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
I was baking death by apple pie last night, and adding cinnamon, and my roommate and I had a discussion about how to say "cinnamon." She says it cimmanon.
My mom says maple sirple!
I think I'm going to have to start calling squash "squish." That's too cute and funny.
Wait, so you say it 'PAST-ah'? How bizarre!
Does everyone say it like that where you live?
Yeah, pretty much! Does everyone else m aily say "Pah-sta"? :o
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.
My hubby is from Warwick. It's Worrick ;) For shizzle!
Ok, Rhode Islander here, not from Warwick but always pronounced it War-wick.
And I see nothing wrong with mann-aize either!
My friend says that the plural of squash is "squye" (rhymes with Sky) :)
My friend says that the plural of squash is "squye" (rhymes with Sky) :)
Indeed. And the plural of asparagus is obviously asparagae...also rhymes with sky.
My mom has so many funny words for foods! Speddedi for spaghetti, cimmanin for cinnamon, enimens for m&ms.
I used to know a women who used "AR" instead of an "ah" sound. Vanillar icecream, warsh my clothes in the warsher, tomatAR, my name would be Arshley, my friend's was "JessicaR, pastaR. I used to imagine her visiting the doctors office, and he would open her mouth for examination and out would come AAAAAARRRRR--just like a pirate!
Oh, I just thought of one. Instead of "guacamole" my dad says "guaca-hoochie" ;D I don't know why but it's cute.
I was born in warwick...but my cousins who grew up in RI say it worrick...almosyt liek one syllable...
mayo-naise sounds weird and is way to hard to say, I mannaise.
my first word (as in before mama and dada) was "nanana" for banana. As a child I guess I was picky adn eate i diet of bananas, carrots, squash and pear juice. So it was important for me to learn that word I guess...
not food related but I say chickmunk instead of chipmunk...Chipmunck sounds weird...not to mention you have to like, pause in themiddle of the word to reshape your mouth just to move on to the next syllable...shouldnt words "flow"? I never realised I wasnt sying it correctly untill highschool when someone started laughing at me...i thought they were crazy and tried to argue...adn then they were like "cause its Chick and Dale, right?" oh, I can hardly say that word even when im thinking about it...I have to think "uh okay its CHIPmonk...like CHIP and dale..."
oh oh, I just thought of this cause of the other topic but, poll:
Do you say
gyro--- like abbreviation for gynecologist only with an "r" instead of an "n"
gyro- like Jy-roh
gyro--like "hero"
I avoid this word because it is so different from region to region....you sound weird no matter what...
With gyro... I usually try to say it like "hero" or more like "yero" because I think that is the correct way to say it, but since I feel weird about it and I don't know anyone else who says it that way, I always add, "You know, like a jy-roh!"
Also, I always call macaroni - mac-E-oni
and bologna - bo-log-na
lemelade
blueblerries
and sandwich is "sammich" or "sammy"
i'm sure i had cute ones as a kid, but i stole these from the three year-old i lived with for a year
A friend of mine says "baggle" for bagel. She gets a lot of grief for that one ;D
Does anyone else eat "baggles?"
Oh yeah - I had a friend who ate baggles as well! She also noticed the ruhts (roots) on a tree and advised me to help ripen my fruit I could put it into a brown bayg (bag with a long a). Too funny!
Though, growing up in the South, I'm not sure I have too much room to talk, what with all sodas being coke, as in "What kind of Coke do you want? Regular, diet, sprite, root beer.." - they're all "coke." I'm sure there are tons and tons more - I just love regional accents and I toy with them all the time! :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...
ha ha sweep, cellar, "red up", slacks....it's all terrible! ha ha. it's weird and i don't l ike it :P. i do admit that i say a lot of British phrases unintentionally. i call getting the mail "catching the post". my mom was making fun of me. did you ever realize that most really old people go out of their way to call every food "moist". ha ha. it's like annunciated and loud.
don't forget to warsh the winders. Make sure you may-sure correctly! Dont forget to warsh the tahls.
And on Gyro- I say it Jai-ro. Being from Lawn Guyland I've heard it mostly pronounced that way, with the occasional Hy-ro pronounciation . ;)
oh oh, I just thought of this cause of the other topic but, poll:
Do you say
gyro--- like abbreviation for gynecologist only with an "r" instead of an "n"
gyro- like Jy-roh
gyro--like "hero"
I avoid this word because it is so different from region to region....you sound weird no matter what...
I say "hero" but then people look at me weirdly :-[
What is the correct pronounciation?? I've always wondered!
it's pronounced yee-ro. and tzatziki is pronounced um, like juhjiki, with the tz making the juh-sound like in judge, it's a DIPTHONG! gyro actually is the greek word for "around".
hmoun erwteumenh me ena ellhniko agori! haha. i'm a sucker for foreign boys.
I totally agree with the sammich thing. My dad used to say that, and it stuck. I don't say "sandwich" at all since I was a kid. He had the funniest names for anything, too. I used to like Bon Jovi as a teen, and he used to call him Bon Jerky (not as in "jerk," but the food jerky) ;D I didn't take offence either. I thought it was pretty funny when he watched one of the videos from the band and waved around the Beef Jerky he was chowing on and said "Bon Jerky!" It just stuck after that (This was before I was veg*an, by the way, but it's still funny .... I guess you had to be there :D ).
Since I was little, I have called maple syrup - maple sirpall. I don't know why. I've tried to stop, but every time we have pancakes, I get out the maple sirpal. I must have heard it somewhere and it became ingrained in my head.
Hehe that's cute, I love "maple sirpal!" It rolls off the tongue quite nicely.
Reminds me of when little kids say "puh-sketti" for spaghetti :)
My boyfriend just caught me on one:
I say "sumbunny" (somebody)
I probably got it from some cheesy gum-wrapper pun in the past...
I had a coworker years ago who always said sang-wich instead of sandwich. :)
I bet your co-worker was eye-talian because in my eye-talian home we all ate sangwiches, in the fronch room no less.
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