Roz Chast, a cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine, asked her followers on Instagram for their terms for informal fridge-foraging, and says she received more than 1700 responses, including California plate, spa plate, having weirds, eek, mustard with crackers, getcheroni, goblin meal, gishing, phumphering, peewadiddly, picky-poke, screamers, trash panda, rags and bottles, blackout bingo, miff muffer moof, anarchy kitchen, going feral, going Darwin, goo gots, oogle moogle, dirt night, ifits, and mousy-mousy. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Informal Fridge Foraging”
Earlier, we were talking about the terms that families use for those nights in your home where nobody’s actually cooking dinner. Everybody’s just grabbing whatever they want from the fridge.
And as it happens, Roz Chast, who’s a cartoonist for The New Yorker, put out a similar question on her Instagram a few months ago, and she got back more than 1,700 responses of what families call this kind of dinner.
and Some of them are really great. I’ll just share a few: California plate, spa plate, eek, mustard with crackers, having weirds, get your roni, which we mentioned before.
Goblin meal gishing piwa diddly picky poke screamers trash panda rags and bottles blackout.
Bingo miff muffer moof anarchy kitchen going feral going darwin gougats oogle moogle dirt.
Night and mousy mousy wow. I wonder how many of those were real. I was wondering that too, but
Apparently she got at least a couple of mentions of if it’s if it’s if it’s in the fridge it’s fair.
Game. I’m having butter. Look, a stick of butter. What do you call that kind of free for all when
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