# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/41 "2018-02-10T12:23:47Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > 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. Snausages were also a dog food, the name repeatedly intoned in a popular 80s TV commercial (perhaps you knew this). ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/42 "2018-02-10T14:26:12Z")
Sludge = Soup with mashed potato flakes stirred in. Cludge = Soup with couscous stirred in. I love both of them. ---
**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, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/43 "2018-02-10T15:07:21Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Snausages were also a dog food, the name repeatedly intoned in a popular 80s TV commercial (perhaps you knew this). I’d forgotten about that. When I was a kid, I called them ‘saugages’, so that’s an alternate. Then there’s the ever popular ‘tube sandwich’ for a hot dog, and in the military bologna was called ‘horse cock’. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/44 "2018-02-10T15:09:50Z")
A young relative who was just learning to read once pronounced the restaurant name as “Chick-A-Fill.” That’s the name we all use now. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/45 "2018-02-10T15:27:00Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Also, Banana Split is now referred to as Banana Speed at our house, due to a spelling error on an Asian menu we recently saw while travelling! Seen on a menu in Little Tokyo: _Steam Thing_ Me and a buddy broke out singing, _Steam Thing! I think I love you… But I wanna know fo sure…_ ---
**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 10, 2018, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/46 "2018-02-10T17:50:09Z")
Another one, those delicious little choux pastry balls filled with cream and topped with a chocolate sauce? Proffytorrylez ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/47 "2018-02-10T17:53:16Z")
My regular pizza order is the Pig and Pine. (Pepperoni, ham, bacon, and pineapple.) ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/48 "2018-02-10T18:46:04Z")
Milk is “moo”. ---
**Author:** ![flaming\_yawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cab0a1/32.png) [@flaming\_yawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flaming_yawn)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/49 "2018-02-10T20:06:17Z")
Jap a lean o Peppers… Jalepeno Peppers of course. Pig soup… gross soup from my youth my mom made with veg all and broken spaghetti New one as of 5 minutes ago my husband asked me to buy Metropolitan Ice Cream it took me a couple to realize he meant Neapolitan. ---
**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 10, 2018, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/50 "2018-02-10T20:54:55Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Then there’s the ever popular ‘tube sandwich’ for a hot dog, I always heard that one as tube steak. Another one of the classics is calling eggs “cackle fruit.” ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/51 "2018-02-10T21:50:30Z")
Doesn’t everyone call asparagus sparrow grass? (Sorry Colibri.) And milk = moo juice must also be common. SOS is near universal for creamed chipped beef on toast. ---
**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 10, 2018, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/52 "2018-02-10T22:09:59Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > Doesn’t everyone call asparagus sparrow grass? (Sorry Colibri.) My cousins seem to have made up “parrot grass” by themselves, based on mishearing the name. ---
**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, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/53 "2018-02-10T22:24:24Z")
> [@flaming\_yawn](#): > > Jap a lean o Peppers… Jalepeno Peppers of course. > Pig soup… gross soup from my youth my mom made with veg all and broken spaghetti > New one as of 5 minutes ago my husband asked me to buy Metropolitan Ice Cream it took me a couple to realize he meant Neapolitan. A jalapeno is a jolly penis in my house. Forgot about shitcake mushrooms. ---
**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, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/54 "2018-02-10T22:42:34Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > Doesn’t everyone call asparagus sparrow grass? (Sorry Colibri.) > And milk = moo juice must also be common. > SOS is near universal for creamed chipped beef on toast. Never heard “sparrow grass.” “Moo juice” is somewhat common, IME. And, yes, SOS. That may as well be the official name for that dish. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/55 "2018-02-11T00:59:55Z")
My mother makes beef “stewp” occasionally. Perhaps spelled “stoup”. It’s got way more stuff than broth to be soup, but the broth that’s there isn’t thick enough for stew. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/56 "2018-02-11T02:30:04Z")
Courtesy of my late FIL: Roast beast Beast loaf Micky Rooney salad Goatmeal (oatmeal) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/57 "2018-02-11T02:33:27Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > \ > I also remember my dad calling linguine “worms”. After that, all I could think of was tapeworms when I ate it. “Linguini” means tongues in English. “Vermicelli” means worms. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/58 "2018-02-11T04:40:32Z")
I make minute steaks saute"d in a savory gravy served with garlic mashed potatoes. My older daughter used to like this, but has become a finicky eater as an adult. This dish is now called “Gross Brown Meat and Gravy” and is no longer on the approved list. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2018, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/59 "2018-02-12T01:16:18Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > “Linguini” means tongues in English. “Vermicelli” means worms. Maybe that’s what I was thinking of. It was the thick like a small tube but long like spaghetti. I also remember when I was a kid my mom would fry our over-easy eggs in bacon grease so we always called them “dirty eggs” because of the specks of bacon on them from the grease. We also called over-easy eggs “dunking eggs” because we dunked our toast in them. I didn’t know they were called over-easy until I was way into my 20’s. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486/60 "2018-02-13T20:23:49Z")
> [@glowacks](#): > > My mother makes beef “stewp” occasionally. Perhaps spelled “stoup”. It’s got way more stuff than broth to be soup, but the broth that’s there isn’t thick enough for stew. Rachael Ray likes to say “stewp/stoup” on her show also, for a thick hearty soup. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-weird-nicknames-for-food/808486.md?page=4)