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Things that are now forever named after something your kid said

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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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sjxoxo · 09/08/2022 20:25

’jinkajink’ = a drink of drink 😂

youlightupmyday · 09/08/2022 20:28

My son coined taking the 'long cut' many moons ago, whilst wailing in the car. That sticks when anything takes too much time.

RedRec · 09/08/2022 20:33

We still call Countdown 'Big Clock' and eat coombumbers.
And always point out the Upps (UPS) delivery truck.

PeacefulInTheDeep · 09/08/2022 20:36

4yo DS calls memories "rememberies".

Bananas are "namas" thanks to 2yo DD.

Potato waffles are "windows".

And from when I was a kid, a cement mixer is a "clixer mixer" 😁

MissCrowley · 09/08/2022 20:36

People have a skellington instead of a skeleton. It's that ingrained even I get confused sometimes as to what it's actually called! Confused

x2boys · 09/08/2022 20:37

Hedwig2991 · 09/08/2022 19:35

Love all these!

My DD once excitedly pointed at some seagulls and said “look mummy, beach birds!” They will always be beach birds to me now.

She also still asks can we get “pizza from the man” if she’s wanting a takeaway 😂

Lol my nearly sixteen year old son ,s favourite tea is pizza from the pizza man ( not as often as he would like i might add)

Sparkles29 · 09/08/2022 20:38

Liver Room for Living Room

ChairOfInvisibleStudies · 09/08/2022 20:41

Cute-cumber
Radi-tator
Ononange (orange, presumably a fusion of 'an orange')

Gottoomuchgoingon · 09/08/2022 20:42

I made mayflower curry a couple of times on a Monday whenever we have it now it's just Monday curry

SufferingJet · 09/08/2022 20:46

My daughter once wanted to say that something was expensive but got it mixed up with sensible and said ‘expensible’. Now anything that’s pricey but sensible is justified as being ‘expensible’!

stormelf · 09/08/2022 20:51

Crocodiles are called triangodiles after DD. Ds is called the name DD used as she couldn't pronounce his name. My youngest DD is called the name ds uses as he can't pronounce her name. Both Ds and youngest DD have very easy phonetic names so it's not like they were named anything difficult to pronounce

BrennieGirl · 09/08/2022 20:54

We have loads but my favourite one is snotrils for nostrils.

PunchyAnts · 09/08/2022 20:56

Poached eggs are "porch eggs" in our house.

SemiDetachedKittenAsylum · 09/08/2022 21:12

DS wore indervenders (ear defenders)
DD liked valinna ice cream
Her friend, however, admits to disonaur and mecedin as a kid😆

lestasella · 09/08/2022 22:54

Scnissors for scissors, pat pat for backpack , radio-aters for radiators,

pastypirate · 09/08/2022 23:01

Sea gulls are beach turkeys in our house!

Also triangles - trangwangles

pastypirate · 09/08/2022 23:02

And cat litter converter - catalytic converters

Floydthebarber · 09/08/2022 23:24

GreyCarpet · 09/08/2022 17:40

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

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I always called it dressing down when i was small. It made more sense! I also thought it was lipspick, because spick was the sound people made when they applied it and smacked their lips together.

Dd2 cannot say carbonara so we eat car bananas.

Proseccoagain · 09/08/2022 23:46

We had grumbled (scrambled) eggs, and bejjies (strawberries) courtesy of DS,
and also always parked in the 'par-cark', according to DD.
DGD used to say beautility (utility) room.

Phos · 10/08/2022 10:42

A certain porcine M&S mascot is Perky Pig in our house

Phos · 10/08/2022 10:46

Tarkan · 09/08/2022 17:24

Morrisons will always be Mossisons thanks to DC1.

And anyone showing cleavage on TV in our house or our parents' is met with a chorus of "Line!" after DC2 once declared that Victoria Coren Mitchell had "too much line" on an episode of Only Connect. Blush

IRL friend of @Tarkan here and since being told this story, we do this too.

ludocris · 10/08/2022 10:56

DS is still little enough to use these terms but I know they're going to be keepers:

Hotel = Home-tel
Chicken nuggets = yellow chicken
Noodles = middles
Scrambled egg = crumbled egg

ludocris · 10/08/2022 10:58

Oh and bulldozer = busu-dozer

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Echobelly · 10/08/2022 11:28

Pistachio ice cream is still 'mustachio', after oldest's mispronounciation.

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contrary13 · 10/08/2022 11:33

In my family, there are more than a few, I'm afraid Hmm.

When I was very young, back in the '70s, my mother started to make a mince stew which used up pretty much any- and everything lurking in the vegetable rack. One pot would last maybe a week. I hated it and when my Dad asked me why, as I was eating maybe my third bowl in as many days, I apparently said that it was because it was "made from cat meat!". It's been known as Cat Meat Stew ever since and whilst I'm still not a fan (I don't like the texture of mince), my children love it... so I end up making huge pots of it, too. Worryingly, though, we didn't have a cat so goodness knows where I thought the cat food I was accusing my mother of feeding us with came from...

My daughter has always called flamingoes "Tamangoes". She's 26 years old now and called me the other day to tell me that she'd just bought "a Tamango toilet brush holder with a matching toothbrush pot" for her bathroom. Everyone in her immediate family refer to flamingoes as "Tamangoes" now, much to her boyfriend's bemusement.

When my 17 year old was 6, we went to Disneyland Paris. Upon leaving one of the restaurants, he very excitedly started tugging on my hand and said "Mummy, look at Earth's Ceiling!!!". There were searchlight beams illuminating the sky... or Earth's Ceiling. He couldn't work out why we didn't know, at first, what he wanted us to look at, because surely it was obvious...!? When he was even younger, though, he called a hospital a hobbible. Like "Tomangoes", it stuck I'n afraid...