Words you cannot bear to read or speak or hear

[squinker45]

I cannot bear to read or speak or hear some food related words. It is difficult for me to write them as I feel so ick about them but here goes:

Tasty
Delicious
Sweet treats (or just treats)
Snack
Yum
Nom
That slurpy face emoji (I refuse to put it here)

Uuuuuuurgh I feel ill now

What is wrong with me? Anyone else or am I a massive weirdo?

Also Marks and Spencer's

Babes
Moist

"Use up" the rest of some vegetable in their fridge, instead of "use"

also others but I can't think of them right now

Related to "bake off" instead of "bake."

Re passed/passed away/passed on I’m in the same camp but apparently it’s crass to say died/dead.

I think I’m going to leave instructions banning any words pertaining to my “passing” when I shuffle off. That’ll fuck up my nearest and dearest lol.

I also hate "pan fried," do they expect you to fry it in a bloody toaster, or a kettle?

I lost both my parents over the last 12 months and saying they passed away (and that I lost them) is far gentler. I couldn't imagine messaging a friend with "my lovely mum died today"

Surely it’s pan fried as opposed to deep fried. Chips are not fried in a pan.

Sorry to read about your parents.

I really feel awkward when people say 'we lost grandad'. My first reaction is 'where, in the supermarket?'.

I worked in customer service for many years in a bank and we were advised to used the words death, died, dead as despite being quite jarring and triggering for some in their bluntness, there is no ambuguity. Not sure if that's still the case, but I'm not a huge fan of passed away, or we lost him.

StarlightLady · Today 09:00

Surely it’s pan fried as opposed to deep fried. Chips are not fried in a pan.

Maybe not today, but until the 80s, everyone had a chip pan!

And didn’t the fire brigade know it!

But a chip pan does mean deep fried. If something is pan fried it does not mean a chip pan, it means shallow fried in a frying pan!

StarlightLady · Today 11:34

+ + Maybe not today, but until the 80s, everyone had a chip pan! + +

And didn’t the fire brigade know it!

Yes, it must have been 1992, two acquaintances of ours came back from the pub and put some chips on, they died from smoke inhalation.

I hate ‘bake’ and ‘baking’ - I don’t know why.

I never ‘bake’ a cake - I make one.*
Obvs. I’ve never watched the GBBO!

*in any case it’s the oven that bakes it, not the person who mixed all the ingredients!

I’m sorry for your loss, @grat, and that’s obviously your choice, but I use ‘died’, unless I’m mirroring someone else’s language about their own bereavement.

I sort of get that pan fried is as opposed to deep fried but to avoid confusion they should probably say shallow fried

Just popped over to read another thread and the word 'helping' (as in, a second helping) made me gag

Why don't some people like the word meal?

What about ‘help yourself’? Isn’t that the same?

@WhatsTheUseOfWorrying for some reason 'help yourself' is fine but the idea of a 'helping' of something is disgusting.

I’m sorry for your loss, @grat, and that’s obviously your choice, but I use ‘died’, unless I’m mirroring someone else’s language about their own bereavement

I found officialdom used softer words so they were probably mirroring as you would. It's very personal isn't it x

I think because they think it isn't posh.

Hubby
Wifey
Preggers
tummy

Pots as in, " there are a few pots to wash from last night"
Picky bits
Chippy tea
Crusty bread

Dollop

Thank you. I also now know that saying toilet is common as well. Not that I'm going to change the way I speak.