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Culinary Terms that Should be Banned!

liuzhou

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Tropicalsenior

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As I have said before, I am sick and tired of hearing everything cowboy. They slap that label on anything that they can stick a jalapeño or Chipotle in. This showed up in my inbox today. Pancakes with jalapeño and cayenne pepper.

It's from one of my favorite cookbook series and it's sad to see they sunk to the level of this fad.

 

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Smithy

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On 11/23/2020 at 1:58 PM, Toliver said:

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"Sammies" instead of sandwiches. Are we children who can't say big words anymore? Please. Just, no.

 

I had forgotten that this word was already ranted about, but I'm going to rant again. I just read about a cookbook published in May this year that's apparently quite a hot seller: The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook: Seasonal Recipes for Everyday Luxury and Elevated Entertaining (eG-friendly Amazon.com link)

 

I'm not in the market right now for a new cookbook, but it's always fun to look. Then I noticed that one chapter is titled "sammies".

 

Nope. Not gonna buy it. I can ignore the all-lower-case style of chapter titles, but I refuse to consider a book that refers to sandwiches as "sammies".

 

What's giving you a linguistic shudder these days?

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MaryIsobel

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1 minute ago, Smithy said:

 

I had forgotten that this word was already ranted about, but I'm going to rant again. I just read about a cookbook published in May this year that's apparently quite a hot seller: The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook: Seasonal Recipes for Everyday Luxury and Elevated Entertaining (eG-friendly Amazon.com link)

 

I'm not in the market right now for a new cookbook, but it's always fun to look. Then I noticed that one chapter is titled "sammies".

 

Nope. Not gonna buy it. I can ignore the all-lower-case style of chapter titles, but I refuse to consider a book that refers to sandwiches as "sammies".

 

What's giving you a linguistic shudder these days?

Same as you. Sammies of Sandos. What the hell is wrong with the word sandwich? Also fusion when it isn't and umami which seems to be used for anything with mushrooms or worchestershire sauce. Hack is another one but I am a grumpy old woman!

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AlaMoi

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not that I disagree , , ,

however my grandmother - who arrived in USA at age 4 in 1903 . . .

- grew up in the German community of Cleveland

- only experienced "English" in school at the event of WW1 . . .

 

she pronounced such things as "sangwhich"

 

which as I have been informed remains an Ohioan description . . .

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Smithy

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1 minute ago, AlaMoi said:

not that I disagree , , ,

however my grandmother - who arrived in USA at age 4 in 1903 . . .

- grew up in the German community of Cleveland

- only experienced "English" in school at the event of WW1 . . .

 

she pronounced such things as "sangwhich"

 

which as I have been informed remains an Ohioan description . . .

 

I heard that one a few times, growing up in California. The children saying it were corrected by their parents, but of course their situation was different than your grandmother's. I didn't know it was an Ohioan take on the word.

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Smithy

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On 6/17/2025 at 1:12 PM, Tropicalsenior said:

As I have said before, I am sick and tired of hearing everything cowboy. They slap that label on anything that they can stick a jalapeño or Chipotle in. This showed up in my inbox today. Pancakes with jalapeño and cayenne pepper.

It's from one of my favorite cookbook series and it's sad to see they sunk to the level of this fad.

 

 

I was going to rant about "cowboy" everything until i realized TropicalSenior had done so recently. Therefore, I'll shift my ire to "marry me".

 

"Marry me chicken" was a viral recipe what, earlier this year? And the name was initially clever, and the recipe looks good. But like any virus, that darned term is creeping into other dishes as well. I don't want to read about "marry me" beans or "marry me" beef or whatever the heck else someone wants to apply the term to. Enough, already! I fear there will soon be "marry me" jelly beans.

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MaryIsobel

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6 minutes ago, Smithy said:

 

I heard that one a few times, growing up in California. The children saying it were corrected by their parents, but of course their situation was different than your grandmother's. I didn't know it was an Ohioan take on the word.

I have heard sangwhich and sammich. I'm fine with regional pronounciations and the pronunciations of those for whom English is not their first language - it is the "influencers" and "chef's" who's "cute" little terms drive me crazy! Pep for pepper is another one.

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blue_dolphin

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42 minutes ago, MaryIsobel said:

Sammies of Sandos. What the hell is wrong with the word sandwich?

Uh oh.  Stay clear of the breakfast topic.  Maybe lunch, too.  Or maybe just avert your eyes from my posts as I’ve been known to use sando, and not just when referring to the Rancho Gordo founder! 

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AlaMoi

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(sigh)

growing up outside of Phila, high school in southeast Ohio . . . definitely a 'boonesville' . . . 

 

not encountered "sangwhich/sangwich" anywhere except from my grandmother - who / how / why / further used/spread . . . nadda clue.

her 'mother tongue' was German - born in (get a grip....)  Transylvania . . . 

having some familiarity with the German language  . . . hard "d" and "t" are difficult to separate - however comma but and all that . . . how either a hard d or t migrated to a g (as in sangwhich) remains a mystery to me.

 

then again, living here (now) in Amish Country - I see the difference of 'modern PA Deutsch' to the original ""Bible"" German - the original stuff is way old 18th century German.  if you can speak/understand German, you can easily get the gist of Amish original readings.  keeping in mind, it is a language 'frozen' in time from the late 17xx time.  if you're look for a really OMG! reaction - just say "Danke" to an Amish clerk . . .

 

the more modern "Amish spoken Deutsch" has significantly mega-morphed from not only "old German" but also from "modern German" 

zero surprises there - the Amish community has never been exposed to "modern German" - their language has morphed, just as even "modern German" has morphed - today's German do not refer to a personal computer as a "Kleinrechtner" - it's a PC - and the "PC Bildschirm" - now they call it a monitor. 

nor do they refer to data being "gespichert" - it's known as "ge-backed-up" . . . it's a long long list of thirty-letter German noun 'things' into the modern world.

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KennethT

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I don't understand how young people today use the word "do" in a food sense.  So far, it seems only common among US Gen Z, but when ordering food from a restaurant (fast casual or sit down), instead of saying "I'd like" or "I want to order", they say, "I'll do the [insert menu item here]".   Arrrgghhh....

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Shel_B

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12 minutes ago, KennethT said:

I don't understand how young people today use the word "do" in a food sense.  So far, it seems only common among US Gen Z, but when ordering food from a restaurant (fast casual or sit down), instead of saying "I'd like" or "I want to order", they say, "I'll do the [insert menu item here]".   Arrrgghhh....

 

Many years ago - mid - late 70s or so - I had a few acquaintances and friends in the entertainment business, and we'd always "do" lunch: "Hey, let's do lunch tomorrow ..." It was almost show-biz vernacular.

 

It ain't new, it ain't Gen Z, and it's still going on ...

 

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KennethT

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4 minutes ago, Shel_B said:

 

Many years ago - mid - late 70s or so - I had a few acquaintances and friends in the entertainment business, and we'd always "do" lunch: "Hey, let's do lunch tomorrow ..." It was almost show-biz vernacular.

 

It ain't new, it ain't Gen Z, and it's still going on ...

 

I think everyone (at least in the US) was aware of that phrase back in late 70s/80s... but I'm talking about "I'll do the sushi deluxe platter" or "I'll do the cheeseburger with fries".

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liuzhou

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49 minutes ago, KennethT said:

I don't understand how young people today use the word "do" in a food sense.  So far, it seems only common among US Gen Z, but when ordering food from a restaurant (fast casual or sit down), instead of saying "I'd like" or "I want to order", they say, "I'll do the [insert menu item here]".   Arrrgghhh....

 

Common in the UK, too. It started in the 1970s and was confined to 'do lunch', 'do dinner' etc. From there it spread to menu items. Quite what they were going to do to the meal remains unclear. The restaurant does the chicken; not the diner!

The one that gets my goat is I'll go for the [menu item]. I want to tell them "We are eating here We've already come here, idiot!"

 

 

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Tropicalsenior

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I just received an email that had four recipes and three of them have names that just set my teeth on edge. The first one was Neiman Marcus bars, yeah sure they are. The second was million dollar chicken. That's right up there with the million dollar oatmeal recipe that they sent last time. And the last one was dump cake. For someone who is old enough to remember taking things to the dump and remembering how it smells, that cake really appeals to me.

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Tropicalsenior

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I was also sent this recipe as an example of a dump meal. Seven Can Chicken Taco Soup.

That's right. Seven cans that you open and dump into a slow cooker. And they even include a video to show you how to open the cans.

When they say dump meal they aren't kidding.

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Yvonne Shannon

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