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”.

Shit with egg on it!

Bread and catch it.

A walk round the table!

Three kicks at the butchery door.

Tripe and onions

"wait and see", or "Bee's knees and chicken's elbows"

Cats pee sandwiches!

Well yeah, but it’s not our fault our parents said it 🤷🏻‍♀️.

Ours was air pie and grumbles!

Yeah - me too!

Bee's knees and fly wings.

And of course the famous Scouse one "If you fall over and break your leg, don't come running to me !"

Bee's knees and spider's ankles.

A run up the pantry door and a bite of the latch. My Dad also called the lavatory the spud locker.

Scotch Mist.

Bread and pull it, duck under the table, or wouldn’t you like to know ( mum would wink and tap the side of her nose).

Pig's arse and cabbage.

Bread and scrape.

Mum - air pie with no crust
Dad - a silver new nothing hung with diamonds

Dad said that’s what his Nan used to say to him, god knows where she got it from or what it has to do with anything!

Shit with sugar on top, wasn’t meant to be funny! It’s an exasperated mum answering the same question 20 million times a week!

My mum used it (born in the ‘40s) and I used it.

I also used to say “Stop arguing or I’ll batter the living daylights out you” or “Stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about”.

How awful those things sound! And may I add I never laid a finger on any of my kids!

Shit with sugar on here too 😂

She’d just tell me what she was going to cook. I don’t understand these answers. She was born in 1925 and wasn’t so rude and we weren’t rude to her.

Bread and pullit

Whammel.

No idea why. Off to google.

Two jumps at the pantry door and a bite off the latch

Udder butties