cilantro wrote:

whiskeybent wrote:Can we stop talking about bacon now, too?

We get it. It's good in everything. Let's move on.

Good luck with that.

Well, damn. Beaten by a year.

Although, in my defense, I think last year's anti-bacon request was a little premature. My current "relax with the bacon" plea is right on time.

whiskeybent wrote:Although, in my defense, I think last year's anti-bacon request was a little premature. My current "relax with the bacon" plea is right on time.

And next year it will be time for the great Bacon Revival.

Enjoy your ironic bacon, hipster!

One that I've seen a lot, but I don't know exactly what it means..."wood-fired."

Hate. hate, hate it when a server says uses the first person in the way that you described!

Yeah, talking like that-- "I have a bone-in pork chop with truffled potatoes"-- makes it sound like the server brought in some food of their own which they're trying to peddle on the side without the kitchen knowing.

trixie-pea wrote:Calling pizza, 'za.

I agree with this one,

in

I would add "sammy", to my previous post upthread of a word no one over 4 years old should utter.

But we have great za and sammies in the Chi!

Mike G wrote:But we have great za and sammies in the Chi!

touche' ... well played.

Mike G wrote:Yeah, talking like that-- "I have a bone-in pork chop with truffled potatoes"-- makes it sound like the server brought in some food of their own which they're trying to peddle on the side without the kitchen knowing.

True, and more troubling, no matter how unpromising the kitchen, one always gets the feeling that the server's own personal pork chop is going to be worse.

Ban all Words and phrases!

Actually, I would just prefer if people stopped comparing food to areas or countries where they had it once.

Por ejemplo, "These empanadas are okay but they aren't as good as what I had in Argentina while I stayed in a small village 15 kilometers outside of Buenos Aires back in 1997."

jimswside wrote:

trixie-pea wrote:Calling pizza, 'za.

I agree with this one,

in

I would add "sammy", to my previous post upthread of a word no one over 4 years old should utter.

Sammy. Whenever I hear this I want to punch the offender in the nose.
I also agree with 'za, but I'd like to add 'pie' in reference to pizza too. Are the two syllables in pizza so difficult to manage?
I agree with 'it is what it is', it means nothing, but I'd also like to remove 'take and' from the lexicon, which is terrible grammar. I used to have a boss who used it in sentences like "I want you to take and pipe this frosting into rosettes" (for example).
Thank you, eatchicago for pointing out 'amazing'. Everything lately is amazing. And the second 'a' is always enunciated so you think the person's been eating dirt for their entire lives.
I could also do without 'gastropub' and pretty much anything with 'gastro'.
This isn't a word, but I'm throwing it in anyway - I'd like to see an Irish restaurant/bar/pub on the north/northwest side that serves 'authentic' Irish food, not quesadillas, buffalo wings, club sandwiches, etc. I know there has to be some, somewhere, but it seems everywhere I go there are more and more places like Bennigan's and Paddy McSplaines or whatever.

This isn't a word, but I'm throwing it in anyway - I'd like to see an Irish restaurant/bar/pub on the north/northwest side that serves 'authentic' Irish food, not quesadillas, buffalo wings, club sandwiches, etc. I know there has to be some, somewhere, but it seems everywhere I go there are more and more places like Bennigan's and Paddy McSplaines or whatever.

Whatever you do, don't check out the Tilted Kilt.

They haven't opened their outpost on Wabash yet and I think I already hate them.

Pie Lady wrote:I also agree with 'za, but I'd like to add 'pie' in reference to pizza too. Are the two syllables in pizza so difficult to manage?

Referring to pizza as a pie is a NY/Philadelphia dialect, where you often hear "pizza pie" or just "pie". You gotta problem with people waiting "on line" also?

whiskeybent wrote:Whatever you do, don't check out the Tilted Kilt.

They haven't opened their outpost on Wabash yet and I think I already hate them.

I'll have to check it out later. The web filter says it is a no-no, as it is apparently in the "Swimsuit and Intimate Apparel" category.

Hubby
Toothsome
just the right amount of chew

DH - not really sure what this means but it drives me nuts anyway

Any word used in place of the actual word when it only contains 1 or 2 less letters.
I had a great sammich for lunch today.

Pie Lady wrote:

whiskeybent wrote:Whatever you do, don't check out the Tilted Kilt.

They haven't opened their outpost on Wabash yet and I think I already hate them.

I'll have to check it out later. The web filter says it is a no-no, as it is apparently in the "Swimsuit and Intimate Apparel" category.

Well imagine a Bennigan's and a Hooters got together and had a baby. That baby is "The Tilted Kilt".

Darren72 wrote:

Pie Lady wrote:I also agree with 'za, but I'd like to add 'pie' in reference to pizza too. Are the two syllables in pizza so difficult to manage?

Referring to pizza as a pie is a NY/Philadelphia dialect, where you often hear "pizza pie" or just "pie". You gotta problem with people waiting "on line" also?

Yes!
I didn't realize this was this was a regional thing, so I didn't want to offend.
But being Pie Lady, if somebody tells me they're going out for pie and do I want to come, then after I say yes I end up at a pizza joint, I'd be disappiented.

My new year's resolution for 2009 is to use every word and phrase cited in this thread, as frequently as possible.

It should be an insanely amazing and addictive experience.

=R=

ronnie_suburban wrote:My new year's resolution for 2009 is to use every word and phrase cited in this thread, as frequently as possible.

It should be an insanely amazing and addictive experience.

I think you'll find that it's really kinda meh.

Although, in my defense, I think last year's anti-bacon request was a little premature. My current "relax with the bacon" plea is right on time.

"Relax with the bacon" is my new term for "chill out".

eatchicago wrote:

ronnie_suburban wrote:My new year's resolution for 2009 is to use every word and phrase cited in this thread, as frequently as possible.

It should be an insanely amazing and addictive experience.

I think you'll find that it's really kinda meh.

I see nothing wrong with meh. I'll continue to use meh! And eat bacon!!!

Pie Lady wrote:

Darren72 wrote:

Pie Lady wrote:I also agree with 'za, but I'd like to add 'pie' in reference to pizza too. Are the two syllables in pizza so difficult to manage?

Referring to pizza as a pie is a NY/Philadelphia dialect, where you often hear "pizza pie" or just "pie". You gotta problem with people waiting "on line" also?

Yes!
I didn't realize this was this was a regional thing, so I didn't want to offend.
But being Pie Lady, if somebody tells me they're going out for pie and do I want to come, then after I say yes I end up at a pizza joint, I'd be disappiented.

If you even happen to be in the area, get yourself to DeLorenzo's Tomato Pies in the Chambersburg neighborhood of Trenton, NJ. Incredibly good pizza in a classic Italian neighborhood.

De Lorenzo's Tomato Pies‎
530 Hudson St
Trenton, NJ‎
(609) 695-9534‎

Marshall K wrote:DH - not really sure what this means but it drives me nuts anyway

I wondered about that one, too, so I asked one time. Turns out it means "Dear Husband"--as in, "The Dear Husband had an amazing bacon sammy."

Pie Lady wrote:I could also do without 'gastropub' and pretty much anything with 'gastro'.

Not quite ready to go by gnome alone

As leek mentioned, the horse is ailing, but I agree with your take on 'it is what it is.' I thought this was a very recent thing, but I just saw it used from a tv show circa 2000. It does abbreviate nicely to IIWII - but this means just as little as the actual phrase.

Or you could take it to be the emoticon for dreadlocks with mutton chops.

riddlemay wrote:

Marshall K wrote:DH - not really sure what this means but it drives me nuts anyway

I wondered about that one, too, so I asked one time. Turns out it means "Dear Husband"--as in, "The Dear Husband had an amazing bacon sammy."

Or even worse, Dear Hubby.

I can always get a laugh from my wife by referring to her as my Lovely Dining Companion (LDC).

Pie Lady wrote:I agree with 'it is what it is', it means nothing.

I generally loathe cliches, but I don't agree that this phrase means nothing. It means, probably among other things, "this is all we have to work with so let's make the best of it" and "let's not set our expectations too high." Like many cliches, it has a relatively particularized meaning that quickly communicates a slightly complicated thought (see also "a stitch in time," "fuggedaboutit," etc.)

I do not agree that simplifying all language to its most basic communciation function is doubleplusgood.

I believe it came from Hollywood, and was used as a way of justifying a totally lame genre piece which does not, in the slightest, rise above the cliches of its genre, ie:

"I hear Bedtime Stories is a piece of crap."
"People like crappy comedies at Christmas, it is what it is."

Mike G wrote:I believe it came from Hollywood, and was used as a way of justifying a totally lame genre piece which does not, in the slightest, rise above the cliches of its genre, ie:

"I hear Bedtime Stories is a piece of crap."
"People like crappy comedies at Christmas, it is what it is."

MikeG, I'm surprised a sports fanatic such as yourself would assume Hollywood origins for this phrase:

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2004-12- ... year_x.htm

I agree with meh. I might be more inclined towards its usage if I had any idea how it's pronounced. It seems to be the lexiconical equivalent of Prince's mid-90's name does it not?

My least favorite word of recent times, by far: ginormous.

2003, film-related:

http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/bmag/s ... ship.shtml

Next time you want to Google-duel with me, do it in Flemish!

nr706 wrote:meh

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.

agreement with all of this, additionally it brings to mind the sound of a sheep bleating, it's a stupid, ugly word.

With regard to some of Michael's other choices, I myself am guilty of overusing the word awesome in verbal speech but I consider it part of my idiom and I'm not about to stop.

I will be in the minority here, but the companion word of "meh" to me is "underwhelming/underwhelmed." It could be a clever inversion of the word "overwhelm" but as it is, to me, it seems like an overused and frankly lazy way to say that something was boring. It's more of a personal peeve, a stylistic niggle, rather than a substantive criticism though.