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?

My mum says ‘sugar butty’

My dad says bread and jam

@EdithBouvier - it's always bread and butter in Ireland. We couldn't afford roast beef 😁
Im Irish and i have always said Roast Beef

Google it OP, it’s a regional thing. There, problem solved.

This little piggy went to market

I only realised a few months ago that this line didnotmean the piggy was going shopping...

Same. It was a bad day.

Sorry, just been having lunch (Roast Beef ). DH is Irish and I'm Scottish. Have told him he was brought up a pauper .

Bread and jam here.

Roast beef...30 day aged.

PP from Glasgow, my parents and GP all said roast beef. All from Glasgow.

It was always "roast potatoes" when I sang it to my first daughter. (Vegetarians)

Well, my mind is blown. Just snorting at this thread, already incredulous at there being a line other than roast beef. DP pipes up, wanting to know what I’m laughing at, then tells me how it is for him ( Eastern European, and he’s not sure of translation, but) loosely:
This piggy went out hunting
This piggy Shot it
This piggy carried it home
This piggy cooked it
This piggy ate it

this is like the day I found out Relight My Fire was a cover.

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

This. I can't see how bread and butter fits in.

Thanks for the insight Bob, I'll ask for the thread to be deleted now.

I sing nut roast to DD as we've always been veggy. I'm vegan now. AND a single mum. AND a 3rd wave feminist. AND I work. Come and have a go, Daily Mail, if you think you're hard enough

It was ‘sugar and bread’ in our family

I really want a sugar sandwich right now.

Jam and bread fits the rhythm better than bread and jam.

Pigs eating cows is disgusting.

Irish too and it is roast beef in my family

@Shockaholic - Not young either,mid-late 30s.

That's young😁.

@EwItsAHooman

*This little piggy went to market

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

Whaaa!? I didn't realise until you pointed it out!

It's not about being poor or and not being able to afford roast beef.
these are toe pigs they live in their own hypothetical world. What you can or can't afford is irrelevant.

These pigs can afford roast beef. (Bread and butter does not scan, but if you want your pigs sitting round a table having high tea, I will allow brown bread)

The first pig is going out shopping - with a little basket, wearing a little hat and a bandana. The next pig stayed at home, sprucing up the house for when market pig returned. Then we have the roast beef eater, (one pig was full up and didn't want any - that's fine, pigs aren't the greedy animals of stereotype) and the last pig just wailed (there's always one in every family)

This is a happy story and not about slaughtering AT ALL.

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

Except I think roast beef doesn't flow because it doesn't have enough syllables.....

I thought it was going shopping - sure I had it in a book where the little piggy had a little basket

It wasn't until somebody mentioned it, that I realised the little piggy that went to market actually went to be slaughtered , I'd always imagined it trotting down the road with a little shopping basket.

My mum says sugar butty!!!!