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?

[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.

[Lovemusic33]

I love a huge salad, especially with pizza or Mac and cheese 🤣

[TulipsTwoLips]

I agree with you OP, I find it all very twee.

[Hummingbirdcake]

I like vegetables and salad and I find these expressions irritating.

[Watercoloursky]

@hyperborea

Thankfully my kids appear to be with me on this one. I asked one of them what he had for lunch at school the other day, and he said 'chilli and rice, and some stuff from the salad bar'. I then asked him what he'd chosen from the salad bar, and he said 'potato salad and pizza'.

And yes, 'picky bits' makes me want to poke my own eyes out, along with chefs frying/cooking/grilling everything 'off'.

Yes!! I love cooking shows on TV, but why does every cooking-related verb now have 'off' after it?

Fry off, roast off, brown off, toast off... oh, piss off! ;-)

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

[StrawberrySquash]

Love veg, love salad. Veggies is fuck annoying. Also annoying are restaurant main salads that should be massive, but are not remotely filling.

[Cuck00soup]

Loads of veggies. Phrase had cauliflower cheese with their roast beef along with carrots and broccoli.

Massive salad. Phrase Had onions and sweet corn, not just lettuce, tomato and cucumber. Used to justify mahoosive dessert.

[LemonTT]

@AnotherMansCause

I will agree with you though, about the use of the word "veggies". The word is vegetables.

Exactly I would take veg at a push.

Salads are always massive on account of the base being a stake of leaves.

[OMG12]

Quite frankly “veggies” is awful, but not nearly as bad as “pud” which makes me want to punch people in their face. “Taste explosion” also fucks me off! What is it about “foodies” (another wank word) that solicits such awful language?

[grannycake]

Lashings is the one that really annoys me e.g.lashings of butter. Only ever hear this on MN (or Enid Blyton books)

[Lovesacake]

I would only describe a salad a massive if it’s one of those you get sometimes in a restaurant where they have to justify the price by giving you a huge dish that’s full to the brim. I have salads for a main meal at home quite often and I’d say they were big but not massive.

[hyperborea]

Thankfully my kids appear to be with me on this one. I asked one of them what he had for lunch at school the other day, and he said 'chilli and rice, and some stuff from the salad bar'. I then asked him what he'd chosen from the salad bar, and he said 'potato salad and pizza'.

And yes, 'picky bits' makes me want to poke my own eyes out, along with chefs frying/cooking/grilling everything 'off'.

[GetOffTheTableMabel]

[quote Pbbananabagel]@cantgetmyheadroundit
‘Picky bits’ I hate so much, gives me a mental image of carrions birds pecking out a load of eyeballs.[/quote]
I wish it made me think of something so pleasant.
I am stuck with the image of fingernails and scabs 🤢

[MarleneDietrichsSmile]

I have a friend with an ED who always has “massive salads “ apparently. (They are mainly plain lettuce)

She also went for lunch with me once but could not eat a thing as she’d already had a “massive apple” for breakfast

So I see “massive salad” as ED talk

Love a good salad though

[melonhead]

I would like to propose -

'Full blown meal'
'Melt in the mouth'
'Falls of the bone'
'A meal in itself'

I feel dirty and sad now.

[SexyBoris]

Huge salad
Massive salad
Heaps of veggies …. Irritates them fuck out of me.

But so does slimming world terminology:

Mounds of spaghetti
Lashings of gravy
Mountains of potato - shove it all down your throat, don’t chew it, let it all slide down in giant lumps - it’s greedy bastard talk

[icedcoffees]

My pet hate is the word "toms" for tomatoes

[TatianaBis]

I hate:

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

[HelloDulling]

@RobertaFirmino

No you aren't being unreasonable. It also grates when people say that for their monthly treat, they have a square or two of 'good' chocolate. All chocolate is good.

Monthly? Greedy cows. I hope they mean annual.

[silverley]

I hate it because it's a symptom of my least favourite thing in the world - people trying to convince themselves they are enjoying eating healthily by telling me all about it.

One of my friends is awful for this - "oh, I went to a coffee shop and I had a small slice of cake there, but just one, and it was so light, you know, just so LIGHT, and she makes them all with healthy ingredients and it was all fresh and LIGHT so it isn't too bad for you..." and on and on. I couldn't care less, and it's just interrupting my enjoyment of a pint of ben and jerrys.

Unfortunately people need to tell someone else about it, to get the validation from you, as there is no possible way to convince themselves that they are actually enjoying their massive salad/pile of veggies/facsimile of a cake.

This thread has made me want pork pie too.

[Joystir59]

"picky bits" makes me itch inside. Awful.

[WeDidntMeanToGoToSea]

@MoltenLasagne

A salad is just salad vegetables and would be side dish. For me a massive salad is a main that requires a cheese, a protein and a carb like croutons plus extra jarred things like artichoke hearts and those stuffed peppers. Usually equally as fattening as the lasagne I could have had instead...

Yes.

I wouldn't actually say 'massive salad', but I like my salad to contain parmesan shavings, toasted pine nuts or perhaps walnuts, sun-dried tomatoes and vinaigrette. That's virtually a meal in itself.

'Massive salad' is (IMO) in the same category as the ubiquitous 'tall and sporty' MN kids who 'grow like weeds' and are all 'flying' at school and 'top of their class' ( as if everyone's children went to Malory Towers). Essentially an expression of 'this is how great at life I am'.

[NMC2022]

@givethatbabyaname

I’ve just looked more closely at the photos: that’s a fuckton of streaky bacon there . “Salad” really isn’t an accurate description! Looks delicious though

I guess I call it salad because it's got salad leaves, cucumber, pickles, tomatoes, spring onion and radishes in it (the bowl is deep!) so there isn't really another description that fits!
It's 25g chopped up crispy bacon as I use this pack which is 50g and half a pack is what I use for one salad

[lololololollll]

@cantbeforeal

'Hot buttered crumpets' is one I've seen on here a few times that does my head in they're all hot and buttered nobody eats cold plain crumpets do they??

Aaargh I hate you! I'm trying to low carb low dairy and now I'm gonna have to have hot buttered crumpets! At least I can use marg 😄😇

[FortunesFave]

YABU. I say massive salad when I've had a salad that includes protein like eggs or avocado...maybe even corn chips or cheese. It would have loads of different leaf and salad vegetables too.