# Funny/Weird Nicknames For Food **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 9, 2018, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486 "2018-02-09T00:06:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![nonacetone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonacetone/32/2819_2.png) [@nonacetone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonacetone)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/21 "2018-02-09T15:59:03Z")
We called milk gravy, the kind of gravy you have with biscuits, ‘grease gravy’. I still call it that. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/22 "2018-02-09T16:18:09Z")
My siblings and I would giggle and say “fish dicks” instead of “fish sticks” and think we were cleverly telling dirty jokes in front of mom. “I’m so hungry, I could eat 100 fish dicks” ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/23 "2018-02-09T16:40:31Z")
When my stepson was little he was complaining about the potato chips we had, which he claimed he didn’t like (even though we knew he liked them). He said they were yucky. Since then, cheddar and sour cream chips Ruffles have been known as “yucky chips” in our house. When I was little, back in the dark ages, I called rotini pasta “crazy noodles” ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/24 "2018-02-09T16:55:07Z")
I refer to reduced-for-quick-sale meats as “used meat.” It’s my shorthand for “I got a good deal on this!” 😃 I enjoy the reaction I get when someone hears it for the first time. When we were kids, my mom would sometimes serve spaghetti sauce over rice. We called it “slop” - it tasted good, but it looked like, well, slop. Also as kids, we referred to rotini as “twistetti” - twisty spaghetti, right? ---
**Author:** ![Stana\_Claus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stana_claus/32/13874_2.png) [@Stana\_Claus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stana_Claus)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/25 "2018-02-09T18:56:34Z")
When my youngest brother was just a wee lad my stepmother would give him Lucky Charms cereal for breakfast. He would pick out and eat all of the marshmallow charms, but would leave behind the rest. At that age he had a problem pronouncing his "L"s so what got left behind were the “yuckies” and the cereal in question became Yucky Charms. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/26 "2018-02-09T19:07:54Z")
Farfalle pasta is “action man bow-ties” in our house thanks to Alan Partridge. Our fridge shopping list is an ongoing battle to write normal food in the in most ridiculous way and yet it still be understood. Hence, “bred” “soop” “fizzee worter” “lymez” and it just gets sillier from there. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/27 "2018-02-09T19:24:23Z")
Long grain & wild rice, like Uncle Ben’s, is “bug rice” in our house. Because the kids always used to think the dark rice grains looked like bugs. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/28 "2018-02-09T19:27:42Z")
Honey = bee vomit Mayonnaise = the Devil’s semen I like bee vomit, but I can’t stand eating the Devil’s semen. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/29 "2018-02-09T19:42:08Z")
Back in the 1990s, during the mad cow scare, here in Panama I used to buy canned corned beef from Britain to use on field trips. My Panamanian field crew used to call it _vaca loca_ (mad cow). My young cousins used to call asparagus “parrot grass.” ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/30 "2018-02-09T20:04:00Z")
mole asses = molasses whole = half-and-half (because a half and a half make a whole) fud = cat food or dog food (from the Gary Larson [cartoon](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e5/1b/eb/e51beb144a322c078f820012c9f0a7c9.jpg)) botty mook = milk (from a young niece’s mispronunciation of “bottle of milk”) dead cow = beef balls of dead cow = meatballs ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/31 "2018-02-09T20:16:32Z")
spit pee soup = split pea soup ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/32 "2018-02-09T20:41:40Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > Our fridge shopping list is an ongoing battle to write normal food in the in most ridiculous way and yet it still be understood. Hence, “bred” “soop” “fizzee worter” “lymez” and it just gets sillier from there. Ha! We do this too.“malk” “butt hair” “aygz” ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/33 "2018-02-09T21:12:50Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > Farfalle pasta is “action man bow-ties” in our house thanks to Alan Partridge. > > Our fridge shopping list is an ongoing battle to write normal food in the in most ridiculous way and yet it still be understood. Hence, “bred” “soop” “fizzee worter” “lymez” and it just gets sillier from there. Back in college I worked night shift at a pizza shop. The guy who did salad bar prep during the day was fond of labeling the tubs with funny names, like broccoli would be “mini trees”, that kind of stuff. Management made him stop after a customer saw and objected to his label for the hard boiled eggs – “solid chicken farts”. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/34 "2018-02-09T21:17:45Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Back in college I worked night shift at a pizza shop. The guy who did salad bar prep during the day was fond of labeling the tubs with funny names, like broccoli would be “mini trees”, that kind of stuff. Management made him stop after a customer saw and objected to his label for the hard boiled eggs – “solid chicken farts”. Management being a killjoy again. I can’t think of a better way to enliven the drudgery of prepping salad based food. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/35 "2018-02-09T23:42:56Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I refer to reduced-for-quick-sale meats as “used meat.” It’s my shorthand for “I got a good deal on this!” 😃 I enjoy the reaction I get when someone hears it for the first time. Heh. My family shopped at the Freihofer’s surplus store, aka “the used bread store”. 🙂 People hear it, take a beat, “what??” > [@jz78817](#): > > tortellini = “tiny buttholes.” These aren’t (usually) a food, but my co-worker referred to these: [![](https://www.staples-3p.com/s7/is/image/Staples/s1063849_sc7?$splssku$) ](https://www.staples-3p.com/s7/is/image/Staples/s1063849_sc7?$splssku$) as “paper assholes”. ---
**Author:** ![BuckChongo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@BuckChongo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckChongo)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/36 "2018-02-10T02:13:59Z")
Duck Butter ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/37 "2018-02-10T02:17:42Z")
> [@BuckChongo](#): > > Duck Butter Oh, that reminds me, beef marrow I’ll call “bone butter.” ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/38 "2018-02-10T02:30:31Z")
A young cousin (very, very young) soon corrected puhsgetti but for one glorious summer, every time we went to McDonald’s she ordered a hangleburger swammich. We (my family, natch) still crack each other up with this _45 years later_. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/39 "2018-02-10T04:47:20Z")
Quiche is a ‘quickie’. I actually knew someone who ordered it that way. Mine-strone for minestrone; I got that one from a Marine serving on the chow line. Rag-out for ragout; my mother pronounced it that way. My youngest always put an ‘n’ after the ‘s’ in most words when he was young, so I still have snausages for breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/40 "2018-02-10T05:04:21Z")
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