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 .)

Oh just remembered another one. I call worchestershire sauce whoochy sauce but only because saying worchestershire makes me tounge tied, I can't physically say it without at least 4 attempts and only then if I say it very, very slowly.

** I don't call it lea and perrins because we are cheapskates buy lidl own brand.

Who is Cher?

I once heard vicky spong. With a hard'g' . Sounded very strange.

Newpencilcase- I have actually managed to stop my dp saying "prep". It's taken me nearly 30 years- so hang in there!

I feel weird, I don't shorten food words at all.

Mash isn't an abbreviation though. It is what it is. You can have all sorts of mashed vegetables. The same with roasties. We had roast parsnips with dinner today and mashed carrot and swede.

I say butties, brew, fizz, veg, strawbs (I love that one), nana (as in banana), pud, Yorkshires (instead of Yorkshire puddings) and taters. They're all delish.

Spag bol is known as "spog" in our house.

Think yourself lucky nobody in your house has requested spaghetti bollock naked for dinner.

I'll suggest that next time they ask what's for dinner .

We say loop the loop for soup and breadiebunbuns for bread rolls.

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OP

Never visit Australia, the word vegetable doesn't exist.

You'd hate living in Oz.
It's not only food that gets shortened, words and places do...

Avo = afternoon

Freo = Fremantle

Rotto = Rottnest.

Gets on my wick.

Agree wholeheartedly withbso many of the above, except for "tatties" which is the genuine, full Scottish name for the vegetable in question.

I hate and detest "a cuppa". But how's this for extreme? I also hate "a coffee" as in "would you like a coffee?". It should (to me, anyway) be "would you like a cup of coffee?" or "Would you like some coffee?"

Yanbu at all. It makes me so angry.

I hate tommy k, and maccy d's recently saw 'with Tommy K' on a menu, Almost left the cafe I was so annoyed for 2 seconds!

My parents shorten names for medicines, paracetamol are paras etc, very odd

OP you are a girl after my own heart. I hate all these too, with a vengeance. There are a couple of exceptions, mayo being one.

I particularly hate:

choc or choccy
biccies
veggies
sarnies or butties
cuppa
pinta
roasties or just 'roasts', for roast potatoes. That makes me ragey, that one. Roast is NEVER a noun.
Toasties
Yorkies or just Yorkshires
a brew - for a cup of tea or coffee.

toms
cues } these seem to be an old lady thing. Uuurgh.
pots

My ire is not just reserved for shortened foodstuffs. I also feel murderous at:

cig or ciggie or snout
fag
back
leccy
lippy
tot for small child
bub or bubba
hubby
mam

Actually I take that back - roast can be a noun if it decribes the entire roast dinner, but a roast potato can never just be 'a roast'. If I cook you a roast and you point at the potatoes and say 'pass the roasts' I will hate you a bit for it, because many of the components are roasted, so don't be silly.

I'm still stuck on "chipperley wipperleys" and "breadiebunbuns". Are you people five?

I can cope with chipperly whipperlies- it's having tommy sauce on them that pushes me over the edge.

DH calls, for example, a bacon and egg sandwich as bacon and egg banjo or a sausage banjo.

No idea where it comes from but it riles me, especially now the DCs now request bloody banjos.

I am working a few hours in a greengrocers atm.

Customer: "Do you have any rooties?"

Me: "Well, we do have quite a few root vegetables in here."
Customer: (slightly irate) "No, no, no. I want beetroot."
Me: "Of course, let me get it for you you demented fool "

My OH calls mushrooms 'mushies' I've never said anything as I think it would be unnecessarily picky but I absolutely HATE it with a passion & already have secret plans to make sure our so far unborn child NEVER EVER uses it!

Phew. I feel so much better

Electric it's because a fried egg sandwich is messy to eat and liable to drop yolk down your front - supposedly you do a sort of banjo strumming motion to wipe it off! Doesn't really work with sausage though...

Dh's family say 'roasters' for roast potatoes and it drives me mad. I can feel myself starting to twitch when we go for a meal and roast potatoes are put on the table, wondering which twat will be the first to say 'pass me the roasters.'

As an aside I can't stand hilarious being shortened to hilar or ridiculous being shortened to ridic. One of my ex friends used ridic the other day and I was paralysed with horror.

Where will it end? Are we so lazy / busy we don't have time to say the entire word? Will the English language consist of single syllables in the future causing future scholars to have to interpret our texts in the same way I do with Chaucer?!

My friend calls ketchup TK and whenever she asks for someone to pass the TK she then looks bemused that nobody knows what she is talking about and she then has to say ketchup. She may as well say pass the ketchup in the first place!!

YANBU. My father abbreviates all sorts of completely random words - foods, countries, medical stuff, everyday objects. Drives me utterly insane.

If we occasionally get chips from the chip shop (or chippy ), dh refers to it as "a chip" (apparently that's common in N. Ireland) and I've lost count of the number of times someone's said to him "what, just one?".