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?

@Echobelly what is the dish please?

Jumpoline makes so much more sense than trampoline. Just looked it up on Smithsonian website and it is named after a diving board in Spanish but American inventor

My toddler son called bras 'booby wraps'

He's 23. Still called booby wraps.

Ha, In my house it's a dressing down thanks to my daughter! 😁

Jack in the tayto, no need for translation I guess

Wall carpets = curtains

Cucumbers = cumbumbers
Cygnets = swanlings
Ice cream = Up ween

I actually love the 2nd one 😊

"Wallabelly"="wobbly"
"Tritcherlator"="refrigerator"
"Poison Chicken"="hoisin chicken"
"Yellow"="mustard"

You would think that after the youngest grew up, she's 21, we wouldn't keep these words but we do.

We still have

Hey hose for Cheerios
Bibbies for Rice Krispies
An any else for a pudding, I would ask DD1 if she wanted anything else and she started asking for an any else

23, 22 and 17...

VW cars are Volks Dragons
A recipe that I did with a little too much mustard is now called Nose Blowing Salmon after killing everyone's sinuses. It was pretty good though!!

Is it soon-o-clock yet ? Will you be home at soon-o-clock?

She is now 19 and we still often use soon-o-clock

We have a futility room and an orifice.
DS used to shout ‘Fider’ whenever a spider was spotted.

We have called weetabix “disgusting pie” since 1984

Humpback bridges are known as Fizzybits bridges. There was one where we lived and DD2 shouted one day “Don’t drive so fast Daddy, the bridge makes my bits go fizzy!” (She was 5)

We also have Rharboob and Choclert.

Knockers. My said asked us in a loud voice if we had our knockers with us when we were climbing up a hill on holiday. He meant binoculars of course.

The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't often come up in conversation here, but will forever be known as the Archbishop of Cadbury. We use spadgers in the kitchen, rather than spatulas.

Ours won’t make much sense unless you speak French and Italian but I’ll try to explain. DD is trilingual so there were many funny mashing together of words and languages when she was little.

In French the recycling centre is called a déchèterie but DD misread it as something that sounded like douchebaggery. So that’s what we call it.

Watermelon is pastèque and boules is pétanque. Watermelon is known as pétanque in ours.

With Italian she used to make the words sound more English. So the hiccups were singhiotts and she asked was something buttable (buttare means to throw out) or apriable (aprire means to open).

Excuse any spelling errors, I’m flicking between three keyboards 😁

My son is nearly 16 now but i remember as a toddler he was crying because he had banged his bow bows and they hurt,elbows
The computer was pooter
Lollipop, s were E pops ,chocolate was Gaga > no idea) and he used to ask for sketti for his tea ,spaghetti
And sometimes Daddy would drink Daddy pop, beer 🍻.

I'm in my forties and pandas are still known as pan nans in our family.

DS had many but tayto sausages aka potato croquettes is one that really sticks.

My Dad.
age 1, DS decided to call him Bob instead of Grandpa.
Age 10, everyone calls him Bob including me, DMum (his wife of 51 years!) and all our friends.
his name isn’t Bob, Robert or anything remotely like.

One said cupiner and the other said cuumba.

I think you'll find it's cubcumber.

Whenever my 4yo wants to do "cheers" with our cups at the dinner table, it's always "chairs!" 😁

These are brilliant! 😅

@Albgo 'Mummy why did you do that to it?!' is a brown rice 'risotto' with cashews and green pepper, very easy:

• Fry a chopped onon and sliced green pepper in 2 teaspoons of oil for five minutes


• Add 125g sweetcorn and 300g brown rice and stir for a minute


• Add 900ml veg stock, bring to boil and leave to simmer uncovered on a lower heat for 30-40 mins


• Stir in a tablespoon of soy sauce and 125g unsalted cashew nuts and cook for another 5-10 mins until all the stock is gone

The original portions actually make shedloads, I tend to make it with half as much rice and stock (and cook for not quite as long) and still get 2-3 servings.

i remember DS aged 3ish telling me about a treat he’d been given at a friend’s house. It was apparently ‘brown with jam in, and was called a grown up’. We eventually established he’d been given a donut.

Anything piping hot is called pipping hot as DD pronounced piping as pipping when reading some 'ensure product is piping hot' cooking instructions.