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?

“Gatwick” is pronounced with a Welsh accent. Picturesque is pronounced “picture-skew”. No-one knows why.

Anyone who isn’t paying attention is asked “Are you with us or with the Woolwich?”

If it's been raining and the sun comes out, we say 'it's brightening up' in the style of a Carling advert from years ago

Soup? in the voice of Mrs Overall

If something is expensive we exclaim 'costa fortuna' from I think a bt ad ages ago with Chris Marshall

'It's no cup of my tea' as said by a Spanish contestant on May The Best House Win

When I try to do something but my DH protests I say 'I'm only trying to help you RoLAND' like Janet from Grange Hill. What makes this better is my DH is a larger gentleman

All Barbaras are BarbEra, from The Royle Family Christmas special, also mary pipers

A hot day forecast is 'scorchio', if it's a sunny day but there's one cloud you must point to it and exclaim 'nimbus cumulos' both from The Fast Show

If my DH does something for me I say 'you're a good lad Peter' like Mrs Beardsley in Athletico Mince (his name isn't Peter)

Or, if someone says ‘get it down ya’ it has to be followed by ‘Zulu warrior’ (fresh meat style)

Remembered another one. Every time I load the dishwasher I sing 'The boy does nothing'.
He does loads, but I still like to have a little jig about and sing!

Always sing “mooving to the country, gonna eat me a lot of peaches” whenever we have peaches.

Thurrs been a murrder from taggart. Even though we are Scottish, we still put on a more Scottish accent to do it.

Oh and lots of 'thats you that is' from History Today (Mary Whitehouse Experience)

Same here, but we know it from Newman and Baddeil.

Two Fast Show ones here, too:

'Putchya knickers on and make me a cup of tea!'
'What's that cooked in? Gin! I had a little accident ...'

'Fazzers' are blueberries in our house. As christened by our then-toddler.

Coke is 'brown fizzy pop', as inherited from our friends' kids.

Also 'chickee in a baskee' courtesy of the Swedish Chef, and 'Sprouts Mexicane' courtesy of Rik and Ade in Bottom!

PP above reminds me of another Victoria Wood one.

'Is it on the trolley? Can you point at it?'

Soup? in the voice of Mrs Overall

Ours is “two soups”

We also do “is it on the trolleh”

@MarieIVanArkleStinks
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We also do the heavy duty black bin bags, no matter what your gender [whether bi or straight or bender].

And washing machines live longer with Calgon.

Mustard??! No, no, not mustard. A la mad hatter (I think)

@cosmopolitanplease

If it's been raining and the sun comes out, we say 'it's brightening up' in the style of a Carling advert from years ago

Soup? in the voice of Mrs Overall

If something is expensive we exclaim 'costa fortuna' from I think a bt ad ages ago with Chris Marshall

'It's no cup of my tea' as said by a Spanish contestant on May The Best House Win

When I try to do something but my DH protests I say 'I'm only trying to help you RoLAND' like Janet from Grange Hill. What makes this better is my DH is a larger gentleman

All Barbaras are BarbEra, from The Royle Family Christmas special, also mary pipers

A hot day forecast is 'scorchio', if it's a sunny day but there's one cloud you must point to it and exclaim 'nimbus cumulos' both from The Fast Show

If my DH does something for me I say 'you're a good lad Peter' like Mrs Beardsley in Athletico Mince (his name isn't Peter)

I often quote “BarbEra” and nobody has a clue what I’m saying 😂 I also do quite a few others from this series, yet again lost on most people!

@FruityPolos

'Make room for the mushroom' (sung in tune) when you need someone to budge up on the sofa - it's from an old 80s advert.

Loads from Look Around You and the Peter Serafinowicz show, particularly 'he's rapping, he's rapping, he's rappity rapping' if there's someone rapping on tv.

Sing These Boots are Made for Walking when putting out daughters boots on every since she was tiny.

Loved the triumphant mushroom fanfare!

"What's going to work? Teamwork" from WonderPets for any DIY involving needing the children to hold stuff/move stuff (they are teens)

"What? You have to go there?" any time a teen says do I have to come too?

To sing Jambalaya to the tune of Bamboleo by the Gyspy Kings when we cook said Jambalaya.

If we buy the teens Trio biscuits you have to sing "Triiio, Triiiiio, I want a Trio and I want one now!" if you take one from the cupboard.

"I'll have T please Bob" anytime you actually want a cup of tea a la Blockbusters.

To quote the Michael McIntyre names sketch (Sarah with an H) if anyone with a name in that sketch comes up.

We have shown the kids all manner of TV shows and adverts from the 80s. The other ones are GCSE revision related so Safety Dance for Health and Safety at Work Act, Utah Saints extended mix for Something Good where they shout Utah Saints, U U U Utah Saints for the Mormons settling at Salt Lake City in Utah.

Plus lots of in jokes from mis-spellings by the children over the years etc.

I often have to put an “Annan” after the word “coffee”.

Another is “BYErani” instead of “biryani” I’m homage to a family friend

After reading this thread, I said to my husband as an experiment and without explaining it 'what is the correct response to I've got the keys?' and he said, right on cue 'I've got the secret' 😆 I wasn't expecting that to work!

The wee one shouts 'doot doot' and runs to the kitchen when she hears the kitchen timer go off so the kitchen timer itself is now known as the Doot Doot ('put the Doot Doot on for the pasta please')

@SallyDoTheDishes the Trio song! People think I'm mad when I sing it because no one else remembers it! I thought I'd made it up in a dream.

When DH and I were students 20 years ago, we returned to our student house earlier than everyone else to see the new year in, and I complained one morning when he'd coated the loo with scattergun shit, which I had bleached off. Clearly, he should have done it himself. His shit, his problem. He then claimed that it wasn't his poo; it was our flatmate, Dudley's.

Dudley had not been there for 3 weeks. The shit had not been there the night before. So I told him so and that he was full of poo himself. He started to laugh, and said, "Dudley's poo?" "Yes. You're FULL OF DUDLEY'S POO!"

20 years later, this whole family will exclaim, "Dudley's poo!" when someone is full of shit. The kids don't even know why. It's just a family phrase to them.

Poor Dudley was - is, probably - a lovely bloke. But that's how he is remembered in our house. By (the absence of) his shit.

So many of these. Also ‘fink so Bob’ in the voice of Lofty the crane from Bob the Builder when answering anything obvious.

What about the ‘if you like a lot of chocolate in your biscuit …

“Just stir it, Una”
(When one of the kids doesn’t thank us for doing something they asked - sang): “You’re welcome!”
“Ob-vi-ous-ly.”

Can of Coke is always said in a scouse accent.

Any peas that fall off the plate are escapeas.

“Next week we’ll be millionaires”

NUTS!!! Whole hazelnuts - HUH!!
Cadbury's take them and they cover them with chocolate.

Also, I work somewhere where local football teams are often mentioned. If anyone mentions Accrington Stanley, the correct response is “who are they?”