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

A thousand times this. I've never understood people who can't go two hours without eating.

Lol I love a middle class troll thread.

I assume you are purposefully parodying the unbearably snooty Hyacinth Bucket stereotype?

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I love it. It's the word I use when my puppy does a wee outside:
" Good girl! Shall we get you a snack / do you want a snack / here's your snack". She gets a little training treat. She's only 12 weeks old and she knows the word perfectly!

Oh, me too OP. I don't know why it grinds my gears, but it does. When I was a kid we'd just ask for something to eat, not ask for a snack. When my own DC were born I don't recall ever saying I'd pack them some snacks. I'd pack some food in case they got hungry.

Sweet treats makes me shudder.
As do "bakes".
(Also picky bits but I've never heard anyone say that out loud.)

I agree with a PP that 'nibbles' is more annoying than 'snack', but I don't actually care what people call their snacks. MN has taught me that people have strange aversions to absolutely normal, unoffensive words. Once I thought it was only 'moist' that every second person found disgusting, but apparently not. I can't think of many words that turn my stomach... 'Mucus', possibly?

The NHS guidance would help explain why there are so many obese children staggering around.

Sweet treats makes me shudder.
People who 'shudder' over a word is weird!

We had snacks in the 60s. My nan used to make us snacks as a treat. My mum, not so much!!

Yes, ‘snacking’ is a manipulation tactic of the UPF food lobby.
The UPF lobby suggests there’s a need for the product; it creates a market; it makes up some problems that the product’s supposed to solve; it pretends it’s a healthy option; gets celebrity tie-in, promotions and SM marketing; makes it look appealing to children and parents alike; it lobbies MPs; and gets very rich.

Whule i agree with dome if the comment its a bit a bit of a reach seeing that snacks can be anything from fruit and cheese to a pork pie and anything in between and that upf lobby created snacks.
Snacks have been around for centuries, upf stuff only seemed to be introduced in the 80s and really exploding on the food market in the 90s and onwards.

"Staggering"! 😅🤣

What a strange person to judge people on their vocabulary. I'd hate that to be a characteristic of my own never mind see it as a badge of honour.

Vocabulary like picky bits which I wouldn't use but wouldn't begrudge anyone a bit of whimsy at this time, I mean. Offense language absolutely judge

I’m late 50s and as far as I can remember‘snack’ has always been a normal word.

But a piece of fruit in that context is a snack.

Nibbles..... can be anything from a handful of peanuts to a small buffet.

How are you supposed to know how much to fill up in advance (as in drinks and nibbles). Bah!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 This has to be a contender for the Most MN Thread Ever!

I'd better add that everyone's lost sight of what a normal weight looks like 😉

Snacks was definitely a word in the 80s when I was growing up! It was in the dictionary too….

Totally chavvy. Just conjures up images of it! Picky bits it definitely not a word used in my circle

I think it’s less judging on the actual word and more of the behaviour surrounding the word

It sounds like a word feared by children in the 80s and earlier. Children might have flinched on hearing “do you want a snack?”.

Holibobs is another one - shudder

Noted on the word Ick - I shall not use that again!

We call it a little something.

We had a biscuit, that was it unless we wanted an apple or in season a satsuma, grapes occasionally nothing more exotic, bananas were served with custard for dessert. We didn’t get a biscuit every day even, this idea that kids need food in addition to meals is under 30 years old af a guess

Snack to me = something eaten between meals. Usually a mini meal eg cheese on toast

I thought this thread was going to be about people using “snacks” to mean “crisps and sweets” eg “watching tv whilst eating snacks” “he ate all my snacks”

Thats actually quite a sweet term so maybe I could handle hearing parents in parks offering their kids a little something instead of a snack non stop 🤣

I find people getting the ‘ick’, shuddering and otherwise getting upset about perfectly normal words or how others use language (assuming it’s not actively offensive) to be performative, childish and ridiculous.

Take the incredible maturity you demonstrate by being able to go hours without eating, and apply that to letting people use whatever words they choose to describe food.

Obese children “staggering” around.

That’s on a par with “those selfish arseholes flocking to beaches” in summer 2020.