# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/81 "2025-04-26T19:27:44Z")
> [@Ellecram](#): > > My mother used to make cinnamon rolls which she always called “barn doolies”. Well, cow patties _are_ round. And cinnamon _is_ brown. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/82 "2025-04-26T19:43:34Z")
Ford City PA Oh my I never connected that lol! ---
**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 26, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/83 "2025-04-26T21:13:27Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > > [@Ellecram](#): > > > > My mother used to make cinnamon rolls which she always called “barn doolies”. > > Well, cow patties _are_ round. And cinnamon _is_ brown. There is a striking resemblance between a typical lumpy dark brown irregularly shaped but mostly flat apple fritter and a pile of animal dung. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/84 "2025-04-26T21:14:33Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > > [@Yllaria](#): > > > > > [@Ellecram](#): > > > > > > My mother used to make cinnamon rolls which she always called “barn doolies”. > > > > Well, cow patties _are_ round. And cinnamon _is_ brown. > > There is a striking resemblance between a typical lumpy dark brown irregularly shaped but mostly flat apple fritter and a pile of animal dung.. I am going to pass this particular bit of information to my family members lol. ---
**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 26, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/85 "2025-04-26T21:15:45Z")
I was too slow with my edit … Here’s a pic for your family’s enjoyment: > **[BIG APPLE FRITTERS](https://fromgatetoplate.com/big-apple-fritters/)** > > Craving something sweet and delicious? Look no further than this amazing air fryer apple fritters recipe! Deliciously golden and crisp on the outside, with a soft and sweet center filled with tender apples, these apple I think the hand gives that pic some extra comedy value. Gimme a big handful of yummy dung please! Mmm Mmm … Good! ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/86 "2025-04-26T21:25:17Z")
LOL the picture is great! ---
**Author:** ![Eric1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3bc359/32.png) [@Eric1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eric1)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/87 "2025-04-27T03:53:35Z")
My grandfather used to call cheap beer a ‘Colorado Koolaid.’ It was definitely meant affectionately because they were from rural Colorado. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/88 "2025-04-27T04:07:50Z")
As background, you have to know that “beeyoop” was my dad’s jokey kid’s word for “fart.” Once my sister and I went away to camp for multiple weeks. At our first dinner back, our littlest sister, who had been too young to go, asked Dad to “please pass the beeyoops.” Dad handed her the bowl of pork and beans. My sister and I looked at each other. Then my sister said, “we obviously left her alone with him too long.” ---
**Author:** ![Eric1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3bc359/32.png) [@Eric1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eric1)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/89 "2025-04-27T04:17:27Z")
Beeyoop is hilarious - thanks for the lift! ---
**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 27, 2025, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/90 "2025-04-27T04:25:26Z")
> [@Eric1](#): > > My grandfather used to call cheap beer a ‘Colorado Koolaid. That was the nickname for Coors when I was a kid in the 70s. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/91 "2025-04-27T04:47:00Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > As background, you have to know that “beeyoop” was my dad’s jokey kid’s word for “fart.” Once my sister and I went away to camp for multiple weeks. At our first dinner back, our littlest sister, who had been too young to go, asked Dad to “please pass the beeyoops.” > > Dad handed her the bowl of pork and beans. My sister and I looked at each other. Then my sister said, “we obviously left her alone with him too long.” That is hysterical - I love the beeyoop and beans story. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/92 "2025-04-27T13:01:00Z")
My recipe for rice pudding was hand-written by my mother, who copied what her mom had written for her, which was a copy of her recipe which came from her mother-in-law (my mom’s paternal grandmother). It mentions that the cook may decided to put raisins in the rice pudding, but the kids (my maternal grandfather and his sisters) don’t like bugs in their rice pudding. If there’s any sort of sauce (for example, gravy) on the table, my dad’s friend will ask if anybody wants spooge with their food. ---
**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 27, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/93 "2025-04-27T13:22:06Z")
I’m partial to calling anything stewlike “dead critters n’ glop”. The thicker the sauce the better the name works. ---
**Author:** ![sunacres](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@sunacres](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunacres)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/94 "2025-04-27T15:10:28Z")
Great minds. My partner makes a delicious dish with eggplant, tomatoes, pine nuts, etc. that she made up herself. We couldn’t identify what category it was - thicker than a sauce, sorta stew-ish. It is Eggplant Plop. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/95 "2025-04-27T15:11:57Z")
I occasionally refer to oatmeal as Cream of Knee Sock. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/96 "2025-04-28T01:49:01Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Hot dogs were tube steaks. We called them training aids. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/97 "2025-04-28T01:52:51Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > lumpy dark brown irregularly shaped but mostly flat apple fritter Sounds like Salisbury steaks, as made by Navy cooks. We called them trail markers. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/98 "2025-04-28T02:10:44Z")
I feel I should start calling sausages poop logs 🎄 ---
**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 28, 2025, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/99 "2025-04-28T13:18:54Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > We called them trail markers. Now that’s a new one on me. And good for a chuckle. Thank you. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379/100 "2025-04-28T14:15:54Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Duncan eggs: nothing Scottish, just eggs with yolks runny enough for dunking toast into We said Dunkin’ Eggs because we dunked our toast in the runny yolks. We also had what we called Dirty Eggs. Those were also dunkin’ eggs but were cooked in the bacon grease so they had the tiny bits of bacon and whatever else is left behind in the bacon grease. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-weird-names-for-food-items/1017379.md?page=6)