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
LOL - these have all been very entertaining to read!
My contribution -
My best friend says 'hush-brown' instead of hashbrown.
My Mum calls bananas - Banana Bills, i dont know why.
And after years of not being able to pronounce 'Worcestshire Sauce' my partner got me onto saying 'What's-this-here' Sauce.
And i can't say else...I say 'eltze'.
we are a weird bunch ;)
I call bananas..bananTas, apples...ap-peels.., and grapes..grape-peez..LOL! I'm so silly.. :D
Okay, Im sorry, I hate to re-open this discussion (since the last post was in 2007!) but I've been reading through it all and I simply must exclaim I LOVE DIFFERENT PRONUNCIATIONS! All are wonderful and amusing in their own way. None bother me, "Sammiches", "Eye-talian", and "Mannaise"; they are all cute and quirky and give diversity and culture to our world.
I again apologize, I was looking up something random and came across this topic and was delighted to read the different pronunciations people use for everyday things, I just couldn't help but comment. Accents, eccentricities, and verbal deviances should be embraced, because they're what makes us unique. I mean, everyone speaks differently (at least to my knowledge) and, of course, there are much more serious matters in the world to be irritated about than how someone decides to describe an object to another being.
Love and Peace,
-Amylia
Hey, why not! You got me to re-read it, and it was fun with my morning tea.
I've just discovered that most of my S. Spanish students seem to speak Ebonics. They can't say "asks" or "desks." It comes out "ax" and "dex." Just like S. side Chicagospeak. They have the same verbal hangups.
Some food names are just naturally funny to me, like kumquat! ;D
It just sounds like it should be a bad word :)
And after years of not being able to pronounce 'Worcestshire Sauce' my partner got me onto saying 'What's-this-here' Sauce.
Okay, I am claiming "What's-this-here-sauce" as my own. That is too much awesome.
Mamá Yabbit, your posts about the things you and your husband say are awesome, too! Do you guys speak Spanish or English at home? Or both? How does that work? I'm intrigued!
Worcestershire (God, I can't even spell it...) has been called wooorser'sir, or just wooor sauce. Eh.
I say sammich. I just like to. It's a verbal guilty pleasure.
I live in the south, so there are a lot that i was thinking of while reading this thread, but I've (done) forgotten them now.
Okay, I am claiming "What's-this-here-sauce" as my own. That is too much awesome.
Mamá Yabbit, your posts about the things you and your husband say are awesome, too! Do you guys speak Spanish or English at home? Or both? How does that work? I'm intrigued!
M'ija,
We speak both. At first it was mostly Spanish (his English or rather American comprehension wasn't too good.) Then as his English improved, 50-50. And since we have access to French TV via satellite (Thank you, God! :)>>>) more French too...although my French is disgraceful innercity Paris street French and it makes natives laugh. Sometimes we mix them in the same conversation, and with Spanish and English, often in the same sentence.
We went down to the coast once to buy second-hand English books (those were the days!) and stopped for coffee. We're standing at the bar, he asks me a question in Spanish, I answer in English. He replies in Spanish and the conversation continues. Then he asks me a question in English and I respond in French, he answers in both in the same sentence. The girl behind the bar finally throws her towel in the sink and says, "OK, where ARE you guys from??"
That's cooooooooooool!
:o
When I was learning Spanish and living in Mexico, I thought I would find a really handsome bilingual guy to sweep me off my feet!
........My boyfriend can speak ghetto since he's worked at GameStop so long, but I don't count that. Oh, well. Maybe someday he'll get bored and I can re-learn Spanish and he'll join me. The closest I get now is when he speaks horrible Spanglish...
"SEE! SinyorEEta! Es MOOey DEEleeshioso!" or, one of my favorites "it's HHOREE-bluh" (which is supposed to be horrible, I think). I like that one because "horrible" was the only word I could say to get my rr to roll. I'd practice saying "horrible" like a warmup, then move on to the word I was REALLY trying to pronounce. Hearing his rendition is just hilarious.
;D
On-topic.... and also related to my little Spanglish subject... Josh likes to pronounce "quesadilla" as "kwase-kwa-deal-ya." He knows how to say it properly, he just doesn't. I don't bother him about it, though. He's a nut.
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