Nigella and her Micro-Wav-eh 😬

[Baycob]

I know there is a lot of Nigella haters here, but I love her playfulness.

Will you be referring to yours as a micro-Wav-eh from now on? Will it take off? 😂

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*Ikea has has totally blown my mind

My welsh speaking grandchildren have a strange funny word for microwave , I think the last syllable is 'ding' . I'm sure a welsh speaker on this site could correct me

I always get muddled with ibuprofen, is it phonetically as eye bu program. Or
eye bru fen?

We always say
Pam and Tony for pannetonne
Vegibubbles- vegetables
Kernify - knife

Made me laugh, we have can-apes and hors-doofs del boy style when the posh food comes out 😊

Nigella is an absolute legend.Love her!

@IamHyouweegobshite

I always get muddled with ibuprofen, is it phonetically as eye bu program. Or eye bru fen?

We always say
Pam and Tony for pannetonne
Vegibubbles- vegetables
Kernify - knife

Eye-bu-pro-fen

Favourite and most entertaining half hour of the week was watching husband and 20 year old (asd) son watching Nigella. What was she cooking?

@HostessTrolley

Favourite and most entertaining half hour of the week was watching husband and 20 year old (asd) son watching Nigella. What was she cooking?

Get a bit animated did they?!?

My Italian mil called a very loud flock of Cockatoos, Big white Cocks once when she was here on holiday.

“Do the big white cocks wake you up?”
Was met with DH and I crying with laughter in our room after holding it together in front of her.

It’s all DH and I call them now.

On the contrary @80scolourfulchristmas - I don’t think either of them even breathed for the whole time - they were transfixed

Microwave in Welsh slang is Poptŷ Ping because poptŷ is bakery or bakehouse and ping for the beep. The more formal name is popty meicrodon (that hardly any one uses) there are other ways to say it but popty ping is the most fun.
We live near the air ambulance and my DD christened it the "helpipopter" when she was 3.
The middle light fell out of the Morrison's sign one winter which means we will call it Moron's forever more.
And a family joke is my nan's pronunciation of lasagna. "La singe" making it monkey pie in our house.

@ManxiousCat

In my short house (bungalow) Quiche is 'Kwish' Any sort of Meecrowaveh meal is 'Chicken Ding' Chocolate is Shockolah Porridge is Porraaaghe

And I thought I was odd 🤣

Bungle-house here and ding-meal.

We have crud-ights with our hugh-muss.

Love microwavey and will now use that rather than say 'bung it in the micro'.
Canapes = can o peas
Yogurt - gottit
Crisps - Cwips
Scissors - Skissers
Honey - bee shit

I can't even pronounce Ibropofen so wont get into that argument, lol.

@VienneseWhirligig

We call jalapeños 'jal-app-a-noes' and fish 'feesh''. It's just that daft stuff you do at home isn't it? Like saying Coop instead of Co-op.

In parts of Welsh speaking Wales the Co-op is called the Cop. Always did this when I was growing up.

Lass-agne-ding for a microwave lasagne here! I'm sure there's more, but I can't think right now.
My family and I are fluent in
Cockney rhyming slang and my poor brummie husband has sat there confused and lost until I translate to him!

DH and I say sausages in a French way - sossages to rhyme with

Late FIL was always asking if anyone had seen his spectaculars.

Sorry there was a fromages at the end of my first sentence which disappeared.

We say soss ah ge as well!

@Wearywithteens

Yes we are dead working class but idolise Nigella - it’s forever going to be the Me-crow-wah-vay zapping the crap ready meals in our house from now on.

Also see/idolise: Moria Rose. Another linguistically creative (although fictional) hero.

My fantasy piss up civilised drinks evening would be with Nigella, Moira Rose and Martinis by the bucket. And maybe Lesley Knope and David Rose---- could join us with kareoke a bit later Epic, it would be.

@NancyPickford

I've never bought mange tout because I never got around to buying mange one. Do you think they would still make sense?

@EurosprogBauble typo, it was meant to say mangetout

@NancyPickford you didn't make a typo. I was just being silly!