riddlemay wrote:

janeyb wrote:These aren't single words, but I hope I can add them to the list:

"To be honest with you,,," I interview people all day. When I hear someone begin a sentence this way I want to yell, "No, I prefer you lie to me!!"

Not to mention that it always means the person is going to be less than fully honest with you.

"Trust me ...," I usually know it is not advice in my best interest.

".... but," I know immediately to discount whatever was said before the but.

Regards,

Cathy2 wrote:Amazing

Jazzfood wrote:"Awesome".

Thanks for re-affirming my banned words from last year.

Best,
Michael

Pie Lady wrote:Pairs4Life, what is Google-n and google- v? I googled it and got nothing.

I think she means noun (n) and verb (v). I used to teach English comp.

eatchicago wrote:

Cathy2 wrote:Amazing

Jazzfood wrote:"Awesome".

Thanks for re-affirming my banned words from last year.

Best,
Michael

Drat, I think I just used both of those to describe my most recent apple pie. Ha, I am going to edit that post to describe the pie as "wicked awesome" just to make it more egregious!

Jen

Jen,

You qualified your affection for your recent pie by advising you make a lot of pies. It is possible this was the superlative pie!

Regards,

YourPalWill wrote:"bacon jam"

I don't how good it tastes calling it bacon jam is a disservice to jam.

But, what if it is, in fact, jam made from bacon? I have a jar of that...

Pie Lady wrote:

Santander wrote:I think the foodie word of the year, however, is "captain."

I haven't heard this one. Please use it in a sentence.

All from LTH 2009, not to mention the numerous times I saw this in print reviews and on resumes this year:

Our captain then placed the rice paper into this nest [at Alinea].

a room captain overseeing the seating [at Xoco]

I let the captain know about the membrane and nothing was done - not even an apology [at Trotter's].

And perhaps most infamL2ously:

Our Captain was very attentive and a definite asset to our dinner.

the general manager and Captain were hesitant or fearful of communicating our request directly to the chef

Had the Captain or GM or anyone said "The tasting menu that's published is what is showing best today" in response to our request, that would have been fine, and we would have probably ordered that

This led to what I think should have been the catchphrase for the year:

cilantro wrote:Who was your captain?

Who indeed. Even in the midst of economic turmoil, we're still getting to places where we're needing - even craving - captains. Whatever happened to headwaiters or managers, I'm not sure, but if I want shaved stravecchio on my farfalle, it better be the captain shaving.

In the immortal words of Don Henley:

"So I called up the captain / 'Please bring me my wine' / He said, 'We haven't had that spirit here since 1969."



one of these people may be a captain

At places like Alinea, L20, Trotters, Per Se, French Laundry, etc. the correct name for the person in charge of your table is Captain. It's the same system that employs food runners, back waiters, etc.

Are we also sick and tired of calling the person in charge of a kitchen the chef?

jtobin625 wrote:I read most of these food-related banned words mostly on this forum. Do some of you really despise yourself or your peers that much?

I suspect in the interest of Community Peace, you really don't want an answer to this question.

jesteinf wrote:At places like Alinea, L20, Trotters, Per Se, French Laundry, etc. the correct name for the person in charge of your table is Captain. It's the same system that employs food runners, back waiters, etc.

Are we also sick and tired of calling the person in charge of a kitchen the chef?

Are you implying your superior knowledge and dining experiences are getting you better service?

'Sick and tired' I didn't say - amused at its crossover to Xoco and Macaroni Grill, yes. Mostly, quite happy we're still making it to all sorts of places this year. It's a celebration of captainhood.

I'm not a big fan of "said," as in "I ordered the porchetta. ... It took forty-five minutes for said porchetta to arrive." It just sounds very contrived.

janeyb wrote:jesteinf wrote:

I believe the AP standard for referring to this year is to say Twenty Ten. So if you don't like it, you better get used to it.

You are right, and I know I have to get used to the term. I prefer Two Thousand and Ten, but I'm sure it's because I recently heard twenty-ten used 32 times in a one-hour presentation at work. The speech just left me hyper-sensitive.

How is it different from Nineteen Ten? Isn't that how one refers to that year a century ago?

My pet peeve: "I know, right?"

"Skill set"- I instantly hate anyone that uses it- as if lifes all about how you're useful to some corporation
"At the end of the day"- Shutup
"Thrown under the bus"- It was ok the first time I heard it, not the 100,000th
"Props" as in "give him/her his/her props"- It's really bad when adults use it
"Give some love" "give me/him/her some love"-It's really bad when adults use it

Anything that Jim rome or Stuart Scott of ESPN says

I'm sure this has been written about in years past, but texting shorthand, or whatever you call it, drives me nuts, especially when it's not in a text. Sorry if I am offending people out there, but it's....

you, not u
are, not r
though, not tho
Your, not ur

It's just not possible that we're so strapped for time or so busy that we're incapable of typing out full words. Sometimes I feel like we're turning into Idiocracy.

PitaChip wrote:I'm sure this has been written about in years past, but texting shorthand, or whatever you call it, drives me nuts, especially when it's not in a text. Sorry if I am offending people out there, but it's....

you, not u
are, not r
though, not tho
Your, not ur

It's just not possible that we're so strapped for time or so busy that we're incapable of typing out full words. Sometimes I feel like we're turning into Idiocracy.

Most of us only have only 140 characters worth of space--hence the need to conserve space by abbreviating...that and not walking into walls, driving into pedestrians and the other 1000 things we need to be focusing on that necessitate getting the text over and out as soon as possible (ASAP)

I agree it's annoying when people use the abbreviations when typing a normal email (but I'll admit I've done it-usually because I'm in "txting" mode and forget!!)

Santander wrote:I think the foodie word of the year, however, is "captain."

I can live with "captain" if we can scrap "date concierge," word and concept.

I could also do without certain uses of "signature."

Finally, while I love onomatopœia as much as the next person, I don't like "nom nom" or any of its variants, which I see most often in the Twittersphere. I prefer "yummo."

though I was guilty of it recently too, any fake word with "sphere" as its suffix has to go.

PitaChip wrote:I'm sure this has been written about in years past, but texting shorthand, or whatever you call it, drives me nuts, especially when it's not in a text. Sorry if I am offending people out there, but it's....

you, not u

Stupid Prince!

PitaChip wrote:Your, not ur

I'm so unhip I always pronounce 'ur' the way it looks, not as 'you are,' and it takes me awhile to figure it out.

What really makes no sense is when people write 2gether. You're saving no time!

Pie Lady wrote:I'm so unhip I always pronounce 'ur' the way it looks, not as 'you are,' and it takes me awhile to figure it out.

Same. I always read it as "oor".

Now that just about every phone has a full keyboard of some sort, I wish texting shorthand would go away. Yet I still get made fun of because my text messages always include fully-spelled-out words, punctuation and proper capitalization. Apparently readable text messages are the height of squareness.

I will say that on the computer poker tables, you're horrible uncool if you say straight instead of str8t

I can't stand when people use the word za for pizza. Is pizza so hard to say. I also hate czar (Tsar) unless referring to a Russian czar. They were for the most part despotic so lets keep that word away from us.

Vital Information wrote:I will say that on the computer poker tables, you're horrible uncool if you say straight instead of str8t

Why not just str8?

I thought of another one I'm going to try to personally avoid this year; I've used it once ironically and once quite in earnest on the board: "less than stellar."

Stellar, I like. Less than stellar, I realize doesn't mean much other than "bad." Less than good, less than excellent, less than umami, less than yummo, would all be pretty goofy constructions.

happy_stomach wrote:

Santander wrote:Finally, while I love onomatopœia as much as the next person, I don't like "nom nom" or any of its variants, which I see most often in the Twittersphere. I prefer "yummo."

See, nom nom can only be used when referencing the noise you make when nuzzling the tummy of a kitten, puppy, baby or other such helpless being (baby otter, baby panda, baby yak, etc)

I must be talking to the right people, but I've only heard "it is what it is" in appropriate settings, and not all that often. It is what it is; you are what you it; there are no mistakes. Further, "If you will" is a product of a bygone era. It is an underhanded way of allowing that whoever you're speaking to may hold such an opinion, but you most certainly wouldn't commit to that. The way it is often used (incorrectly, if you will) is little more than a verbal pause, such as "like".

I'd like to banish completely:
sammich
sammy
EVOO
yummo
delish
tremendous as a food superlative

I get irritated with people who are uptight about other's use of language.

garcho wrote:I get irritated with people who are uptight about other's use of language.

That's funny--I was about to say the opposite. Something along the lines of how remarkable I find it that with 95% of people's pet peeves, including many I never thought of, I'm in complete agreement. We are a true uptight-with-other-people's-use-of-language community.

"Foodie place"

I've seen in creeping in here and when talking to people in real life. 9 days into the year and it already makes me cringe.

"House made" for things you would fully expect to be made in-house.

riddlemay wrote:

garcho wrote:I get irritated with people who are uptight about other's use of language.

That's funny--I was about to say the opposite. Something along the lines of how remarkable I find it that with 95% of people's pet peeves, including many I never thought of, I'm in complete agreement. We are a true uptight-with-other-people's-use-of-language community.

Well, I'm certainly a hypercritical asshole, so I really shouldn't be complaining about anyone else! What about words that one might wish people use more often? I like haptic as in relating to the sense of touch, and divagate, as in straying from course or topic.

Possible someone has mentioned them, but two more that drive me crazy:

"price point(s)"
"flavor profile(s)"

I think 99 times out of 100, when used in a sentence one could simply say "price" or "flavor" and help me keep my blood pressure under control.