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?

[quote merryhouse]@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" [/quote]
Quite agree. 'Soft' scrambled eggs is a definite thing. 'Softly' is not.

Also people 'frying things off' gives me rage - 'I'm just going to dry these onions off'. Fry them off what?? A cliff???

This reminds me of a colleague who, every day, insisted on describing her sandwich as being made from home made crusty bread. However, every single day she would leave the crusts!

Also people 'frying things off' gives me rage - 'I'm just going to dry these onions off'. Fry them off what?? A cliff???

Ditto. James Martin always adds an extra preposition. (Petty I know) but it makes me shudder. Example: I'm just going to "sugar this UP" or "butter this UP". Please drop the extra word!

Yummy scrummy for my tummy!

@Mammyofonlyone

Also people 'frying things off' gives me rage - 'I'm just going to dry these onions off'. Fry them off what?? A cliff???

Fry something off means fry it quickly. It's a term. Like sweating the onions

Yes to PP who said “and all the trimmings”. People have such different view on roast accompaniments, you’re going to have to specify!

Can't be arsed thinking or talking about food any more than absolutely necessary, tbh. I find food an incredibly boring topic.

@Imissmoominmama

Yummy scrummy for my tummy!

Can't be arsed thinking or talking about food any more than absolutely necessary, tbh. I find food an incredibly boring topic.

On you go then, nothing to see here.

Here's one - "mouthfeel". Disgusting!

It’s food porn

@Shelag, “mouthfeel” sounds like some special service you’d have to pay a lot of money for🤢.

And you can guarantee that at least one ingredient in every course will be foam that reminds me, have pretentious restaurants stopped the sauce skid mark trend? I remember going to a very expensive hotel restaurant with my DD when she was a few weeks old (unwise), changing her nappy before going in and then being confronted with exactly the same formation on the bone China as I had just dealt with.

Any discussion on MN about Christmas breakfasts and some fucker always treats us to description of their perfect whacky family 'munching' or 'grazing' or 'chomping' on selection boxes. Just eat the finger of fudge ffs.

"And some bread to mop it up with" makes me feel weird.
Someone on MN said they were going to spend Christmas morning with a "freshly poured glass of bucks fizz (I think)" and it's been troubling me since.

@JamieLeesCurtains

Any discussion on MN about Christmas breakfasts and some fucker always treats us to description of their perfect whacky family 'munching' or 'grazing' or 'chomping' on selection boxes. Just eat the finger of fudge ffs.

Picky bits

Oh yes, @TheSoapyFrog, that's a disconcerting portmanteau middle-ground of 'not freshly squeezed as such' and 'I don't actually swing it out of a bottle'.

Scrumptious

You cringe?

Someone on MN said they were going to spend Christmas morning with a "freshly poured glass of bucks fizz

Us real professionals are topping up with the bottle from the night before 😂

@BooFuckingHoo2

Someone on MN said they were going to spend Christmas morning with a "freshly poured glass of bucks fizz

Us real professionals are topping up with the bottle from the night before 😂

Professionals have no left overs

Haha I don't mind that much but I hate:

'All the trimmings' and 'Lashings of' too!

Someone I know always adds a random Eeek! to her OTT descriptions (which usually are on FB).

Eeeek! Girlie night in with my bestie treating ourselves to a home cooked roast with lashings of mash and my most favourite ever gravy. Thank you mumma for making us your home made yorkie puds and dropping them round- a roast dinner just isnt the same without them. Eeek! I can't wait until it's all ready!! #bffsroastdinnerday #girlienightin #mashngravy #mummasyorkshirepuds

We get the same excited Eeek for every feckin FB announcement. Makes me think of a pissed off parrot.

When people finish off their description with an Homer Simpson style drool.

My SIL takes photos of all her meals when she’s on holiday. Not just special or unusual cuisine, ALL her meals. Then shares these photos with her family...what are we supposed to say, yummy? 😴 zzzz.