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To ask you what you call your vegetables??

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JumpingThroughHoops · 07/08/2012 17:27

In the supermarket, I heard voice say ''pass me a butt plug for Daddy'' Hmm, 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.

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Tee2072 · 07/08/2012 19:31

People mispronounce yoghurt? Hmm

PenisVanLesbian · 07/08/2012 19:38

yeah, they all say yog (rhymes with jog)-urt, instead of yo (rhymes with go)-hurt. Daft brits. Grin

hattifattner · 07/08/2012 19:46

parsnips = spud noses (bob the builder fans)
Runner beans = Squeekies.

altinkum · 07/08/2012 20:03

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whatsonyourplate · 07/08/2012 20:06

surely all butternut squash are called Raymond? Confused

DamselInLastPlace · 07/08/2012 20:10

I say both yaw-gurt and yoh-gurt depending on my mood. I'm odd that way.

EmpressOfTheSevenFlames · 07/08/2012 20:19

All carrots here are called Cecily Sprouts.

SeventhEverything · 07/08/2012 20:28

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StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes · 07/08/2012 20:34

spring onions is scallions in North east. turnip is the big yellow one and swede is the little white one. I am now in SW and its all 'wrong' I am posh now and say spring onions and have totally given up on the turnip argument. Smile

JumpingThroughHoops · 07/08/2012 21:19

Swede and turnip are different veg

I dont see how anyone can get confused.

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Donki · 07/08/2012 21:24

Jumping
Because in the North/Scotland, neeps = swede

PenisVanLesbian · 07/08/2012 21:24

Everyone is confused. In England swede is one and turnip is another. In Ireland and Scotland the words are applied the opposite way around, so to us a swede is what you call a turnip and vice versa. Swede is only short for swedish turnip anyway so its not much of a leap.

GnocchiNineDoors · 07/08/2012 21:28

Not vegetable related but I do refer to the Baby Bjorn as the Strap On Grin

Sparklyblue · 07/08/2012 21:31

Sprouts = baby cabbages
Broccoli = little trees
Cauliflower = snow trees
Grin

MammaTJisanOlympicSumoWrestler · 07/08/2012 21:46

It's not disguise as such, just a bit of fun with the DCs.

Freshletticialongjump · 07/08/2012 21:52

Yep, NE roots here and scallions is definitely used, but more for the big fat spring onions. But it is an Irish word and there was always a lot of Irish ancestry in the NE. Me Granda was from Durham, but his grandparents were Irish catholic, came over during the potato famine in the mid-1880s.
The word 'scallion' went to America when the Irish left in droves after the famine.

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