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?

Glubbs rather than gloves for my DS

We adopted a new way of saying ‘empty’ after ds1 (then 2, now 28!) was asked if there was anything in the box he was playing with and he said “Yes, it’s full of nothing”!

The charity shop is 'chariot shop'

My son didn't like fatty bacon and always asked me to 'cut the pig off', so that's how it's still referred to today.

My son last year (at the age of 15 I may add) spent our whole holiday calling hollandaise sauce holiday sauce. It wasn't until we returned home and he asked for holiday sauce that we realised he wasn't taking the milk and really thought that it was called holiday sauce. It has now stuck ha

Dried fruit (raisins etc) is still known as lunkies, no one knows why my brother called them that but it has stuck for 50 years now.
Sweelies - sweets
Creepies - crisps
Mink monxer - cement mixer
Station dogs - Alsations/german shepherds
Finally, Gerks. As in 'can i have the gerk out & not in' as requested by my daughter when she was having a mcdonalds when young.

Ds2 used to call a sandwich a sampy. I still offer him one for lunch sometimes, if he’s at home, 23 years on! He also called the Simpsons ‘the Simpers’, and it goes by that name to this day!

Ds3 once summed up life in a nutshell and is oft quoted. Age 7, he was asked by a friend of mine if he was looking forward to an activity he was due to do that afternoon (he wasn’t!) On the basis that he didn’t want to be rude, I think, he searched for a suitable response and came up with “well, you can’t always hope for the best…” which I thought was a brilliantly negative, yet polite reply!

We had a shop that was a deli/bakery. They sold awesome sausage rolls in 2 sizes. It was known as the sausage roll shop by us, until the owner sold it recently.

This is quite gross but it’s what my mothers generation called them, which has gone down to our generation, and then our kids generation.

Cocktail frankfurts are known as ‘Little boys’ for obvious reasons. I thought it was maybe an idiosyncrasy in my family but that’s what all of my partners, including DH, know them as, as well as that’s what their families called them. Not sure if it’s cultural as I find people not born here, or parents not born here, go ‘what!’.

@HoppingPavlova I am from Australia and we called them little boys also.

I never liked it even as a child and it used to give me the ick when my mother called them that. I LOVE cocktail franks though. (And- demonstrably- Fairy Bread).

Just to add.... i am from rural Victoria

@FairyBreadQueen see, even though I think it’s gross, I just can’t swap over to calling them cocktail franks at this point. Even though one is bleurgh, the other just feels wrong 🤔, so unfortunately ‘little boys’ have continued with my kids (who are now adults).

Painful growings - growing pains

Fatcunt - shortening of fat controller - tv remote (kids oblivious so far to how this sounds to adult ears)

I've thought of a few more from my kids
A pumping eye = an eye tic. Can be extended to any muscular tic, eg a pumping arm.
Poopooter = computer
A Boots car - Ford cars (my eldest obviously noticed the similarities in the logos)
Waxiggent - Accident
Hode ploply - hold on tight!
And a few from when my youngest was just starting to read signs:
Hotel complain = hotel Campanile
Stunted accommodation = Student accommodation
M&S Smelly Food = M&S simply food

White = Mayonnaise. All sauces are known by their colour in our house now.

Holibeach = Holiday. It may not always include a sandy location but any holiday is still a holibeach 😂

Get me off me! = Get off me.

Toddlers are so funny.

Monsterella

Neighbours 4 year old: Jumble jet- jumbo jet.

Have low lifes in your hair- don't panic, you've had low lights done.

Bedtime is pedtime, drink is crink and elephant is elefinit.

Oh and lasagne is basagne.

If you can't carry anymore "I can't I'm full handed"

Or if somethings going on a bit "oh god this is taking for ages"

"Tek toos" = car indicators because that's the noise DS said that make. Tektootektootektoo.
Often said when people don't use them "oh that car must not have tek toos!"

Brussel sprouts are Christmas lettuces

Cuggen - a cross between cuddle & hug
gargol - garden
bugger - butter (this didn’t go down so well going round Tesco’s

Remote control = zappy zappy box. Kids grown up and left home but dh and I still call it this.