To insist it's ROAST BEEF?

[PolaDeVeboise]

My Sister was sitting on the sofa this morning with DS2 who had bare feet. She then started to do 'this little piggy' on his toes. All was as it should be until DH exclaimed at the end ' it's bread and butter!' in reference to the third toe. Sister looked at him as if he was mad. Who is right?

Roast beef. But bread and butter is funnier

"a pig ate my car once"

What?!

Pigs will eat anything they can get their snouts on.

This little piggy went to market

I only realised a few months ago that this line did not mean the piggy was going shopping....

This little piggy had roast beef,

this little piggy had none.

This little piggy cried weee weee weeeee all the way home.

YANBU.

Roast beef

I can’t even figure how bread and butter would fit into the rhyme!

Eh? 'Bread and butter' doesn't scan.

Nope it's not "always" bread and butter in Ireland. I'm Irish still living in Ireland,have family/in laws from or living in all parts of Ireland (Republic of Ireland that is) and I have never heard it with bread and butter,always roast beef.

Roast Beef here

Roast beef here.

It's true- pigs will eat anything. It was a crappy old wreck of a car, but it looked a lot worse after three weeks parked up in a field that pigs grazed in

If you’re from a traditionally poorer area it’s ‘jam and bread’

roast beef (home counties)

Irish too and it's always been roast beef.

Roast beef. (A pig once ate my socks.)

@Shockaholic - really? You must be posh, having roast beef 😁

I've only ever heard roast beef on English TV shows or similar. Mind you, I'm old so maybe it's changed over the years.

I'm in Ireland and it's always been bread and jam.

Always been roast beef - even if someone's a vegetarian it shouldn't be altered

This little piggy went to market (to be sold, probably for slaughter)
This little piggy stayed home (either to kept for breeding or because it wasn't big enough to be slaughtered)
This little piggy had roast beef (they used to feed pigs anything, incl the leftover meat from their meals, probably to fatten it up)
This little piggy had none (animals ready for slaughter aren't fed much; I think it's to make their digestive tract clear so it doesn't dirty the meat)
This little piggy went, "Wee, wee, wee, wee!" all the way home! (it escaped from market and ran off. I think the weewee noise is the squealing noise that they make when distressed)

Of course it;s bloody roast beef!!

Bread and butter. I'm from NI.

roast beef its a bloody song not a dietary requiremewnt

@theymademejoin, no not posh! And family wouldn't be either. Not young either,mid-late 30s. Although my in laws do say " round and round the garden,like a teddy bear, one step two step and tickle you under your arm"...which is obviously wrong as that doesn't rhyme and it's meant to be "tickly (or tickle you..) under there"

Definitely roast beef when I was growing up. When DD was at toddler group they changed it to "a sandwich" though, presumably to be kind to vegetarians.

a pig ate my car
Please tell us more. PLEEASE?

OK, BitofFun as you were..just read yr. update.....