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Things that are now forever named after something your kid said

474 replies

Echobelly · 09/08/2022 15:25

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?

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BeautyGoesToBenidorm · 09/08/2022 16:05

"Transformers" are forever "Channelformers" thanks to DS1. Cucumbers are "cumbumbers" thanks to DS2 😁😁

Ihatethenewlook · 09/08/2022 16:07

Wee wee kitchen instead of bathroom.
Dinner shop instead of restaurant.
Willy boobies instead of testicles 😂

Sunnysal · 09/08/2022 16:08

Hang coaters rather than coat hangers thanks to not so dear daughter.

TeenageDirtbaggage · 09/08/2022 16:08

We used to keep the piano next to the computer and DS would always call it the compiano.

He also called the washing machine the washingstuffin and the trampoline the jumpoline.

ApplePippa · 09/08/2022 16:12

Littlehampton is known as Tinyhampton in our house. DS went on a school trip there when he was very small - he had a mental block over its name, and Tinyhampton was his heroic effort to remember what it was called!

lifesnotaspectatorsport · 09/08/2022 16:14

French bulldogs are called French Toast Dogs by our family after my DS got muddled up!

GorgeousLadyofWrestling · 09/08/2022 16:16

Farts are “poo noises” in our house thanks for DS when he was about 2. He’s nine now so I guess it’s stuck.

GorgeousLadyofWrestling · 09/08/2022 16:17

Thanks TO DS, not for 😂

UpToMyElbowsInDiapers · 09/08/2022 16:18

Tortillas are forever « rolled bread » in our house

LadyRoughDiamond · 09/08/2022 16:20

The corner shop near our old house helpfully sold baked beans and so was called “The Bean Shop”.

I cook paella every now and then, but it’s always referred to as “Yellow Rice”

mossberry · 09/08/2022 16:20

Clothes are now called clo in my house

SpikyHatePotato · 09/08/2022 16:22

Not mine, but a friend of mine's son referred to Pigs in Blankets as Things in Carpets, and it stuck.

My parents have always referred to Amyrillis plants as Mary Ellis plants - that came from an old friend of the family.

toffeechai · 09/08/2022 16:23

Not DC, but omelettes are forever known as envelopes in my family as I called them that as a child.

UpToMyElbowsInDiapers · 09/08/2022 16:23

Also, my DCs grew up speaking only French until we hired an English-speaking nanny. She one day asked them what they would like for lunch. Stunned at this opportunity put before them to choose their own lunch (what a treat!), and clamouring for their favourite, typically-off-limits boxed Mac & cheese, they put their heads together to figure out how to express their request. They came up with « chiss pasTAAAA » in very strong French accents. That has definitely stuck.

ruby1234 · 09/08/2022 16:24

We have a Michaelwave in the kitchen.
We have hanger coats in the wardrobe.
We have cow pie for tea sometimes (steak and kidney).

Tobermory · 09/08/2022 16:25

Ylvamoon · 09/08/2022 15:48

We have Radigators not radiators.
We also have square words instead of swear words. All thaks to DD!

We have radigators in our house too!

and also
the bleep - remote control
vench - bench

Pertulagordinosbestmate · 09/08/2022 16:27

Thanks to DD2 orangutans are forever known as tangerines. 😂

liveforsummer · 09/08/2022 16:28

When dd was 2 she kept asking for the 'leopard' took a while to figure out she meant pepper. Aged 5 she misread the game 'dog bingo' as GOD bingo. It's still referred to as that several years later. She'd say she 'wants to do that on her rown' that's then own. We still say rown now. There were so many things I've forgotten most of them. Wish I'd written them down now. She's dyslexic so not sure if that contributed to the number of examples.

CrapBag39 · 09/08/2022 16:29

Crips (crisps)
Marks Expensives (Marks and Spencer’s)
Clippy Clipper (Stapler)
Snippy snips (scissors)

Floydthebarber · 09/08/2022 16:30

Burping. "I did a burk" according to dd1 so that has stuck.

Greenandcabbagelooking · 09/08/2022 16:30

When on holiday in Florida, we visited the Spenedy Kase Centre. And we got to Florida on a nairoplane.

UnalliterativeGeorge · 09/08/2022 16:34

Squashed eggs for scotch eggs
Sleep in your eyes is known as crumpets after DS woke up and asked why he had crumpets in his eyes and where did they come from

FourChimneys · 09/08/2022 16:34

We often drive along Bunny Lane. DS saw a rabbit on the verge about 20 years ago.

Most mornings we get a delivery from the Letterman.

My friend's children, in their 20s, have never eaten sweetcorn although they have had lots of yellow peas.

LunaLoveFood · 09/08/2022 16:34

The lorry bins come every week to collect our rubbish. Took us ages to figure out why it didn't sound quite right and it was only when talking to a neighbour and they gave us a weird look that we realised it was bin lorry. Ds now 10 has been calling it a lorry bin since he could talk and its so firmly stuck that bin lorry just doesn't sound right anymore.

imsanehonest · 09/08/2022 16:34

The washing shameen