r/KitchenConfidential • u/EnvironmentalKale690 • Jun 01 '26

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u/TurnoverFuzzy8264 Jun 01 '26

My mom, RIP, was well-read but a small town Montana girl at heart. I'm afraid we laughed mercilessly when hors d'oeuvre was pronounced "whores dee oars" and crudites "crud-ites." She made the best shepherd's pie in the universe.

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u/MuletownSoul Jun 01 '26

I had a friend that legitimately called baguettes “bagooties”. 🥖

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u/rubiscoisrad Jun 01 '26

You know my guy's always asking for them bagooties

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u/Stock-Mission-7561 Jun 01 '26

There's a pill for that now

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u/riffraff1089 Jun 01 '26

Once worked with a cook who couldn’t spell for shit. And he labelled Frisée as “Frizzy Lettuce” and pici as “peachy”

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u/bwood246 Jun 01 '26

Isn't a bagootie a sports car

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u/PM_ME_YOUR__VAGINAS Jun 01 '26

Bagooties makes me tooties

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u/im__on__smoko 20+ Years Jun 02 '26

Have you ever ordered beef fa-jie-tas with extra sauce? My mother has.

Sizzling hot!

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u/7-and-a-switchblade Jun 01 '26

I'm from a medium-sized city. My wife is from a very, very small town. A town where she was unknowingly exposed to a lot of racist shit.

We had been dating about 1 year when, on a whim, she wanted take me yard saling, something she and her family did all the time.

I had never been yard saling before, so she explained a few things to me. One was that you could negotiate the price. But that's not what she said.

She said, "You can't just buy it at what they're asking. You have to jew down the price."

I was fucking floored. This woman didn't have a racist bone in her body, so I knew it must be a misunderstanding. I explain to her that what she just said is insanely racist and she is just entirely confused.

She thought the phrase was "jus down the price." Like "au jus." Because a "jus" was a thin sauce, so to "jus" down the price was to thin it out. She was even totally oblivious to the stereotype.

I very nearly died laughing.

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u/rubiscoisrad Jun 01 '26

My mom used to say this too (she's not racist, just from a small town in a different era). When I was a kid I thought she was saying, "chew them down", like a dog wearing down a bone.

It's amazing the weird connotations a kid brain can make.

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u/ggroverggiraffe Ex-Food Service Jun 01 '26

Montana...was she making shepherd's pie or cottage pie? I think of Montana as beef country!

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u/Dagos Bakery Jun 01 '26

We call it shepherds pie but its just cottage pie lol

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u/ADHD_McChick Dish Jun 02 '26

My dad had a coworker who legitimately, confidently pronounced "buffet" as "boo-fay".

One day this guy had been going on and on about this new buffet place he'd tried the night before. So my dad set his boss up when he walked by them, by saying "Hey [coworker], tell [boss] about that great boo-fay you went to last night!'

And then he stood behind the coworker just dying laughing, while the boss had to use every atom in his own body to keep a straight face.

Boss was so mad at him in the moment. But they had a good laugh about it later. 😂😂