When I was little, I couldn’t say “granddad”, so I called him “grindad”, and it just kind of stuck. Likewise, I have a great uncle who always called potato wedges “dirty taters”. A couple generations later, the entire family still calls them dirty taters, even though I’ve never heard the term from anyone else.

What about you? Do you have any names for things that are unique to your family? What are they? How did you get them?

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