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Cowboy coffee got it's name by the way it was made on the chuckwagon. The cooks didn't have filters, just poured the ground coffee into the water and simmered it. Then they let the grounds settle before pouring. (sometimes adding an egg white to pull off some loose grounds). When pouring, it's inevitable that you will get a few grounds in your coffee cup, thus the name- cowboy coffee. BTW- If a cowbow offers you coffee, always accept. It's impolite to refuse a cup. (cowboy trivia)

Broccoli- little trees (for the little kids)
Brussel sprouts- baby cabbage (kids again)
Busghetti (spaghetti mispronounced when they were small) That's how lots of our food nicknames came about.

My husband calls my Italian breaded chicken breasts or tenders "chicken candy" because he says they taste so good. Actually, he has nicknames for lots of the things I make. *L*

I'm not sure if you'd call these nick names, but my Italian grandmother (actually, every Italian grandmother, it seemed, in the state of Rhode Island) made up their own language...

Ricotta cheese became "ree-got," mozzarella became "mootz," and a dozen other words that used to have universal meaning suddenly became Rhode Island Italian short hand.

When I used to cocktail waitress we would call nachos snatchos;

At the office when my neighbour eats fusilli with tomato sauce we call it "brains" because of the silly way it looks;

of course there's "zza";

My sister before she could speak properly used to say "punk"in (pumpkin) and 'skettis (spaghetti)

Worcestershire sauce was always "what's this here?" sauce in my family. I still call it that out of habit.

white castle hamburgers were always known as rectum rockets!

Ricotta cheese became "ree-got," mozzarella became "mootz," and a dozen other words that used to have universal meaning suddenly became Rhode Island Italian short hand.

I love that memory of your grandma. Actually, lots of people from the northeast abbreviate ricotta as "ree-got" or "ree-goth." I had a friend who actually spoke this sentence: "I like a lot of ree-goth on my gavadeels." (Cavatelli.) My grandmother used to say "slips" for slippers and "sneaks" for sneakers - but I digress...

My dad used to make a huge bread with chunks of ham, salami and provolone, kneaded together with olive oil. He baked it in a ginormous pan. When it was presented at table, I asked, "Wow, who made that mutant bread??" It was forever after called Mutant Bread.

When my daughter was little, she couldn't say sfogliatelle. She called it "filadell." For a while, that's how we said it.

My dad worked for Polly-O Dairy for 38 years and he said "mozzie" when referring to mozzarella. Even today, that's what I call it.

@KB in Toledo
and @onepercent99

both of you made my day LOL :D thanks!

@onepercent99 - she's an "ex" for a reason right!? LOL
A good wife/husband would find humour in such things :D

@onepercent99-I thought it was funny.