Addison had an interesting discussions with a campmate last week over how to make grilled cheese sandwiches. His friend had no idea you could use “real” cheese – he’d always use that other kind of cheese.
“Oh, you mean plastic cheese,” Addison told him.
“What do you mean, plastic cheese?” he asked.
Addison had to explain our family’s terminology, “You know, it looks like plastic, it’s wrapped in plastic, and…” here he pauses for effect, “it tastes like plastic. Plastic cheese!”
We usually consider it a treat compared to the “real” thing. What kind of odd food terminology does your family have?
(num-nums, nur-nurs, and moo-moos notwithstanding. 
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I will use plastic cheese from now on, thanks! Our family, even though we don’t eat it much anymore, will forever refer to tofu as “faux poop” since that is how Fi pronounced it when she was 2.
this is probably a common one, but Grandad penned it and now we all use it, sphagetti is known as sketti in our house.
Even though she’s been saying it properly for quite some time now, Hayley used to call strawberries “bubbies” and it kind of stuck.
Well, I used to get my kids to eat salad by telling them it was really spinach (this was when they were tiny, and watched Popeye cartoons). Then, of course, when they got old enough to realize that all kids HATE spinach, I had to come clean. I don’t think they’ve trusted me at all, since then!
When we first moved to the town we live in, we lived with my parents for a couple of years. Ever since then, eggs over easy (as opposed to hard-boiled or scrambled) are called “Papa’s kind of eggs” after my Dad. And scrambled are “Daddy’s kind of eggs”.
Also, my kids seem to use olive, mushroom, and pickle interchangeably. My 8yo daughter just finally got straight which one was which!
My kids love to eat EGG BOATS……which of course are simply deviled eggs…but if it gets them to eat…boats it is!:wink:
Speaking of eggs, we call hard-boiled eggs “round eggs” and fried eggs and “flat eggs”.
“How you want yer eggs, round or flat?”
Tofu-based “meat” products, like deli slices and hot dogs, are called “smeat” in our household.
Any artificial flavouring that tries unsuccessfully to taste like something natural but which has a perfectly good taste on its own is called “grape flavouring” here since grape flavoured things never taste like grapes but like some other somewhat pleasant thing. Kraft Dinner, for example, tastes nothing like cheese to me but more a “grape flavouring” version of cheese.
Carrie reminded me of a food that was attributed to a person. My Uncle Wilmer used to eat some variety of cheese spread in a jar (tastier than Cheese Whiz and somewhat zingy if I remember correctly). To this day I don’t know the actual name, only that it came in a tall slender glass jar that could then be used as a glass when you were done, and it had a red lid and red label. Anyway, it was always “Uncle Wilmer’s Cheese” when we asked for it.
re: grape flavouring. Sometimes we call it graple, sometimes just purple.