Loads of Veggies and Massive Salad

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Luzina. I see what you did there.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

😂😂

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.

@RobertaFirmino, meet Hershey’s 🤢

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.

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...

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

'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??

Naice ham.. ffs

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.

"picky bits" makes me itch inside. Awful.

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.

I hate:

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