What did your parents say when you asked what’s for dinner?

[SeraphinaRainbird]

Inspired by the thread about words used in different areas of the UK,
what was the stock answer to ‘What’s for dinner?’ in your house?
In our house it was “Ham, jam and baa lamb”. In my friend’s house it was “Shite with sugar on top”.

‘Frog and spinach’ or ‘wait and see pie’

I don’t get this. We were just told what it was going to be. What did so many parents give nasty or sarcastic replies?

Pigs arse and cabbage from my mum bless her 😀

Yes, I was told this by my mum. Weird saying.

Shit on a shovel 🥴

My Nan used to say ‘Shit with the muck scraped off’ 😂

I was going to say that! My Dad used to say it. I still don’t know what it means! 😆

Like it or lump it

"Slice off the doorstep"

A piece of bread and a run round the table! That was my Gran and Great Aunt originally but Mum carried it on.

Me too!

Shit with sugar on
Air pie.

I’m Irish and in our house as a kid it was sheep’s thing and an ingin (colloquial word for onion ! )

Shit with sugar on it…..and my Mother rarely swore!

We were told “a doll, a drum, a kick in the bum, a chase around the table.” I’d forgotten it until I read this thread.

Dead dog pie

Another one offered a variation on 💩
We had a limited diet in the 70-80s and it was
was either ‘Shit Sugared’ or ‘Like it or Lump It’.
None of your 5-a-day fancy feasts here. And you literally did like it, or lump it (and go to bed hungry).

We got to choose between those a lot too. MIL served a lot of shit wi sugar on it according to DP and SIL.

DM also took us 'there and back to see how far it is' a lot too.

@PaperPanama something tells me you weren't brought up in the 1970s in a working class family.

‘Ifits’ as in If it’s put on the table, you can eat it.
I used to get really annoyed when my Mum said it to me, but I considered it my duty to pass it on to my own children 😂

They weren’t nasty or sarcastic, they were a family joke.

(if I asked again, I got a real answer!)

Whamlins

Mine neither. I'm maybe being a bit of a killjoy, but I don't find most of these funny. Just gross.

Boiled nappies or shite with sugar oan.

tasty.

I was told what it was.
None of the silly nonsense such as 'shite and sugar" or 'wait and see'

It all seemed so normal growing up, until I’d grown up and realised it wasn’t.

My mother was frequently going to “knock your heads together” to stop us kids arguing, or if we were naughty we got “beaten in to the middle of next week…”
If we were just crying for no reason we’d get a swift and sharp smack “I’ll give you something to cry about” 😳

Needless to say my 00s children were raised very differently (and very far away).