'Chow down' - make it stop

[dizzydaisies]

I'm on the website of a very plush, very traditional local hotel to book my mum in for afternoon tea. So far, all very traditional and dainty sandwiches... and then the description 🙈 'Chow down on freshly baked scones'.

How has this horrible, horrible phrase become so ingrained in our lexicon that it's now used on something like this?

AIBU to not book the afternoon tea and blame the idiot doing the copy on their website?

I hate it too.

It could only be made worse if they'd ended it with 'non nom'.

Can you book anywhere else, and send them a disapproving email?

Your call.

Send a disapproving email if you want.

Don’t post, shame or downvote them publicly online because they have used a phrase that makes you cringe as that would be out of order.

"horrible"

Why?

"ingrained" - are you sure?

"AIBU to not book the afternoon tea"

No but I'd love to know when afternoon tea became such an indicator of class that so many want to 'do' it. Go somewhere nicer or give up and have your sandwiches and loose leaf tea at home and be less aspiringly pretentious.

Really? I never hear this. Is it regional or do I move on the wrong circles?

Never heard the expression.

YANBU OP - I can just about live with 'chow down' if the food in question is fried chicken or ribs or burgers or something suitably American and gluttonous, but afternoon tea? No no no no no

I get that there are phrases that make us irrationally cringe but to avoid a nice cream tea because of it would be bizarre in the extreme. I'd go chow down on those scones any day of the week!

I would partake of a naice cream tea. Fulsomely.

Oh god horrible expression!

I also hate "feasted on"

It is, to me, a horrible phrase!

I was only half joking about not going just because of that, but it was just something that really irritated me. And I'm not publicly shaming them, as I deliberately haven't named them.

Thank you those who get it!

Horrible expression.

Overly descriptive expressions for eating and drinking and what you "fancy" to est alwaus make me cringe!

Ew chow down

I also hate "up for grabs^
£Great giveaway prizes , four iPads up for grabs"

Yanbu. Afternoon tea is NOT the time for anything of the sort. Write a stern letter (a proper one in ink)
And yes "feasted on" Ew. Makes me think of Zombies feasting on brains..

I don’t think afternoon tea is associated with chowing down. It seems inappropriate for scones.Imagine Jane Austen saying ‘chow down on one of these bad boys ‘ .

Although thinking about it, I would consider scoffing scones. It's possible they should come with lashings of ginger beer, in that case.

most of my clients are estate agents. It's a different level of squirm with 'period features abound' and the 'reception boasts a delightful aspect'

it's the same kind of wankery, just different packagaing.

I feel your pain, YANBU

YANBU - I also hate it in restaurants in the US when the waiting staff ask if you are 'still working on that?' Urgh

...its usually done while clearing other plates from the table instead of waiting until the whole table has finished eating too.

Chow down is toe curling. I want to "nibble" on dainty delicacies.
I fucking hate Americanisms!

"Working on"?! swoons in horror

"Chow down" makes me think of blowjobs 😂😂

Yeah, their marketing person has a tin ear. Might as well say get yer gobs round our fondant fancies.

So bizarre! I'd boycott

Are they putting the scones into dog bowls so you can cut out the inconvenience of using your hands to pick them up?!

Hate it.
Also ‘non nom’, guzzle, chomp.

You don't chow down on afternoon tea. That is horrific.

Chow down on pulled pork at an American BBQ - OK (ish)
Chow down on scones in a naice hotel - abomination

Save Americanisms for American stuff