Food Related Insults

[MarketStEl]

not just granola.

crunchy granola.

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Not that this is exactly germane to the topic, but it just hit me:

Is there such a thing as chewy granola?

[Puck Confit]

You're such a Rocco DiSpirito.

[Daniel]

"What am I chopped liver?"

[Daniel]

Cops are chorizo.

[shiv]

In my (decidedly blue-collar) neighborhood, we referred to preppy rich kids as "cake eaters".

And if you have a tendency to drop things, you might be referred to as having "butter fingers".

[tryska]

not just granola.

crunchy granola.

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Not that this is exactly germane to the topic, but it just hit me:

Is there such a thing as chewy granola?

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yes, but i think most people would call it stale.

*lol*

i'm kidding. I think chewy granola is basically meusli, no?

[sparrowgrass]

If I was annoyed with you , and wanted you to know the full depth of my feelings, I would say, "I've got a goose to pick with you, and you better bring a bag to put the feathers in!"

[Daniel]

"did someone piss in your cornflakes this morning"

[Mooshmouse]

If someone does something stupid: He's not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer.

An unenthusiastic party pooper: You're such a wet noodle!

[naguere]

Fine words butter no parsnips my friend.

Eat my shorts (thanks Bart)

[Dani Mc]

along the same lines as corny- you can be a cornball.

[EdS]

"You're in deep sushi!"

[Suzi Edwards]

Eat me!

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Now that takes the cake!

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Just noticed that we'd say "takes the biscuit" in the UK, not cake. But I guess you guys have cookies not biscuits.

[phifly04]

pea-brain

loaf of bread head

[Mooshmouse]

She's one french fry short of a Happy Meal.

He's one beer short of a six-pack.

She's two slices short of a loaf.

He's one egg short of a dozen.

I've got a bone to pick with you.

You're such a bonehead.

Wake up and smell the coffee.

[spaghetttti]

Though I hope it has not been applied to me, she's got spaghetti for brains!

[Pan]

How about "stewed" to mean drunk or/and sort of out of it? Or you can have a "pickled brain" (another term for drunkenness).

[lovebenton0]

wrinkled as a prune

sour as a lemon (personality)

no better than an egg sucking dog

vinegar puss

jelly belly

When you're in trouble you're in a jam

the team got creamed

[EdS]

wrinkled as a prune

...

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prune face

[MarketStEl]

Just noticed that we'd say "takes the biscuit" in the UK, not cake. But I guess you guys have cookies not biscuits.

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We used to.

Nabisco = acronym for NAtional BIScuit COmpany. Its best-selling product at the turn of the last century was the "Uneeda Biscuit."

Nabisco's chief rival for most of the century was Sunshine Biscuits, renamed from Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company for the name of its most popular product. (Edited to add: Sunshine Biscuits--whose best-known product today is Cheez-It crackers--is now a subsidiary of the Keebler Company, whose products are baked by elves in magic ovens. )

I believe Nabisco still makes Uneeda Biscuits, but you don't see them too many places these days. More commonly found are Triscuits, those shredded wheat crackers that are great topped with cheese and nuked.

Judging from the evidence, though, a US "biscuit" was what we now call a cracker.

Which, by the way, is a food-related insult term for a redneck. (A redneck -- the term derives from a common skin characteristic of the people so called, which in turn comes from all the hours they spend outside, either working on their farms or on their cars and trucks -- is a working-class white person, also usually male and of Southern US origin. The term carries with it the pejorative connotation of being prejudiced and/or ignorant.)

Edited December 12, 2004 by MarketStEl (log)

[viva]

"Triscuit" and "Disco Biscuit" were two terms we used in college to describe girls with bimbo tendencies.

I have no idea why.

[tanabutler]

"Yesterday's oatmeal" -- you, and your news, are so not hot.

[NulloModo]

"Triscuit" and "Disco Biscuit" were two terms we used in college to describe girls with bimbo tendencies.

I have no idea why.

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Disco Biscuit is also club slang for the drug ecstacy.

[misstenacity]

How about the 'hippy' sorts of folks being refered to as granolas.

Not sure if it is meant as or considered an insult.

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I've called female hippies "earth muffins", which then led me to coin a term for the male counterparts:

MANOLA.

;-)

Andrea

http://tenacity.net

[shelora]

When pregnant, we say you have a bun in the oven.

And in Mexico, they call rich girls, fresitas - little strawberries.

Edited June 27, 2005 by shelora (log)