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 .)

We have friends who grow their own toms. They love toms. Toms are so much better when home grown than shop toms. They constantly offer their dcs toms, and tell them how good toms are for them.

We stopped visiting.

I don't mind vegetable(s) being shortened to veg but then I become confused whether veg, in its abbreviate form, is singular or plural or both, depending on content?

The abbreviations that really get to me not really are spag bol, spaghetti Bolognaise, and spaghetti Bolognese. It should read Spaghetti al ragu' alla bolognese. Most people do not cook a ragu' alla bolognese but just a ragu' and the spaghetti were never mandatory: any pasta would do, although often ragu' is served with fettucine or similarly shaped pasta.

Annunziata Don't be to hard on your mum. I believe there genuine abbreviations in Italian, to allow better flow of the language. Vin santo instead of vino santo; mozzarell' e pomodori instead of mozzarella e pomodori (or just Caprese!!); caff' e latte, which has now contracted to caffelatte... That's before we start with the miriads of dishes with fun names: Panzanella, strozzapreti, scamorza in carrozza, stracciatella (prefer the ice-cream version to the soup!)

[to hard]=[too hard].

stop it favadi you are making me hungry

or should that be, stop it hun, you are making me hung?

i actually had to stop reading this thread after the first few posts as it was making me so annoyed.

YANBU, OP. YAsoveryverymuchNBU.

Roasties actually makes me want to throw potatoes as the person saying it.

Dear Mumsnet,

I just asked my OH for suggestions for this week's shopping list, this is what he suggested:

Veg:

NONIONS
PEPPAHS
Tinned Toms
Celery
SPUDS
?Shrooms

Should I just LTB?

Taytos for potatoes

I shorten chilli con carne to chilli

Aaaaargh - shoot me now!

chipperly wipperly?

Apparently some upper-crust Americans refer to champagne as 'poo'. WTF???

YANBU, OP. I would let toastie, spud and brew pass though.

My mother calls broccoli and cauliflower broc and col.

Actually she's terrible for it, she has loads. Tattie sauce for tomato ketchup, pep for pepper, I could go on but it may not be good for some of your blood pressures.

I say chilli for chilli con carne
I call tomato sauce tommy k sometimes

but I hate brekkie and choccie

I fucking hate people saying Tommy K, Maccy D's and using the word butty instead of sandwich.

I was about to offer up 'slaw' but see I have been beaten.

'Whip' is another that gets RIGHT on my tits, as in 'whipped cream'. Especially when used to describe the UHT stuff that comes in an aerosol can. That's not even whipped fucking cream, whipping is a action not an end product... let alone 'whip'. Argh. Yes, America, I'm talking to you.

I can tolerate veg, mash and mayo. Maybe even spag bol on a good day. But the rest make me shudder, especially butty and tatty.

Ooh yes, we have Brox (broccolli) in our house

And breakfast is often referred to as 'brekkerlily' or 'brekkerlils' (no, I did not go to Public School). Almost as bad as chipperly wipperlies!

In't 'whip' short for instant whip? Which isn't even cream

I have no problems with abbreviations of food names and am guilty of using most of them, with the sole exception of.......

'Mac n cheese' aaarrgh!!!

which for some unknown reason makes we want to punch people very very hard.

The term actually makes me feel physcially ill. I can feel my blood pressure shooting sky high. Why of why does it bother me so much?

I don't mind most abbreviations but the one that fills me with so much rage I could actually vomit is 'cuppy'.

Arrrrrgh!!!!!!!

Cannot abide:
sarnie
roastie
toastie
veggie/veg
choccie
biccie
cuppa.

It's all just so infantilising;and I'm not keen on "Fish 'n chips" "mac n'cheese" "sausage 'n mash" etc. Oddly, I don't mind "mash" as a noun but "mash potatoes" makes me wince

In my defense, chipperley wipperleys was invented by my then 4 year old and the name has stuck.

I like mayo on mine - the others all have Tommy K

super soz

YADNBU! I hate hate hate hate when people shorten food names. The worst is 'tattie'.
I live in New Jersey and unfortunately don't understand what people are talking about most of the time. Some prime examples are:

Grilled cheese- Not breaded and pan fried brie like I thought but a grilled cheese sandwich
Mozz (always yelled out agressively)- mozzarella
Parm-parmigana
Pie- pizza
Egg parm- eggplant parmigiana
Ri-cot- riocotta cheese
Vaka- vodka sauce

Please note that I don't speak Italian, and neither do the people who use these stupid words!

Chuddy for chewing gum - errgh!

Speaking of Americans, when I lived in California, the whole 'easy on the Mayo' thing annoyed me.

1. it's Mayonaise.

2. how do you go easy on Mayonaise? 'Its ok Mayonaise, you're doing really well, honestly, you're great!' As opposed to being 'hard' on the Mayonaise: 'Mayonaise you piece of shit, you're rubbish, sort your arse out or you're fired!'

3. I realise I am irrational and maybe slightly crazy. Just a bit.

I can't stand "veges" written down, especially when it's in a sentence about "sneaking veges into hubby and the bubs". Bleurgh. Let the whole lot of them die of scurvy, I say.

Pud

The only one I'm guilty of is calling spaghetti with meat sauce "Bollocknaise" and that's not really any shorter is it?

calamity - chuddies are Anglo-Indian slang for underpants