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?

It's spinach which gives the game away on salads

I love spinach. I am just about to transplant plants that will feed us in the spring. I mostly have it fresh though. Massive amounts. And sometimes put it in with my veggies.

@tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz

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

Don't worry - actual is not as triggering as "I was literally..."

Nor as triggering as "He is definitely [insert: lying/gaslighting/cheating/a bigamist etc]."

Some MN users' certainty of what is happening in a stranger's life is astonishing.

Oh god, I say picky bits and shall stop immediately we use it to describe a buffet-type lunch or dinner and it’s what my kids have always called it. I think originally it was picnic-y bits.

@icedcoffees

My pet hate is the word "toms" for tomatoes

Me too and 'pots' for potatoes.

"Massive" should only be applied to dicks, literal and metaphorical .

HNRTT but you might need to wait until after Crimbo and their return from their holibobs before you jail them forever.

My salads are about 400-500 calories. I don't do lettuce/leaves though, waste of time. So it might not look Massive. I tend to type veg rather then veggies, too much effort.

This reminds me of those magazine articles where they suggest you swap something 'bad' for something 'good' but the swaps are often unrelated to the original item (not to mention totally unappealing) eg, 6 almonds instead of a packet of crisps, grilled chicken instead of a cheeseburger, a banana instead of a doughnut.

As if!

One of my friends says nom nom. She sometimes refers to food itself as "noms" and once wrote the word sandwich as "sammich".

She is 37 years old

This hurt my soul.

YANBU Op. And of course their DC just love these veggies and massive salads, can't get enough of them, just hoover them up.

@Zilla1

HNRTT but you might need to wait until after Crimbo and their return from their holibobs before you jail them forever.

I LOVE HOLLIBOBS!!!

Can I offer…
“Quick, easy and delicious 😊”
Which makes me want to punch someone.

Line caught minnow! 🤣🤣

@Luzina

It’s annoying because it’s virtue signalling

Totally

Legumes - when did that word appear and why? I'd never heard it used until recently. I know what they are obviously, but they were never on my radar. Now they are all over the place.

Wholesome and nutritious.....
That's what they called our school dinners back in the late 80s. They were neither wholesome nor nutritious. The school banned packed lunches and said "We need to ensure all girls receive a wholesome and nutritious meal at lunchtime" (it was an independent school by the way, so not in a location where that would be the only "decent" meal of the day for the pupils. The ban lasted a year IIRC before there were so many protests and too much "wholesome and nutritious" food being thrown in the bin (or in my case, flung down the back of the radiator I sat next to - we had the school nurse at our table who made everyone eat every last bit of this horrible food.
I feel ill as soon as I hear "wholesome and nutritious"

I do find myself unreasonably irritated about how people talk about food.

Picky bits/picky tea/nibbles
Washed down with
Mop up the juices
Unnecessarily saying "home made"
Nom nom nom

'pulses' and 'grains' give me the heebee jeebees

@conxray

"Legumes - when did that word appear and why"

I think with keto and the rise in plant based eating. Low carb then became popular and although chick peas/lentils are high in carbs, they are often ignored because they are so nutritious.

'Legumes' reminds me of vegetarian cookbooks from the 1970s.

I had to block the food threads, they were massively triggering for me as a person who has had ED on/off most of their adult life.

'A few almonds' for a snack
'1/2 squares of good quality dark chocolate'

It's enough to have me reaching for the doughnuts (not half of one and often more than one!)

'Veggies' and 'veg' drives me irrationally around the bend and always has. No idea why!

Omg - when I first read “picky bits” on MN I was definitely triggered. My skin literally crawls at the term.

I hate the phrase “picky eater”. No, you’re not someone on a higher plane of epicurean taste, you are a fussy annoying bugger. (Insert “genuine allergies excepted” .). Someone going along a buffet picking sounds precious and unappreciative.

Just wandered onto another thread with a sandwich in it involving “good nice thick ham”, rushed straight back here for a palate cleanser. No one ever says “crap supermarket basics mostly water reconstituted ‘ham’-style meat slices”, do they?

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!

Got to say, I’m a secret lover of spam. Especially fried.

I actually felt ashamed admitting that.

I would say "I had loads of veg" with my meal, but not "I had loads of veggies", because I am not a cannibal.