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.

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None of that annoys me but I get tabby when people refer to food as "grub".
not sure if this was meant or it was a freudiant slip but it made my laugh.

We used to have nibbles in the evening if we had eaten early , but rarely said any of the others except buttie , you just cant have a ' chip sandwich ' it does not sound right .

I accept we need a word for “nibbles” and that hors d’œuvres and canapés aren’t the right words for it. But nibbles sounds like a field mouse with yellowing teeth scrabbling away at a peanut, and that’s not right either.

Yes agree to adding in “thought not”. Also please see: “didn’t think so”

And from arsey TeenLand, the punch-worthy “but did I say that though nah didn’t FINK so”

Ugh I'm in total agreement but then I viscerally hate anyone who does the faux cutesy crap , it's beyond ridiculous

I admit I have a particular dislike for women doing it (entirely my own issue I fully accept) because we work so hard to be taken seriously as women and then some twunt wanders up batting eyelashes and giggling that din din is bloody ready

However granted entirely as annoying as some great hiking bloke that talks in a twee little voice about his sammidge ...ergh unless you are my under 7 year old children it's not endearing it makes me think of Norman Bates ffs

The only exception is my brilliant deceased gran who was the strongest and most amazing woman I knew called a buffet "bits"annoying as hell but the only person I can forgive for it

In her defence it was the only cutesy thing she did and was more of a beat the wolf to death at the door with her apron whilst getting the milk in kinda woman

I have no problem with most of the aforementioned 'cute' words, but think 'nom-nom' is vom-vom. My partner and his family call chewing gum 'chuddy' which also sounds revolting to me!

Got to be honest I'm couldn't care less what anyone calls food as long as they have made it for me or even just served it up on a paper plate ....

I have an unnatural hatred for the word portion....

It sounds ridiculous.... portion control, this portion serves 2 people....ahhhhh

But yes baby names for food and eating when not used for a baby is irritating.

Calling lunch dinner and dinner supper or tea.

Only ones allowed to have their food called by baby names are my cats who have tea in the evening and biccies at regular intervals throughout the day. Also CBs for the posh crunchy biscuits they have as a late night snack.

Anyone who called food nom noms in my presence would get a slap slap.

I find baby talk in general pretty repellent. My in-laws say everything in baby talk. “Nap naps” for nappy. “Morkies” for milk. They’ve even abbreviated my (two syllable) name into baby talk. It makes me wince!

Yumbles! 🤮

Coleslaw isn't nibbles!

Nibbles to me is the stuff you eat if you have friends round for a glass of wine, or what you serve to friends before dinner. Cheese, crackers, chutney, olives, salami, pâté, smoked salmon, naice bread, oil, dukkah, nuts, crisps, pretzels, etc, etc.

I use the word, but don't love it. What else do you call it, though? Antipasto sounds a bit wanky.

YANBU

veggies
roasties
toasties
brekkie
bicky

All awful

I don't think I use anything other than "yum yum" and that's just referring to formula milk before I give it to my son. We normally ask "do you want some yum yum?" if he's hungry. Not that he can talk, he's only 9 months old

Picky bits is the worst to me but alternatives in English are not much better and canapés etc... sound a bit pretentious. We need a new word!

I just asked my cat if she wants some dindins

I love the phrase 'picky bits'. It's what we have at Christmas in the evening and it's lovely, it makes me think of delicious meat and cheese and chutneys and bread and crackers which are delicious so no disgusting scab connection made here! It's a perfect name because you sit and pick at the food, whatever you want, whenever you want throughout the evening.

I can't stand 'brew' and nom nom.

There's someone I follow on Instagram who calls chicken breasts 'chicken boobs'. So hilarious.

Also when people type 'narna' instead of banana.

We used to sing ‘yummy scrummy for my tummy’ to our children.

The dogs have ‘brekkie’, twice a day.

And when asking what my daughter wants for breakfast, I turn into Gollum. ‘Eggses, my precious?’

I hate people calling their evening meal "supper" - it sounds pretentious

Well I hate people who hate the word supper. It's the word I grew up using for a casual evening meal with family. It's about the furthest you can get from pretentious.

My friend’s incredibly posh ex girlfriend used to invite us round for “kitchen sups” which was basically still a dinner party, just not black tie!

I knew somebody would say picky bits = Christmas to them. Picky bits ruin Christmas threads. Scabs and images of picking meat from a carcass like a vulture.

I also dislike food described as gorgeous or beautiful or divine or similar. It's all so affected. Just eat your dinner and stop fetishising it ffs.

I'm hoping your username is ironic OP

Hearing "cauliflower squeeze" would make me cringe far more than an innocuous "dippy egg"

And 'scran' - a Northern chavvy word

ODFOD.

And you spelt brekkie wrong.

Hate those sorts of words.

Usually the same sort of people who say Crimbo. Holibobs and famalam.

Just urgh.

Picking meat from a carcass like a vulture pretty much describes my attitude to food around Christmas so probably picky bits is quite accurate!