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Loads of Veggies and Massive Salad

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HangingDitch · 08/12/2021 22:29

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?

OP posts:
RockinHorseShit · 09/12/2021 09:17

give your head a wobble

...just as grating as "massive salad" and "hand cut chips".

I know, that's why I used it, sense of humour slightly warped due to lack of sleep perhaps Grin

HesterShaw1 · 09/12/2021 09:17

[quote Pbbananabagel]@cantgetmyheadroundit
‘Picky bits’ I hate so much, gives me a mental image of carrions birds pecking out a load of eyeballs.[/quote]
Remember the thread in which the OP talked about going to get some "picky bits from Marksies"?

God the horror 😱

GnomeDePlume · 09/12/2021 09:20

@Sparklingbrook I always eat the garnish (except the radish) it's got the last of the burger juice and melted cheese as a dressing!

cooking from scratch as a virtue signaller annoys me. It implies that the alternative is toxic waste.

I see it used to imply that home made cakes and biscuits are healthy because they were 'cooked from scratch'. As though being homemade negates the butter/sugar etc.

silverbubbles · 09/12/2021 09:20

Yanbu.

'Loads of veggies' is triggering

HalfBrick · 09/12/2021 09:20

Yanbu, hate the word veggies, veg will do.
One that gets me, especially on the What's for dinner threads is the added descriptions, so instead of
'I'm having a ham sandwich' it's 'I'm making a sandwich with matured Dorset oak smoked locally reared ham with hand churned organic Devon butter on fluffy bloomer bread from my local artizan bakery. WANK.

Couchbettato · 09/12/2021 09:24

I love a massive salad and lots of veggies. 😁

Tinsellittis · 09/12/2021 09:25

@AnotherMansCause

Many people like vegetables. I do. The fact that thiese phrases irritates you says something about your feelings towards vegetables, I suspect?
Oh do behave Hmm
Hoppinggreen · 09/12/2021 09:26

@Youngatheart00

Isn’t there a cookbook called “a pinch of nom”?!! shudders Confused
Yes It’s apparently very good but I can’t buy it as seeing that word written down on a regular basis would just be too much
Fi1982 · 09/12/2021 09:28

Massive salad with a huge hunk of fresh crusty bread and good butter. Food of the gods.

🙄

IntermittentParps · 09/12/2021 09:34

@Youngatheart00

Isn’t there a cookbook called “a pinch of nom”?!! shudders Confused
Just 'Pinch of Nom', if we're being picky (even more annoying than 'A Pinch' IMO!). I think it's a whole mini-industry; website, diet 'club'; the people behind it are sort of celebs.
Fluffycloudland77 · 09/12/2021 09:37

It’s just the tweeness of it that irritates me.

Those celebrity “what I eat in a day” articles annoy me too. All slebs have porridge and fruit for lunch, massive salad with salmon for lunch and chicken with loads of veg for dinner with 6 almonds as a snack or a protein shake 🙄 yet some of them still look like they survive on alcohol and kebabs with Frosties for breakfast.

Marksies is just vomit inducing, as is saying shampoo for champagne. You immediately think “Knob”

Shedmistress · 09/12/2021 09:39

In honour of this thread I'm gonna cook loads of veggies and have them for tea tonight with a massive salad.

Blueeyedgirl21 · 09/12/2021 09:39

I love salad too but when I’ve added dressing, cheese, maybe chicken or tuna, bread on the side - I may as well have had a chicken sandwich meal from maccies 😬😂

ErrolTheDragon · 09/12/2021 09:44

@Shedmistress

In honour of this thread I'm gonna cook loads of veggies and have them for tea tonight with a massive salad.
Looking at the contents of my fridge I think I'm going to be having a voluminous rocket salad topped with a pile of warm broccoli tips. And a chicken breast wrapped in bacon with cheese.Grin
tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz · 09/12/2021 09:46

I love this thread and officially all of you lot of fellow grumps Grin

tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz · 09/12/2021 09:50

Although HemanorSheRa (awesome username btw) I may occasionally give a pass for "lashings" but only if it's in an Enid Blyton book. I was obsessed with the picnics the famous 5 and secret 7 used to have, so descriptive. I also used to enjoy looking through my mums Kays catalogue at tye fridge section and wishing our fridge looked as exciting. I was an odd, food obsessed child Grin

Shedmistress · 09/12/2021 09:53

Looking at the contents of my fridge I think I'm going to be having a voluminous rocket salad topped with a pile of warm broccoli tips. And a chicken breast wrapped in bacon with cheese

I'm a vegetarian and hate rocket. The loads of veggies will be roasted of course. With lashings of cheese.

tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz · 09/12/2021 09:56

Oh yes 'give your head a wobble' is very grating as is all the well if that's all you have to worry about etc..

//// GrinGrinGrin

I would actually love to see someone giving their head an actual wobble.

tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz · 09/12/2021 09:56

Overuse of the word actual there, hope I've not triggered anyone.

DottyHarmer · 09/12/2021 10:00

@Fluffycloudland77 - do you mean in the Waitrose newspaper thing? I read it in disbelief: Breakfast - cup of hot water Snack - ten nuts Lunch - massive salad of quinoa and pomegranate seeds Snack -another ten nuts Dinner - masses of organic veggies and a line-caught minnow, all washed down with celeriac juice and three gallons of water. Smug nutritionist: “1 out of 5. You need more salad and vegetables and should be drinking 20 gallons of water a day.”

Wonderfulstuff · 09/12/2021 10:01

Grown adults saying 'veggies' makes me want to puke creme eggs at them.

ErrolTheDragon · 09/12/2021 10:02

I'm a vegetarian and hate rocket.

Fortunately it's my dinner and I like it.Grin Half of the bag is only 70g but will need a pasta bowl to accommodate it so it's definitely voluminous rather than massive. And the warm toppings will wilt it a little which helps.

It's spinach which gives the game away on salads - an enormous pile of raw leaves turns into a spoonful or two when cooked. I can still remember my astonishment as a child when DM, as part of a WeightWatchers diet bought a big bag of the stuff, stuffed it into a large saucepan to cook, and it transformed into a single portion just for her.

conxray · 09/12/2021 10:03

Yes those phrases really annoy me too mainly because they appear on threads constantly, usually in the context of "look at me and how healthy and virtuous I am and if you, OP (who is struggling with weight or finances or stress or time to prepare meals), just did the same you wouldn't have any of those issues.

I also hate pre-prepare. I really don't know why but that grates so much when I see it.

Artisan bread, artisan bakery - anything with artisan in it.

pastypirate · 09/12/2021 10:05

@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.
Exactly
Punfreeusername · 09/12/2021 10:08

People who think that a ' Massive Salad' is a adequate swap for a portion of chips can get in the sea.

Also, people who sagely advise you to ' swap that bar of chocolate for a healthy apple' .

Yes, Leanne at slimming world, I think everyone knows salad is better for you than chips, and fruit is better than chocolate, but A. They hardly taste the same , do they? B. If everyone took your advice and stuck to it without looking back, SW and WW would go out of business within a year, so be careful what you wish for!