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?

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

@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...!

@Westfacing

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

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

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

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

Yes

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

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”

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.

@Sparklingbrook

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

This is acceptable imo

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?

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

@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.

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.

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

@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.

We call it French toast too

If the maple syrup and bacon is coming out then it has to be pancakes surely?

@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.

Or force fed brussels sprouts tops prior to attending an important meeting/wedding *

*other occasions with high embarrassment potential are available.

@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.

Butter you say......only done it with oil so far!!

@PickledPeppa

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

One has to assume that the fruit bowl has actual fruit in it and not one stuffed with bills and random other crap as per Rab C Nesbitt

@hotmeatymilk

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

Oooh. Yum

Food of the gods

@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?

Because they're 5 years old?

That's the word I have a visceral reaction to

@hotmeatymilk

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

Sorry, ‘fry it off’ is one of my bête noires. Pan fry it off is even worse.

You just mean fry it.

She knew exactly what she meant.

OP, I have loads of veggies with my meal, mainly spuds in the form of chips....

I do actually like lots of veg and salad, hate meals without them, but you definitely need carbs and protein. Therefore my meals are massive and are contributing to my massive arse!