To absolutely hate the word… snacks

[Ughughughughugh]

When did the word snacks come in?! When I was a kid it wasn’t used. It gives me the ick… kids have a snack, give them snacks, snacks snacks snacks . Why not meals?! I could rant all day about the word snack and my hate for it . If you do give your kids food just call it fruit , crisps etc but snacks can jump off a cliffe

I agree with you, OP. I hate the constant talk about 'snacks'. I say if we went back to calling it 'eating between meals' like we used to, more people might think twice. I see people eating as a 'snack' something that I would happily have as a full meal.

I can't stand picky bits, lol, kinda or woulda. I have irrational dislikes of some words, so on that basis YANBU.

Its funny because the word snack, makes me want to snack. It makes me imagine biscuits and crisps and therefore then I start to crave them.

Hmm.

I think its a good point above, calling it 'eating in between meals'. Good call.

It's better than "treats". Which manages to imply that it is automatically tastier than "healthy" food, even if its processed sugary crap, and that you're being puritanical if you don't "treat" yourself, but also that it's some kind of guilty pleasure.

It's mildly annoying because we seem to use it all the time. But notes annoying as 'sweet treat' which is suddenly everywhere.

Definitely used in the 70s. But it’s a horrible word I agree with you

I'm 64 and I had snacks as a child. If snacks were in the morning they might have been called elevenses or lunch. Any of the three were commonly used. Afternoon or evening snacks were called snacks.

Picky bits just makes me think of scabs.

Elevensies is twee but nostalgic. Would anyone use that term now I wonder? My mother would never have allowed us to

The other day I heard "exercise snacks", which is even worse. Apparently it's the notion of taking the stairs, walking an extra bus stop, etc as opposed to doing a workout.

We had elevensies in the 70s.

Why? Some people enjoy a snack between mealtimes. 🫣

I'm not sure when people started saying that something "gives them the ick" but I really wish they'd stop.

And unless you were born millenia ago, you definitely lived among people using the word snack to describe small amounts of food eaten between meals.

Currently reading this while having a snack. Always used to have snacks after school in the late 80s and early 90s too so this isn’t new.

Good God

Its not the word itself that I dislike, but rather the fact that parents believe their children must have at least 10 snacks a day 😂

Actually, the NHS do recommend children have three meals and two snacks a day.

I’m not sure mine do, but DD in particular is quite a poor eater and hasn’t much appetite so I prefer her to keep it for meals, but I do know children who eat loads (healthy stuff to be fair) and so all is fine.

Snacks in fine, IMO. Like a few others here though I HATE 'picky bits' and yes it remined me of bogies and scabs when someone says this.

Struggling to 'get' why anyone hates the word 'meal' (as one poster said) and 'treats' as someone else said.... but each to their own.

I don't mind 'gives you the ick.' Not childish IMO. More American IME.

I don't think I have ever known ANY parents who thinks their child should have 10 snacks a day.

I hate the word "meal" ambivalent towards "snack".

Nibbles is worse

Snacks is fine but I can’t stand the terms ‘picky bits’ or ‘ick’.

I don't mind the word snacks, but get a bit put out by the recent trend for packing a little compartment storage thing with snacks and calling it a 'snackle box'. Don't know why, but just hearing a grown adult say 'snackle box' makes me sneer.

I have no problem with the word snack. I do however have issues with people who make judgements about those eating snacks, assuming those people are greedy or lack self control. Shock horror, we are all different. Some people eat three meals a day, others eat meals interspersed with snacks, others don’t bother with set meals at all instead opting for a series of snacks. Much worse than the word snack are the words Chavvy and the phrase ‘the ick’ both of which make me think the user has a somewhat limited vocabulary.