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?

If anyone has watched Happy Gilmore, when Ben Stiller works in the nursing home and says to grandma 'you will go to sleep or I will put you to sleep' DH and I say that to the DC at bedtime

Oh, yes we also say obscure things from ads in the 70s or 80s.

When trying on new shoes…..’Williams going to be a footballer. Susannah is going to be a ballet dancer. And according to Mummy, I’m going to be a proper little madam.’

When eating anything containing marshmallow ‘every one’s a fluffy one’, our kids have no idea why we say it but they humour us.

'Potato' in the style of Keith Lemon

And not crimble crumble but if we do have a crumble we inevitably end up singing 'Everybody's good at cooking something, I'm good at cooking crumble, in fact I've got one in the oven, would you like some?' 🎵🎶 from BGT.

'Oh there's somebody at the door, there's somebody at the door!" From the Pink Windmill

Pot noogles

Really showing my age now. In the first TV version of the Forsyte Saga, Annette, Soames' second (French) wife complained of the horrors of childbirth with ""Ow I suffaired!" In our family we used to declaim "Ow I suffaired" every time we had the slightest injury, and still do sometimes.

Doritos have been Dortios in our house since the twins were learning to read and one of them sounded it out like that.

Potatoes are always spoken of in thick Irish accents (four of the five of us are entitled to carry Irish passports, i.e. everyone but DH)

Mangetout always accompanied by the inevitable joke: Have you seen the mangetout? No, I don't go to the cinema much - I still haven't seen The Mange 1.

Me and DS2 love a Friday night Dinner quote, sandwiched into our lives.
Favourites are:
Lovely bit of Squirrel
Shit on it (DS' favourite)
Crimble Crumble
Living on the moon! You need to get that head of yours out of your backside and get real!
and our favourite but hardest to get into conversation
"The caravan's on fire. Over!"

When someone else's mobile rings, we always say, as loudly as circumstances allow - "'ELLO? ELLO? I'M IN THE THEATRE, MATE. NAH, IT'S RUBBISH" like the Dom Jolly sketch.

Whenever it rains “it’s good for the garden”

If we’re going out “got your bata bullets?”

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Feed me! Feed me now! (said in a deep voice)

Comes from an advert that was around over 20 years ago when DS was little and which he found exquisitely humorous.

'Little Shop of Horrors' originally?

Levi Stubbs's voice... mmm...

If there's a spider we say 'don't hurt it's legs' in Chris Eubank's voice (from an old milk advert)

'The speed, the sound of the speed' if accelerating in the car

'Make room for the mushrooms' whenever erm mushrooms are brought out of the fridge

The fridge is caked the Frigidaire

Whenever anyone ever says they've got the key I have to reply, I've got the secret.

Cocoa is Ker-ker, from 'A Bit of Fry & Laurie' - pronounced the way that young girl on Bake Off said cappucino the other week.

'Will it be mushrooms? Fried onion rings?' When asked what accompaniments are required

DH & I have owned a few VW Golfs & sometimes when we shut the door we say, "Sounds just like a Golf," from the advert.

We have a lot of made up verbs - “can you dinner the cat?”, “bacon me” (bring me a bacon sandwich in bed), “I have outed the chicken from the freezer”.

If anyone says “frankly” then it’s “Mr Shankly”

When the cat walks into a room we say either “here she is”, or introduce her like a red carpet star “I present to you...”.

"You knew that was my last fat-free frûche, Sharon!"
"Break out the footy franks,Mrs D!"
"It's cod on the hot rocks again."
"I'm having an idea for a sausage..."

"What do you call this, Darl?"
"Why would you go out when night after night this keeps comin' up?!"

To say” and so is your heed” in response to any vaguely appropriate statement made by a family member.
So for example “ …. The ketchup bottle is empty” - response…” and so is your heed”

To say “ it is a little bit funny” when something goes tits up ( another Peppa pig one”

We call it 'semi skilled milk'
We all bark with the dog when he hears the 'beep' from the Postmans handset
When I yawn my husband makes a noise like a windtunnel
If he's making me a lattè (microwaving the milk) he makes a noise like a coffee machine
Me and my daughter quite often sing along to songs in a Mexican accent

If we're talking about the weather being cloudy its always "cumulus nimbus" as said in the Chanel 9 sketch from the Fast Show.

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If we're talking about the weather being cloudy its always "cumulus nimbus" as said in the Chanel 9 sketch from the Fast Show.

Scorchio!

Oh and Roman Numerals are known as German Minerals

We have a "dab of Rioja" from Spaced and a "big salad" from Seinfeld. Also a faux angry "no soup for you!" from Seinfeld if one of us isn't partaking.

My mam always referred to peas as "the ubiquitous pea" so that's stuck.

'I can drive to the kerb from here' to anyone parking a bit too far out in the road.

If DP or I offer each other a glass of orange juice you have to say 'does anybody wanna bottle orange duce' Pam Doove style from League of Gentleman. Even our 4 year old says it now and she doesn't know where it's from, she just knows it's something silly her parents say.