What things do you call by weird names because of your children?

[Drama Llama]

I served deviled eggs this weekend.  Somehow this led to the big kids showing the 2 year old a cartoon devil and the 2 year has been talking about the “scary eggs” ever since.  He is not scared of them.  He thinks it’s hilarious.  I suspect this name will stick, and 30 years from now we will be serving scary eggs at his wedding.

What silly or cute things did your kids say that “stuck”?  Or is it just us that does this? 

[KungFuPanda]

Not "yellow pocket angel eggs?" 😁 

We call a weekly pill box a Smitwitfus because DS tried to read the letters on the first one he had and asked us "What's a smitwitfus?"

[Hilltopmom]

“Flying cheese” because you can throw American cheese slices across the room like a frisbee. 
 

[Ottakee]

16 minutes ago, KungFuPanda said:

Not "yellow pocket angel eggs?" 😁 

We call a weekly pill box a Smitwitfus because DS tried to read the letters on the first one he had and asked us "What's a smitwitfus?"

My kids called deviled eggs “angel eggs” as we couldn’t have any devil things.

[Harriet Vane]

My daughter was just a small toddler when she tried valiantly to say "tomorrow"--it came out "amario." And that's what we say to this day.

[Wilma]

Our teacups are called "pip-pips". 

[KungFuPanda]

 

25 minutes ago, Hilltopmom said:

“Flying cheese” because you can throw American cheese slices across the room like a frisbee. 
 

We call it plasti-cheese because it's wrapped in plastic and tastes like plastic.  Dh will throw down in defense of his craft slices and insists they are necessary for burgers.  Our home was split 50-50 over this cheese.

[KungFuPanda]

14 minutes ago, Ottakee said:

My kids called deviled eggs “angel eggs” as we couldn’t have any devil things.

OK, but if you call devils food cake angle food cake instead it's going to get very confusing.

[knitgrl]

Yogurt is yobi.

[KungFuPanda]

We call the Iwo Jima memorial "Big Shoes" because that what dd called it when she was two.  She's almost 27,

[Drama Llama]

10 minutes ago, Harriet Vane said:

My daughter was just a small toddler when she tried valiantly to say "tomorrow"--it came out "amario." And that's what we say to this day.

We call any day in the recent past "lasterday" in honor of my goddaughter.  

[Brittany1116]

We are in FL and my younger decided years ago that pants are "long sleeve shorts".

[lauraw4321]

Farts are called “poop noise” although I think maybe my DH coined that one. 
 

For a long time all meat was called chicken - whatever. Chicken-fish. Chicken-steak. 

[Terabith]

7 minutes ago, lauraw4321 said:

Farts are called “poop noise” although I think maybe my DH coined that one. 
 

For a long time all meat was called chicken - whatever. Chicken-fish. Chicken-steak. 

My kids called them "bottom burps" but it hasn't really stuck.  

We did call ice cream "sa" for a long time, because that's what my oldest called it.  

[sweet2ndchance]

We have "mac-ee-oh-nee" and cheese around here. My kids who called it that for years are no longer kids.

Youngest ds liked to play "Happy Farmy Valley" on the computer. The real name of the game is Stardew Valley but Happy Farmy Valley sounds so much more fun, lol.

[Brittany1116]

From my much younger, adopted siblings...

Mascara is eye-scara.

Hand sanitizer is hanitizer. 

[saraha]

Shment shmicker for cement mixer.

Dd21 used to say everything that happened in the past happened last Tuesday. 

[teachermom2834]

My boys were sports obsessed and they used to say a ball went “out of bounce” instead of out of bounds. I just thought it was the cutest thing and I still say it. Not that I have a lot of balls I am calling out of bounce these days…

[gardenmom5]

I have a ventilatd bread drawer.  My kids nicknamed it the "pet storage drawer" because when it was first installed, they'd put their gerbil in it . .hey, it was ventilated . . . . 

[SKL]

Macky-cheesie.

One of my kids' timing logic:  "not including today, tomorrow is ___."  (This means that ___ is 2 days from today.)

Probably other things, but I can't think of them right now.

[purpleowl]

We say "rounder-bup" because that's what my youngest called roundabouts when he was littler. 

Anything that goes in your hair (clip, barrette, ponytail holder, whatever) is a "pretty," thanks to both of my girls. 

[ScoutTN]

1 hour ago, Hilltopmom said:

“Flying cheese” because you can throw American cheese slices across the room like a frisbee. 
 

My kids call it plastic cheese.

[JustEm]

We sing 'Feliz Navidad' as 'a miece Bob e got' because that is how my oldest sang it when he was real little

[saraha]

I thought of another one, sprinkle cheese! I actually, without thinking, asked a waiter at a pizza place for sprinkle cheese once, instead of Parmesan. My whole family looked up at me like I was nuts, then burst out laughing.

[lauraw4321]

5 minutes ago, saraha said:

I thought of another one, sprinkle cheese! I actually, without thinking, asked a waiter at a pizza place for sprinkle cheese once, instead of Parmesan. My whole family looked up at me like I was nuts, then burst out laughing.

We call it snow cheese! 

[Clarita]

Yoga pants are yogurt pants. DD seriously thought yoga pants were called yogurt pants, to the point that whenever she was eating yogurt she needed to wear her yogurt pants.

Balloons are bilooloolooloons depending on how excited DS was there would be more or less 'loo's.

[Annie G]

28 minutes ago, lauraw4321 said:

We call it snow cheese! 

My nephew (45) misunderstood it as a child and thought it was Farmer John cheese. So that’s what we call it, in house only. 

[Shoeless]

45 minutes ago, saraha said:

I thought of another one, sprinkle cheese! I actually, without thinking, asked a waiter at a pizza place for sprinkle cheese once, instead of Parmesan. My whole family looked up at me like I was nuts, then burst out laughing.

We call it shakey cheese!

[athena1277]

We call sudoku “suck a doo” because that’s what my oldest called it when she was little.  It’s too the point that I have to really think about it to say it correctly.

[SHP]

4 hours ago, Hilltopmom said:

“Flying cheese” because you can throw American cheese slices across the room like a frisbee. 
 

I will have to buy American cheese and ambush one of the kids when they come home one day. 

Yes, I will. Just ask any of my kids. Or my husband. Or anyone who knows me Irl.

[sweet2ndchance]

5 hours ago, saraha said:

I thought of another one, sprinkle cheese! I actually, without thinking, asked a waiter at a pizza place for sprinkle cheese once, instead of Parmesan. My whole family looked up at me like I was nuts, then burst out laughing.

We use "sprinkle cheese" too except it means any kind of shredded cheese. lol

[YaelAldrich]

Raisin Brown for raisin bran (the flakes are brown so it works!). Knockles for knuckles (well, you do knock with them!).

[SKL]

7 hours ago, Clarita said:

Yoga pants are yogurt pants. DD seriously thought yoga pants were called yogurt pants, to the point that whenever she was eating yogurt she needed to wear her yogurt pants.

My kid once asked me “are you doing your yogurt?” when I was doing yoga.  So now I will say “I need to do my yogurt.”

[DawnM]

8 hours ago, saraha said:

I thought of another one, sprinkle cheese! I actually, without thinking, asked a waiter at a pizza place for sprinkle cheese once, instead of Parmesan. My whole family looked up at me like I was nuts, then burst out laughing.

We call it snow.

When the boys were little, I would sprinkle it on and say, "It's snowing!" and it stuck.   We still call parmesan cheese snow, even if it doesn't come out of a sprinkle jar (we typically buy the real stuff now and grate it ourselves.)

[DawnM]

A calls Chick Fil A "chick uh flay" and now we call it that too.

[purpleowl]

In our house it's parmes. My son thought it was "I would like parmes on cheese on my spaghetti."

[alysee]

Lasagna is spaghetti cake, coined by my 2nd oldest at age 4 because she couldn't remember the word for lasagna. 

[Carrie12345]

We sometimes still call the vacuum the nu-nu. My now-25yo was a very big Telletubbies fan.  
If anyone loses their keys, we ask if they checked the nu-nu, because 25yo had a thing for hiding keys on the vacuum.

[HomeAgain]

Normie Bread.

Youngest ds was almost 4 when he stepped foot in the states for the first time and everything freaked him out, especially American sandwich bread.  He thought it was awful - the texture, the smell, the taste....no part of it appealed to him.  We tried to explain that this was what people eat here and it was normal bread for lunchtime, as opposed to a roll or square of ciabatta.  He wasn't having it, but the name Normie Bread stuck as a grocery item list. 

[Elizabeth86]

So many things. They have become so normal I can’t think. I’ll come back when I can think of some.

For almost all the kids we still call them the names the toddler siblings first used for them.

Edited November 29, 2023 by Elizabeth86

[kirstenhill]

9 hours ago, Shoeless said:

We call it shakey cheese!

That's what we call it too!!! ♥️

[Brittany1116]

2 hours ago, DawnM said:

A calls Chick Fil A "chick uh flay" and now we call it that too.

We call it Chicky Lay Lay because of my niece. LoL

[Kassia]

These are all so cute! 

I can't think of any good ones from my kids, but one of my favorite memories is when dd thought the brown eggs at the store were chocolate.  🙂  

[cave canem]

nm

 

Edited November 30, 2023 by cave canem

[EKS]

Bizangna for lasagna 

Corners for corn

Wow-wow for pacifier, though at the moment we don't have much reason to use the word pacifier!

[chiguirre]

to foovle: to mess around and not get ready in a timely manner

Most common usage: Stop foovling and get ready or we're going to be late!

[wisdomandtreasures]

Jalopy Joes (sloppy joes)

Elbow noodles are rainbows

And the doozy... My oldest called strawberries "ballow-yotes" when he was a toddler. Why? Who knows? 12 years later they are still ballow-yotes.

[saraha]

4 hours ago, EKS said:

Bizangna for lasagna 

Corners for corn

Wow-wow for pacifier, though at the moment we don't have much reason to use the word pacifier!

That reminds me! Dd20 called her pacifier her “ohm”. The first time she asked for her ohm we couldn’t figure out what she wanted and she started to cry, so dh went to put her pacifier in her mouth he made the sound “ohm” while sticking it in and the lightbulb went off. She called it her ohm till she outgrew it.

[Xahm]

We often call "deviled eggs" "doubled eggs" here because that's what my oldest heard and we couldn't make her believe "deviled" makes more sense than "doubled." You start with twelve eggs and end up with twenty-four doubled eggs.

[KidsHappen]

My kids call marachino cherries ice cream apples curtesy of my second when she was about three