Over-flowery food language

I was expecting far more vivid (sorry) examples of flowery language in your OP. I don't think any of the examples you give are particularly OTT. What's wrong with "lashings"? I hear that plenty.

Looking forward to some more Nigella-esque examples

I haven't especially noticed it here.

I find it quite amusing on restaurant menus - food always has to be 'nestled' in its accompaniment, for example - I'd be disappointed if the trend passed!

Never noticed it on MN.

YANBU but it's always been the same lol.

MNetter's kid likes reading = "They devour books".

MNetter has hungry teenagers = "They inhale food".

MNetter wants to talk to someone = "I've reached out"

Not as flowery as you're describing perhaps, but just as odd.

'Inhale food' makes me think of food going into the airways and causing choking.

I went through a phase of (on Facebook) describing perfectly ordinary food in an elaborate way - so beans on toast would be something like "youthful haricots bathing luxuriously in a veritable spa of finest home-crafted tomato jus, reclining on a mattress of finest artisan breads" (etc).
It amused me, anyway.

I am pretty misanthropic in general, but I rather enjoy this. We have a wondrously rich and nuanced language. I like to see people using it.

I admit that I haven't really noticed "flowery" language, but there is plenty of food related language which irrationally irk me.

1. "Washing down" food with a drink.
2. "Mopping up" the sauce with bread or something.
3. When the teeny tinies complain that their monstrous, 8ft tall husband "wolfed down" or "gobbled up" the half eaten lettuce leaf they were saving for dinner next week because they couldn't eat the whole leaf.
4. Reiterating something was homemade too much. "For dinner yesterday, we had a homemade cottage pie, made with homemade mashed potatoes, and homemade gravy. Followed by a homemade apple crumble with homemade custard. We then finished off with a homemade cup of coffee, served in a homemade cup, stirred with a homemade spoon, which was in my homemade drawer, in the homemade kitchen cabinets, in the homemade kitchen, in my homemade house." Ad nauseum to the point where the word "homemade" sounds weird.

I totally agree about "lashings" though. I prefer "metric fuck tonne".

I totally agree!!! Lashings made me think of Enid Blyton but i kept quiet as i'd already annoyed everybody enough on that thread.

I also noticed this and find it utterly bizzare, and if I’m honest in part wonder about the weight of tne posters,

there are continuous threads about food, you’re favourite sandwich, or comfort food, or your takeaway order etc, and people pile in describing eating an avalanche of food, and with descriptors like lashings of, and its always something like butter or cheese , and then talk about its delicious, bliss, how they are drooling, salivating etc.

and anyone who dares say it’s too much, gets told they are a teenie tiny, competitive under eater and the piss taken out them for apparently eating a massive salad.

i saw one takeaway thread and posters were ordering multiple dishes for one person, like multiple meals. Someone else commented how a box of six donuts was a portion. Threads on how many Xmas food they’ve already consumed, how many Easter eggs they can put away, how to eat your children’s eggs.

at rhe same time, multiple jealous bitter threads on weight loss injections. Bizzare assumptions women look younger fat. I’d bet good money there is an overlap.

@5foot5

"What's wrong with "lashings"? I hear that plenty."

I have read about those sort of house parties but have not attended one myself. It just doesn't appeal to me, and anyway my leather jeans seemed to have developed a rather irritating squeak.

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I think what you are describing is excess, not over-descriptive language, which is what the OP seems to dislike.

I would describe myself as a foodie because I am interested in food. Reading about it, cooking it and eating it. I actually have quite a small appetite and often end up leaving some on my plate when I can't finish it, but I still love it and like to talk about it.

Whilst I acknowledge there is a lot of over-blown descriptions used sometimes on menus or adverts, I see nothing wrong with using some imaginative language when writing or talking about everyday life. Why reach for the same old boring words to describe something if you can paint a better picture by choosing different ones?

YANBU OP!

It really bloody irritating! And as the PP observed the shoehorning in of homemade completely unnecessary- why do you need to tell us of something has been homemade??

The descriptions of cooking the damn food is also as bad - “whack” being the worst , nothing in the kitchen should be whacked anywhere!!

And what's wrong with that?

The poster you quoted @sprigatito said:
I am pretty misanthropic in general, but I rather enjoy this. We have a wondrously rich and nuanced language. I like to see people using it.
I agree wholeheartedly. Why use the same old utilitarian adjectives to describe things if you can bring some life and colour to your account by employing more imaginative language?

A PP seemed to sneer at people saying a child "devours books" rather than just saying "he likes reading" or saying a teenager "inhales food" instead of simply stating they are hungry. But can you not see how the choice of words gives a much richer description?

"Deconstructed" cottage pie "presented" on an "artisan" shovel....is mince and potatoes served by a wanky hipster with a man bun hairstyle in a pretentious café where the prices are a number with no £ sign.

It only gives a richer description of it isn’t the norm

as it is it’s just a longer way of saying things

I blame Nigella Lawson.

Perhaps "Jamie Oliver" I don't think I'd tire of whacking him in the kitchen or anywhere else for that matter.🥊🥊

Some her quotes are the oddest
Describing black treacle as a ‘somber majesty’

I'm not getting the "flowery" from your examples, OP.