# wierd food names you tell your kids. Am I the only one? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 7, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-food-names-you-tell-your-kids-am-i-the-only-one/153492 "2003-02-07T16:39:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tunabreath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@tunabreath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tunabreath)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-food-names-you-tell-your-kids-am-i-the-only-one/153492/41 "2003-02-09T19:19:51Z")
Celtic Cowboy(or Edwardina or whoever you are!) The is GOOD! This is what I’m talking about! Frog’s eye soup and the like. My son won’t eat anything he’s never had before, don’t ask me why he’s still alive. I mean, where do you start if it has to be something he’s already had? I’ve found wierd food names help. It never hurts to through in wierd things that they can read the on the lable like squid and buffalo. It makes prairie dog and worms so much easier to believe. Acrossthesea, octopus balls? Where do you get them? I like octopus sushi so… ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-food-names-you-tell-your-kids-am-i-the-only-one/153492/42 "2003-02-09T19:27:39Z")
We have “porcupine balls.” The kids love 'em… OH! What they are: They’re basically a meatloaf mixture made into meat balls, with white rice mixed in… They’re kinda greasy, which of course means they are yummy! ---
**Author:** ![tunabreath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@tunabreath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tunabreath)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-food-names-you-tell-your-kids-am-i-the-only-one/153492/43 "2003-02-09T19:54:02Z")
the=this through=throw Next weekend I’m baking porqupine balls! With a side of pigmy slugs. If I can’t find octopus balls then I’ll invent them. ---
**Author:** ![sonicsink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@sonicsink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sonicsink)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-food-names-you-tell-your-kids-am-i-the-only-one/153492/44 "2003-02-09T20:24:41Z")
When I was younger my parents had pea soup alot for lunch,so when my brother and I asked “Whats that?” They told us it was “sea poop” so of course we figured that all the poop floating in the sea from fish,whales etc… was turned into a yummy soup for us to eat. I still call it sea poop to this day ---
**Author:** ![Theobroma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@Theobroma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theobroma)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-food-names-you-tell-your-kids-am-i-the-only-one/153492/45 "2003-02-09T23:57:18Z")
We call Ketchup “Universal Condiment”, as in: “Oh, son, would you please get the universal condiment out of the fridge?” “Sure, Dad!” When my son asks “What’s for dinner?” he always gets the same answer: POOP! He hates this. My mother found out about this exchange, and told me off. Then I asked her, in front of my son: “Hey, Mom, what did YOU tell me when I asked YOU what was for dinner?” She shrugged and told the truth: “Poison…” We also have “eggs with the yellow part on top” (fried eggs) and “pounded chicken” (…with breading). Can’t think of more at the moment, sure I will as soon as I’m logged off. ---
**Author:** ![AndLuna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dbc845/32.png) [@AndLuna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndLuna)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-food-names-you-tell-your-kids-am-i-the-only-one/153492/46 "2003-02-10T00:09:58Z")
When I was little, myfather used to make “pasta and cat-sick”… (pasta in a sauce which was made mostly from mushroom soup, iirc.) I found this hugely entertaining, and ate the stuff by the bucketfull. ---
**Author:** ![tisiphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-food-names-you-tell-your-kids-am-i-the-only-one/153492/47 "2003-02-10T00:10:10Z")
Spitball sandwiches - peanut butter with torn-up marshmallows. Boogers-on-a-stick - green-dyed Cheez Whiz on pretzel sticks. Zits - cherry tomatoes stuffed with cream cheese. If you want to have a Halloween feast for kids, or just be The Cool Grownup, see if you can locate a copy of [Gross Grub: Wretched Recipes That Look Yucky but Taste Yummy](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679866930/qid%3D1044835737/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-0772522-3992115). As a mother of two boys, this book has been invaluable to me. And one of the coolest parts is that the recipes are simple enough that the kids can make it themselves! (With some supervision, of course.) ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-food-names-you-tell-your-kids-am-i-the-only-one/153492/48 "2003-02-10T00:38:47Z")
**barf** = oatmeal with chunks of pineapple **flies** = raisins in oatmeal ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-food-names-you-tell-your-kids-am-i-the-only-one/153492/49 "2003-02-10T01:22:08Z")
We always had Kleenex soup when I was a kid (chicken noodle soup with scambled eggs swirled in.) I thought nothing of this, until one day when my toddler came into the kitchen and said, “Whatcha makin’?” She’s nearly 13 now, and STILL won’t eat anything I make unless she has watched me assemble it. This isn’t really the same thing, but in our house, Brussels sprouts are called “Groucho Marx.” This is from an uncle who could never remember what those things were called, but who remembered they SORTA sounded like “Groucho Marx.” ::shrug:: ---
**Author:** ![Another\_Primate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Another\_Primate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Another_Primate)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-food-names-you-tell-your-kids-am-i-the-only-one/153492/50 "2003-02-10T01:43:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cazzle \* > \*\*Horse Doovers - hors d’oeuvres > \*\* My father-in-law used to call those “Horse Ovaries”. At least, that’s what I heard. My former husband says he called them “Whore’s Ovaries”… ---
**Author:** ![Another\_Primate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Another\_Primate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Another_Primate)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-food-names-you-tell-your-kids-am-i-the-only-one/153492/51 "2003-02-10T01:46:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tunabreath \* > \*\*… we tried this bottled chocolate milk … It’s safe, made only from the purest milk from certified lab rats. I warned him about feral rats, very poor quality milk, too gamey. The reason it has cows on the label is because they are angry cows, angry because this milk is better. \*\* You slay me. Have you tried Vanilla Milk? Banana Milk? Doubt you’ll find these around anymore – guess there weren’t many fans – but how about Orange Milk and (eeuw) Root Beer Milk? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-food-names-you-tell-your-kids-am-i-the-only-one/153492.md?page=2)