkeys might fly out my butt” and frequently “Position 1 to position 2 in position” from Wayne’s World 1 and 2

And more often than is necessary “Semper Fudge. Did you just say Semper Fudge. No I said the right thing” from Homer Simpson

God so many the more I think about it

Ah and of course “EeeLevEn” any time required to say 11 in the style of Burniston guys

You have to sing twenty one seconds t t t , if you want to say 21, so solid crew!

One my friend taught me when getting a lift in someone’s car

‘Thank you to the driver, the driver, the driver
Thank you to the driver for driving us home’

Sung to the tune of a well known nursery rhyme, the name of which escapes me.

We struggle to say helmet without doing the voice of Tubbs from the League of Gentlemen (we cycle so it comes up a lot!).
Also tractor always seems to be said in a West Country accent - we are northern so I don’t know why!
Our malapropism is decapitated coffee.

@Curlygirl06

Ooh and another one! Many years ago the film " dancing with wolves " had just been released and my ex (no sense of humour) asked me what it was about. I said well, this man asks a wolf- you dancing? The wolf says- you asking? Man says- I'm asking, wolf says- then I'm dancing! I was laughing my arse off, but he just looked at me and said if you don't know, why don't you just say so. My DH thinks it is really funny so whenever the film is on, and it's been on a lot lately, we just look at each other and say "what's that about then " and laugh and laugh and laugh.

@Curlygirl06 that's a brilliant story!

"ooOOOooohh Matron!!!" - Kenneth Williams in Carry on Nurse, whenever anything remotely suggestive is mentioned.

"You stupid boy" - (no explanation needed ) directed towards whichever cat needs it.

"Just the one, Mrs Wembley?" - from sitcom On the Up. Mrs Wembley played by Joan Sims was a one for the cooking sherry...

We will say 'beverages' as bev-er-arges

Crisps are snackettes.

If the cat comes in yelling we always say 'oh my GOD, what did the POLICE say??'

"Two Soupss" in the style of Julie Walters in Acorn Antiques round here. If we're in a restaurant and someone says two soups we always have a little giggle.

Also from Acorn Antiques, "what is it Muesli?"

Lamb Dhansak has to be immediately followed by “in a rice anorak” from an old Mighty Bosh episode.

Anything vaguely medieval can trigger someone singing “taking retro to its logical conclusion” as if it is a madrigal.

Our dad used to say "pomme de terre" for potatoes .... Ie "are we having pomme de terre" for roasties...

No idea, we're not French

Have a Solero and shut the fuck up! (Whenever one of us says it's hot!)

Oh and we have "potatoes of the night" - watch the Billy Connolly sketch it is brilliant!

Just stir it Una!

Bridget Jones’ Diary

When we have a party we pass round the can-apes.

If its pie for dinner it's 'mmmpai' in the voice of Weebl and bob.

We use the phrase "perfectly cromulant" meaning "perfectly good" and I worry that ds will start using it in essays, without realising that it is not a real word.

We also say "Everybody Bognor?" meaning "Is everybody fine?". This happened after dh went on a train to Bognor regis once and the ticket man got on and shouted "Everybody Bognor?" to ask if everyone was going to the whole way to Bognor regis.

When we have a party we pass round the can-apes.

We have crudités- crew-dites

We have cruddights....

We call the local Majestic ‘the Amy Winehouse’ after my DD (then aged about 4) called out ‘There’s the Amy Winehouse!’ when we drove past. Sticks to this day. Also a certain brand of underwear are always called Kevin Clarks for same reason

"What a good idea, said Zog!" - when somebody has a good idea

@Rabidturnip

Turn to page 394 - Snape

We say 'always' like Snape/Alan Rickman

If anyone says ‘Oh no’ we have to say ‘we need more monkeys’ from Toy Story

Or if you say ‘oops’ we repeat it like Jeff Goldblum in Independence Day

Two soups
Black bin bags, Stritchy, stretchy stroo
Garlic bread / big light/ many more Peter Kay
Any crap boy/girl singing on the radio is 'Park Avenue'
Lovely bit of squirrel, my bath is made of ellllmmm, when we see similar dogs Wilson & Milson etc FNDinner
Billy Connolly-- so many! I always pay on a Tuesday, Heather Mixture....
Ooh matron
And Family Guy - is there a protagonist?, you're haunting me with your whiteness, you horse 's arse etc
Love this thread x