Funny names for food
Posted by Anonymous on Oct 12, 2007 · Member since Dec 1969 · 11789 posts
I call asparagus "asparagators" and bananas "nanners." And I say "AAples (emphasis on the hard A) rather than applies. Like, more often than I use the real names.
Someone tell me I'm not weird! 8)
BTW I guess I also pronounce the word "milk" wrong...my family has always said "melk." Then I was in college at the dining hall one night and said something about my "melk" and everyone at the table started cracking up :-[
I don't care, I still drink my soy melk! ;D
My BGF in highschool ate "mannaise" on her sandwiches.
And bread and buttery spread is known in this house as "cat thing" because my husband likes to talk about "bread and butter, cut thin" as cited in his highschool English book--but he always pronounced it "cat thin" until I corrected him.
Coffee is known as "sure" around here because we used to make it in the Melitta drip-through pot. DH would get up way before me, make coffee, and drink part of it. The deal was, the second cup was for me when I got up...but then he would go back and start "piecing" on the coffee that was left, and I'd find only about 1/3 measuring-cupful left. Which would lead me to say, "Oh, sure, of course!" Nowadays, if I ask him "are you sure?" about something, he will reply haughtily, "I am not a cup of coffee!" Or he will ask me if I want "some sure" after lunch.
No, you're not weird...we are, though... ;D
Haha! I don't think you're crazy at all, veggeroni. My S/O calls the "cheese" and onion omelette's I make cheese and onion amulets. We also say nanners and asparagus is called asspergrass. :)
We also pronounce milk as melk. I have been trying to change that. Maybe it's a regional thing.
Some things get pronounced funny on purpose and some by accident. Some are just funny, I think. Like I have always read the label On Bragg's wrong. I ALWAYS see it as Bragg's Liquid AMMONIA instead of Aminos. Still, every time I pick up that bottle I have to think hard about what it really says. LOL
"Aspara-guys"
I know there are more, but I'm having troupble of thinking of them right now.
You guys are too funny...glad to know I'm not alone! ;D
And see....it is pronounced "melk"!! ;D
ETA: Darn, I guess it's not a regional thing vivianne417...you're in Colorado, I'm in RI...so it's everyone else that is pronouncing it wrong ;)
My BGF in highschool ate "mannaise" on her sandwiches.
MY BGF in high school said "mannaise" too!
You guys are too funny...glad to know I'm not alone! ;D
And see....it is pronounced "melk"!! ;D
The same friend who said "mannaise" also says "melk". What a freak she is ;) ;D
My BGF in highschool ate "mannaise" on her sandwiches.
MY BGF in high school said "mannaise" too!
Actually, I say that too...
Although I do pronounce "vegenaise" correct!
You guys are too funny...glad to know I'm not alone! ;D
And see....it is pronounced "melk"!! ;D
The same friend who said "mannaise" also says "melk". What a freak she is ;) ;D
Do I know you? ;D
My mother has her own language and always twists words around for fun. She calls spaghetti "sketties" and mash potatoes "smashies."
You guys are too funny...glad to know I'm not alone! ;D
And see....it is pronounced "melk"!! ;D
The same friend who said "mannaise" also says "melk". What a freak she is ;) ;D
Do I know you? ;D
OK, if you tell me you pronounce "wash" as Woish, I'm going to be very, very afraid...
You guys are too funny...glad to know I'm not alone! ;D
And see....it is pronounced "melk"!! ;D
The same friend who said "mannaise" also says "melk". What a freak she is ;) ;D
Do I know you? ;D
OK, if you tell me you pronounce "wash" as Woish, I'm going to be very, very afraid...
Hmm...I've never heard it pronounced that way! That's at least one word that I pronounce correctly! Actually two words...besides vegenaise ;D
"Woish" or "Wush"?
If it's the latter, we're getting into the oh-so charming Western Pennsylvanian accent.
Yins, tea-talls, wush, ruff, woof, ka-bossy...
OK, if you tell me you pronounce "wash" as Woish, I'm going to be very, very afraid...
Ugh! Ha. I haven't ever heard "woish," but some of my friends' moms (all from different areas, I think) pronounce it like "warsh." "I'm going to put the warsh in the dryer." Ewww. ;D It makes me feel weird...
When I was little, I always called spaghetti "pasketti." In fact, one of my friends still says it like this! ;D ??? She is an awesome writer & works for a respected magazine, yet she still lets "pasketti" & "ambliance" slip out while speaking. :D
What's wrong with saying mannaise? :-\ How else would you say it, may-oh-nays? =/...
i could just say "mayo" and not be self-conscious.
I always used to say basil as bah-zil. My dad's English, my mom's Italian... so it IS bah-zil. But, after a number of "wait, you say it as bah-zil?"s I started saying bay-zil. Apologies to my parents.
Here's one: Worcestershire sauce. In my head it's always war-chester-sure sauce, but then some people call it something like wooster-sauce. I consulted my dad on this one: worster. (???)
I also found out that where my grandma comes from, warwick, is not in fact pronounced war-wick. it's worrick. WHAT?
At least I can say milk.
"Woish" or "Wush"?
If it's the latter, we're getting into the oh-so charming Western Pennsylvanian accent.
Yins, tea-talls, wush, ruff, woof, ka-bossy...
Bookpapa's folks say, "warsh" but they aren't doing it to be funny. My parents always said, "wooster sauce," too. I say, "mayoz-naise" and "asper-grass" but just to be silly. There are other words I butcher for fun, too, like saying I work in a "pubic" library. :D ;D
I say 'wudder' (wooder?) instead of 'water'. One of those Jersey things that stuck.
And my boyfriend (Irish) and I constantly argue about:
- bahsil versus bayzil
- oreGAHno versus oregano
and yes...
- tomato versus toMAHto
And not food-related, but a guy pointed out the fact that I never finish an -ing verb with the g. For example:
running is runnin'
laughing is laughin'
taking is takin'
I NEVER pronounce the G. I never realized either, until he pointed out and the rest of the conversation kept interrupting me with, "SEE?! ...You just said 'eatin'!"
But I can never remember to correct myself about it.
And (last one I promise) I had a boyfriend who when he was little used to say 'nah-NAH-na' instead of 'banana'. He was British. I thought it was cute, so it stuck.
A lot of kids say, "lellow" instead of "yellow," which I find interesting. My son did that...
I used to call macaroni "muckaroni".
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