Poppies

n.

Heard in Cork, Kilkenny, Tipperary and Waterford

Potatoes.

In use

Ma, are ye puttin' de poppies on or wha' like? I'm so hungry I'd ate a scabby cat!

Posh English

Mother, are you preparing the tubers yet, because I am so frightfully ravenous I could consume a mangy feline.

Same phrase, other counties