Interesting Names

After reading TobyBo's post about 7 favourite foods (thanks for keeping the "u" Aussie spelling) I was reminded of those cute things our kids say from time to time about the food we make. Anika at the age of 4 was asked by my Dad what we were having for dinner and her reply was "bumpy chicken". These were her words for fried chicken. I guess breadcrumbed chicken does seem rather bumpy. Nowadays post-coeliac diagnosis we crumb chicken with polenta but we still call it "bumpy chicken".

Matt came up with a few names himself. Curried lamb chops were called "chopping bones". When my aunts came to visit from England 4 years ago he informed them that we were having "sticky tape pudding" (sticky date pudding) for dessert. One day when we had some Ukrainian visitors when Matt was learning to read he asked if he might have some more "extra value" to drink. The "extra value" was a bottle of lemon soda with "EXTRA VALUE, 50% more" written in huge letters on the side.

Little Mike at a fairly young age might have been making a comment on my cooking. I had made a beef stroganoff with cubed beef. He saw it in his bowl and said we were eating "rocks".

I think one of my favourites though had to be Lloyd. I was making a cake one day when he was around 3 and I was asking him what the various ingredients were to see if he knew them - flour, sugar, eggs etc. All went well with the vocabulary check until we came to the salt. "What's this, Lloyd?" His reply was "popcorn taste". I guess it does taste a bit like styrofoam without salt.