# Turk E. Cheese **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 18, 2009, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turk-e-cheese/481801 "2009-01-18T00:54:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shai\_tan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Shai\_tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shai_tan)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turk-e-cheese/481801/1 "2009-01-18T00:54:17Z")
I thought it was a sandwich. But apparently its my daughters favorite pizza joint. (She’s three.) ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turk-e-cheese/481801/2 "2009-01-18T00:55:02Z")
No, that’s Chuck E. Cheese. Vile pizza. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turk-e-cheese/481801/3 "2009-01-18T00:58:55Z")
Vile _Everything_ ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turk-e-cheese/481801/4 "2009-01-18T01:27:21Z")
No, Turk E. Cheese is Chuck E. Cheese’s Eastern European cousin, an anthropomorphic Turkish spiny mouse who sells only certified _halal_ pizza and lahmacun. He will gladly host your child’s birthday party; but has not offered pizza delivery service since the 15th century. On the plus side, the restaurant’s animatronic characters also play a mean game of chess. ---
**Author:** ![Shai\_tan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Shai\_tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shai_tan)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turk-e-cheese/481801/5 "2009-01-18T02:02:08Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > No, that’s Chuck E. Cheese. Vile pizza. I’m aware of the actual name. That’s just not how she says it. As I said, she’s three. I was just sharing one of the latest malapropisms that amused me. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turk-e-cheese/481801/6 "2009-01-18T02:10:31Z")
> [@Shai\_tan](#): > > I’m aware of the actual name. That’s just not how she says it. As I said, she’s three. I was just sharing one of the latest malapropisms that amused me. When VunderKind was that age, he ate ‘brefkist’ very morning, and wanted to eat crab legs at Fred Lobster. He loved The Beatles ‘Come Together’ calling it the ‘Shoop-shoop Song’. Now that he’s an adult, mention of any of these things embarasses him to no end. Our term for his malaprop was a ‘Bobbyism’. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turk-e-cheese/481801/7 "2009-01-18T02:15:16Z")
Oh, ok. My middle son for a time there, when he was 2 or 3, used to say “That’s a God I did” instead of “That’s a good idea”. He does not find it humorous now, at 15, but I still do. As well as the fact that he was deathly afraid of oven mitts. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turk-e-cheese/481801/8 "2009-01-18T02:39:06Z")
Nose Wipe and the Seven Dorks 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Shai\_tan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Shai\_tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shai_tan)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turk-e-cheese/481801/9 "2009-01-18T08:59:09Z")
Not really a malapropism, but another saying that amused me. When we were in Hawaii, my MIL would often take my (then) two year old to the pool, which was always comfortably warm. My MIL would often say, “Oooh, its like a bath…” My daughter appropriated a lot of her Grandma’s sayings, this being no exception. So one evening as we put her in the tub, she says: “Ooooh, it’s like a bath!” Why yes. Yes, it is. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turk-e-cheese/481801/10 "2009-01-18T15:12:34Z")
You know that stuff you brush your teeth with? That’s pooptaste. My now-13-year-old HATES it when I remind him of that. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turk-e-cheese/481801/11 "2009-01-18T15:46:14Z")
My kid was always asking me to buy her a Colonial burger from the place with the red flag that her friends mum had taken her to. KFC! ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turk-e-cheese/481801/12 "2009-01-18T16:29:42Z")
My son once wanted me to buy something at Winn Diskie. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turk-e-cheese/481801/13 "2009-01-19T07:14:20Z")
My stepson (his mom and I divorced in the 1980s) had no end to the malapropisms he could invent. He asked me where we were going one day and I told him I needed to stop by my friend’s office. My friend is a chiropractor. At the store, we saw another one of our friends and she asked the kid what we were going to do. He said, “Daddy’s going to go see the Chiro-Cracker!” Come to think of it, that’s probably what it _should_ be called… Another time, his mother was headed off to a Tupperware party. The kid popped off with, “Enjoy your Flubber-ware party, Mommy!” This kid is now 28 years old. I could embarass him SO bad… ---
**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turk-e-cheese/481801/14 "2009-01-19T07:24:17Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > No, that’s Chuck E. Cheese. Vile pizza. I actually like their pizza… Of course I also like the pizzas you can get in the deli section of the grocery store…two like 12" pizzas wrapped in cardboard and plastic wrap for $5. So maybe I just don’t care XD ---
**Author:** ![Arglefraster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@Arglefraster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arglefraster)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turk-e-cheese/481801/15 "2009-01-19T14:40:45Z")
When my sister was very small, she used to say “loosic” instead of “music”. We tried to get her to say it right by going “ma ma ma music”. She would respond with “ma ma ma loosic”. 😃 I don’t remember this, but my parents told me that when I was very small, I loved puzzles. The wooden ones with maybe 5 pieces. I could put them together, but for whatever reason I needed a grown-up to take them apart again. I would ask people to do this by saying “Ba partay?” Apparently in baby-me-speak this meant “Please take the puzzle apart so I can put it back together again.” ---
**Author:** ![howye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@howye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howye)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turk-e-cheese/481801/16 "2009-01-19T15:15:31Z")
Did you know the ship in Wall-E is the Bxia? Yup, the B&L Bxia. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turk-e-cheese/481801/17 "2009-01-19T18:55:01Z")
> [@AngelSoft](#): > > I actually like their pizza… No such thing as bad pizza…unless you’re in Chicago or Houston, where there’s no such thing as good pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turk-e-cheese/481801/18 "2009-01-19T19:25:32Z")
I had a friend who, when he was little, would replace all “sm” sounds with “f” sounds. He was also fond of jam. So, he said “With a name like…, it has to be good” on more than one occasion. His mom was always telling us this story to his embarrassment. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turk-e-cheese/481801/19 "2009-01-19T20:21:11Z")
This story always makes me chuckle… When my fiancee was younger, she and her family were at a Chuck-E-Cheese’s. She walked up to the table after playing and said “Mom, what are Beaver Rags?” She couldn’t get her mom’s attention so she asked again. “Mom, what are Beaver Rags.” Still no response, so this time she yelled, “MOM! WHAT ARE **BEAVER RAGS**!!!” Her mom, as well as everyone else in the general area heard her loud and clear. Her mom was of course horrified w/ embarrassment. Until they realized she was talking about BEVERAGES. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turk-e-cheese/481801/20 "2009-01-19T20:27:05Z")
When my niece was little she was trying to express “nip it in the bud” (I think she heard if from Barney Fife). But the way it came out was “lick it in the butt”. StG [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turk-e-cheese/481801.md?page=2)