To hate it when people shorten the names of food?

[muminthecity]

Strawbs is the worst one I've heard recently. Veg, spag bol and pots also set my teeth on edge. I don't mind so much when they are written down, it's when they're said out loud that I find it fills me with rage irritating. None of these are particularly difficult words to say so why? Why do it? Anyone else feel my pain, or am I just weird?

(In case anyone asks, I know it isn't the biggest problem in the world, and yes I do have better things to worry about .)

Mozzarell. Guilty

Tatties gets my teeth on edge

Ah, good thing I would never, ever say that then

I don't like "spag bog." The others I don't mind. We call a cup of tea a "cuppie" in our house. You would hate us.

Mozzarell? Seriously? Just add the bloody a on the end woman, it's only one extra letter! I think that might just beat strawbs as the WORST SHORTENING OF A WORD EVER!

I say veggies. I blame mr bloom.

Ooh cuppie is BAD.

Oh!

I once heard 'Mozzy' as a shortening of Mozzerella. Was very confused as to why they were putting Mosquitoes on their pizza, but then I realised and OH had to drag me away from the cheese aisle before I rammed them to death with my trolley.

mum can you email me that list when you're done?

No, no, tatties is a proper word, piglet. It is. But I have never in my life heard somebody actually refer to potatoes as pots. Where does this happen?

It's the way my mum pronounces it!

LalyRawr, you made me snort my glass of vino all over the keyboard

tatties = tatws which is the Welsh for potatoes and that was the language of the islands once upon a time......

What are jacket potatoes? Are they baked potatoes?

I find the term 'jacket potatoes' offensive, let alone 'jackets' .

I'm with you op I hate it too!

Pelvic. I nearly throttled a mother in a b and b who was trying to feed an eggy Peggy to her 2 year old. I think it's more of a strangulation risk than a loss of limbs scenario. However you can serve strawbs up any time for me... Completey immune to all this abbreviation angst.

Brecon - Oddly enough I have only ever heard pots used for jacket potatoes, never roast or boiled or any other kind. My sister calls them jacket pots, the utter bastard. I'm thinking of cutting off all contact with her actually, until she changes her ways. It's either that or extreme violence.

Shortening or lengthening foods doesn't bother me (although I don't do it), but the way people say 'advertisement' gets on my goat!!
Its an advert-is-ment, not an adver-tie-sment!!!!

Roasties and sarnies are the absolute worst.

Particularly now I discover that auto correct tries to turn them into rosaries and sardines..........

Burberry... Before the time sir Walter Raleigh brought the tatie back from the Americas, I think.

Dh call tomato sauce: red lead or tommy sauce. And tartare sauce: cheerio sauce.

I do a good line in withering looks but he just blithley carries on with it...

Spaghetti = skettie
Hot drink = brew
Sandwich = butty
Crisps = crips

But tomato sauce never ketchup is tommyarto sauce

Strange family I have

Chewing - It is clearly time to give up the withering looks and start on the limb removal .

How about sgetti and meballs?