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Grandpa always cooked Sunday breakfast.
It was usually 'oven toast', sausage patties, and 'sop-eggs'.
Sop eggs were cooked in the sausage grease (AMBROSIA!) sunny side up.
He used a spoon to baste the tops with the sausage leavins until they were cooked.
NO RUNNY WHITES!
Then you'd sop up the yolks with the toast.
My nephew's family in Texas called them 'dip-it-eggs'.
The first time he had grits he wasn't too sure about them so his mom told him they were 'little rice'.
He loved rice.
In third grade his teacher asked each kid what they'd had for breakfast.
And he said "I had dip-it eggs, little rice, and biscuits."
The class laughed at that and he was mortified.
When he got home he asked his mom if there was anything else that his family had weird names for.
OK, what weird names for foods does your family have?
noamnety
(20,234 posts)and pink stuff. I ordered pink stuff in a restaurant once when I was a kid, ugh.
noamnety
(20,234 posts)(thousand island). I honestly didn't know it had a different name.
And butterjuice is buttermilk mixed with fruit juice, like an indian lassi drink.
tavernier
(12,383 posts)Sprinkle cheese goes on pisghetti.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)Soft boiled egg on toast. Not over easy. MUST be soft boiled. Lots of salt.
Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)Jack in the Box tacos. We still call them crappy tacos and always will. My god but are those things delicious. (AKA cat food tacos.)
I guess this doesn't meet the criteria, but it's all I can think of.
orleans
(34,051 posts)were jack in the box super tacos!!!
then all the jack in the boxes closed in illinois
i've never recovered from that.
i continue to miss them.
Paladin
(28,254 posts)In college, late at night, we used to walk (stagger) through the pick-up lane at the closest Jack for their tacos. Glorious.....
GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)They're so bad, they're good. I confess that I never had one, but I'll take y'all's word for it.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)My high school bus stop was in front of a JitB so I had them and breakfast jacks (basically an egg mcmuffin on a hamburger roll) for breakfast a lot. I worked at a family owned BBQ place next to the JitB when I was a senior and we would always trade a pile of brisket for sacks of JitB food. lol we thought we were getting over on them and they thought they were getting over on us.
In the almost 30 years since I left Dallas I have been back only twice and both times my first stop after leaving the airport was Jack In The Box for super tacos (i guess now they are just tacos but you get two of them). And I made time to go to the BBQ place too. Not the same family running it but the people who took over are doing it right.
The funny thing is even back then there was a rumor that JitB used kangaroo meat in their tacos. I always said I didn't care (and still don't) - I'll eat them hoppy bastards all damn day.
Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)Super Tacos are just larger crappy tacos. Just as crappy, i.e., delicious.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)(Cheese slices, as opposed to string cheese). One of my kids called it that once, and it stuck.
We call ham pink meat. My daughter said she didn't like ham when she was 3, so we said, "ok, we'll have pink meat instead." She loved it.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)mokawanis
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My dad served up that slop on Saturday afternoons and we loved it.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)I found out what the Army did with it. A couple of years of mess hall SOS and I can't look at the stuff to this day.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)then they send the cooks to school to teach them how to ruin it.
Scruffy Rumbler
(961 posts)Take one piece of bread, spread with butter, peanut butter and/or jelly. Fold crust down to opposite edge= flop over. Fold side to side (creasing crust) to make flip overs.
vanlassie
(5,670 posts)"Burrito Buns."
orleans
(34,051 posts)it's like they thought they were inventing a whole new language
ba-lan-joes (bananas)
gorilla cheese (grilled cheese)
yeggerts (eggs)
ass-per-gas (asparagus)
boo-tree (butter)
ba-log-na (bologna)
maulk (milk--that was my baby word)
i'm sure there were more but it's all i can think of offhand
applegrove
(118,641 posts)Bucky
(53,998 posts)Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)I came up with that at age three or so, according to mom.
Hardboiled eggs, as opposed to fried eggs, which are flat.
Damn, I was a genius when I was little. Been goin' downhill ever since.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)Thanks to my father's comment while my mother was prepping bread dough.
"Good thing you lost it, Peg. Looks like it'd been an idiot."
Sheldon Cooper
(3,724 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Everybody knows that term can only be applied to bacon drippings.
trof
(54,256 posts)Takes a fried egg to a whole nuther level.
GentryDixon
(2,949 posts)swiss cheese because the mice ate the holes in the cheese.
trof
(54,256 posts)Sheldon Cooper
(3,724 posts)It's just eggs over easy, and you dip your toast into the runny yolk.
Also, pigs in a blanket, which in my world means cabbage rolls stuffed with ground beef mixed with rice and baked in tomato sauce. I understand that in foreign nations, like California and such, pigs in a blanket refer to little weenies wrapped up in crescent roll dough and baked.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)is sausage links rolled in pancakes.
But I'll eat any of those things and you can call them what you want as long as you call me when they're ready.
lost-in-nj
(18,339 posts)for grated parmesan
lost
woodsprite
(11,913 posts)My brother loved spinach when he was little, but he wouldn't eat broccoli until my grandparents started calling it "city spinach".
Arkansas Granny
(31,515 posts)tandot
(6,671 posts)for whole wheat Pita bread.
Hulk spears for asparagus.
Hulk trees for broccoli spears.
Thanks to Avengers, our 4-year old is more adventurous when it comes to food
Moon cheese = provolone
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)browned ground beef served over mashed potatoes, with a thin gravy made with corn starch. Looks like puke, tastes decent.
trof
(54,256 posts)A customer in a bar & grill I worked at always ordered 'one uh them flat cheese sammitchis'.
Grilled cheese