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 .)

Argh I say pud. I always will. There'll be no stopping me now at my humungous great age.

Oh god though yes yes yes to Mac n cheese. Or even Macaroni and cheese. It's macaroni cheese.

burberryqueen LOL! Rolf! I'm not sure I want to know how anyone's is hung ........
Just in case you are still hungry and have the patience... you can watch this in English.

Spaghetti bolognese is referred as spaghetti bollogs in our house, not much shorter, but we like it because its amusing.

But I agree with you, so many abbreviation's these days for everything, people. Are in such a rush to get through life

The correct name for baked potatoes is bakers

The correct name for broccoli is in fact trees

I still don't understand why people have issues with mash. It's not always potatoes.

Ex-boyfriends family:

"We're having chish and fips tonight, do you want some?"

No, just get me one of those plastic forks so I can stick it in your eye.

Always, always, chish and fucking fips.

When they started with the Blackadder "ettyquetty" nonsense I knew it was time to kill them all leave him.

In my house:
beans on toast= bot
beans on toast with cheese= ch-bot or botch
beans on toast with sausages = sosbot
bourbon biscuits= boskies

Bumpstarter - there's a good sketch on 'I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again', where Bill Oddie et al. play babies. They converse between themselves in grown-up English but at one point Bill's 'mummy' says "Who's been a naughty boy then? Now I'll have to buy some more eggy-peggies" to which he replies "Oh terrificky whiffiky."

I think on the whole I agree with you. I will be guilty of some though, I feel sure - oh yeah, we say Ruby quite often. The only thing I get really fucking pissed off about is 'belly pork'. I've mentioned it before, but the dropped 'of' just makes me mad.

vlad - champoo, abbr. 'poo' is one I've heard many times.

I don't ever abbreviate avocado, but will very often say ''nd pop an apple in 'is assss, yeah...' afterwards. Or impersonate Stadtler and Waldorf:
'You wanna go out; try to make somethin' of yourself.'
'Oh yeah, like what?'
'Guacamole!'.

Mind you, chicken drumsticks are always "bum sticks" in this house- courtesy of ds aged about 2.......

everlong. I LOVE B on chee on toe. I am adopting it. Mind you, we call pyjamas "Jimmy mc bobbles" so I do have alternative taste in naming. The kids will be grateful their dad shared in naming them

I am so relieved to see that I am in fact, not unreasonable at all, and glad that so many of you share my burning rage feelings.

The rest of you can fuck the fuck off with your chipperly wipperlys and your Tommy K and your bloody 'shrooms!

I have never come across this before but I'm finding it hilarious.....

Sob! I can change! I can stop saying 'shrooms and toms and cuppie. Please be my friend!

I think there is a difference between cute words your dcs use when they are first trying to speak to bizarre cutesy words which adults use for no good reason.

Tommy K! Shudder!

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.'

I would have to get up and smash a gravy boat into someone's face. I think I really would.

Also anyone who calls sausages 'bangers' needs shooting.

And I hate it when people say 'ill have a tea' or 'Ill have a wine.'

You can have a coffee or a beer, but it needs to be a cup of tea, and a glass of wine.

Don't ask me why - it just does.

I also really hate 'voddy.' I can never see the word voddy without imagining it spoken by some orange-coloured horror with comedy eyebrows and a Scouse accent.

I would have to get up and smash a gravy boat into someone's face. I think I really would.

You should definitely do this ^. You'd be doing them a favour really, they should be grateful to you for showing them the error of their ways.

I am glad this thread is still going, it shows what an important issue this really is. I wonder if MNHQ would consider it for their next campaign? I'd be happy to start a petition for the government to ban the use of crap abbreviations for perfectly good foods. I will start compiling a full list of what should be banned now.

We call mange tout 'manky touts' and tomato sauce is 'scorsaysee', plus colersaurus for coleslaw

Other phrases used are tats, rooms, tommy tarters, cuc, spag Bol, mayo, mootard, roast tats, chuck for chicken... Oh dear, some of you would gladly kill me! :)

Along with gin, brillig and bluestocking I have a special, twitching hatred of "veggies", however it's spelled. From my visits there and viewing of (too many) imported food programmes I am convinced no North American even knows they have a real name. Ina Garten, we Mitfords can tell you are no Contessa.

Oh and a piña colada is always called a penis collosus...(that's its Latin name obviously ...)