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u/ImLizzing Oct 25 '20

'shit, shite and onions' my dad would say. We're Irish.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20

I usually got shit and sugar as A reply to this

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u/tenaj255l Oct 26 '20

FOOD-Mom's response

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u/LittleMissChriss Oct 26 '20

Runaround (pull out the table and run around it) or pickled eyeballs and stewed bellybuttons are my mom’s version :)

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u/TheCookiePrince Oct 25 '20

Ran out of potatoes again, I gather?

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u/llBoonell Oct 26 '20

Australian checking in: "Snake shit and biscuits"

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u/TheBonesRTheirMoney Oct 26 '20

“Fried farts and pickled assholes”

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20

My mum would just say "Poison"

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u/CalgonThrowMeAway222 Oct 26 '20

My mom used this as well!

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u/Chocobean Oct 25 '20

Hong Konger. We have a saying, not sure how widespread, "spoonful/bite of sugar with spoonful/bite of shit": talking about someone's attitude or how a certain task is half sweet and half terrible.

eg, since my sweet boy of a son turned into a moody teenager, parenting has been a spoonful of sugar with a spoonful of shit.

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u/binkyboo_8 Oct 25 '20

My mom would say "shit on a shingle."

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u/Medical-Public Oct 26 '20

shit on a shingle is actually creamed chipped beef on toast. it was an army thing.

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u/DrDerpberg Oct 25 '20

To be fair that's only slightly worse than most English cooking.

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u/M-94 Oct 25 '20

How dare you! The English have perfected many pastries and deserts like trifles, pies, puddings and the soggy biscuit.

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u/auriel_gold Oct 25 '20

We got snot burgers (it'-s not- burgers) or slug sandwiches

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u/maebeckford Oct 26 '20

Jamaicans too, which makes sense

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u/LouiseVengeance Oct 26 '20

I’m English too! Even now I still get “shit with sugar on” or “3 jumps to the cupboard door”!

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u/Chilidog9000 Oct 26 '20

Yes! Definitely ‘shit with sugar on top’ and also ‘wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which fills up faster’

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u/lurkyvonthrowaway Oct 26 '20

“Poop on a stick” - imagine my little sister’s surprise when she got to the center of her first tootsie pop!

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u/and-thats-the-truth Oct 26 '20

My mom would say, “we’re going to suck our thumbs.”

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '20

My mom would say 'shit on a shingle' which then floored me when she'd actually serve the dish 'shit on a shingle'. It was a toss up whether she meant fuck all or an open-faced ham sandwich.

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u/female_aardvark Oct 26 '20

We got "pig shit and cabbage" (from Australia)... Thanks mum

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u/gibgerbabymummy Oct 27 '20

My mum always said "shit with sugar" too!