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To insist it's ROAST BEEF?

217 replies

PolaDeVeboise · 11/11/2018 14:43

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?

OP posts:
ThatOneHurt · 11/11/2018 15:12

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

Omg. 😮

Cherryburn · 11/11/2018 15:14

It was ‘sugar and bread’ in our family (NE England). Presumably because they couldn’t even stretch to jam Grin

babycakes1010 · 11/11/2018 15:17

Roast beef!

lastkisstoo · 11/11/2018 15:20

Bread and butter growing up in Glasgow

IncyWincyGrownUp · 11/11/2018 15:23

I want a roast beef sandwich now.

Fuck it.

Returnofthesmileybar · 11/11/2018 15:25

Bread and butter here too (Ireland if that makes a difference)

RhythmStix · 11/11/2018 15:25

I feel a vegan revisionist version is long overdue:

This little vegan went to market;

This little vegan stayed at home to mash up some avocado with tahini for some ghastly vegan spread

This little vegan rejected the nice roast beef on the principle that meat is murder

This little vegan had some nuts instead.

And this little vegan went smugly meat fish and dairy free all the way home not acknowledging the cost of their vast avocado consumption in air miles and ruination of small farm holding in South America as a result of massive increase in demand.

Any others?

ihatefaircity · 11/11/2018 15:25

I'm Irish and living in Ireland and can categorically state that it is definitely Roast Beef over here!! Good God bread and butter, that is absurd🤣🤣🤣

HeadfirstForHalos · 11/11/2018 15:27

It's roast beef but we used to say cheese on toast when the dc were little 😁

AamdC · 11/11/2018 15:27

My Dad says Bread amd Butter hes Irish , i say Roast Beef

Smurfybubbles · 11/11/2018 15:28

I'm Irish and it's always been roast beef!

Oliversmumsarmy · 11/11/2018 15:29

Isn't the whole point being roast beef was an expensive meal (not a cheap one) because the next little piggy has none

ChocolateTearDrops · 11/11/2018 15:30

Definitely Roast Beef!

ilovepixie · 11/11/2018 15:31

Bread and butter in Northern Ireland.

AamdC · 11/11/2018 15:31

My Dad was born in the 1940,s thougj his family were not paticularly wealthy and they had six kids, they probably couldnt afford Roast Beef!

RibbonAurora · 11/11/2018 15:31

Bread & butter according to Birmingham grandma and roast beef according to Yorkshire grandma when I was little - and people wonder why I'm messed up as an adult! Sorry OP, thats no help at all is it?

EmpressJewel · 11/11/2018 15:35

Roast beef here.

Although, when I took the DC to rhyme time at the library, it was Apple pie. I live in an ethnically diverse area, so I assume it was changed for people who don't eat beef.

AmericanEskimoDoge · 11/11/2018 15:35

Roast beef.

Besides, "bread and butter" has too many syllables...

DadDadDad · 11/11/2018 15:54

I assume the Welsh go for roast beef - at least, if it's good enough for Dylan Thomas, it's good enough for the rest of us...

    FIRST VOICE

And in the little pink-eyed cottage next to the undertaker's,
lie, alone, the seventeen snoring gentle stone of Mister
Waldo, rabbitcatcher, barber, herbalist, catdoctor, quack,
his fat pink hands, palms up, over the edge of the patchwork
quilt, his black boots neat and tidy in the washing-basin,
his bowler on a nail above the bed, a milk stout and a slice
of cold bread pudding under the pillow; and, dripping in
the dark, he dreams of

    MOTHER

This little piggy went to market
This little piggy stayed at home
This little piggy had roast beef
This little piggy had none
And this little piggy went

    LITTLE BOY

wee wee wee wee wee

    MOTHER

all the way home to

    WIFE (<span class="underline">Screaming</span>)

Waldo! Wal-do!

Elliemayclampett · 11/11/2018 15:59

It’s jam butties in our house (Liverpool) 😂

ManonBlackbeak · 11/11/2018 16:02

Of course it's Roast Beef! Nothing else sounds right!

MinecraftHolmes · 11/11/2018 16:03

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

WHAT.

Shockers · 11/11/2018 16:03

My Irish (Southern) Grandad and Welsh Grandma both said roast beef, so that’s what my mum used to say too.

My bonkers MIL says cold roast beef!

TroysMammy · 11/11/2018 16:03

Syllables. Roast Beef two, one in each word. Bread and Butter four, one, one and two. Doesn't flow imo.

SilentIsla · 11/11/2018 16:06

Roast beef.