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?

It's pizza

I know it's roast beef of course but for some reason we always said pizza when my DC were little.

It was only as an adult I realised what ‘went to market’ meant :-( .

Agree in Ireland they say bread and butter

No, we don't. Speaking as a Dub - always heard roast beef!

*This little piggy went to market

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

The penny dropped for me a couple of years ago ... I'm mid 40s so had been in happy "piggy goes shopping" bliss for a looong time

DH is Irish and always says bread and butter too.
Roast beef in my house

My cousin is a vegan and says “roast beets” instead of “roast beef”

Yeah I’m Irish, always say roast beef, never heard of the other way.

Pigs are omnivores so would probably enjoy a bit of roast beef!

We used to say ‘beans On toast’!

I was veggie and so was DS until he was 4.

It should be ‘roast beef’ 😀

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

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You're a very BAD person.

@RavenWings - No, we don't. Speaking as a Dub - always heard roast beef!

OK. So we need to do a geographical and age survey then. If that doesn't work, we can look at other demographics.

Bread and butter in the west of Ireland. I never heard anyone in real life saying roast beef.

I'm in my mid-50's.

There's a dissertation paper in this for some college student I'm sure! "Variations in nursery rhymes among the population of Ireland: a study" or something. It would actually be pretty interesting.

I mean, we DO say nutroast, but we are a vegetarian household!

Piggies here have roast beef. DP has Scots family and their piggies also have roast beef.

Pigs are omnivores so probably would do this. Also, animals do eat animals - no point hiding it, even if pig-on-cow isn't the usual!

This little piggy went to an organic farmers' market, this little piggy stayed in his pied a terre, this little piggy had quinoa and this little piggy donated his to a homeless shelter and this little piggy won't oui, oui, oui all the way home (because DC was potty trained at 3 months and bilingual after exiting the womb)

@RavenWings - I've started on the introduction

I'm Irish and I've never heard of the bread and butter version. Roast beef all the way!

I’ve heard Jam and bread before but in our family it’s roast beef

Bread and cheese.

Also Irish - we say bread and jam!

Bread and jam

Corned beef anyone? From county durham

I'm in northern Ireland and it's roast beef

How does bread and butter fit? It has too many syllables.

And I'm choosing to believe that piggy did go shopping. They're relatives of the three little architect pigs.

My DH says 'jam bread' !!

It's so weird though because we had this exact conversation this morning - he was singing it to our DD and I commented on the use of 'jam bread' and he said it's how he was taught but MIL was there and she sings 'roast beef' too so who knows where he got it from?!