Do you have funny, alternative names for everyday foods you eat?

My sister and I, when we were very young, couldn’t pronounce macaroni and cheese…so we called it monkey cheese. And that’s what our whole family has called it ever since. We don’t even realize that we call it that and sometimes people can get very confused…I remember the first time I asked my roommate if she wanted some monkey cheese. She was quite disturbed until I realized what I said and explained it to her.

Also, my dad and youngest brother call chicken patties “crabby patties,” as in the crabby patties from Spongebob.

I will never eat meatloaf again as long as I live…I mean meatcake ;)

We call sandwiches sammies, which is something my husband and his sister started when they were very little.

We also call peas bean balls. It was the only way we could get our daughter to eat them when she was little, and we still say bean balls. It’s just too fun to give up!

My youngest son, as a toddler, could not keep hot dogs and hamburgers straight. He just used one word to describe them both: a hotbooger. Even though he’s outgrown it, we all still say hotbooger whenever we can.

Maybe tonight I’ll make hotboogers and bean balls for dinner. :)

Ravioli : Irish tea bags

I put these noodles in my lunch that need to be microwaved. The thick sauce on them caused me to call them dog shit noodles.

brocolli – trees!!

@Frankie Gotta love monkey cheese! That’s a hoot!

@lucillelucillelucille ‘Don’t let your meat cake’ doesn’t quite the ring that ‘Don’t let your meat loaf” does! lol

Cake IS more descriptive of the dish, but somehow sounds less appealing.

@MissAusten I have heard sammies for sandwiches before, to it must be a common abbreviation!

Bean balls IS funny. Why were bean balls so much more appealing than peas?

Hotbooger is a great one!

My grandpa called McDonalds food “Chew and Choke” and he called lasagna “la sang ga” and spaghetti ghetti

I call sandwiches ’‘manwiches’’. No idea why though. Also, Kraft Dinner, which I’ve eaten a lot of, is called Crap Dindin.

When I was little, my mom would make pizza and she would put on bacon, pepperoni, Italian sausage, and something else on it, but I would call it meetza.
And my dad would make the nasty kraft macaroni, and I would always say I don’t want slop-o-roni.

@Symbeline if you make big sandwiches on oversized bread they’re manwiches.
Crap Dindin and Kittie Sh*tties, crabby patties and hotboogers! What a hoot this Q is.

I like fried calamari and often share this dish in pubs and restaurants with S/O. He noticed I had a preference for the lower or tentacle part [or feet] instead of the round cross-sections of the head and took to making sure I got most of those bits. We both took to calling the dish “feet”

There was a hot dog place near us called Dog and Suds. To this day, our family still calls it Arf and Barf.

LOL @ Juels

We had a lot of incarnations for Dog and Suds, but no Arf and Barf!

dandelion and burdock – dandelion and burpalot!