'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?

Urgh. I was in a little village cafe called Sextons and they had something called 'Sexy Eggs'. We left before ordering

Eeew to sexy eggs . Too fertilize-y.

Sounds like a milking parlour! Chow down indeed 🙄