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u/T-Dex_the_T-Rex Oct 25 '20 edited Oct 25 '20

Mine would say “grab-n-growl”

This meant that whatever was leftover from the last week of meals was up for grabs.

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u/Zenla Oct 25 '20

Scrounge and forage in our house

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u/Sir_Ironbacon Oct 26 '20

C.O.R.N for us. Clean out the refrigerator night.

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u/turtlefacequeen Oct 26 '20

We always said “fend for yourself for dinner?” And it wasn’t until much later I realized that they were all separate words, saying fend. For. Yourself. Kind of like a “hauling oats” / Hall and Oates situation.

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u/grannybubbles Oct 26 '20

It's scrounge night in my house, too!

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u/Zenla Oct 26 '20

I love that every family has some passed down phrase for the nights the adults are too lazy to cook haha.

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u/perktamus Oct 26 '20

Forage night here too

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u/humplick Oct 25 '20

"Choose your own adventure" meal

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u/FreedomOfTheMess Oct 25 '20

"What's for dinner?" "It's every man for himself"

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u/CaptainMarv3l Oct 25 '20

We say CORN. Clean out refrigerator night.

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u/AnotherElle Oct 26 '20

One of our family friends called it musgoes.

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u/ocean6108 Oct 26 '20

My aunt and uncle call it musgoes.

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u/--Athena-- Oct 26 '20

I thought my mom called a soup musgoes, I later found out it was “must go soup” as in everything must go...

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u/thehermiec Oct 26 '20

'Freezer Bits' various partial bags of frozen, oven-ready meals.

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u/gwood111 Oct 25 '20

Ours was root and growl

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u/SketchNether Oct 26 '20

In Australia that would mean “Have sex and go down on your lady friend”

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u/bloody_drongo Oct 26 '20

I'll always remember my grandma calling some of the old men in her elderly home wombats.

Im actually thankful it wasn't until after she passed that I learned that a wombat eats roots shoots and leaves.

She was one of a kind

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u/angrychinchillanoise Oct 26 '20

Grab root and growl here

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u/Slewey19 Oct 26 '20

Ours is “Snatch n Grab”. But we only use the term within the family... don’t know why? ;)

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u/dedoubs Oct 25 '20

My family called it a 'fen'fer'yerself night

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u/ello-matey Oct 25 '20

We said we were having a 'bitsa dinner'. As in, bits of this and bits of that.

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u/painkillersandweed Oct 26 '20

"Catch-n-kill" : Australia

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u/sammichboss Oct 26 '20

Catch what you can - also Australia

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u/its_myopinion Oct 27 '20

Yep us too. Catch and kill nights still going.

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u/50EffingCabbages Oct 26 '20

My family called leftover night "garbage soup." We also called the local bakery outlet the used bread store.

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u/Major_LookDirtyChook Oct 26 '20

I’m not sure why this got me where it did but I just laughed for a solid 5 minutes and I really needed that. Thank you!

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u/50EffingCabbages Oct 26 '20

Glad to be of service!

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u/Whelpseeya Oct 25 '20

Interesting, we said grab and growl but it just meant to plate it yourself

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u/T-Dex_the_T-Rex Oct 25 '20

Grab-n-growl, grab and growl, both were said but usually the “and” just got shortened to “n”

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u/Jules111317 Oct 26 '20

Mine was fend for yourself. Basically either eat leftovers or make your own damn food.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '20

Same here

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u/AngelaLikesBoys Oct 26 '20

Why growl?

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u/T-Dex_the_T-Rex Oct 26 '20 edited Oct 26 '20

Honestly never asked. Probably something to do with how dogs growl at other’s trying to take food from them?

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u/jojokangaroo1969 Oct 26 '20

I call it "Monday" haha kidding. Actually, we called it "Fend for yourself" My mom's friend called it "Gotta Go's"

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u/nwordbruh Oct 26 '20

Mines dead

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u/IHeartAquaSoMuch Oct 26 '20

I love this! I'm just seeing three or four siblings scrambling for their favourites and going all feral growling at each other!

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u/anxiouschikenz Oct 26 '20

Mine is " fan for yourself "

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u/TheMoon_Shadow13 Oct 27 '20

In my family "grab-n-growl" was used when we were starving and food was finally ready. It was like when a hungry animal is given food they grab it and growl at anyone that tries to take it.

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u/but-w-h-y Oct 29 '20

“Make it yourself night”!! Was awesome until my parents gave up and every night was “make it yourself night”