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?

[FormerlySpeckledyHen]

Naice ham.. ffs

[SimpsonsXmasBoogie]

@MiniMiniMiniBar

Does this make anyone else think of ‘The Big Salad’ episode of Seinfeld?

You had to have the BIG SALAD!!

[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??

[2catsandhappy]

@Bloodypunkrockers I hear your 'throw, bung and chuck' and raise you, 'pop'. All perky like and nonchalant.

[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...

[Goatinthegarden]

Is it just the phrasing that’s annoying? Or the implied virtuousness of the person consuming lots of nutritious food?

My favourite hangover meal when I was in my twenties was to fill an actual mixing bowl with cold pasta, salad veg (tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, lettuce,, beetroot, whatever else was in the fridge) add in olives and half a block of feta, then cover with dressing. Definitely not a lightweight meal, but it felt like I was having some sort of balance to my diet. I still eat variations of that for lunch quite often, but I tend to use a more civilised looking bowl or plate.

My mum was a bit mad about vegetables when I was growing up, so I naturally add a lot of vegetables into everything I eat. I’m sometimes a bit surprised by how few vegetables some of my friends eat in a day.

FWIW, I also eat plenty of other lovely food groups with my vegetables.

[everythingbackbutyou]

@RobertaFirmino, meet Hershey’s 🤢

[Grayskelly]

Another vote for bung.

Using the word bung does not suddenly make a massive cooking effort involving 4 saucepans, 2 oven trays and chopping 3 kg of ingredients suddenly quick and easy. Bung it in the oven, bung it in the dishwasher.

How about you bung it where the sun doesn't shine.

[cantgetmyheadroundit]

"I'm sure some of them are actually sucking Primula cheese from a tube as they write those posts."

😂😂

[grapewine]

@Bloodypunkrockers

Huge salads
Massive pots of chilli

Never normal sized. Very irritating

I would add
Hot choc
Toms
Tinned toms
Pots
Jkt pots
Spag bol
Mac n cheese
And the use of "good" and "proper" when talking about bread, butter, etc

When you add in all the Yums
and yummies it's little wonder I avoid food threads usually.

You nailed it.

[2018SoFarSoGreat]

but.. yesterday I went out to lunch (first time since March 2020) and the only thing I could eat - from the whole menu - was a salad. When it came, it was indeed a massive salad. Silly to make something that enormous, but I guess they feel that since they charge the same as for most other mains, they have to make it look like it is worth the money. SO MUCH SALAD. It was indeed massive.

In normal situations, both of these phrases annoy me a tiny bit, but being vegetarian I do tend to speak of both veg and salads when referring to most meals.

[LemonSwan]

YABU... because to me I understand the difference.

Massive salad is massive salad.

Salad could just be a garnish ie. a salad bag between 4.

Loads of veggies are loads of veggies.

Veggies could just be a few small broccoli heads or half a cereal bowl of peas.

[MyDcAreMarvel]

After you have prepared your massive salad it’s crucial you “go in with the” dressing.

[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

[Sparklfairy]

It's normally on here I see it, by people on a diet/eating healthy, but my friend whatsapp me her 'loads of veggies' while she was on a health kick.

Huge mound of mashed potato (half the plate) and three pieces of broccoli, alongside chicken wrapped in bacon We laughed about it when I pointed it out, I'm not a total dick

[givethatbabyaname]

See, I wouldn’t call NMC2022’s photos bowls of “salad”. Nutritionally and calorie wise, the leaves are negligible relative to the other stuff. I’d just call that what it is: “streaky bacon and chicken [is that what it is?] with spinach/ garden salad/ mixed leaves”.

To me, a salad is JUST raw vegetables, maybe with a dressing. Once you start putting goat’s cheese, or pancetta, or other proteins on it, it stops being about the vegetables and about the protein.

So when people say “massive salad” I immediately think (1) they’re lying, because nobody has 40 minutes to much through a massive bowl of raw vegetables (2) or it’s not massive (3) or it’s not a salad.

[Bloodypunkrockers]

Luzina. I see what you did there.

[StrychnineInTheSandwiches]

I think the 'massive salad' crew are also the ones who take pride in telling you how they shoe-horn random vegetables into every meal in order to hit their arbitrary target. So a poached egg on toast for breakfast but with a side of cucumber and radishes, or a roast beef dinner with the usual veg accompaniments plus corn on the cob, mushrooms and grilled tomatoes.

I'm sure some of them are actually sucking Primula cheese from a tube as they write those posts.

[Summerfun54321]

When I hear the word “veggies” I think of of poor innocent vegetables boiled to within an inch of their lives until they turn grey and tasteless.

[Simplelobsterhat]

Also don't forget to mention everything is 'fresh' just in case people think you are eating stale stuff or , shock horror, tins!

[ErrolTheDragon]

It's not a proper MN massive salad unless it has naice ham on it.

[Simplelobsterhat]

So glad it's not just me... I get so annoyed that no one ever just has salad or veg on mumsnet, it has to be massive. And indeed yes to always crusty bread.

I also notice people like to talk about 'good, nourishing food' a lot. Which is really vague as most food has nutrients in it.

It's all about making sure everyone knows you eat lots of healthy things and only buy more expensive items...

I don't actually mind 'picky bits' though, I get what sort of thing people mean so it's a useful term.

Mind you, I like instant coffee, cereal for breakfast and thorntons and cadbury chocolate so i should have been kicked off mumsnet by now.

[Luzina]

@bumblenbean

I like ‘veggies’ (though admittedly the word is very irritating).. but I just can’t get on board with salads. Whatever way you cut it they’re not sufficiently filling imho. Lettuce in particular is the most insipid, bland excuse for food. Might as well chew on a leaf

Lettuce literally is chewing on a leaf. I love salad though. Hearts of romaine, cucumber, celery, radishes with loads of dressing. Yum

[HemanOrSheRa]

@OytheBumbler

I once ordered a salad in a pub because it seemed a mature thing to do for a woman of my age and I'd never done it before.
Fuck me it was literally a salad- leaves, cucumber and tomato.

I'll not be making that mistake again.

I did that once when I was trying to be a proper grown up. A prawn with Marie Rose sauce salad. I have never suffered such food disappointment before or since .

LASHINGS of good butter reminds me of Ina Garten but not in a good way .

[Luzina]

It’s annoying because it’s virtue signalling