Does your family make a certain dish and call it by the totally wrong name?

[mmouse37]

Our family makes a casserole with cut up hot dogs, baked beans, ketchup, mustard, dried onion, garlic powder and brown sugar with a topping of those Durkee fried onions (put on during the last 5 minutes of baking). We call it Weenie Beanie Casserole! Don't know if it has an official name but we have always called it that. I got the recipe from my MIL as they always had in their family growing up. Probably a depression era recipe. Its quite good!

 

[BrianL]

Our family makes a casserole with cut up hot dogs, baked beans, ketchup, mustard, dried onion, garlic powder and brown sugar with a topping of those Durkee fried onions (put on during the last 5 minutes of baking). We call it Weenie Beanie Casserole! Don't know if it has an official name but we have always called it that. I got the recipe from my MIL as they always had in their family growing up. Probably a depression era recipe. Its quite good!

That sounds like a recipe made up by a 10-year-old. It also sounds pretty good!

 

[princesscinderella]

It's pistachio salad in my family that said that is an actual alternative name for watergate salad (I've seen it referred to as delight vs salad with pistachio but never IRL).

I have never heard of this and looked it up. Its a nope from me I would not eat that as I dislike marshmallows and pineapple mixed into things. I do however love pistachios and discovered pistachio cream on our Mediterranean cruise this summer, its creamy like nutella.

 

[mmouse37]

That sounds like a recipe made up by a 10-year-old. It also sounds pretty good!

It absolutely sounds like a 10 year old made it up! And it is good!!!

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I have never heard of this and looked it up. Its a nope from me I would not eat that as I dislike marshmallows and pineapple mixed into things. I do however love pistachios and discovered pistachio cream on our Mediterranean cruise this summer, its creamy like nutella.

It's an acquired taste IMO. My mother-in-law does try to make it for me for the holidays but I'm the only one who eats it lol, she'll have some in solidarity and she does like it but not love it like I do. She makes it close but not quite to what my aunt makes and growing up as well as currently it wasn't/isn't the holidays unless we had pistachio salad made by my aunt I'm usually the one taking the rest of what is leftover though

 

[disney212]

Growing up my family ate stuffed mango which in reality is stuffed bell peppers. I was 19 before I tried an actual mango.

 

[mjkacmom]

growing up we called-

pasta with pesto 'green spagetti'
minestrone was 'leftover' or 'clean out the fridge' soup (cuz my Italian 'auntie' made it weekly using whatever dibs and dabs of leftover veggies were in her fridge).

now-i can't think of anything we make but ranch dressing will forever be called 'yummy sauce' thanks to my kid's decades ago daycare that introduced them to it.

I will make “soup of good intentions” from fresh vegetables I didn’t use.