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?

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

We need location and age if we're going to get that thesis on "regional variations in nursery rhymes in Ireland" done.

Dh and I are both from Northern Ireland. He was brought up with bread and butter or bread and jam I was brought up roast beef

The market thing has blown my mind. How did I never realise??

Husband admitted he knew about the market.

I'm so sad.

Roast beef here, but my friend yells belly pork or bacon he says it goes better with the rest of the song.

I like KurriKurri 's interpretation☺️

@Londonlife85 I though I was alone with corned beef. South Wales.

OMG never realised about the piggy to market.

How could I have got to 50 and not realised!

I always thought there was a great deal of inequality in the piggy household / farm. Favouritism much? Even worse now I know one got slaughtered!

All the vegetarians- does your little piggy still go to market?
Shouldn't it be going to the park or something? :)

Roast beef. From NI.

Although we have always specified it was for dinner;

This little piggy had roast beef for dinner,
This little piggy had none.

I always thought the point of it was highlighting inequality in people's piggies 🐷---- circumstances

Smoked tofu sausages ( not roast beef)

Theimpossiblegirl Given the number of 40-somethings on this thread who've only just twigged the dark, bacony reason behind the market visit, I think we might be able to get away with it.

@theymademejoin

Ok im 45 and a Dub and i have never heard Bread and Butter.I always say Roast Beef

@dustarr73 - maybe a dublin thing? You're the second dub on roast beef.

Us poor country folk could only dream of roast beef.

@theymademejoin

40's and the sunny South East.

Roast beef here. MIL sings roast beef too and she's irish

I'm from the rural south-west of Ireland, and we always said 'roast beef' though we were more a crubeens kind of income level.

Defintely roast beef. And pigs are omnivores, so they do eat roast beef when they get the chance!

Roast Beef here too (Nana was Irish) and lived with her as a child.

It's roast beef.

Bread and jam here 😊 from Ireland

My parents are both Irish and it was always Roast Beef when I was little.

Limerick and Belfast and I'm late 40's.

I never twigged the market thing either, I just thought he was shopping!

Roast beef.

People are omnivores and will eat beef and pork if they can catch and kill the animals (or get someone else to do it for them.
Cows are herbivores and like grass. (stoners, it's why they move slowly)
Pigs are omnivores and will eat beef and human if they can catch and kill the animals. TBH they aren't particularly discerning so would probably eat pork too if it was put in front of them.