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?

[RichardMarxisinnocent]

@OhGiveUp

Any adult who refers to vegetables as veggies deserves to be pelted with frozen sprouts until they see the error of their ways.
YANBU op.

This.

I am so glad to learn there are at least a few other people who feel the same as me about the word "veggies". I am vegetarian, I love vegetables and eat a lot of them. But the word is vegetables. Not veggies. Ever.

[hotmeatymilk]

No, no – you pop some eggs in a bowl and chuck some bread in, then pan fry it off for noms

[StrychnineInTheSandwiches]

I call it French toast cos I'm a fancy dickhead.

You just beat some eggs and milk, salt and pepper, dip bread in the mix and and let it soak up (slightly stale bread is best) and then fry it in butter and oil. So delicious.

You can also make a sweet version by omitting the salt and pepper and adding sugar instead.

You can top either with add maple syrup and bacon if you feel the calorie count is lacking.

[Sparklingbrook]

@hotmeatymilk

No clue about eggy bread I've never had it.
It’s basically eggy bread, hence the name

Well I sort of guessed that but as for preparation not a clue, assuming you don't eat it raw.

[hotmeatymilk]

No clue about eggy bread I've never had it.
It’s basically eggy bread, hence the name

[NerrSnerr]

I can't cope with yum. For example
'I'd eat a cheese sandwich and a huge salad. Yum'.

Why is that yum there? Why is it needed?

[pastypirate]

@Sparklingbrook

I just ask waiters for a jug of water for the table. Not been charged for one yet.

This is acceptable imo

[Sparklingbrook]

I say soldiers but never said 'dippy eggs' that sounds like how you might explain a boiled egg and toast soldiers to a toddler?

No clue about eggy bread I've never had it.

[hotmeatymilk]

I say eggy bread. I’m not giving it grand ideas with a name like “French toast”. I say dippy eggs for DD too, because it’s more fun and more pacifist than “soldiers”

[KatherineJaneway]

However, there are plenty of things that are not meat substitutes but just happen to be animal-product-free that ARE delicious

I told you it happens

[Mrsjayy]

What are "dippy eggs"? Boiled egg and soldiers?

Yes

[OneTC]

I find a meal without vegetables dull and boring, and I love salad. I also love most foods, so am not holier than thou about healthy foods.

I prefer salad with lasagne for example, because I love it.

No amount of preamble makes up for a finishing sentence like that

[ShrinkingViolet9]

@Westfacing

Eggy bread, dippy eggs - I've never heard anyone in real life says these words.

What are "dippy eggs"? Boiled egg and soldiers?

[IntermittentParps]

@DottyHarmer

Based on your username, I presume you are a fan of the Brussels Sprout curry ?!

It's from the audio description of a TV programme about snoring. Someone's snores were described as 'intermittent parps'.
I'm not a big Brussels sprouts fan, TBH, and have never (yet) tried to curry them...!

[DottyHarmer]

Based on your username, I presume you are a fan of the Brussels Sprout curry ?!

[IntermittentParps]

@DottyHarmer

I agree about the vegan stuff being “delicious”. If anyone says they have a gluten-free, carb-free vegan coming for dinner there’s a slew of posts saying that catering is “easy” and suggesting the world’s most complicated dish and saying “job done - delicious!”

Frankly one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever eaten was vegan smoked salmon. Imagine a gummy-bear texture processed cheese slice thing tasting of possibly very watery tomato. And bright red.

Vegan smoked salmon does sound vile.
However, there are plenty of things that are not meat substitutes but just happen to be animal-product-free that ARE delicious, particularly a lot of Vietnamese/Thai/Indian food: for starters, curries with lovely spices, coconut milk etc.

[Westfacing]

Eggy bread, dippy eggs - I've never heard anyone in real life says these words.

[Sparklingbrook]

I just ask waiters for a jug of water for the table. Not been charged for one yet.

[DottyHarmer]

I agree about the vegan stuff being “delicious”. If anyone says they have a gluten-free, carb-free vegan coming for dinner there’s a slew of posts saying that catering is “easy” and suggesting the world’s most complicated dish and saying “job done - delicious!”

Frankly one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever eaten was vegan smoked salmon. Imagine a gummy-bear texture processed cheese slice thing tasting of possibly very watery tomato. And bright red.

[ShrinkingViolet9]

@MarleneDietrichsSmile

“Unlimited access to the fruit bowl” is an awful regime, where kids aged 2-18 need parental permission for anything other than fruit… what a way to live

It's to stop them gorging on organic hummus and carrot sticks.

[Ineedaduvetday]

Vegan food is always described on MN as 'delicious'. Can't have a vegan food thread without that word being used in many of the posts.

[KatherineJaneway]

Also asking waiters for 'just tap water for me'. Ffs just say water - if it's unclear they will ask you if you mean mineral. God it manages to sound moral high ground and cheapskate at the same time.

Too many times I've said water and they take that to mean paid for evian or similar. Always say tap water now.

[DogsandCatsB4u]

It’s cringe tbh

[JimCarreysMask]

I agree. It always reads like the poster is narrating a cookery programme, channeling their inner Nigella and over describing their food.

[ISpyCobraKai]

Oh, I say tap water.
Otherwise they tend to bring out bottled and I end up paying for bottled water I don't want as I don't want to then refuse it and make things awkward.
I'm not a cheapskate, I just don't want to pay for something that is perfectly fine and free.