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trof

(54,256 posts)
Thu Jun 6, 2013, 06:43 PM Jun 2013

Have some unusual 'family names' for foods? Sop-Eggs

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?

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Have some unusual 'family names' for foods? Sop-Eggs (Original Post) trof Jun 2013 OP
butterjuice noamnety Jun 2013 #1
'Splain me? trof Jun 2013 #2
pink stuff is salad dressing. noamnety Jun 2013 #3
Pokey eggs at our house. tavernier Jun 2013 #4
Google eggs graywarrior Jun 2013 #5
crappy tacos Bertha Venation Jun 2013 #6
omg! my favorite tacos in the WORLD orleans Jun 2013 #11
One of the world's premier beer foods. Paladin Jun 2013 #21
As my mom says... GoCubsGo Jun 2013 #31
lol I loved the JitB tacos OriginalGeek Jun 2013 #35
"I'll eat them hoppy bastards all damn day." Bertha Venation Jun 2013 #37
Flappy cheese. cyberswede Jun 2013 #7
Shit on a shingle Major Nikon Jun 2013 #8
I loved eating shit on a shingle when I was a kid mokawanis Jun 2013 #13
Same with me Major Nikon Jun 2013 #16
Didn't we all love the SOS we grew up with? I did until... TreasonousBastard Jun 2013 #17
Someone once said that the army buys the best food in the world hobbit709 Jun 2013 #19
Flip overs and flop overs. Scruffy Rumbler Jun 2013 #9
My four year old son called flour tortillas vanlassie Jun 2013 #10
both of my parents loved to rename foods orleans Jun 2013 #12
Ghepi for spaghetti. applegrove Jun 2013 #14
Me and my kid called it skabetties Bucky Jun 2013 #26
Round eggs. Manifestor_of_Light Jun 2013 #15
"Mother's Tragedy" for anything be mixed in a bowl. sarge43 Jun 2013 #18
That's hilarious! Sheldon Cooper Jun 2013 #24
-1 for blatant misuse of 'ambrosia' pinboy3niner Jun 2013 #20
You ain't tried the drippins from Ziegler's "Seasoned to Please" hot sausage. trof Jun 2013 #33
Mouse cheese for GentryDixon Jun 2013 #22
Grandpa called a chunk of cheddar 'rat trap cheese'. trof Jun 2013 #32
Dippy Eggs is a Pittsburgh thing, I think. Sheldon Cooper Jun 2013 #23
Pigs in a blanket to me OriginalGeek Jun 2013 #36
Stinky feet cheese lost-in-nj Jun 2013 #25
"City spinach" for broccoli woodsprite Jun 2013 #27
Not any particular food, but my kids always had a "bednight snack". Arkansas Granny Jun 2013 #28
Captain America Shield buns tandot Jun 2013 #29
Grandma's Surprise KamaAina Jun 2013 #30
To our young daughter spaghetti was 'pusgetty'. Breakfast was 'brefftuss'. trof Jun 2013 #34
 

noamnety

(20,234 posts)
3. pink stuff is salad dressing.
Thu Jun 6, 2013, 09:37 PM
Jun 2013

(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.

Bertha Venation

(21,484 posts)
6. crappy tacos
Thu Jun 6, 2013, 09:58 PM
Jun 2013

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)
11. omg! my favorite tacos in the WORLD
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 12:12 AM
Jun 2013

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)
21. One of the world's premier beer foods.
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 08:01 AM
Jun 2013

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)
31. As my mom says...
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 03:41 PM
Jun 2013

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)
35. lol I loved the JitB tacos
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 04:26 PM
Jun 2013

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)
37. "I'll eat them hoppy bastards all damn day."
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 05:09 PM
Jun 2013
Me too!

Super Tacos are just larger crappy tacos. Just as crappy, i.e., delicious.

cyberswede

(26,117 posts)
7. Flappy cheese.
Thu Jun 6, 2013, 10:03 PM
Jun 2013

(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.

mokawanis

(4,440 posts)
13. I loved eating shit on a shingle when I was a kid
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 12:57 AM
Jun 2013

Last edited Fri Jun 7, 2013, 05:20 AM - Edit history (1)

My dad served up that slop on Saturday afternoons and we loved it.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
17. Didn't we all love the SOS we grew up with? I did until...
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 03:58 AM
Jun 2013

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)
19. Someone once said that the army buys the best food in the world
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 07:06 AM
Jun 2013

then they send the cooks to school to teach them how to ruin it.

Scruffy Rumbler

(961 posts)
9. Flip overs and flop overs.
Thu Jun 6, 2013, 10:47 PM
Jun 2013

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.

orleans

(34,051 posts)
12. both of my parents loved to rename foods
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 12:18 AM
Jun 2013

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

 

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)
15. Round eggs.
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 01:20 AM
Jun 2013

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)
18. "Mother's Tragedy" for anything be mixed in a bowl.
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 06:55 AM
Jun 2013

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."

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
20. -1 for blatant misuse of 'ambrosia'
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 07:22 AM
Jun 2013

Everybody knows that term can only be applied to bacon drippings.

trof

(54,256 posts)
33. You ain't tried the drippins from Ziegler's "Seasoned to Please" hot sausage.
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 03:47 PM
Jun 2013

Takes a fried egg to a whole nuther level.

Sheldon Cooper

(3,724 posts)
23. Dippy Eggs is a Pittsburgh thing, I think.
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 09:10 AM
Jun 2013

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)
36. Pigs in a blanket to me
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 04:30 PM
Jun 2013

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.

woodsprite

(11,913 posts)
27. "City spinach" for broccoli
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 12:58 PM
Jun 2013

My brother loved spinach when he was little, but he wouldn't eat broccoli until my grandparents started calling it "city spinach".

tandot

(6,671 posts)
29. Captain America Shield buns
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 03:22 PM
Jun 2013

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)
30. Grandma's Surprise
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 03:38 PM
Jun 2013

browned ground beef served over mashed potatoes, with a thin gravy made with corn starch. Looks like puke, tastes decent.

trof

(54,256 posts)
34. To our young daughter spaghetti was 'pusgetty'. Breakfast was 'brefftuss'.
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 04:08 PM
Jun 2013

A customer in a bar & grill I worked at always ordered 'one uh them flat cheese sammitchis'.
Grilled cheese

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