# Your weird names for food items **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379 "2025-04-22T21:16:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/41 "2025-04-23T20:40:10Z")
My daughter always asks for ‘meat sticks’ (kabanos). Pretty accurate once you cut it up. We also frequently have ‘pasta lumps’ (tortelloni) for tea. Not very imaginative, I’m afraid. Better was the name for a concoction my husband came up with while way too drunk: the Slippery-Whippery, a drink composed of vodka, olive oil, and a drop of washing-up liquid to encourage them to mix. For obvious reasons, this has never been repeated. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/42 "2025-04-23T21:00:43Z")
Our kids came up with a lot, e.g. Soupy Noodles for Ramen. My favorite is my daughter who decided she did like chicken skin (uniquely for my kids) but also called it “chicken peel” ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/43 "2025-04-23T21:02:10Z")
Ever since I read Stephen King’s _Duma Key_ years ago, I always refer to those rotisserie chickens in the plastic container that you get at the grocery store as “astronaut chickens.” Chicken breasts are sometimes “chicky boobs.” ---
**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/44 "2025-04-23T21:10:22Z")
When very young my kid did not know the name for whipped cream, so coined the term “ice cream frosting.” To entertain the kid I called green beans “green food tubes”, and that stuck. I upset my wife the other day by calling cheese “hard milk”. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2025, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/45 "2025-04-23T21:33:22Z")
For St. Patrick’s day, I eat Porn Beast and Crabbage. ---
**Author:** ![mtnmatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@mtnmatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mtnmatt)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/46 "2025-04-23T21:44:50Z")
My kids requested “Chocka-Chocka Olga Bars” because they could not say Chocolate Chip Granola Bars, and that has stuck. My son would request “Colorful Cheerios” after once having Froot Loops. They all eat pretty healthily as adults, thank goodness ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/47 "2025-04-23T21:57:25Z")
Ruffles came out with some new flavors a few years ago and each one came with a picture of an NBA player on the bag. Their flaming hot BBQ was a huge hit at home, and they had Boston Celtics player Jayson Tatum on the bag. So we call them potatums still to this day. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/48 "2025-04-23T22:28:42Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Is there a kid’s camp in the country that doesn’t call the fruit punch/Kool Aid/ Hi-C they serve “bug juice”? That’s what I learned to call soy sauce (presumably because it resembles a grasshopper’s “tobacco juice”). It may be endemic to Montana, where my father (on whom be peace) was raised; in any case, I made sure to pass it on to the Ottlets. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2025, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/49 "2025-04-23T22:34:02Z")
Do you want your eggs frizzled or strangled? ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/50 "2025-04-23T22:56:36Z")
My ex-wife’s family served “purple glop” at get togethers; it was a blueberry dessert; sort of like the inside of a pie. My grandmother used to serve me “meat loaf” as a kid; it was ground beef rolled up in some sort of fried dough. Growing up, my dad called sriracha “Rooster sauce”, on account of the Huy Fong logo. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/51 "2025-04-23T23:19:49Z")
If we can include dog treats, my wife and I call rawhides “shut the fuck up sticks” because we give our dog one so that we can watch a movie without him pestering us. ---
**Author:** ![pirviii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pirviii/32/3233_2.png) [@pirviii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pirviii)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/52 "2025-04-23T23:28:03Z")
Growing up, any kind of casserole or hot dish type item no matter the ingredients was referred to as “gut bomb”. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/53 "2025-04-23T23:32:05Z")
That’s probably the original, uncensored name of hush puppies. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/54 "2025-04-23T23:47:28Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > > [@Turek](#): > > > > I was like 40 years old before I realized “SOS” stood for “shit on a shingle”. > > Properly, SOS is “Creamed Chipped Beef on Toast”, although I could see someone using ground beef for it. Dave Barry, in one of his books, says it was staple of his mother’s and that, the name “Shit on a Shingle” notwithstanding, he loved it. > > Here’s a Navy recpe for 100 portions: > > [Reddit - The heart of the internet](https://www.reddit.com/r/Butchery/comments/1jlfsga/creamed_chipped_beef_navy_recipe_card/?rdt=48121) Oh, good! I was just now thinking about what I should do about meal prep for the next twenty weeks! TYVM! > [@psychonaut](#): > > My partner makes [mimosa salad](https://savaskitchen.com/mimosa-salad-layered-tuna-and-egg-salad/) every New Year’s Eve. This is a round, compact, layered salad, with grated hard-boiled egg yolks as the top layer. I always refer to it as “Pac-Man salad”, since that’s exactly what it looks like once the first wedge of it has been cut out. (To complete the metaphor, I often add a black olive on top as an eye.) I hope you don’t put the “eye” on until the first wedge has been removed. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > Is there a kid’s camp in the country that doesn’t call the fruit punch/Kool Aid/ Hi-C they serve “bug juice”? Dunno about kids’ summer camps, but there aren’t any submarines in the fleet that don’t. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2025, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/55 "2025-04-24T00:02:18Z")
Biscuits were referred to as ‘depth charges’ in the Navy. Lima beans were “motherfuckers”, as in “They’re serving ham and motherfuckers tonight.” Hot dogs were tube steaks. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/56 "2025-04-24T00:11:26Z")
I never found out why, but my Dad refused to categorize runny egg yolks as “food.” But growing up, we kids loved ‘em. We called them “gooey eggs” (albumin _had_ to be cooked through, though, or they weren’t food, either). ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/57 "2025-04-24T00:18:29Z")
Cackleberries are eggs. “Zoop” is my Daddys recipe of Beef stew. The kids loved it. Unless I made it. Not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/58 "2025-04-24T00:22:17Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Hot dogs were tube steaks. Brother and I heard our Baptist preacher telling us there were going to be burgers and tube steaks out back after the sermon. We both pissed ourselves laughing! ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/59 "2025-04-24T00:25:22Z")
When I was a kid my Hungarian grandmother, who barely spoke any English, regularly made a dish we called “Italian meat”. When I was an adult I realized it was chicken parmigiana. Oh, another one: Cream of Wheat was called “cooked cereal “. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/60 "2025-04-24T00:26:01Z")
I used to make a split pea & lentil porridge-like stuff with veg stock & curry spicing. The consistency varied from thin and saucy to thick and heavy. Real healthy, pretty tasty, and great over rice on a day you’re wanting meatless. I give you “green goop”. It was very green and very much goop. Yummy goop, but goop nevertheless. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379.md?page=4)