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?

@DottyHarmer

I think the “naice ham” thing originated because of a poster saying what they provided at a kid’s party. As opposed to that Billy the Bear stuff, I think. Do they even have that still?! My dog loved crap ham! Crap luncheon meat even better!

It was something like that. Hopefully people realised my use of it upthread was a joke?

I rather think 'massive salad' may sometimes appear on MN in a similar way - a form of gentle self-mockery perhaps.
Anyway...an MN Massive Salad must include naice ham, unless you're being extra ironic by adorning it with Greggs sausage rolls and a sprinkling of Pombears .... the comedy 'foodstuff' which got its own emoticon. Add olives for the benefit of precocious toddlers. (My own DD wouldn't touch them, but the first green vegetable she enjoyed eating was marsh samphire so I wasn't too downcast.)

There was an excellent Massive Salad thread a few months ago.

Oops, didn't mean to post that nonsense! I meant:

No one likes fruit or veg
I do

Great name for a band though

@hotmeatymilk

I didn’t get past “Et hem” to see the rest of your crimes tbh

Et hem?

What does that mean, please?

As in “just pop it in the oven"

Definitely. It belongs in the bin with "jump in the shower". Slightly off-topic but "jump in the shower" is really irritating too.
Did anyone, ever, actually "jump in the shower"? Bloody dangerous if you ask me.

I remember in my younger days being in a fleshpot 18-30 resort in Spain and going to a cafe every day that did salad with everything. Pie, chips, beans and gravy…. with salad.

My favourite salad is actually the little warm nappy bag of shredded iceberg, mealy tomato wedge, dry cucumber slice and lemon that comes with chicken tikka takeaway.

' Fresh orange ' meaning juice .
Picky bits / nibbles also

In defence of Fresh orange that's a common term in Scotland .I mean carry on being annoyed by it but wanted to stand up for fresh orange 😄

@Mrsjayy

In defence of Fresh orange that's a common term in Scotland .I mean carry on being annoyed by it but wanted to stand up for fresh orange 😄

It's a bit disappointing when someone orders you a fresh orange and it turns out to be a bottle of Britvic. The distinction is between that and 'cordial' (aka squash). However it's not as bad as posts referring to 'juice' which mean squash.

Has ‘drizzle’ been mentioned? Only olive oil seems to get drizzled.

Another one I loathe is ‘pan-fried’. What else would you fry it in? A cup?

Just because fried doesn’t sound so good.

@TatianaBis

Has ‘drizzle’ been mentioned? Only olive oil seems to get drizzled.

And balsamic vinegar. Sometimes on the same Massive Salad.

I don’t think it is, smart restaurants don’t deep fry anything much apart from frites and beignet.

The more obvious thing would be to say if something was deep-fried.

@TatianaBis

Another one I loathe is ‘pan-fried’. What else would you fry it in? A cup?

Just because fried doesn’t sound so good.

How about 'oven baked'? Apart, I suppose, from bread made in a bread maker, WTF else can you bake in?

And balsamic vinegar. Sometimes on the same Massive Salad

True dat.

Possibly also pomegranate molasses.

Quite. I think technically you can bake things in the ground, but would make sense to flag that for the unsuspecting.

It's a bit disappointing when someone orders you a fresh orange and it turns out to be a bottle of Britvic. The distinction is between that and 'cordial' (aka squash). However it's not as bad as posts referring to 'juice' which mean squash
I think you will find it is diluting juice

@Mrsjayy

It's a bit disappointing when someone orders you a fresh orange and it turns out to be a bottle of Britvic. The distinction is between that and 'cordial' (aka squash). However it's not as bad as posts referring to 'juice' which mean squash I think you will find it is diluting juice

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

Yet they never say whether the child actually eats the stuff.

MNers always "prep" food - and usually the day before. Christmas dinner must be "prepped" and cooked at least a week in advance

I find the use of "sweat" for onions etc. a bit strange. The first time I heard it was from DS who lives in England now (I live in Canada).

It sounded very odd. People sweat, not vegetables!

I am used to it now.

Agree with a PP who didn't like the expression "jump in the shower".
Sounds horribly chirpy and energetic as well as making the experience sound really quick, which it isn't for me.

We've got DH's brother and his wife coming to visit tomorrow.
She will announce - again - that they never have processed food in the house (this is à propos of nothing). I will - again - bite my tongue and not say "You do! You bloody well have cheese and sausages and bread and bacon and biscuits and wine and... etc".