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?

Any peas that fall off the plate are escapeas.

Ours are “daddy’s pee’d on the table.

I love this thread!

Thanks or starting it @lovablequalities

My I offer mine...

Whenever me and DH hear a phone ring, we say '4291' from the old episodes of One Foot in the Grave. That is what their phone number was, and they used to say it when they answered the phone.

Also, PIVOT from Friends of course, whenever we are moving something about. Lots of things from Friends actually, and Red dwarf and IT crowd too. And also quite a few catchphrases from old Carry On films...

Also, whenever England - or our fave football team - have played a bit average, we say 'did you see that ludicrous display last night...?' from an I.T. crowd episode. And also (as a pp said,) 'everybody's dead Dave, they're all dead Dave, Everybody's dead Dave! And SOUPER from Red Dwarf.

AND 'what's occurring?' from Gavin and Stacey. And occasionally 'hello Gavlar!' And when someone accuses us of something we say 'why don't you PROVE IT!' in the voice of Snape from Harry Potter...

And whenever 'knowing me knowing' you by ABBA comes on the radio, we say collectively AH-HA. And of COURSE, we always say 'gaaaahlic bread' a la Peter Kay! And we have multiple catchphrases and lines from Auf Wiedersehen Pet ... There a LOT of catchphrases from comedy eh?

Lots from One foot in the grave, Only fools and horses, IT crowd, Red Dwarf, Friends, Alan Partridge, all sorts...Brilliant.

We mockingly say ‘would of’

Sais-age when the advert for Sauvage comes on.
When offering someone a bun or cake - 'they've got cocaine in them!' (Father ted)
And, of course -the microwave is now the meecrowavé.

'Use the nice tumblers' when anyone asks what glass you want. From Miranda.

Also 'you're just too small to be a barista' from the IT Crowd whenever anyone talks about making coffee.

Oh god. I do loads of these!
The food and drink based ones that spring to mind are:

“Go on, go on, you will you will”
Like Mrs Doyle about a cup of tea or a slice of cake.

“This is the one” and “this is the one we DON’T want. The empty one”
Ab Fab style whenever tasting wine or finishing a bottle.

“Would you like a little dessert?” From a Smack the Pony sketch.

And I think there must be more I can’t remember off the top of my head!

[quote Waitwhat23]@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.[/quote]
I can't believe there are people who don't do the Trio song - I thought it was some sort of unspoken rule 🤣

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!

Rather than flip-flopping between sofa/settee/couch/bench/back seat of the car or whatever, 'banquette' is such a perfect catch-all

Decades ago, I saw a very silly cartoon (I think it was in Weekend Book Of Jokes, for anybody old enough to remember that) where a customer in a cafe asked for some sauce, and in response, the waiter called him 'Fishface' - i.e. giving him a different kind of sauce (cheekiness) from what he's been expecting! Now, none of us can ever offer condiments without asking "Do you want some sauce.... Fishface?!"

Pivot
I'm bloody boiling
Shit on it
Out out
Oh, what's occurrin'

'Buh-bye' like Mary Sanderson from hocus Pocus.

@BluebellsGreenbells

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

Join the club!

Escapeas here too!

Whenever anyone wants a topping on something like a pudding, someone always has to say ‘Cool Whip’. Then repeat it.
Family Guy.

DS (4) says "Teamwork makes the...* " and does a double high five anytime you do a jigsaw with him.

• you say : DREAM WORK

Brown butter (Peanut butter)
Black butter (Marmite ) courtesy of DD

Random "eating people is wrong" (and other bits of that) in various food contexts (and "Twas a Monday morning that the gas man came to call .. when things break)

@Catlover77

We do the Basil one too. And, “What the fuck’s a crud ite?”, which we overheard a man say at an evening event

Hah, DH and I were on holiday in Spain and heard an English man bellowing 'VINO BLANCO' at a waiter - ever since then instead of discussing whether we'll have a Rioja or a nice Marlborough Sauvignon with our dinner we just shout VINO BLANCO!

Anything with alcohol in it is "silly fall over juice"

Every time we leave the house I ask my son or husband if they have everything and it goes like this: Son, do you have your coat/scarf/wellies/bag and he will respond with yes to each question, finally I ask "Do you have your Buttfor?" And he is supposed to say "What's a Buttfor?" And I say "for pooping silly" (South Park). Depends what mood he's in but it makes us all laugh. We also do you're weclome (Still Game) and if someone answers a question with "nothing" we say "Nothing? Nothing! Nothing tralala?" from Labyrinth

There's loads tbh this household is quirky.

@BoredZelda

Any peas that fall off the plate are escapeas.

Ours are “daddy’s pee’d on the table.

Oh yes - we're always pea-ing on the floor etc!

So many of these ring bells! Esp 'Don't panic Mr Mainwaring' (even though DCs have never seen the programme....)

Also - if anyone mentions sausages, it's the law to repeat 'SSOSSAGESSS' in a suitably hissy voice as per Esther Ransome's talking dog, back in the day.......

More food related, I always tell my children to "give peas a chance" or sing the Peppa Pig peace and harmony song with peas instead of peace. I was very proud of my 3 year old son when his grandparents asked him if he wanted more peas and he replied "peas and harmony".

We do this in the office at work.

'What's for tea?'
'Cheese on.' (Could be toast, biscuits, we never ask. It's just Cheese on something)

and
'What's for tea?'
'Gammon plus.' (Again, could be plus chips, egg, rice, anything. It's just 'plus')

'What's on your sandwiches today?'
'Ham plus'.

You get the idea.....

@FlatterNow

'When I was a young warthog' when telling a story about the past. If done correctly, the person you are talking to should then sing it back to you, operatically.

“And it hurt, when my friends wouldn’t stand down wind!!” 🎶

When I was pestering my mother for this and that as a child used to say 'not tonight Josephine' and I appear to have picked it up because I find myself saying it to my child too.

@SylvanasWindrunner

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

It's been years since I was able to say this any other way. Sometimes I hear people in the shop doing the same thing in that section.

We have the following;
A pipe of Pringles
A crescent of crisps
A hot egg
Any mention of milk is immediately followed by 'It's what Ian Rush drinks'

Oh and no one's EVER 'incandescent with rage' anymore at work, we're only ever 'iridescent with rage' following rather an amusing email from a chap in pricing who claimed to be so.