To cringe when people over describe their food?

[BooFuckingHoo2]

Lighthearted

“What did you have for lunch?”

“Oh I had soft scrambled eggs on crusty bakery sourdough, topped off with sun blushed vine tomatoes and a sprinkling of cracked black pepper”

So you had egg and tomato on toast then .

I get the similar cringe when people describe having toast with “lashings of butter” or a cake with “oodles of cream”.

Anyone else?

And now in my fury I've said non which is another hate....

Not quite as bad as those pretentious menus where you get a whole paragraph about how whatever it was, was gathered at dawn by vestal virgins, hand washed in mountain dew , lovingly hand-cut into alumettes....etc.

But presumably that’s where they get it from. Purple Foodie Prose.,

Yes!! And my mum will always tell me quantities...
1 egg, a few beans, half a sausage and a slice of Danish bread with a 'tinchy' bit of butter . Drives me mad 🤬

Lashings of butter sounds very Enid Blyton.

@NameChange84 😂😂😂

Also what are “softly” scrambled eggs? I read that on a thread here earlier and now I can’t stop thinking of the alternative which I’m assuming is violently scrambled eggs

I think you use a hammer and don't shell them first.

@NerrSnerr pretty sure I did that the other day

Oi Molten The food in those books sounds edible! I wont have any bashing of the delicacies in that series :p

A fb constantly needs to remind us that her meals are home made.

"I just made these home made cupcakes and home made vanilla icing". Yes love we get it, you don't buy ready made from shops.

@BlueGreenDreams Ty for that, I made a very crude noise from my nose and now my boss is eyeballing me.

Ah in fairness softly scrambled eggs is a thing. You can overdo them and it's a solid mass, or if they're soft they're just done for the perfect amount of time.

But surely the assumption is they’re perfectly done, I wouldn’t expect someone to say “scrambled eggs I really fucked up and overcooked on freshly toasted bakery sour dough”
Even more wanky to point out how perfectly you’ve cooked your food!

Nigella, nigel slater and that fred off of first dates - can't stand them slobbering having used as many adjectives they can if into a 30 min tv programme to describe a ham sandwich - JUST EAT THE BLOODY THING!

Any time I hear or see anyone describe food as "yummy" i die a little bit inside.

@TheSandman

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Anyone care to guess what I had for dinner yesterday:

Plump tender haricots delicately simmered in a rich, sweet, aromatic tomato sauce laid to rest on a slice of butter-drenched grilled pain de campagne.

No but I’m a foodie and I look talking about food.

@GoldfishParade

Anyone care to guess what I had for dinner yesterday:

Plump tender haricots delicately simmered in a rich, sweet, aromatic tomato sauce laid to rest on a slice of butter-drenched grilled pain de campagne.

I can absolutely imagine beans on toast being on a mwnu somewhere like this

Can I please add that adults describing their food as ‘yummy’ gives me the fecking rage

[quote BooFuckingHoo2]@SchrodingersImmigrant

Also what are “softly” scrambled eggs? I read that on a thread here earlier and now I can’t stop thinking of the alternative which I’m assuming is violently scrambled eggs 😂[/quote]
As opposed to the way some people cook them (the incorrect way) where they turn into weird little egg balls.

@SchrodingersImmigrant
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I love this thread btw, some real snort out loud comments

I’m a foodie so I probably would be accurate when describing my food. But I’m not wanky about it (imo, obviously 😆) - it has nothing to do with wanting to impress or being pretentious, I just really, really like food and cooking.

Ah! This thread makes me really happy. I've thought this for ages but figured it was just a cultural thing.

The recipe websites are the worst. Having to scroll through them going on and on and on about the recipe. JUST GIVE ME THE FLIPPING RECIPE SO I CAN GET ON WITH IT!

@BooFuckingHoo2 but some people like scrambled eggs soft, and some people like scrambled eggs done considerably more than that.

H cooks scrambled egg (very gently slowly), serves himself and then stirs it a bit more before serving mine. And he still manages to serve me egg which I consider barely edible. I have to actively refrain from comparing his to vomit (full disclosure - I can't face carbonara).

I suspect H's preference would be described as "softly scrambled", what he gives me as "lightly scrambled" and mine as "confounded within an inch of its life"

@1forAll74

Everyone want's to be Nigella.!

I definitely don't. I'm more than happy with the way I've been saying microwave for the past 15+ years