What everyday things did you have to rename because of your kids?

[dodi1978]

DS, 26 months looooves chocolate croissants and chips a bit too much.

We can't talk about either without him going begging... I bet the food stool I bought for him to reach the sink will soon be repurposed to reach the kitchen counter and the chocolate croissants (we buy the pre.packaged ones from the supermarket).

Anyway, I digress...

When DH and I talk about said items, croissants are now "French patisserie". Chips are "potato products".

Any other examples?

[Themodernuriahheep]

Seriously, if that's the one in Dulwich,

On the reverse, we managed to get our next door neighbour's child to eat roast lamb by calling it burger. Three helpings went down, with veg and roast potatoes and gravy and red current jelly... His DM was enraged because he refused to eat hers or her DM's when called roast lamb.

Likewise with one of DS's cousins who was going through a Robin Hood phase and would eat nothing if it was not venison. So everything became venison. Fish, green beans, lamb, crumble. Down the little red hatch it went happily.

[Sheepasaurus]

Yellow things that start with b = Bananas :)

[Blankiefan]

Shrunken grapes = raisins

face palms

[Blankiefan]

Shrunken grapes = grapes
Monkey snack = banana
Celtic = dummy (DH loves Celtic FC as much as DD loved her dummy).

[knittingbee]

Yellow bendy fruit. If either kid gets wind of one, they go on and on and on until they get one.

DC2 is cheese obsessed. We call that hard dairy product. And her bedtime bottle is the beverage of doom.

[YBR]

Peppa pig = salted pork

[f1ddlesticks]

Peppa is the 'pink porky thing' in our house. Some things get translated into pigeon french, eg 'le boingy chateau' (bouncy castle).

[PastaPrincess]

EmmaWoodlouse that reminds me of when my brother was young and decided he didn't like turkey. We had a "big chicken" for Christmas for many years, my brother never complained.

In our house we can't mention my parents or DS runs to the door and gets very grumpy when we don't go to visit them.

[Redglitter]

My mum and dad used to spell out sweets didn't last long though as my brother stopped calling them sweets and referred to them as sw's

The name stuck for years

[Tootsiepops]

Straying from the topic of food - I was wondering the other day if we might need to rename our cat. I'm Scottish, but live in England and our cat has a quite Scottish name that - if said by a toddler in an English accent - has the potential to sound v rude. I did not think this through when we named the cat...

I'm very ahead of myself as I'm due in six weeks so a good while yet before I have to really face the issue. The cat is three years old. Wondering if it's better to change her name now though so the poor creature has time to get used to it! And I don't have to explain why my child is running around shouting crass words in years to come

[weeblueberry]

Ice cream is gelato and the park is the death trap...

[ShootTheMoon]

DD adores a bath so we have to call it "aqueous cleansing" if we are discussing whether she has time before bed.

The park is the place with reciprocating motion (swings) and swimming is la piscine.

"Up the road" is granny's house. TBH I don't know why we bother. She is 3.5 and has totally cracked the code

[NineWest]

Hair cleaning - hair wash
Body cleaning - wash your body
Binky - dummy

Think that's all..

[Tanito279]

The dummy is "the reindeer" because otherwise I'll have insistent begging. And Peppa Pig is "that creature". As in, "don't mention that creature or DD will scream to watch TV".

[nilbyname]

If we want to refer to any contraband-
Chocolate
Crisps
Wine
We can all of it "secret chicken" and this is also where we refer to where said items are kept. This is stems Forman old friend whose dad used to hide the key in a ceramic chicken out the back door.

[geekymommy]

We spell out a lot of words to keep 3 yo DD from demanding things.

[DustingOffTheDynastySuit]

Ha neversleep, we have Twin no.1 and Twin no.2 code in this house.

[EmmaWoodlouse]

Spring onions were "Chinese chives" in our house for a long time because DS1 wouldn't have eaten them if he'd known they were called onions.

[slightlyconfused85]

Dd was obsessed with the iPad around 18mo. Dh started calling it the i-device and it has stuck

[Littlef00t]

The baby doll is referred to as petite enfant if we don't know where it is, as otherwise dd will mournfully say 'baby baby?' And look around anxiously. If we can't locate it within 15 seconds she'll be crying, despite having no interest in it until we said the word.

[Seriouslyffs]

Tsk. I call Gails Greggs.

[Seriouslyffs]

Not exactly the same but some mnetters call Greggs 'the bakery' so their dcs don't show them up by wining to go to Greggs.
--not the same at all but I call Gails (stupidly expensive v posh bakery) and I once really upset a Mum who'd taken my dd to Gourmet Burger Kitchen by confusing it with Burger King.

[MrsP777x]

We can't say the word bath infront of our Ds, he runs to the bathroom and strips off at the mention of it... The kiddo loves his baths lol.

[elQuintoConyo]

Cold licky things = ice cream
The Irish girl = his cousin and bff (just in cases where we're whatsapping Sil and trying to meet up, but might fail in the end, he gets v whiney!)
Salty potato snacks = crisps
Brown delights = chocolate
Schnapps = apple juice
The grassy knoll = park
The wet place = beach
Tefal Man = assface (Bil)

I could go on! Please don't let me

[ohmyeyebettymartin]

Crooked yellow fruit and Italian disc (ie pizza) are the ones we use most frequently!