Or meat hunk, or ham steak, or ham burglar, or or or.

I have a whole host of nicknames that are different combinations of the prefixes [ham turkey meat beef lamb terd] and [nugget burger burglar hunk steak chunk]. It all started one day when I invited a bunch of friends over for a fine dinner of "beef hunk." It's really braised beef, or moskari kokkinisto, but the way I look at it, it's also a huge hunk of meat. So I called our dinner beef hunk and they started calling me meat chunk. And all the others ensued.

Growing up, my mother called me pookie and shorty. Later on in life, I developed an affinity for hip hop and street culture in general, so I started LOVING the nicknames I'd been given. I insisted that people other than my mother call me shorty and pookie as well. And they did. Unfortunately the nicknames stayed in Washington State and I did not so I seldom hear them anymore.

More recently, in addition to my incredible edible nicknames, I've been called a larbage. Lazy garbage. Larbs, Queen Larbs and Larva are all derivatives.

The longest lasting nickname, though, save maybe for "nini" (= little one in Greek) which my sister calls me, is Little Smokies. One day in high school, I walked into journalism class wearing flippy floppies and a friend of mine said "holy shit, your toes look like little smokies." He was both sensitive *and* correct. My toes do in fact look like mini snack sausages. Please don't eat them.