Things that are now forever named after something your kid said

[Echobelly]

In our household, I make a rice dish sometimes that is named after my son's reaction to it when he was about 3. Knowing he liked rice and sweetcorn, I presented him with this dish that includes both, only for his little face to crumple and him to give an anguished cry of 'MUMMY, WHY DID YOU DO THAT TO IT?!'

So of course, it has ever since been known as 'Mummy why did you do that to it?!' (I've even crossed out the name in the recipe book and written it there). DS is now 11 and actually likes MWDYDTTI these days, although he still leaves the green peppers.

Is there anything that your household now refers to by something memorable one of the kids has said?

Donkey eggs for soft boiled eggs because you dunk your toast into them.

When our kids were very little we used a calculator to help learn numbers and to count. So they called it a “countiator” (we still do).

I still call the microwave a ‘ micamave’ after what my DD called it at 3 years old. She’s now 36.

DS, aged about 4 with little feet and little bike wheels, was concerned about crossing a "cow sieve" - cattle grid. Now, as a 15 year old guitarist, he cuts his own "finglenails". There are others, but those are what have stuck hardest.

Wood lice were always wood licences
One DC couldn’t say “sp” for a while, so we had bath bunches and Mrs Bensa who lived nearby.
Practising the guitar was always biddling
And we have either Dead Thing Pie or Some Sort of Pie for dinner.

Bras are booby knickers as ds18 used to call him when he was little

Stobbies for strawberries
Bartoons for mushrooms
Green food for mashed avocado and cottage cheese, a big favourite as a toddler.
When anything is finished you say" All gone" but in a very deep voice which he used.
He also made up loads of strange words which really had no meaning like Gomip and
Fandindana. They aren't used now but the others are. He's 31😁

Cyclists are known as bike-ilists in our home.

We have a tilly room (utility) and we go on nicnics (picnics)

Shebell dippy-egg is the dippy, shebell the egg cup.
The spet button. Safety catch on her car seat
The on off - light switch

We have vegables, chocolate and, my personal favourite, 'cat up a chimney' instead of abracadabra. When asked by father Christmas if my daughter (4) knew a magic word, she excitedly yelled out 'cat up a chimney', and it has stuck.

Insect day, instead of inset day.

My DS (now 10) announced when he was 3 "Mummy, I don't like wheatens" took me bloody ages to realise he meant raisins.

He still won't eat anything with raisins or sultanas in and both are still called wheatens. Even by extended family. "Oh DS name won't eat that will he? It has wheatens in it" just like a normal conversation!

Apparently when I was about 2 I told my mum my kebbies were cold. She finally found out I meant my feet. Both my mum and I still use the word kebbies for feet 😂

No kids myself but from when I was a kid and still live on in the family:
Par Cark
Dreeping Willow

We say ‘nalergic’ for allergic, after the little girl, in a long-forgotten cartoon called Stressed Eric, who needed ‘prescription sandwiches’ for her packed lunch because she was ‘nalergic’.

DH also occasionally uses the word ‘arseburgers’ from the same programme as an expletive (although I think its usage in the programme was slightly different).

Also ‘snake ‘n’ chips’ which was what my nephew called steak and chips.

Serrano ham in our house is situational ham due to DS1, now 16. Serrano - scenario - situational

My DSis called opposable thumbs 'implausible thumbs' and they have remained so ever since.

DB when he was very little was brought up speaking Polish as well as English, and used to talk about his Tatus (Daddy) going to see the dzwiks (cranes) in Hendon Vay. It’s still a catchphrase nearly 60 years later.

Clean up butter = peanut butter

DD3 kept asking for her oodin, took a while to figure that one out! She wanted her unicorn.

Two bug = double buggy

wimblewipers

Shepherds Pie was potatoes and mud (possibly a slur on my cooking).
Chickens were always called Chicken Bob because DS asked me what the chicken we were eating was called one day.
Pork Pies were pig cakes.

DD demanded boobies over and over the other day. It turns out she meant blueberries.

"Igiggi" was DS's valiant attempt at "Lamborghini" when he was very small and saw one for the first time and was very excited. He's taught it to DD.

And when DS was introduced to his first Freddo (the frog chocolate) he called them Froggos and nothing we say or do gets him to say "Freddos" instead.

Oh and sheep and goats are both "baa-baas".