To hate it when tomato ketchup is called Tommy K?

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Like in the ASDA advert?

Never heard it called that.

Fairly certain we just called it ketchup.

That side-whiskered buffoon that works for Hugh F-W, said Tommy K on River Cottage Everyday the other night. That was a first for me.

I loathe 'hubby', I cannot begin to describe to you how much I loathe 'hubby'.

In fact, if any AIBU includes the word 'hubby', it gets an automatic YABU from me, whatever the issue.

I cannot abide bubbas either.

oh and rellies.

Stabby stabby stab stab.

Well I think you're all a bunch of miserable twunts! Lighten up and try to enjoy life and messing about with language!

Yankisms and laziness - lethal combo - oops - combination.

I'm with the miserable twunts. It's bloody awful.

I am going to upset a lot of you now by putting the term, 'Johnny Loo Loo', in your heads (for use instead of John Lewis). I LOVE that one.

That is appalling.

I know someone called Tommy K. As a nickname.
Have never ever heard it for ketchup?! It's awful and nonsensical.

At the other end of the scale, ever since my mother reduced me and my brother to gales of giggles about 25 years ago by placing the bottle on the table saying:

'here is some tomato ketchup, or, as our transatlantic cousins so appealingly call it, catsup'

I quite often say the whole bit every time I am confonted with that condiment.

Also in our house I'm afraid we say Sainsberoise (think Franglais-style - sains-ber-wahs) and Pesky Teskies.

I think some people on here need some form of anger managment counselling.
The changing and shortening of words irritates you this much..really?
I love the way we can play with and change language and how different families have there own little sayings.
Quite a few of ours have developed from the kids being unable to pronounce things or simply making up their own words.
We use
Mozzas
Monkey Blood
Sainos
Oiney Pigs (Guinea Pigs)
Chipies
Th'asda

to mention but a few

I have an irrational hatred of "Tommy K" as a name for tomato ketchup, but I am definitely guilty of some of the others listed here, notably 'Marks & Sparks', 'Dotty P's', 'scrambies', 'cuppa'.

Scramblies or Boy Legs here for your eggy options ....

Oh dear, I have been saying Marks & Sparks and Dotty P for decades.

Yet I feel Tommy K has the fake mateyness of, say, Jamie Oliver.

I am really really really shocked at this thread.. I thought I was easily irritated but blimey I had no idea that you couldn't say roasties or Dotty Ps (not that I shop there because of their tax dodging owner )..
compared to you lot I am very "chillaxed"......now there is a word that sets my teeth on edge! Oh as I far as i was aware it was Tommy ketch not Tommy K but that just shows you how little I know!

DH often refers to ketchup as "American Gravy" or occasionally "Taste"

I have a friend who calls her DH "The Hubster". That boils my piss.

BuntyPenfold - totally agree with you on fake mateyness of Jamie Oliver. Think he is particularly responsible for the Maccy D's phenomenon. I would like to add one to the list.... ickle for little. Now THAT one goes way past a wee cringe and straight into kitten kicking territory for me. Some women do insist on talking as if they are toddlers, I didn't even speak to my son like that when he was a baby - how are these kids meant to learn to speak properly when THAT is all they hear all day? These are probably the people who dot their i with a little ickle heart, it's cos they wuvs you innit? Hmmm

Oh, and my (Eastern European) stepfather refers to Marks & Spencer as Much Expensive.

I had not really heard it called Tommy K until that advert, that I wasn't really taking any notice of and wondered why they were talking about a

I saw a grown woman on CDWM constantly calling the men 'babes'.... I wanted to slap her

at Much Expensive

Donning armour before typing this - I hate the expression 'effing and jeffing'. Why use it? It's much longer than just saying 'swearing'. It's also so incredibly twee it makes me want to poke the speaker with a pointy stick.

My dh says tommy k and maccy d's . I don't but am definitely guilty of others. Honestly, who cares? What a stupid thing to waste time thinking about, let alone getting all annoyed about.

ha ha ha....I HATE Tommy K but wouldn't expect anything less of Asda (just kidding before I get flamed). I have a very posh aunt who abbreviates everything...she drives a Subaru which she refers to as 'The Soob', then she says cuc for cucumber, duv for duvet...the list goes on. PS - I secretly like 'awks' (awkward) and 'mawks' (majorly awkward) but only because I think I'm secretly yearning to be a teenager again

veggies

I hate it as a short term for vegetables and as a term used for vegetarians.

If someone says simperingly 'I'm veggie' it makes me want to serve them foie gras.

Hubster? HUBSTER? Wtf. I am so glad I don't have friends who speak like this.