Skinny Milk instead of Skim Milk - silly pet peeves

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Annoys me when coffee shops say skinny milk/coffee instead of just skim - which is the name of the milk and a shorter word!

What silly pet peeves do you have?

A box set is fine - it’s a set in a box, cannot get excited about this.

Espresso - I do say espresso not expresso and I also say latte correctly. I do think the objections to “expresso” are overegged though - it’s a pretty reasonable local varient to the Italian. The french say expresso so I hope you all sneer at the Parisians saying it too.

cardi
Remove the fat from milk and it becomes less filling ie “white water” but the lactose remains. Therefore people eating fat free dairy may end up consuming more of it and therefore more lactose which can spike insulin.

Insulin is the fat storage hormone so you want to keep your insulin levels low to avoid having any glucose in your blood turned into fat.

It’s alien to conventional wisdom but dietary fat doesn’t make body fat.

Irrationally irritated here too. It's
Packed lunch
Skimmed milk
Mashed potatoes

Full fat coke is a tongue in cheek thing. Nobody thinks it's made of actual fat.

Could have, should have, would have. (Scott Mills is a "could of" criminal. Can't bear it!)

But, none of it is life threatening. Even so, I refuse to accept I'm wrong. Or listen to opinion.

But a "Boxed set" is a set of things in a box, a "Box set" is a set of actual boxes.

(It's ok, I don't expect you to get excited about it. Or should that be "Eggcited"?)

@Dramatical

As in, a lot of responses on this thread are pulverizing the OP for using the American 'Skim milk' instead of the English 'Skimmed milk', but yet there's this craze among Mumsnetters for using the American term 'gifted' when talking about giving or receiving a present. I was wondering why one was acceptable and the other not!

So many stupid Americanisms are creeping over here - keep seeing them on Instagram with people saying they’re going to “swap out” something or other...swap is enough? Also “fry off” and “colourway” - what’s wrong with “fry” and “colour”.

To gift is a perfectly acceptable verb in English. If something is gifted it’s given as a gift, not for any other reason.

I pronounce words such as exit and exam with an x sound, pretty sure everyone I know does.

I have never used the words gifted nor do I talk about invites.

However, I'm probably quite a bit older than most of the posters on here so that could be because of my age.

Heard someone on television the other day talking about Breggis: no x and no t on the end. I know language evolves but that must be some sort of record.

webuiltthisbuffet because its not a sandwich. Its a panini, so I'll call it what it is.

Never heard the term 'pock money' until we moved down south.
And I hope you still haven't, since the term is 'pocket money'.

A localism that irritates me is "pennies" to generically mean money. I'm visualising a handful of coppers, they mean something that is financially meaningful. If it's a quantity going into pounds and especially involves notes, "pennies" is completely misleading.

Before anybody comes on to 'explain', yes I KNOW that it's an Italian word (albeit one that I believe means bartender, not specifically somebody who only makes coffee), and I'd fully expect people in Italy to use it - but why on earth do we use it in the UK? I wouldn't dream of calling a hospital in Stevenage and asking to speak to the Krankenwagenfahrer.

Because until very recently Britain had very little need for a noun for ‘person who has some skill and experience in making coffee’? And therefore it was imported, along with the concept of good coffee and the names applied to those coffees (some of them anyway). And because those who popularised espresso-based coffees in Britain were often Italian, we use their word.

To be fair, many people who currently have the title ‘barista’ in Britain are not skilled in making coffee, and it instead means ‘person who operates the espresso machine’.

Talking of money and pennies it really grates when furniture stores say, for example this hideous faux leather sofa is just five nine nine. 599 what? Pence, pounds, potatoes....? And Like we can't deal with 3 digit numbers !!!

Anything involving coffee is now utterly ridiculous. A small shot of coffee topped up with a bucket of hot water can cost almost 3 quid. The world's gone mad.

the one that boils my piss is "sicth" instead of "sixth". It infuriates me.
also "invites" instead of invitations

I hate ‘laaaaatay’ and ‘prezzzzzzzzzo’ it’s fucking Italian, at least follow a pronunciation rule. You don’t say ‘pizzzzzzzza’.

2 zz in Italian = a ‘ts’ sound, like PIZZA. And it’s not tricking babOOOOOshka. It’s baaaabushka.

I just want a coffee with a bit of milk in it and why is that the hardest thing to ask for?

I’m aware this is not the greatest misery life has to offer but it is a pain.

"Flat white coffee" its coffee with milk ffs. What the feck is wrong with "white coffee"?
And dont get me started on "Americano"... then saying "black americano...with a bit of cold milk"
Theres your black coffee the milk is right in front of you knock yourself out.
Pretentious nonsense we arent bloody costa, its just a coffee machine that has set kinds of coffee. No we cant do a one shot skinny latte either its a measured amount of coffee and powdered fecking milk as you can clearly see in the transparent compartments.
Then there are those who call a white coffee an Americano then ask where the milk in it is?..arghhh. if you are gonna be pretentious at least know what you are talking about.

And breath...

"Flat white coffee" its coffee with milk ffs. What the feck is wrong with "white coffee"?

They wouldn’t be the same drink in most coffee shops tbf.

@Willow2017 I had this again this morning. I can’t be doing with all the palaver so when he starts going on about Latte this and flat white that I just said “I’d like a cup of coffee with a bit of milk on the side”.

If you don’t, you might get a hot coffee milkshake in a glass jug or something.

I’m going to start carrying a picture of a cup of coffee with a bit of milk in it - like they have in those books for when you go to Japan. I want never to have to explain a cup of sodding coffee EVER again 🤯

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.spectator.co.uk/2016/01/mind-your-language-box-set/amp/

Quite like this little article!

As someone with a degree in languages (not Italian) I don’t care how a foreign word is pronounced. We’re not in France/Italy/Spain, we don’t speak the languages, it really does not matter. As a country our knowledge of foreign languages is shit, I can’t get too het up about people pronouncing a foreign word wrong. Someone will bring up “chorizo” next...

And a lot of Mumsnetters seem to forget about REGIONAL ACCENTS. I live in Southwest London/southeast England, I’m going to pronounce things differently to someone from, say, Liverpool/use different words for things. I don’t say “packup” or “brew” (for tea) but I understand what someone means when they say those.

Flat white is basically coffee with a little hot milk in it.
Not as much as a latte as the ratio of milk is higher in a latte.

If you want cold milk then a black coffee and milk on the side/add your own milk is fine.

It doesnt need to.be complicated at all.

And now they ask you your name. And when I ask why they say they'll write it on my cup and call me when it's ready. I'm standing here, and I'll just stand here till I've watched you make it. I'll still be here. I'm the only person at the counter

@ChipSandwich At the place I go they ask it as "Can I have your name" rather than "What is your name?" So I just cheerfully reply "No".

They always just laugh and move on. It's so pointless.

First time it happened was when I was on holiday in Australia and I was so confused when they said "Can I get a name for your coffee ?" I thought they were asking me to name the actual coffee. Like call it Lucy Latte or Katie Cappuchino.