Loads of Veggies and Massive Salad

[HangingDitch]

I find people saying they had “loads of veggies” or “massive salad” with their meal irrationally irritating. Not the fact they had vegetables or a salad, just the phrases.

I am being unreasonable, aren’t I?

[BiBabbles]

As others said, it can be annoying when it's part of people going on and on about healthy they are.

I don't mind it when it's being used more generally - like when I was talking to a nurse practitioner about my nutritional deficiencies, particularly with folate, she talked about how some find it helpful to have a 'massive salad' a day - didn't mind that at all, it wasn't about her or even a specific recommendation to me. I assume she was just trying to come across as relaxed while emphasising large portion of certain foods over just adding a bit on the side, maybe on the hope of the more realistic meeting in the middle of just a salad.

[Cocogreen]

@Luzina

It’s annoying because it’s virtue signalling

This.
I don't care how many vegetables anyone eats daily and boasting about their total is frankly odd to me.
People's children on MN also seem to regularly gorge on fruit which is also a tedious boast.

[Tulipomania]

I have to confess that when I send the DC to pick up some food we need at the supermarket e.g. sausages I tell them to buy the most expensive ones!

[MrsGusset]

YANBU. Annoying MN stock phrases and culinary virtue signalling.

And let us never forget giving the children “unlimited access to the fruit bowl.”

[Sparklingbrook]

Was about to mention "plate up" used in domestic settings - which sets my teeth on edge

Me too, sort of reminiscent of mass catering like school dinners or prisons or something. We say 'dish up' too.

[Sparklingbrook]

@GnomeDePlume

an arbitrary salad

Is that the few leaves and a tomato found next to a burger etc in a pub meal?

Isn't that 'garnish'-I never eat that.

[HunterHearstHelmsley]

It makes me irrationally cross when people say "all the trimmings" and "lashings of gravy". I have no idea why!

[Sparklingbrook]

@diddl that could have been it. Maybe I am misremembering the not massive salad.
Nowadays though I wouldn't eat a baked potato and pizza though that would be madness!
It was acceptable in the 80s, a good pre clubbing meal.

[GnomeDePlume]

an arbitrary salad

Is that the few leaves and a tomato found next to a burger etc in a pub meal?

[ShrinkingViolet9]

@TatianaBis

I hate:

‘Veg/veggies’
‘Roasties’
‘Steak dinner’
‘Plate up’

Was about to mention "plate up" used in domestic settings - which sets my teeth on edge.

Whatever happened to "dish up"?

[Thewiseoneincognito]

Grub
Tommy K
Scran
Veggies
Meal (in place of dinner)

[IntermittentParps]

@ErrolTheDragon

I find 'massive salad' particularly annoying. It's the word 'massive'.

Part of what makes it inappropriate is the connotation of heavy solidity. The mass of a voluminous pile of leaves isn't great. A salad can only be massive if it is weighed down with cheese, nuts etc.

I hadn't thought about the connotation of heavy solidity but you are right.

[hotmeatymilk]

When posters talk about 'good' bread, butter, chocolate, etc, I just take it as a stealth boast, I reckon it just means 'expensive'.
Haha. My dad actually says “expensive bread, butter, chocolate, etc”

[ErrolTheDragon]

I find 'massive salad' particularly annoying. It's the word 'massive'.

Part of what makes it inappropriate is the connotation of heavy solidity. The mass of a voluminous pile of leaves isn't great. A salad can only be massive if it is weighed down with cheese, nuts etc.

[MazzleDazzle]

YANBU!

The one that gets me:

spuds - usually chucked or bunged in the oven.

[Youngatheart00]

Isn’t there a cookbook called “a pinch of nom”?!! shudders

[ScottChegg]

You lot would have loved my ex dh. For reasons inexplicable he, supposedly a full grown adult, would go through phases of shortening random food related words. So sausages would come "saussies", burgers - "burgies", spaghetti - "ghetti" etc 😬

Just another one of many reasons I fantasised about burying him under the patio. I'd actually forgotten this one until now.

[IntermittentParps]

When posters talk about 'good' bread, butter, chocolate, etc, I just take it as a stealth boast, I reckon it just means 'expensive'.

Totally. It's all over cookbooks and recipes too. Although some of them say 'the best you can afford', which is honest, at least.

[Hoppinggreen]

How big does a salad have to be to be massive?
At what point does it go from big to massive? And where does huge come into it?

[IntermittentParps]

YANBU. I find 'massive salad' particularly annoying. It's the word 'massive'.
It turns up on 'what are we wearing? threads as well, as 'massive scarf'. I don't know why it gets up my nose so much

[diddl]

@Sparklingbrook

Does anyone remember Pizzaland in the 80s, there was a 'platter' consisting of a jacket spud, pizza and salad. It was great. Not really a massive salad though and IIRC coleslaw was involved.

Was there somewhere that did a slice of pizza, half a jacket potato & garlic bread?

With coleslaw I think?

[Tal45]

The only place I've heard the phrases 'massive salad' or 'loads of veggies' are on threads on here talking about people saying 'massive salad' and 'loads of veggies'.

[JinglingHellsBells]

@HangingDitch

I find people saying they had “loads of veggies” or “massive salad” with their meal irrationally irritating. Not the fact they had vegetables or a salad, just the phrases.

I am being unreasonable, aren’t I?

Yes you are.

[hotmeatymilk]

I actually love a salad as a meal, but not an especially “diety” one – Niçoise, Caesar, one my best friend makes with warm potatoes and feta. But I agree “massive salad” is an awful phrase.

Worse, IMO, though, are the roast dinner phrases:

Roast
Roasties
Mash
Yorkshires
Veg
Sides
Cauli cheese (leaving aside why the fuck you’re putting cauliflower cheese on a roast dinner)

See also: mains, meal and tasty

[RockinHorseShit]

If that's all you have to get wound up about, think yourself lucky & give your head a wobble.

Though the way you put it, it sounds like you have wannabe failing health freaks in your circle, who over compensate their lack of good healthy food choices, with use of "loads" & "massive" to make themselves look better than they feel about themselves & that is a bit gag worthy

& a good salad would be filling & healthy. Mine would have roast salmon & baby new potatoes, with lots of variety on leaves etc, I'd eat that every day if I could. I'd never feel the need to announce it as a "massive salad" though, that sounds a bit daft, but I couldn't get wound up about it unless coming from someone who is usually a showy dickhead, but that's on them, rather than the phrasing