"Poppies".(no,not the flowers)

An Riabhach

I remember when I was a kid,any time my mother boiled potatoes for dinner,she always used to call them "poppies".
I'm just wondering if anyone else ever heard them being called poppies and if it was one of those things with Irish mammies. :-):-D

endacl

I remember it all right. From cousins in Kilkenny. There were always poppies growing amongst the spuds. There's your explanation, I suppose.

Zaph

Yep, my mother used to call them that as well. No idea where it came from or how common the use of it is though.

An Riabhach

I used to think it might have been just my mother's own kiddies slang term for potatoes.

rubadub

An Riabhach wrote: »

I used to think it might have been just my mother's own kiddies slang term for potatoes.

thats what I woudl have guessed.

shows up on an irish slang dictionary

http://www.slang.ie/index.php?county=Cork&entry=poppies

Poppies

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Susan O Connell
Aug 22nd 2013, 7:29 PM # 37 24
For some reason I never call them spuds, it’s potatoes, Poppy’s , pops etc.

Glenster

The Kilkenny side of my family called them poppies too.

Maybe a Kilkenny thing?

tara83

When I lived in Cork (90's) always called them poppies. Moved to Dublin and no one had a clue what I was talking about