Literal-minded kids names for things -

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3yo DS and I were baking muffins on Sunday, he called flour 'pastry powder'

I don't imagine that one'll stick once he knows the real word, but DH calls quiche 'egg cake', and friends of ours all call raspberry jam 'pink jam' since the kids named it years ago.

Any more?

When I was a kid my mum used to bring shortbread biscuits in the car on any long journeys we took (well any journeys really), and even now my brother and I refer to them as car biscuits.
Cornflakes are Chicken Flakes (DD after seeing the Kellogg's box)
Fried eggs are flat eggs
Broccoli are trees
Boiled eggs and soldiers are Googaloo's (DD picked it up from a friend who called them that, no idea where it comes from)
I told DD about Cruise Control in the car when she saw me put it on once. The next time we were in the car she said 'mummy put the car on ship'. I was confused until I realised that the in laws had been on a cruise on holiday not long before and she'd linked the two.
I knew an adult who called milk moo juice (got it from their niece)

My DS2 named bras "booby-cases"

DS (almost 3) lifted up his t-shirt a few weeks ago, to show me his 'lentils'!! Apparently they are what he has decided nipples are called. I can sort of see his logic. It also means that when people come to visit and he marches over, demanding "my see your lentils?" - they are somewhat surprised when he yanks their top up!

He also calls the microwave 'the ding' and the toaster 'the popper'. I think this stems from an attempt to ward off a tantrum one lunchtime and I started singing a stupid song to distract him whilst his beans on toast was being prepared. It goes along the lines of:
The beans go ding!
The toast goes pop!
Pop! Ding! Pop! Ding!
Pop! Pop! Ding!

(to be sung to the 'tune' of that song in a Peppa Pig episode where they find an old record player in the loft - where the cows say woof and the bird says moo, or something like that)

Asparagus is drilly bits in our house.

Love the go this way go that way

We had rainbrella. And DD2 calls a camera a 'cheese'

It's been a long day, but Wheelbarrow for people = wheelchair had me hooting.

DD calls diarrhoea "Fart poohs".
DS calls omelettes "Eggy pancakes".

Ds always said 'fast backwards' instead of 'rewind' for watching something again in the TV. I rather liked it and still use it.
We have loads more but can't think of any right now.

Ghost brocolli is brilliant.

Broccoli = tree
Cauliflower = white tree

Of course!

Big toe = thumb toe

Fart = bottom burp

I realised that DD didn't know the word for "tomorrow" when she asked what were we going to do when today was yesterday.

My dniece moved here to Scotland when she was 3. We call the cinema 'the pictures'
She spoke to me on the phone to say her parents had gone to "the photographs"

'Mommy I want acorns with tea'
'Acorns?'
'Yes acorns' then points at the tin of sweetcorn on the shelf :)

Dd2 used to call long painted finger nails 'clonkers' because of the sound they made. And gammon was pink chicken

spare food = starters ie pre main course
eye drips = tears
yesterly = day before
puddle stampers = wellies

DD is 6.5yrs now so they're dying out but I still look for and love them!
:)

Not quite on the literal theme, but made me laugh. My ds insists on calling spider webs, spider cobs

We have orange soup (veg soup with carrots or butternut squash) which kids love, as opposed to brown (mushroom) soup which they hate. When soup is on the menu they check the colour!
Chili con carne, which I make with beans and chickpeas, is known as 'cowboy fart soup'.
My son commented the other day that he likes orange (baked) beans but not green (French) beans.

Broccoli is little trees
Cauliflower is snow trees

My favourite so far is the remote control (for the car) one.

Cotton buds are bogey hunters in our house, also bouncy castle is a jumpy castle.

DD is almost 17 and these 2 have stuck

my eldest spotted a car transporter delivering cars and was very impressed "lllloooook at the Lorry-car-up!" ....we still call them that, he is 22 now.

we also had peas, yellow peas sweetcorn, cauliflower and green cauliflower broccoli

DS refers to one weetabick. Makes perfect sense to me.

Love the very back of outside for horizon.

We have snipsnips for scissors. Makes perfect sense to me!

Ha Wombleding! Just refreshed and saw you'd written the same!

I've just remembered another thing DD said when I was trying something on in a shop one day.

I asked her if she liked it (it was a white top, almost see-through) and she said 'yes it's nice but I can see that thing that holds your lungs up' (bra)