Remember the candy called Boston Baked Beans? It is peanuts with a hard bumpy coating. We always called them Rabbit Turds. And we still wanted to eat them.

For us, bug juice was Kook-Ade or something similar.

Broccoli is baby trees. Mac and cheese was yellow noodles. Eggs were cackle berries. DH started telling Damien that water is clear juice. They now argue over what it is called for the fun of it!

Donna, at our house, real rabbit turds are raisins! Sorry, that's what they look like.

Tami

the only thing I can think of right now is:

Mustard - mouse turd
Ketchup - cat soup
Kool-aid - bug juice
Milk - moo juice

Hot dog = Tube steak
Steak = Cow, ie..throw that cow on the grill
Black olives = Finger puppets

"Bug Juice" was Kool-Aid or any type of fruit punch. I first heard of it at college.

Growing up, we called something "Glitch". It was a dessert my Mom made, but I don't know what it was called, just that we all liked it. A few of the ingredients were: marshmallows, crushed pineapple, pistachio instant pudding, maybe cool whip -- all combined. It was light (and light green), and airy, and chilled.

When my kids were little Chicken Parmesan was "Pizza Chicken"

Individually wrapped slices of cheese were "Help Yourself Cheese"

I'm sure there are more!

trail mix = gorp

dog food..=.. Poor Man's Stroganoff! lol

My dad always called soy sauce bug juice. I Googled the term and saw that bug juice was Kool Aid served on Navy ships and also a program on the Disney Channel.

Maura--If you google Watergate Salad, I think you'll find the recipe you're talking about. It was created in the Watergate Hotel in DC.

When we were kids, it wasn't yet politically incorrect to eat veal. My brother didn't like it, though. But he loved 'tiger meat' for some reason (and why did we even think to call veal tiger to get him to eat it?)

Stinky cheese. Never knew its real name for a long time. It's actually German Brick. I haven't had any for a long time and recently bought some. My husband asked me not to eat it when he is around.

To get my DD to eat her veggies when she was little, Split Pea soup was 'kindergarten soup' (what kids in kindergarten got to eat! Yumm! lol) and vegetable soup became '1st grade soup'.

My grandson calls Cracklin' Oat Bran the name Bear Food. The same shopping trip when he went with her, his great aunt bought him a Beanie Baby toy bear and she bought the cereal too. So he calls it Bear Food.

I've called cole slaw cold slop since I was a kid. Can you tell I don't like it? Tastes like bad breath to me. Sorry cole slaw lovers.
My mother called the wide round long noodles sewer pipes. I didn't realize how disgusting that sounds until I was older. Can't remember their real name.

My DD to her embarrassment thought the breakfast sausage at her grandparents was a type called whatchamalcallit until she was almost into her pre-teens. LOL When she would visit my parents, grandpa would cook breakfast for her and always ask if she wanted some whatchmacallit with her pancakes, french toast or whatever else she was having.

Kraft Single Slices Cheese=plastic cheese

When I made cornbread I would lay strips of bacon in the bottom of the skillet then pour in the batter calling it bacon bread. It was the only way I could get my son to eat cornbread.

I call the little pads of a cats feet Pork & Beans. LOL

Not exactly what you were asking for but still pertains to food! :-)

Steph, I am right up there with you. Have you ever smelled your dogs paws? They smell just like fritos.

Trin

Grandpa would take Jimmy Dean sausage and mix 1/2 hamberger and make patties. Grandpa told the grand kids it was bear meat. So thats what we thought it was (there were more than30 grand kids)But were eventually let in on the secret. One year grandpa shot a bear and had it made into sausage. Grandma cooked it in patties, Grandpa told us it was bear meat...told him we were to old to still believe it, your secret is out... but it was really bear meat.

Warning - Don't look if you're easily offended.

When I was growing up my dad taught us to cut up Polish sausage "pig peters".

Dd's favorite food is tomatoes. When she first started talking, she called them 'maymos' so we call them that too.

My sister, the other aunt, told our nieces when they were 4 and 2 that brussel sprouts were little green balls of death.

Now at ages 18 and 16, the nieces have never even tried them.

Lesterd, my dd calls brussel sprouts baby cabbages. She likes them, but was never served them in my house! We don't like them. At 26, that is what she still calls them.

Nicole, hot dogs have been called tube steaks here sometimes, too.

This is a fun thread!

Tami

My nephew used to call Cranberry sauce "Michael" when a little boy

Us kids called a BLT a Crazy Mixed Up Sandwich. It couldn't decide which i9t was, BLT bacon lettuxe or tomato. Tonight we has grilled cheese with bacon and tomato slices. figures that's at least two vegetables and a protein.

Our youngest son called cottage cheese "college" cheese.
Our family still calls it that.

In school they served hamburger in a cream gravy and we always called it Gravy Train. Tasted as I would have expected Gravy Train to taste too!

Years ago there was a sub shop called Clark's Submarine Sandwiches, which BTW beat the daylights out of anything you can buy today, but I digress. They used a sort of Italian Dressing on the bun and it was SO flavorful, it really added a lot to the sandwich. Never knew what it really was so we just said to give a lot of that there, uh, bug juice on it.

we always made a flat dumpling that we rolled out and we cooked in chicken broth and potatoes. the small community i grew up in called them pig ears..lol!!

jillian

OMG Cynic, LOVED Clarks. DD#1 did too, she would make my mom and dad buy them for her all the time!!

WHite turds...Russian Tea Cakes
Hunkendunskna...(My BIL made up the word, kids still call it that)...I think it's carrot cake. It had walnuts in so I never ate it, hate walnuts.
DGD use to call PB&J sandwiches..pennerjelly sandwicher
We ate "college" cheese too!

Vickey

My kids love "Slum Gullion".
You fry hamburger and onions until brown Add chopped cabbage and let it simmer. Boil a pot of macaroni. Drain.
Add hamburger mixture, canned milk then pour over macaroni.
Salt & pepper to taste. The milk helps it keep moist.
When the kids & grandkids come home, they always ask for Gramma's Slum Gullion. The name I gave it years ago and it has stuck.

When she was little, my daughter called hamburger "Hanguber". And she called bicycles "Bika cycles" She moved the syllables around to suit her. she called her sisrer Vicki "Bikki".

DS loved Joe's Special which is a skillet mixture of ground beef spinach,onions,mushrooms and eggs. However the first time he saw the greenish pile of it on his plate he asked why we were having "Calvin Food". (Calvin and Hobbs). So Joe's Special is Calvin Food at our house to this day.

I still also let DD know when I'm making her favorite "Gebbie". Her childhood name for spaghetti.

My daughter didn't like Sloppi Joes, so when I made it next time, I told her it was a different recipe called sloppi Sams. She like those. (same recipe as the Joes.LOL) Back in 1990 I made up a dish with sliced polish sausage, frozen hash browns, cooked frozen mixed vegetables and shredded cheddar cheese...kind of like a hash. The first gulf war was going on, so we called scud stew, after the scud missiles we heard about in the news. Dottie

Eggs: Cackle Berries
White sauce with ground beef, or hambuger helper on bread:
Sh*t on a shingle.

Whole grapes in jello: Shakey eye balls.

Mashed potatoes: Smashed taters.

Salads: Rabbit food.

Alphabet soup: Crypto goodies, or Scrabble soup.

When I was a kid I called pretzels "WeeBows".

Any cobbler depending on the fruit is crud "Can we have peach crud" Or" Gramma makes the best Cherry Crud"
A dear friend was the cook for a boys reform school. She shared her recipe for yeast rolls. 20 years later the kids still call them PBR's. Prison boys rolls.

when we were growing up we had rubber overshoes call galoshes by some. Whrn we had hambuger noodle hotdish my dad would call it overshoes because goulash sounded kind of galoshes and then we all started calling it that.

My dad always used saccharine tablets in his coffee and tea. There was a warning on the bottle that it had been shown to cause cancer in lab rats. Dad would say "good thing I am not a rat" and in the cup they went (they fizzed. A bad sign). We called them "rat poison" - as in 'don't forget to put the rat poison on the table'.

The part that is NOT funny, is that he developed kidney cancer a few years ago. Luckily it was encapsulated and upon removing the kidney there were no other signs of it. I did some internet searching a while back, and guess what KIND of cancer the saccharine caused in those rats?!?!?

I did a quick check again, and now most of the literature links it with bladder cancer, and then even that warning was repealed by the FDA at some point.

Still, I think rat poison was an apt name for it.

Got some cousins that called Canadian bacon "bacon sausage".

Some friends called French Toast "eggy bread".

My daughter couldn't pronounce French toast, so she said "French toads". But, I love coconuts being called camel eggs!

Never heard that before....that is priceless!!!

When our girls were small, we had fun with food-
cowboy beans was baked beans with sliced weiners, pannycake cookies were 2" pancakes, (regular pancakes had to be cut crisscross with pizza cutter...), Conglomeration was hamburger/macaroni/mushroom soup skillet stuff- they wouldn't eat it until it had a name...porksteak and tato crap- was fried porksteak pieces, sliced potatoes and mushroom soup in a skillet, yummy!
All my cousins and friends still remember Mom's BubbleBread and HeMan Hamburgers- hamburger/cracker/egg patties. They always wanted that for supper at our house...
I can laugh at food, I made penuche for a bake sale in high school and the man at the grocery store told me it looked like cat puke...gross....

When my granddaughter was young, she used to ask for "missagetty". We still call spaghetti that.