Snausages were also a dog food, the name repeatedly intoned in a popular 80s TV commercial (perhaps you knew this).
Sludge = Soup with mashed potato flakes stirred in.
Cludge = Soup with couscous stirred in.
I love both of them.
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’.
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.
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…
Another one, those delicious little choux pastry balls filled with cream and topped with a chocolate sauce?
Proffytorrylez
My regular pizza order is the Pig and Pine.
(Pepperoni, ham, bacon, and pineapple.)
Milk is “moo”.
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.
I always heard that one as tube steak.
Another one of the classics is calling eggs “cackle fruit.”
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.
My cousins seem to have made up “parrot grass” by themselves, based on mishearing the name.
A jalapeno is a jolly penis in my house.
Forgot about shitcake mushrooms.
Never heard “sparrow grass.” “Moo juice” is somewhat common, IME. And, yes, SOS. That may as well be the official name for that dish.
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.
Courtesy of my late FIL:
Roast beast
Beast loaf
Micky Rooney salad
Goatmeal (oatmeal)
“Linguini” means tongues in English. “Vermicelli” means worms.
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.
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.
Rachael Ray likes to say “stewp/stoup” on her show also, for a thick hearty soup.