To ask you what you call your vegetables??

[JumpingThroughHoops]

In the supermarket, I heard voice say ''pass me a butt plug for Daddy'' , turned round to see her being handed a butter nut squash by, presumably, her daughter.

I confess, I did inwardly snigger affect a look of moral outrage. But unfortunately, butter nuts will now be forever known as butt plugs.

Did you mishear?

I went to a farm shop once and asked for scallions. All I got in repsonse was, "What?" and I had to explain what they were.

Just another reason we never stray far from Waitrose.

Peas are 'little footballs', runner beans are 'grass', brussels sprouts are 'big . Broccoli is 'green trees' and cauli is horrible 'white trees'. I thinks that's about it, certainly not butt plugs, lol!!

Scallions is American, not used much in UK

Scallions is forrin. They are spring onions here.

They're Scallions in Ireland too :)

My sunderland grandmother always called then scallions.

Them. Bloody laptop keyboard.

Thank you, DaffodilLady. I'm originally from the North East.

we used to have green peas and yellow peas because ds1 said one day he wasn't keen on sweetcorn, but he did like the yellow peas.

and yy to green trees and white trees.

Used to tell the children that sprouts were baby cabbages cos helpfully the MIL said she hated sprouts and put ideas into their heads

Other than that I am blessed with veg loving children!

Asparagus is dinosaur grass in our house, we also have green trees and white trees.

Durham here, and they are definitely scallions, or Scally onions.

I might be deaf.

Dh came in and said 'my feet hurt, i'm going to Folkestone'
I said - why are you going to Folkestone?

He said - Soak them your deaf bat. Love him

We only ever had holly bush = broccoli

Matilda
Gloria
Tristan

and those are only veg dh will eat without complaint.

My dd has decided she hates peas but love petis pois. Weirdo.

My GF was Irish, and to confuse matters I call small spring onions spring onions but the big fat ones scallions.

Broccoli = little tree's.

Sprouts = Baby cabbages.

We call them by their names, is that strange?

My husband (as a child) used to call peas "umplugnets"... nobody has any idea why...

I don't tend to give them names, it makes it too hard to eat them...

We call them by their names as well, kinkyfuckery.

You must have misheard butt plug...

We call all vegetables 'vebetls' as this is how ds2 used to pronounce the word when he was a toddler. Somehow it's stuck

This reminded me of a customer at work a couple of weeks back (slightly off subject sorry.) A harrassed looking man with two children under the age of three and a shopping list he obviously hadn't written stopped me in the soft drinks aisle by the cordials and complained he could not find any butternut. I had to explain butternut squash was not a drink and pointed him to the vegetable section.

Binky I love dinosaur grass for asparagus! I'll steal that one!

We do 'trees' but everything is by is usual name otherwise.

maybe her DH is a massive arse

scallions is everywhere except the UK, so its you who is weird. Like when youse can't say yoghurt properly.
And the turnip/swede nonsense too.