Cooking related terms that make you squirm (title edited by MNHQ at request of OP)

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Sides. No. It is side dishes. See also mains (Shudder)

I made lamb at Easter. No, you cooked it.

Cooked to your liking. Well they woudn't deliberately cook it otherwise if they wanted to stay in business...

It's actually really nice!

@Words I always ask for fat coke because they automatically give everyone diet cola and I hate it!!

This exactly why I hate the opening of bake off. That child putting her hands all over the bread. Arrggghhhh!
Mind you, the missing raspberry also sends my bp sky high!

'Washed down with'. Disgusting phrase.

Weirdos round here refer to cafes as restaurants as 'eateries', not sure if they call the toilet the Shittery, or a pub as the Drinkery.

Have you tried a cheap supermarket tomato? No sodding flavour at all!.
So maybe this is now a selling point (aka charge more)!

Baste/basted. 😱

Poncy herbs.
Hand finished... well who else will .... the dog??

Well, no. 'Fried' is the catch-all for any type of frying. 'Fried' just means cooked rapidly in hot fat, so it can mean deep-fried or shallow/pan-fried.

For example, 'fried chicken' is the correct name of a particular chicken dish, and 'fried' there refers to deep-frying.

Triple cooked... unhealthy version imo
Jus.... just thin gravy

Best thread ever!!! I’m so glad I’m not alone in my hatred of MEAL … my in laws use it both in the word sense and meals as in awkward get together and it reminds me of how much I loathe spending time with them.

Cooking videos where they instruct you to give things a "good mix".

Phew! I was going to give everything a shitty, halfhearted mix till I watched this video. Said no one. Ever.

@Words wonder what they do with deconstructed pulled pork?? is it served whole??

Where did you bung your bollocks? Hopefully not an oven.

There is such a thing as freshwater bass though.

I also hate drizzled.

I hate phrases like 'lovingly prepared', 'lovingly picked', 'food made with love'.

I have a real aversion to wanky descriptions of food and wine but I’ve often found that people don’t get it at all, so I think it’s probably my problem (or so I thought). For me it’s words like “nestled” to describe the location of a carrot on a plate or endless descriptions of the process or source of the food. It’s not that I don’t care about these things it’s just I like my menu like I like my porridge; plain.

My DH is a foodie and quite an expert on wine so I am afraid I’ve had to put up with quite a lot of cringy discussions. He speaks French and so the discussion can get extra flowery. When I’m in the flowery food discussion situation I always think about the sketch in the Fast Show where a group of posh people are enthusiastically discussing the bouquet of a wine and Mark Williams’s character stops the conversation by saying, ‘I got a very nice bottle of Blue Nun the other night’. The conversation is immediately killed by this contribution and so he looks at the horrified faces and says ‘I’ll get my coat’, and he leaves. Mentioning Blue Nun to shut the conversation down is what I want to do.

I don’t like being hovered over in restaurants and being given flowery descriptions of what’s on my plate while it slowly goes cold. I sometimes felt bad that I am busy gritting my teeth and cringing when I should be more appreciative of the delicately harvested, handpicked, curated, pan fried, hand cut whatever nestling on a bed of organic whatever. But it’s all OK now because I can’t afford to set foot in a pub or restaurant these days.

Farm Fresh - always seems to be used for food that is anything but ...
Pan fried
Artisan
Veggies
Meal - I'm glad to see that others here hate it I thought it was just me, but there is something so wierdly uptight and prissy about it. Awful.

People that refer to themselves as foodies. I instantly hate everything about them.

‘Tea’ instead of dinner (sorry for anyone in an area that this is the norm but it’s awful).

‘Deconstructed’ anything - just cook and serve it how it’s supposed to be, you pretentious twat.

They are horrible aren't they ? I go to a greengrocer for tomatoes now.

Food porn.

I like food but I don't think any food, no matter how appetizing it looks, should only be shown to people over the age of 18 after the watershed on a raunchy channel so the phrase is lost on me.

Entirely irrational, but people who say “tinned toms” or, even worse, “chopped tinned toms”.

same here. The assumption these days seems to be that everyone wants diet drinks. I do not.