NoDoes your family have certain words or descriptors for things that nobody else uses? In our family, my daughter used to call Carl's Jr. "Happy Star" when she was really little. She is out of college and on her own now, but we still call Carl's Jr. "Happy Star."
We also have a card game called Jaipur, about trading wares and camels, which somehow has gotten renamed "Agrabah." by our family.
I'm sure we have others, if I were to think about it for a bit. Anybody else regularly use words for things that wouldn't generally be recognized by others?
Thats what I call wineI call coffee my "Emotional Support Beverage". My kids all call it now.
Wait.... When did Target have green doors?My older son called fruit snacks "meat snacks" when he was a toddler. So, that stuck.
And, same kid called Target "the green store" because of the green doors, so that stuck.
We call breakfast burritos "Nunya's"... because when they were little, they asked my husband what he was eating and he said "Nunya business", and it stuck.
Probably a lot more, but those stick out.
The clicker yes. Also nuking your food.We used to call the remote control (and sometimes still do) the clicker, but I know other people who call it that.
My grandmother called the couch a davenport and her purse was her pocketbook. She also referred to all brands of mayonnaise as "salad dressing", which is because she used only Spin Blend mayo which they brand as "salad dressing".
The clicker yes. Also nuking your food.
I'm originally from Pittsburgh (Pixburgh or da 'Burgh) and have always been in western PA (BTW, the only state people verbally refer to with PA instead of the name so I've read.) There's a lot of stuff I say that others don't know what I'm talking about (chipped ham?) I'm not nearly as bad as my mother though (she worshes her car and clothes, would go to visit Worshington DC, still says yinz.) Any time I'm traveling, everyone knows where I'm from.
Not a different word, but we were on the bicycles going across NY when we stopped for lunch. My buddy says, "wonder what they'd say if I get a steak salad and ask for french fries on it." Just then the waitress was walking past me, stopped and pointed at my menu, "We have a Pittsburgh salad right here."
I have heard the term bug juice
My grandmother called the couch a davenport and her purse was her pocketbook.
Klim is milk. It is just milk spelled backwards, but when I was a baby if I heard milk, I would stop eating and only want my milk bottle. So they just switched it.
Also nuking your food.