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?

Anytime we mention duck (in the context of food) we physically duck our heads.

Even more stupid is that we are a bilingual household and we do it when we aren't speaking English too.

@SylvanasWindrunner

Gaahlic bread ala Peter Kay. I'm sure there are more but can't think!

We absolutely do this every time we have garlic bread

Teasted toecakes is my favourite spoonerism. Comes from my dad telling us about going to the Little Chef with his boss, who asked for this!!

So many I can't name them all. DH actually said to me today that we couldn't be with anyone else as it would take YEARS to start again with all the "funnyisms" we have.

"Eight is a lot of legs David" is a favourite here as well as "Can we be quite quick" from Love Actually.

"Slice 'em, dice 'em, stick 'em in a stew Potaaatus" when you've been asked to pass the potatoes or anything to do with potatoes.

Instead of I've got the key, I've got the secret, we say "Got the keys" with a rising inflection at the end from Friends if someone asks if they've got the key. So many Friends quotes.

"A nose Q not a banana" from James Bond's For Your Eyes Only. Lots of James Bond quotes.

If someone decides they want something different to what they've just said they've wanted it gets answered with "It's a bit difficult, Chef's just opened the tin" from Fawlty Towers. Again lots of Fawlty Towers quotes.

It's got cocaine in it. If we offer cake.

"Oh my god I just had to do flipping parkour just to get to the blooming toilet!" When there is any water on the bathroom floor. From DD2 who said it when she was about 8 lol

We also exclaim "cheeses!" instead of Jesus again thanks to DD2. She's hilarious.

The remote control is called the motortroll which is over 20 years old now as it was from me miss hearing an ex boyfriend lol.

We also do some of the other classics on her like basil, mange tout, put the kettle on etc etc....

When someone's have a bit of a meltdown, someone usually finds something small, picks it up and asks "Is this a piece of your brain?" à la Basil Fawlty.

“I’ll have a T please Bob”….. when asked if I/DH want a drink…. Blockbusters late eighties!!

@scully29

If I ever get a bug in a drink its a ' Still going to drink it' from Alan Partridge. Ah lots of Alan, hes fab for quotes! Jurassic Park!

Yes! So many Partridge ones in this house.

One of my favourites has to be if you're holding a door open and there's a few people waiting to go through. Let one person through then cut in, dodging through the doorway while saying "probably me next"

Other Partridge fans love it......people that aren't familiar with it probably think you're a bit of a knob but 🤷‍♀️😂

Which reminds me of another favourite- if DH is telling a boring story / something I'm not interested in I'll do the Partridge shrug.... the one he does when he's introduced to the guy who's revamping their current affairs output.
Can't beat it

We have loads of these…

Canapés are Jackanapes
A buffet is a water buffalo (not sure how that got started)
If anything has to be eked out, we throw our hands in the air and shout “Eek!”

We also do “Nighty nighty, pyjama pyjama,” - I thought we had made it up!

Baby Jesus, for cheese ,
When very tiny passing a church with an illuminated Christmas cross
thingy our son asked why is the baby Jesus made of cheese Mummy?
its been Baby Jesus and pickle sandwiches ever since
Oh and Baby Jesus on toast etc etc

Some of these are hilarious. We use quite a few of these too! Many of the OFAH ones we use such as ”Gary” and “steady Rodney steady”, “this time next year we’ll be millionaires Rodney”, “Marlene how’s the babyyyy?” And “Alright Dave”
Also I once bought a bag of nuts to take on a plane and for some reason they were referred to as “Deez nuts” so now every time I buy some the kids ask for deez nuts!

@cfb35

“I’ll have a T please Bob”….. when asked if I/DH want a drink…. Blockbusters late eighties!!

A few years back we were at a bonfire night event and there was a hot drinks stand. I asked the lady for a tea and I shit you not she turned around and called "can I have a tea please Bob?"

Me and DH couldn't stop laughing but she just looked at us like we were a bit mad.

Obviously - Snape
Mediocre - the baddie from Mad Max Cury Road
Cheese is chayzez (veeeeeeery Black Country)

Yes yes will Peter Kay Garlic bread, cheese cake, a cake of cheese?!

Fish and chips with scraps are chish and fips twice with scwaps and a bwead cake.

I'm not fighting about calling them scraps either. It's scraps here in Yorkshire for me.

Microwaaaaavay-Nigella and if ever we are discussing what food we want at restaurant we’ll say and the foire-gras…and a lion bar- e.g. the really fast show.

Fancy a quickie? I think it's
pronounced quiche.

"Meat, don't eat meat! It's OK, I cook lamb"
~My Fat Greek Wedding

@Puffalicious

Another for the Scots. Every time we have meringue I must say ' Am I right or am I wrang?' From my fabulous aunt, not with us anymore.

Similarly, when buying a particular favourite cake from the baker's, a Jamaica cake, she'd show it to us and say 'Whit de ye make ah that?' to great howls of laughter. She lived in Devon for 50 years and didn't lose an ounce of her Glaswegian accent. A legend.

Yes, we always have the 'cake or am I wrang ' too with meringues, my English DH has picked up this baton on behalf of my DF. We call Fry's Chocolate Creams Lady Matagoras , I think it was after an ancient advert Love a bit of Lady M. Whole nut chocolate is itchy whole nut.

It is considered rude to ask when we are going to eat. Instead we say "I like your pigtails" in a quote from an obscure animated series that we watched 20 years ago.

DH and I are "Parental Units" thanks to Coneheads. Youngest DD had no idea why we were called that until her fiance's family referred to parental units and they watched the film with her.

If anyone says anything remotely stupid or overly complicated, we all screw up our faces and say “ What ya talkin about Willis?” Even the 6 year old does it!
“Coolio Iglesias”
“Oh My Christ”
If anyone’s plane is delayed, I’ll always ask if it was because of the left phallange.
“Moo point”
My DP often asks if things “were acceptable in the 80’s”
If offered a coat or reminded to take one, all my kids say “the cold never bothered me anyway”.
“We were on a break!”
Working on an IT project, the manager kept saying certain people were the “Gatekeepers” of particular tasks. It killed me not to ask who the Keymaster was!

Mango is only ever pronounced 'Hey Mango. Mango Italiano' as Rosemary a looney would have wanted.

So many from the Pink Panther films, the original and best ones. Inspector Clouseau is a gift that keeps on giving.

Lately we have been singing the pudding song from Derek. We all likes pudding.

If somebody says something that sounds even remotely silly or rude (example - bendy carrot, shrivelled onion) someone else must immediately reply (loudly) “YOU’RE A ”

Gaaaahlic bread in Peter Kay voice
Snosages instead of sausages (no idea where that came from though 🤣)