Food & cooking abbreviations & nicknames

[TastyReuben]

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Let's put is this way. I don't have any macaroni, so it's going to be pasta with a dairy free cheese sauce.... any better?

Yes!

Seriously, I don’t know why, but I generally get annoyed at shortened names for things, especially foods. I rarely say or type that certain four-letter substitute for mayonnaise, for example.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Yes!

Seriously, I don’t know why, but I generally get annoyed at shortened names for things, especially foods. I rarely say or type that certain four-letter substitute for mayonnaise, for example.

I'm in Australia, it's hard to avoid shortened names for anything and everything!

 

[karadekoolaid]

Seriously, I don’t know why, but I generally get annoyed at shortened names for things, especially foods.

I really object to the EVOO thing. Pure laziness!
Back on topic: I´m thinking up some wierd ways to prepare Mac A. Roni and cheese...

 

[Morning Glory]

Yes!

Seriously, I don’t know why, but I generally get annoyed at shortened names for things, especially foods. I rarely say or type that certain four-letter substitute for mayonnaise, for example.

I agree. Don't get me started on EVOO. We are off topic. Abbreviations is a new thread which you can start TastyReuben! And move these posts to it maybe...

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I really object to the EVOO thing. Pure laziness!
Back on topic: I´m thinking up some wierd ways to prepare Mac A. Roni and cheese...

I'm with you on that one, evo or evoo

 

[TastyReuben]

I’ll add another quirk of mine regarding shortenings - I hate seeing tablespoon and teaspoon spelled out in an ingredients list. I’d much rather see TB and tsp.

 

[NailBat]

Because of this thread, I'm aware that I don't remember how I normally pronounce "mayonnaise". may-o-naise? mayn-ase? man-ase? To hell with it I'll just call it mayo.

"Mayo" has a better cadence to it anyway.
"Let me get a turkey sandwich, LETtuce, MAyo, toMAto." It's practically poetry.

 

[TastyReuben]

I pronounce it “MAIN-aaaaaaase,” with a whole lotta “a’s”, like Fonzie.

 

[Morning Glory]

- I hate seeing tablespoon and teaspoon spelled out in an ingredients list. I’d much rather see TB and tsp.

As they should be. Although I tend to use tbsp rather than TB. There may be differences in the American v. UK conventions.

 

[karadekoolaid]

OK - so what about Surf & Turf?
Parm? (cringes) - or is that just applied to tinned sawdust?
Avo? (as in guacamole) or guac?

 

[Morning Glory]

OK - so what about Surf & Turf?
Parm? (cringes) - or is that just applied to tinned sawdust?
Avo? (as in guacamole) or guac?

I don't mind 'surf and turf' too much as it is not abbreviation as such. 'Parm' and 'avo' are deeply upsetting to me.

 

[JAS_OH1]

I am so guilty of all of the above I am now going to slink away from this thread with my head hanging in utter shame and dismay,

 

[TastyReuben]

OK - so what about Surf & Turf?
Parm? (cringes) - or is that just applied to tinned sawdust?
Avo? (as in guacamole) or guac?

Surf & turf - never is that served in our house or consumed by me (only by MrsT a few times a year on posh nights out), so it’s not much of an issue.

Parm…I may have done that at some point, but not very often, and it’s actually also a shortened term in my career field (short for “parameter”), so I hear/see it a lot. It’s very common to see “chicken parm” listed as a dish on menus here. I’ve also seen it on occasion in England and Ireland listed that way.

Avo - that’s incredibly annoying, but another thing we never consume in this house.

How about “cauli” for cauliflower?

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Avo?

But that's what it is called in Australia...

Along with sarnie, veggies, mayo, avo, Barbie, bickie, snatch&grab, bum-nuts, brownie (brown beer), cauli, coldie (cold can of beer), lobbie, esky (coldbox), muddie (crab), mudbug (crayfish), sinker (pie), snag (sausage), mushie (mushroom), to name one or two...

And tablespoons are 20ml here not 15ml so I now have to double check the source of a recipe to work out if it's an Aussie source or the rest of the world and if the Aussie source is a Aussie or expat and if they are an expat then you'll be down to a did they, didn't they game...

And don't ask about Angels Sandwiches...

 

[Morning Glory]

How about “cauli” for cauliflower?

Never! And what about the annoying 'veggies'?