Loved this piece in the Guardian about the way adults and especially kids get confused over food terms.
Along with much mangling of the word jalapeno and a buschetta here's some of the priceless malapropisms from the mouths of babes according to Guardian readers polled on Twitter:
"laurajgood
Emalade = Lemonade
and this beauty
sweetkomal
When I was younger, in the supermarket with my dad seeing a whole octopus I yelled out "look at its testicles!"
What are the best and funniest food mistakes your kids (or grown ups) have made?
- Matthew
Both my kids (6 and 3) love seafood, and they’ve just been turned on to calamari. However, they’re having a little bit of trouble pronouncing the name of the creature: they’re constantly requesting “Squ-uh-d.” I haven’t really corrected them, because I find it kind of hilarious.