Food Related Insults

[Sugarella]

Why didn't you punch him; were you chicken?!

At least he didn't call you a tart.

He's a bad egg.

[merstar]

Couch potato

Milk toast

Cheesy

Winey (okay, so it's whiney)

What am I? Chopped liver???

Edited March 30, 2006 by merstar (log)

[Mooshmouse]

Here's a link to another discussion on Food-related Insults.

[Rebecca263]

Hmm. A few Syrian terms come to mind. There's 'idjeh' head... for omelette head, you know, scrambled eggs for brains; and then there's B'zazuh, well, I'm illiterate in Arabic, but it means nuts, i.e. crazy. Of course, when you're enamored of someone you might call them your little kibbeh, or your kibbeh hamda, kibbeh being a little torpedo shaped bit of meat and spices and nuts wrapped in a seasoned bulghur crust, so delicious, and well, there you are! And, kibbeh hamda being little delicious meatballs. Oh, I'm sure that's enough for all of you.... How about this, though- the mean kids called a very, erm, slender girl lahm'adjin when we were teens. Basically, that's a flat pizza. Um, she was flat, but it was still a mean term to use. Those boys were b'zazuh (which, believe me, I'm butchering the word!).

[Terrasanct]

My daughter told me once that I'm like vanilla. If she really understood vanilla, she wouldn't think it was an insult.

[ludja]

You could have said, "If I'm a genoise, you're a milquetoast!"

[flowbee]

Not sure if this has been mentioned already in other threads, but there's a phrase in cantonese which is "bun dahn" which means (according to my crappy chinese) "stupid egg". And it's used just the way it sounds: "you stupid egg!" Commonly used by parents referring to their children.

And my wife used to get insulted as a kid about her face being "like a bun behw", which is a vietnamese snack that's a flat circle of rice flour steamed with a sort of split pea/bean mixture on top. Not sure if that insult is really common, or if it was just a thing with her family in particular...so maybe don't share it with your vietnamese friends...

[Grub]

Not exactly an insult (or at least not neccessarily intended as an insult), but in the movie Bend It Like Beckham, the main character is fitted for a dress... Her mother insists on a tight-fitting outfit to show off her daughter's curves, seeing that she's such a soccer-playing tomboy -- and the dress-maker (also female) tells the mother not to worry -- and points toward's the daughter's chest -- and assures the mother that once she is done with the dress, "...these mosquito bites will look like juicy, juicy mangoes!" (You have to image that line being said with a strong Indian accent, by the way.)

[Mano]

IMO the worst insult of all for a foodie:

white bread

[Fresser]

I have not yet dated a woman who had cottage-cheese thighs.

But maybe soon.

[ludja]

I have not yet dated a woman who had cottage-cheese thighs.

But maybe soon. 

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You'll have to wait until you have a beer belly.

[petite tête de chou]

I have not yet dated a woman who had cottage-cheese thighs.

But maybe soon. 

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You'll have to wait until you have a beer belly.

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Well, a beer belly, cottage cheese thighs and a chicken neck sound like a meal to me!

[andiesenji]

I have read through this entire topic and I simply can't believe that no one has come up with:

Mush mouth!! Mutter, mutter, mutter, what?? Speak up, don't mumble, mush mouth!

[moosnsqrl]

"Your eyes look like two tomatoes in a glass of buttermilk."

From an old Asleep at the Wheel song "Don't roll those bloodshot eyes at me"

[Daniel]

I dont know why ham handed is an insult.. More of a dream

[moosnsqrl]

I dont know why ham handed is an insult.. More of a dream 

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I can just see it now...adults everywhere, sucking their thumbs. And dogs chasing you, too.

[miladyinsanity]

Chicken in Cantonese = prostitute

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I learned it was "ji nu" or, "roadside chicken"!

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Ah no, "ji nu" is the correct term for prostitute. It's not much of a homonym either, because it's got a different accent from the chicken "ji".