Do you say food that makes you burp "repeats"?

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John_Catachan@reddit

Nope, I've never heard anyone say this before.

Norwich, UK

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CommonAware6@reddit

I was starting to think i was the only one.

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DutchOfBurdock@reddit

Aww man, that greasy burger has really done a number on me!

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Irish man living in the UK here. I say it all the time and no one has ever questioned it. What does confuse them is if you ask them to get you something from the press.. they think you're looking for a newspaper (for the English, the "press" is a cupboard)

another one that makes sense at home but over here they think I'm talking about cocaine "sure isn't she doing a line with so and so?". Meaning they're having it off but not officially yet.

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Common-Spend5000@reddit

Where in the UK do you live? Irish here too (north east england), and I feel most of the UK says press, definitely Scotland, Wales, and a line somewhere in the Midlands of England where everyone north of thar uses it, or at the very least knows the meaning.

Agree with you in London and much of the south of England though.

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Boldboy72@reddit

I'm in London but I'm from Limerick.. so I say things like "C'mere til I tell you a question" to utterly baffle them, very funny watching their faces trying to understand what I just said.

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SixCardRoulette@reddit

When I was at law school one of my more, uh, experienced lecturers used to use the word "bookpress" to mean "bookcase". Even with context it confused me, I kept interpreting it as meaning the company that printed and published the book, or a vice-like gizmo for straightening out wonky damaged books again or something.

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Boldboy72@reddit

and the funny thing is he only had one book, a 20 year old copy of Archbold... The "bookpress" was where he kept that book

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BigBulls69@reddit

Lived in England my whole life (21 years), never heard it.

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redseaaquamarine@reddit

Me neither

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Yermawsyerdaisntit@reddit

Press is a cupboard in scotland too, commonly the loaby press (hall cupboard).

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Boldboy72@reddit

we also have the "hot press" which the English call an airing cupboard.

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Yermawsyerdaisntit@reddit

Aw i like that, never heard that one. Only heard it called the linen cupboard, although i remember someone calling it the linning cupboard once trying to be posh as they assumed us commoners had dropped the g with our slang😂

I dont think i’ve ever heard press apart from loaby press now i think about it

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Boldboy72@reddit

was watching Bleak House (Dickens) on BBC recently and heard one of the characters say "fetch me a glass from the press".. so it was common parlance in England in the mid 19th century but seems to have fallen out of favour.

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ourmanflint27@reddit

In wales a press can be a dresser

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Boboshady@reddit

Yes, this is very common.

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MintberryCrunch____@reddit

Yes, this is very common.

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lithaborn@reddit

Yep. For my family it's that or "ugggh reflux"

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atzucac_fill@reddit (OP)

Ok, very interesting! I never heard it in the US, but most other English-speaking countries seem to use this wording.

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devstopfix@reddit

It's used in the US, as well. Regional/generational.

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Whitewitchie@reddit

Agreed.

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VolcanicBear@reddit

Something repeating on you is when you can taste it in your burp, not simply burping in my experience.

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Common-Spend5000@reddit

That's what in means in Ireland too, the burp has the flavour still.

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HyperAndStick@reddit

How far afield does the world 'rift' exist? As in 'Those bacon crisps are riftin' on me'.

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Dutch_Slim@reddit

Did you also see the related question on r/ENGLISH?

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ourmanflint27@reddit

I use repeating on me if i can taste the meal when i burp. Not just any old burps after a meal.

Ikea hotdogs, had to stop eating 4 or 5 as they'd last all day.

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JohnLef@reddit

This. It only repeats if it's repeating the taste.

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doegrey@reddit

McCoy BBQ crisps. Love them but had to stop eating them as I can taste it for about 2 days after.

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dprkicbm@reddit

Smoky bacon flavoured crisps for me.

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PomPomBumblebee@reddit

You have 4 or 5 IKEA hot dogs? Did you assemble them yourself?

My MIL LOVES those hot dogs to the point if we go to IKEA when she's visiting (she wants any excuse to go), she will buy some for us sometimes without asking if we want them and she's not so bothered if she has to eat them herself.

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ourmanflint27@reddit

lol

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Imaginary-Educator41@reddit

Yep. If you can taste/smell the burp that is repeating on me. Like beers/fizzy drinks make me burp but they’re not repeating on me

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Cheese-n-Opinion@reddit

Couscous, that repeats.

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Purp1eMagpie@reddit

Frazzles repeat on me for about 3-5 business days

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BillyBatts83@reddit

Very thoughtful of them to pause for weekends and bank holidays at least.

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Alzdeejay2@reddit

Cucumber does it for me 🤣

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ZombieGash@reddit

Cucumber and bacon for me. There’s another one but can’t remember what it is 😅

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Heavy-Preparation606@reddit

Bacon flavoured snacks, aka bacon fries, do it to me but not actual bacon.

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Active_Definition_57@reddit

Unusual combination.

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spittingparasite@reddit

It's the gift that keeps on giving.

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kylehyde84@reddit

Yep cucumbers for me too

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PostModernistTrash@reddit

Without a doubt my number one offender. I'll still be tasting it 5 hours later.

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love_in_october@reddit

I am Irish and I've never heard of that before in my life.

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Pedantichrist@reddit

Yes. Specifically where the burros taste of the food though.

Beans give me wind, and I may do generic burps later. That wood not clad as the beans repeating on me, in the way that meaty kebab belches does.

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ClericalRogue@reddit

Its a polite way of saying the food gave the person reflux isnt it? 😅 least thats how ive used it.

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miphink@reddit

Same! Now I’m worried everybody thinks I’ve been burping all the time when I’ve not 😂

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miphink@reddit

When I say something is repeating on me, I mean it gives me acid reflux. I never used to it to mean burp.

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terryjuicelawson@reddit

Yes, and peppers do this to me.

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DaveL16@reddit

My dad does.

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atzucac_fill@reddit (OP)

But you don't?

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DaveL16@reddit

No I don’t say it. Both from central UK. Maybe it is generational.

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Friendly-Writing8593@reddit

literally always say it lol. (from england)

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nadthegoat@reddit

It’s not just any burp though, it’s when you can taste what you ate when you do burp.

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IUsedToLikeLimericks@reddit

This is the right answer.

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SomeHSomeE@reddit

SE England. Fairly common.

There was a particular type of smelly German sausage we would sometimes have when I was a kid that my mum would call "repeater sausage" because it repeated on you for days

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_Cridders_@reddit

Yeah and I always say it twice

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bowen7477@reddit

A 20 Yr old woman is in her bedroom using a cucumber for pleasure, and having a really good time. . A few hours later she's sitting at the dinner table with her parents, when she starts writhing and moaning. "Whatever's wrong?" Asks her mother. "The cucumber is repeating on me." She replies.

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atzucac_fill@reddit (OP)

A 20 Yr old woman is in her bedroom using a cucumber for pleasure

Is this common in the UK?

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behemuffin@reddit

It's not what you'd call refined...

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barriedalenick@reddit

Only in jokes.

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flummuxedsloth@reddit

I'm familiar with the expression but I'm not sure I've ever used it personally. I tend to keep the inner workings of my body fairly private.

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chillingonthesofa@reddit

I have literally never ever heard anyone say this

Ever

Lived in the UK for 32 years

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atzucac_fill@reddit (OP)

Can i ask what part?

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chillingonthesofa@reddit

Never lived further north than Hertfordshire, but all over other wise

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Rhiyxnnxh@reddit

Yes but there's a tiny nuance. Food only 'repeats on me' if I can taste it when I burp. So usually only foods with a strong taste/smell like garlic-y or spicy foods. If I burp after drinking water (not food ik) that wouldn't count as it repeating on me.

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HuckleberryFinal5706@reddit

Very common among people over the age of around 30 in my area (East Mids)

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Best_Vegetable9331@reddit

Kippers repeat.

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PomPomBumblebee@reddit

Definitely.

Not my favourite but some days your really hanker for them. Rarely eat fish at home, mostly at my parents. My husband hates smoked fish and I think he'd have a heart attack if he saw me eating kippers at home.

Not had them for years but they just hit different.

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stupre1972@reddit

The oily, salty, smokey goodness.

My father used to say - throw them under a screaming hot grill and when the smoke hits the front door, they are done and ready to throw butter at

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Maleficent-Win-6520@reddit

Cucumber unless it’s organic

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Arnoave@reddit

yes and it's also used in French (source: am half-French half-English)

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atzucac_fill@reddit (OP)

Spanish, too

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Worldly_Wafer_6635@reddit

Nah, I would take that as it made you vomit.

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Steamrolled777@reddit

Never heard it mentioned in UK/Ireland - not that it doesn't happen.

Who are all these people belching? Coke maybe.. Kebabs? no.

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Mediocre-Smile5908@reddit

Yes, all the time. Usually when something's had bell peppers in it. And some repeats are nicer than others ☺️

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CurlyWhirlyDirly@reddit

Richie: I'm getting a sense of something magnificently evil, black, and foul hanging in the air, waiting to destroy us.

Eddie: Yeah, that'll be the fish repeating on you.

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Tumeni1959@reddit

Yes.

I call it "returning for reconsideration", though ...

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funsizes@reddit

Yes, and whilst you may not have heard it, this is used in the USA too

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TapeDeckSlick@reddit

Yeah, cucumber is the biggest culprit for me

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mtrueman@reddit

Birds Eye burgers for hours.

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2c0@reddit

Wouldn't say it but heard it enough to know its meaning.

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PomPomBumblebee@reddit

Not just burps but tummy grumbling is food 'repeating on me'

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Disastrous-Ad9001@reddit

Yes, it's a polite way of saying (unwanted) burping.

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swiftcardine@reddit

Sausages do this to me all day

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Oddball_bfi@reddit

I'd only use it if it were a nasty kind of acid reflux sort of burping... but yes, that's a thing.

For the record - I'm from the northwest of England. Our kid.

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atzucac_fill@reddit (OP)

The plot thickens

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