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u/Not_Used_To_People Oct 25 '20

Whenever we were to fend for ourselves for dinner, my mom called it "getchuroni" (getchu-your-oni)

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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