When my daughters were little, they would say "college cheese" for cottage cheese, and "rock 'n roll ice cream" for rocky road, and "fruit cottontail" for fruit cocktail and "cold slop" for cole slaw. They're 25 & 23 now, but we still use those terms in our house for fun!
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I thought cold sores, were really called cole slaw!!— kathryn
- My mum used to tell me that cottage cheese was cows brains. I still ate it. — Justin
- that cottage cheese came from the roofs of cottages— shirley
- My sister thought a fruit machine (the gaming device) could turn one item of fruit into another.— Richard Davies
- When I was 4, I thought that if I ate Fruit Gushers, my head would turn into a fruit. — Joe
- I used to believe if you ate a seed from a fruit, a tree of that fruit would grow inside you — kels