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?

Coddled Eggs Are Cooked Gently to Semi-Soft
The dish is greased with butter to prevent the egg from sticking. The egg is cracked into the dish, which is then partially immersed in a hot water bath (called a bain-marie) for several minutes. The degree of doneness achieved depends on how long the egg is cooked

@TheSandman

Absolutely - and recipes in cups. What size cup? Just give me the recipe, cut the waffle and tell me proper measurements!

I think the point about cup sizes is if all the ingredients are measured in cups it doesn't matter what size you use - as long as you use the same one throughout. The proportions will stay the same. 'I cup flour to one cup water' will give you the same mix as 'I bucket flour to one bucket water'.

A cup is a specific measurement. Generally used by Americans although there is a U.K. cup as well which is a different amount.

MIL can’t talk about bread without saying ‘crusty bread’. She doesn’t like bread. She likes the idea of it.

@BlueGreenDreams

Also, anyone who finishes off with yum or yummy needs to be shot out of a cannon into the nearest sturdy brick wall.

Well that’s slightly excessive, however if it was “yumbles” you object to, I would totally agree! 😂

Although you’re right for some basic things like pancake batter - as long as the ratio is right it will still work. Doesn’t work for a lot of cakes, biscuits or other baking though.

I voted YABU because I don't believe anyone actually talks like that 😂

I don't care what they say about their food - they can go on and on about it in flowery terms as much as they like.

As long as they don't use the word 'Nom'.

I hate it when restaurants describe something as pan fried. I want to say its ok I'll have it fried without the pan
I used to eat at a place that had a 'bowl food' section on the menu. It was pasta/ salad and so on. I was tempted to say no bowl, on the table is just fine

Mmmm I love crusty bread. And if I say crusty bread then I mean just that - a bread with a good crust to it.

Agree nom
Or, even worse, nom fucking nom

Yanbu. Drives me insane.

@MoltenLasagne or anything written by Enid Blyton

@ChikiTIKI

I voted YABU because I don't believe anyone actually talks like that 😂

I see it here on MN a lot. Not so much in real life though.

Not food but when David Cameron was foisting austerity on us he kept saying we are having serious and sensible discussions
So the rest of the time they are frivolous and silly?

@HighHeelBoots

I hate it when restaurants describe something as pan fried. I want to say its ok I'll have it fried without the pan I used to eat at a place that had a 'bowl food' section on the menu. It was pasta/ salad and so on. I was tempted to say no bowl, on the table is just fine

Actually that is not unnecessary. Pan fried means on a pan with bit of oil/butter. If you say "fried" in UK people think if deep fryer

@Lucieintheskye

DH and I are disgustingly cringey and sometimes when we chat during his lunch hour we say what we're having for lunch in the most Nigella way possible. Today he had a very steamy bowl of butternut squash soup which was positively oozing decadent sexual innuendos

If anyone else does it it makes me boak- yum!

Oh that's beautiful, and I can't stop giggling about it! Now I cannot wait to describe something woefully mundane as positively oozing decadent sexual innuendos!!

Soft scrambled eggs!! 😖🤮

I hate it when people say 'pogged' meaning full up. I once says it was one of my pet hates years ago at work and I was rounded on telling me it was a 'Yorkshire' thing. Well I've lived in Yorkshire nearly all my life and have managed to never say it.

[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]
I always 'violently scrambled my eggs' perhaps that's where I go wrong

Not quite the same but I have a Lorraine Pascale recipe book and her blurbs for each recipe are so cringey and clichéd

The one for her Xmas Cake says something like 'you can make this in advance and feed it over a few weeks, but I always end up making it on Christmas Eve to the sound of friends drunkenly singing carols in the next room'.

I don't know why, but it's really annoying!

@user1471565182

Weirdly I dont mind it when Nigella does it. Its sort of her thing isnt it. I think I weirdly found more respect for her when I found out she likes a sneaky toot occasionally.

Sorry but I had to ask. Toot means vagina where I live. What does your toot mean?

My gripe is when people describe the full dish on the menu when ordering. "I'll have the pan-fried salmon with hollandaise sauce, crushed new potatoes, buttered samphire and tenderstem broccoli". If there's only one salmon dish, ask for "the salmon"

Went to a Jamie's Italian a few times when we had one near us. I know they were told to do it but it used to make me cringe so bad when the waiter would say "let me tell you the specials" because everything would be "smashed together" or "smashed up with" or "crashed together". Just no need.

I work with a lady who always goes on about how she's eaten "hens eggs" if she just said she had an egg I would automatically assume it was a hens!

Oh I hate it. People who claim they are foodies when they are actually wankers.

They can take their grass-fed, organically-reared prime steak, coat it with a drizzle of market-sourced, artisan olive oil and shove it up their arses.

They're always diving in or nibbling at or picking at or devouring. They don't just eat anything, it's all a bloody performance.

Yum and picky teas and jacket pots and spag bol and all their airy fairy affected bollocks make me rage.

(I've had a bad day)