To shout FFS it’s bolognese!!!

[Booksandwine80]

There seems to be a trend for people calling spaghetti bolognese “spag bowl”......gives me the rage

AIBU?!

What phrases piss you off??!!

So it follows that what annoys me is people who have a panini for their lunch. That'll be a panino or two panini.

Have you seriously ever actually ordered ‘a panino’ for your lunch in a British coffee shop?

I know that ‘panini’ is technically the plural but I would still never actually order ‘a panino’ because I think I’d sound like a pretentious twat.

Not food-related, but drives me UP THE WALL when people say they've "been through it with a fine tooth-comb."

WHO COMBS THEIR TEETH? NOBODY. There is no such thing as a tooth-comb, fine or shoddy.

Also "for all intensive purposes" and "could of / should of / would of."

We have Spaggers or Spag bollock Knees.

But we don't use spaghetti and include meatballs in the second one.

Tender hooks

It’s good to use when your a waitress and haven’t got time to write the full name.

My dd is 7 and her favourite food ever is Macaroni cheese. She is slightly obsessed with the YouTube American crap and all of the families she watches say Mac N Cheese so now she does too and so do I

Surely there is such a thing as a fine-tooth comb @ladybee?

Bought a fine toothed comb in readiness for a dose of nits, still in my woman draw, fourteen years later, unused thankfully

@Whosthebestbabainalltheworld - yes, and that's my point...

A fine-toothed comb, as in a comb with the teeth close together, exists, and that's the way the phrase is intended.

A fine tooth-comb, as in the finest of combs to use on your teeth, is not.

Yup. Fine-tooth comb is correct.

It is a comb with narrow teeth to catch things in.

Love a bit of slag bowl 🤤

@ladybee28 wins the thread, so funny!

It’s like the young lady who talked of Baracko Barmer

Not a food, but it seriously gets on my nerves when people call their holiday "holibobs", I literally want to smack them in the mouth!!!

We call it spaggly waggly. Obv.

@lisasimpsonssaxophone
I don't go in British coffee shops but if I did and I wanted to buy a panino I think I'd probably point and say "one of those, please"

Maccy D's for McDonald's really pisses me off and I don't really eat McDonald's anymore LOL

I don't go in British coffee shops but if I did and I wanted to buy a panino I think I'd probably point and say "one of those, please"

Totally misread this and thought you said "wanted to buy a piano".

chuckle.

When people say or actually write “nom nom” about enjoying food I want to vomit all over my screen. It made my toes curl having to even write that.
I am 100% with you OP on spag bowl, it makes me CRINGE when people write it!!!!! I thought it was just an accent thing from my part of the world, we hate an “l” in Estuary English, they almost always get converted to a long “w” sound so I probably SAY spag bowl, but would NEVER write it!! I was really 😲 when I first saw it written as couldn’t believe that’s what people thought was being said when they heard “spag bol”.

@PlentyOfBiscuitsWithTea after I saw your post I went on Facebook and the first post I saw said nom nom nom

Ugh

What about cup cakes? Aren't they fairy cakes?

Yeah spag Bol is awful.
We call it spag bog
Or bog for short!

Dear good get a life love, you are ridic'.

Haven’t RFT, but people referring to Le Miz really annoys me. No reason why, just does.

No I don’t like it either. Other phrases that irritate me;

‘I want to say...’ when someone is trying to remember something

‘I don’t reach for that often’ meaning I don’t use that often.

‘For all intensive purposes’ 🤣🤣 oh that’s so funny

And ‘I generally like’ instead of genuinely. For heavens sake, it’s usually young people too. Don’t schools teach English lessons properly nowadays?