Calling pizza, 'za.

I'll get flamed for this one, but I'm over "porky goodness."

I'd like to ban the word "authentic," where 99% of the time it used to mean "good," or "different from what I've had before," by people who really have no idea what authentic versions of the cuisine they're describing are.

aschie30 wrote:I'll get flamed for this one, but I'm over "porky goodness."

I think that's totally reasonable given how ubiquitous pork (and various pork products) have become on restaurant menus. Stuff's full of pork now, no reason to get overexcited about it.

eatchicago wrote:

Cathy2 wrote:I will add my pet word to ban: 'crack' as a hip alternative to addictive.

Ah yes, I forgot about this one. The terms "chicken crack", "pork crack", etc. make my skin crawl. The don't just offend me linguistically, but socially as well.

I saw a woman old enough to be my Mother flinch recently when a menu item was referred to as 'chicken crack.' It was a good reminder on the negative connotations of the word 'crack.'

Regards,

This drives me nuts (fill in your own blanks)

________________ is the new _________________________.

You don't want to ban "Double Yum" do you?

Santander wrote:

eatchicago wrote:
YUMMMM (with any number of Ms greater than one, and even with one it's suspect): This can only be used by pre-teens texting to each other about the stuff they had at the food court.

Yum-related adjectives and holophrases on LTHForum:

Yum: 918
Yumm: 15
Yummm: 21
Yummmm: 14
Yummmmm: 11
Yummmmmm: 4
Yummmmmmm: 4
Yummmmmmmm: 0*
Yummmmmmmmm: 0*
Yummmmmmmmmm: 0*
Yummmmmmmmmmm: 1*
Yummmmmmmmmmmm: 1*
Yummmmmmmmmmmmmm+: not searchable*
Yummers: 8
Yummo: 14
Yummy: 731
Yummmy: 5
Yummmmy: 1*

*Thesis: after seven 'm' keystrikes, there is a trough because we're in between manually selecting the number of 'm's and just mashing the key down due to foodgasm. Note that this post has screwed up the distribution, however. For that matter, I wonder where I picked up "foodgasm"...

danak wrote:I was talking to a high school teacher yesterday and she mentioned a "keyboarding" class. I had this weird vision of waterboarding, and had to stop her and ask for clarification. She said that it used to be called "typing" class.
Why, for god's sake, why?

I agree. Why are they teaching typing anymore?

Just give a preteen a gchat/ichat/AOL account and typing teaches itself.

jesteinf wrote:Stuff's full of pork now, no reason to get overexcited about it.

Oh Josh, how jaded you have become.

NO reason to get excited about pork................. ~sigh~

Also, I suspect America actually breaks down roughly like this:

60%: ate pork all along

39.9%: wouldn't touch it, eats white meat chicken only

.1%: Eats at places of which you can say, "Stuff's full of pork now, no reason to get overexcited about it"

eatchicago wrote:meh: This word has become a substitute for "I have nothing to say". So, say nothing. Even worse is the derivatives "sorta meh", "kinda meh", or "really meh". If "meh" is taken to mean mediocre or "without notable merit", then there cannot be degrees of such a classification requiring an adjective.

I'm a little late to this whole lth party, and probably didn't get to use the term "meh" in its heyday. I figure that's the reason I love it so much, and it will probably lose its luster for me after a while. That being said, I'll try to cut out my usage, but I gotta say, I still like it.

One word that I find is overused here, ironically, is "ubiquitous." It just seems it's everywhere , and then I start hearing / reading it being used by food critics everywhere ...I think it's gona die out pretty soon.

Do I really care?

Meh.

Ok, that'll be my last use of that "m" term for the year. New resolution.

I think "meh" would be a perfectly good word, it's certainly onomatopoeic, but the problem of course is overuse by people who can't bother to come up with anything better. "Sucks" or "sucked" are much the same, but if you don't use them regularly, when you finally do, they mean something.

I'm behind in my reading here, but . . .

I'd be happy to never see the phrase "spot on" ever again.

In fact, it'd be amaaaaazing!

Giovanna

gastro gnome wrote:

danak wrote:I was talking to a high school teacher yesterday and she mentioned a "keyboarding" class. I had this weird vision of waterboarding, and had to stop her and ask for clarification. She said that it used to be called "typing" class.
Why, for god's sake, why?

I agree. Why are they teaching typing anymore?

Just give a preteen a gchat/ichat/AOL account and typing teaches itself.

It doesn't. Witness the number of people who would rather scan in a paragraph of text than type it over.

Chat (esp on phones) teaches you to chat. On phones. It does not teach you to type.

Now, maybe typing as a skill is no longer needed. But I can touch type (type using all of my fingers and without looking at them), and I find it exceedingly useful.

G Wiv wrote:

jesteinf wrote:Stuff's full of pork now, no reason to get overexcited about it.

Oh Josh, how jaded you have become.

NO reason to get excited about pork................. ~sigh~

Hey, I have nothing against pork and I love it in all of its glory. But "porky goodness" has certainly been played out at this point.

Here's another one that's long overdue:


FOODIE

leek wrote:Now, maybe typing as a skill is no longer needed. But I can touch type (type using all of my fingers and without looking at them), and I find it exceedingly useful.

It's a good skill if you need to pass typing tests in order office temp in college (like I did)! (I wonder if temp agencies still test how fast you type?) In junior high school, I learned how to type ("keyboard," I guess) via a computer program teaching me how to do the same. In high school, all of us were required to pass a typing class which taught you how to type on -- get this -- an electric typewriter. And I can still remember that you manually center headings by counting the number of spaces and characters and dividing it in half, setting the center margin, and backspacing that amount. How archaic. This, along with learning to play the recorder in music class, falls under the category of "skills I don't think I ever used but still have."

jesteinf wrote:Here's another one that's long overdue:

FOODIE

Given that the tribune used it to describe the founder of Jimmy John's today, I'm inclined to agree... the word is dead.

I hate the phrase, which has become all-to-common (ubiquitous is now banned?) among servers when inquiring if you are finished eating "Are you still working on that?"

"Work?" Root canals are work, cleaning the kitchen is work, eating pork rinds might be work, but eating shouldn't be work unless that is what you do for a living. Then I'm just envious...

Protein.

stevez wrote:This thread is starting to make me wonder what ever happened to hattyn. She seems to be here in spirit.

I have often wondered the same thing.

PIGMON wrote:Protein.

I was watching Top Chef last night. I was struck how the Chef-contestant referred to the spoiled meat incident as protein. What's wrong with saying duck and pork? It just sounded stilted to me.

Though I recall as a 19-year-old declining a duck dinner because, "I already had my protein this evening." I was pretty sure I gave that guy a pretty good story to retell behind my back.

Regards,

Which reminds me of a chef-ese pet peeve of mine: (much, much older than 2009) referring to food items as "product." "We've got this great escarole product, here, and we match it with the canneloni product." Makes me feel like a giant conveyer belt is depositing "product" to my mouth for "processing."

Another pet-peeve word: "artisanal," and its derivatives as in "sliced Safeway SELECT Artisan baguettes."

Mhays wrote:
Another pet-peeve word: "artisanal," and its derivatives as in "sliced Safeway SELECT Artisan baguettes."

sorry 'bout the new cheese thread over in Shopping & Cooking I have a mental block when trying to spell that word, so I'm better off taking your advice and not using it anyway.

When G Wiv uses "Dude" without any seemingly intentional irony, the word absolutely must go. Unless Gary has reverse-aged like Brad Pitt, taken up surfing, and moved to SoCal.

'sOK, Kenny! I was wondering if I'd push your button! (I had to look it up, myself):D Completelly different situation when the word is applied to single-origin food made by an individual who considers foodmaking an art...instead of bored unemployed art students producing and serving mass-market factory foods.

Man - then do I have to take up surfing to say "dude?" I body-surf on the lake sometimes...if there are waves...obviously I'm not getting younger

Kennyz wrote:When G Wiv uses "Dude" without any seemingly intentional irony, the word absolutely must go. Unless Gary has reverse-aged like Brad Pitt, taken up surfing, and moved to SoCal.

Irony was intended, subtle, seemingly overly subtle.

When someone is going on and on and on a forcefully said Dude, with a slight rising inflection to indicate sanity questioning, seems in order.

All in good fun of course

The phrase that irritates me the most is, "...it is what it is."

Insanely good

I completely agree with Matt and eatchicago's suggestions!! Hate. hate, hate it when a server says uses the first person in the way that you described!