Reminds me of...
ABCD puppies
LMNO puppies
OSMR
CMPN
What does that say?
'rot...
Great story of family holiday dinners. But, up to a certain age my parents were very, very stern about that. When I was about 13 I got ketchup on a cut and said it, "Hurts like the devil!" I got yelled at and had to change that to "hurt like the Dickens!"