AIBU to hate cute words for food?

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As in adults talking to each other saying they enjoy “a couple of squares of choccy” or “a couple of biccies” or some “veggies”.
And the word “nibbles” as in “she put some nibbles out on the table”.
Sounds so tossy to me.

Tbf I have a broken knee and Dh is down with the flu so I'd be grateful even to get "nibbles" no matter what they were called. Normally I would probably agree with you

Brew? How can that annoy you?

Adults who talk to one another using cutsie baby language are annoying.

It isn't important or fume worthy, it just mildly off putting and a reason to mute their social media posts or avoid sitting near them at bigger gatherings etc.

I hate 'brew' too (I mean, when used as a noun meaning 'cup of tea') and 'cuppa'.

'Grub' fills me with irrational annoyance. A student friend shared a house with someone who used to refer to food as 'lovely dubbly grubchops', and although this was a million years ago and I barely remember her name (or anything else about her, other than her liking for West Coast Cooler), I remember being shocked at my sudden hatred for a harmless student teacher taking a chicken curry out of the microwave.

Would you prefer that I, quite correctly, referred to pre-dinner nibbles as hors d'œuvres? No? Thought not...

I call vegetables "vag" when speaking to my husband. How does everyone feel about that?

"Nibbles" is fine AFAIAC if you're planning a gathering and want to indicate that there will be some stuff to eat but not a full meal - "snacks" is a different thing: usually lighter and less healthy, like crisps and dips. "Nibbles" or "picky hits" indicates sausage rolls and coleslaw. At least to me.

Can't beat 'hubby' for the being the most toe curling

Commonly seen on Instagram slimming world accounts: strawbs, bloobs, and the worst, chicken boobs

Crispies instead of crisps gets my goat

We like choccy bickies in this house, and spag bog. Chocolate is often just choc.

When tea is ready my DH shouts up the stairs to DD 'Food'. Now that bloody grinds my gears.

Oh, and where I grew up sandwiches were referred to as butties. Chip butties or crisp butties were a thing.

None of you would survive in Australia. We use slang for everything.

Nom nom and yummy are the worst, with cuppa and the even more awful cuppy, very close behind.
I don't like "scran" at all.

YANBU people saying veggies makes me sick

None of that annoys me but I get tabby when people refer to food as "grub".

It’s veggies in this house, but DH’s an Antipodean, so I’ve got used to it along with snags (sausages ) and sangers ( sandwiches - actually no, I banned that one).

Canapés for the nibbles phobic, maybe ? Though that does suggest something rather more elaborate than a bowl of nuts.

I think 'scran' originates from my neck of the woods, sorry.

Lish, nom, dippy eggs, red sauce, sarnies (but will happily use 'butties'), picky bits/tea, scrummy, yummy and the use of 'juice' when it's actually squash or cordial all make me cringe.

We use all kinds of silly words with the kids, they love their jammy sammies, nutty butties, yog yogs, hoopies, shreds, k'choop and hot choccy...not together.
But I do hate when people say nom nom or supper.
Biscuit, I suppose nibbles could just be called snacks.

I loathe twee descriptions of food, particularly faux nonchalance.

"We had spag bol and jacket pots for lunch so we're just going to grab picky bits to munch on for tea. Yum!" Makes my soul die off in increments.

For some inexplicable reason the word “pud” makes me want to kill, in a violent way

I don't like saying the word 'lunch'. I can say 'lunch box' but I just wouldn't naturally say 'Have you had any lunch?' I'd say 'Have you had any dinner?'

And the meal in the evening is tea! Not supper. Supper conjures up images of milk and cookies before bed.

'Brekky' - urghhh
And 'scran' - a Northern chavvy word
And what the flippin heck is 'brunch'?

I feel murderous when fully grown men deliberately mispronounce words because they think it sounds cute. Bisketti for spaghetti and, by extension, any pasta with sauce, is the one that gets the most visceral reaction, as the first person I knew who used it finally admitted that he was perfectly capable of saying spaghetti but said it because his Mum thought it was cute when he was five.

Nommage and munchage also inane. As are using initials for things that don't need to be initialised. And Chish and Fips is also irritating.

Hypocritically, I don't mind Scran, hammy-cheesy-eggy or other such things the OH learned from his grandfather. I have been known to ask for a Banjo or Roadkill roll when he's cooking breakfast - and dippy eggs and soldiers are universally understood, IMO, as is a Snake 'n' Pygmy Pie..

Thinking about it, it's probably more the person I heard saying it first that's the problem, not the words themselves.

BeanTownNancy I'm pretty sure coleslaw does not fall under most people's definition of "nibbles" - I see those cheap party mix things in my head (little hard salted pretzels, finger nail sized oval crackers with serrated edges, those odd tiny fish shaped crackers) some ready salted crisps and salted peanuts.

Picky bits creates vivid images of scabs and dry skin and people picking them [not envy] and is a genuinely revolting phrase.

Finger food is better than nibbles, but generally what it's called depends on what it is and context.

Can we add "[insert supposedly rhetorical question]? Thought not?" to the list of irritating ways of using language though? It sounds aggressive, and something someone with no sense of personal space would say with their face too close to the person they're talking to. Plus often the answer to the supposedly rhetorical question isn't what the asker of the question is assuming.