To cringe when people say...

[Dalmore30]

Food being described as ‘beautiful’, ‘gorgeous’ or ‘stunning’ makes me wants to vomit.

I have to bite my tongue when people say ‘fry off’ rather than just fry.

And the word ‘secondment’ makes my skin crawl!

Is anyone with me on these?

I've never heard anyone say those things.

But I'd eyeroll rather than cringe.

Cringe is a word I would never use. It rhymes with minge.

But ‘fry off’ suggests fry until done/caramelised (e.g onions) rather than just ‘fry’ which suggests fry until they are part done and then add the next bit/rest so they can all be ‘done’ at the same time, doesn’t it?

But I’d see ‘fry off’ as meaning something slightly different to just ‘fry’.

Putting pictures of their dinner on Facebook with the caption FIT. Faaark orf

People who say

"Ruddy"

"Chuffin"

Say "plonk" instead of wine {vomits}

Posh people using words like "gaff"

The word 'stunning' is so over used on socia media. Bog standard night out (or in) with some lipstick on and spidery fake eyelashes? Stunning. Every bridal photo is 'stunning'.
Haven't seen it used about food yet.

@iswhois

People who say

"Ruddy"

"Chuffin"

Say "plonk" instead of wine {vomits}

Posh people using words like "gaff"

@iswhois all awful!

I had a flatmate that called every meal 'sexy'. Drove me nuts.

My MIL always says 'it was Devine' I hate it every single time haha

DH is/was a chef. He uses fry off in a different way to fry. For example things might be fried off to be added to something "I've fried off the onions for my omelette". He wouldn't for example fry off an egg for a roll, that would just be fried.

Also secondment, what else would you call it?

Agree with the others though.

Plonk only refers to certain wine though. If you told me it was plonk I would just exopect an off the shelf supermarket wine, no necesserily bad but not peticularly good.

Takeaway

As in 'well Amanda the takeaway I got from the very interesting meeting about ecobricks was that we are in fact a bunch of pretentious twats'

Nothing to do with takeaway food obvs 😋

Tuna fish, it's just tuna.
Literally, "I literally exploded"...you didn't and cannot.
Fa-jeet-asss, no fajitas (fahitas)

'Ram packed' annoys me.

I also get irritated by journalists / newsreaders using the word 'big'. As in 'it's a big problem for the government', 'this will have big repercussions'. It sounds so childish. Use 'significant', or 'substantial', or 'profound', or any other elegant synonym that isn't something a three year old would choose.

@doggytalk121

My MIL always says 'it was Devine' I hate it every single time haha

Mine used to say that, about a plate of boiled vegetables, as that's all she would eat.

Pan fry , I always think go on then let's see how you fry something without a pan .

Any time someone says literally when they dont mean it, i literally died , i usuallly reply with well your are doing a lot of talking for a corpse !

I'm in the States. I have to restrain myself when I hear people, most often men, say " I'll do the double cheeseburger" or " I'll do the fried chicken". What's wrong with saying " I'll have the chicken" or " Can I have the cheeseburger". Can't stand it! Another one is that is driving me bonkers is when people say " I'm super excited" or " I'm super pissed off". Why don't people say very anymore?!

@Thickhead I say jam packed is that ok? 😄

24/7 ... bad enough on its own but when added to 'literally' I want to scream.

'Cooked to perfection' on cooking shows. What's wrong with 'cooked perfectly' ffs.

The word "cringe"....

doesn't really make me cringe, but i notice the use of incredibly is a marker of youngish middle-class usually female people.

Not a foodie one but people who say ‘3am in the morning’ wind me up. It’s either 3 am or 3 in the morning. You don’t bloody need to say both

Unprecedented
‘Of an evening’
Chuffing

All set my teeth on edge