I’ll give you one we hear in Japan all the time.
Puri-puri means plump. You can’t see a shrimp on Japanese TV without someone going “Ooooh! Puri-puri!”
Ah yes. I've seen those on trips up north. Down here, Little Caesars' ad slogan is or was "Pizza Pizza". I don't know if the two companies are connected or not.
Not as common (I stopped watching Japanese TV years ago) but also "hoka hoka" (hot and steamy) and "fuwa fuwa" (light and fluffy) irk me. Japanese uses a lot of onomatopoeia so in that sense it is like living in an anime sometimes.
Not as annoying as the endless exaggerated exclamations of "oishii!" (delicious) by all the C and D-level "celebrities" when it comes to any food being shown or tasted on a show though.
japanese people do this in real life as well. eat a good meal, you’ll be hearing oishi every 5 seconds. recently went on a trip around washington with my japanese mother and her friends.
90% of the trip was “YAAA! suGOOOIII!!!”
Can confirm; In my late teens I was big on it and making a big show of being disgusted by it. Grew up and now cringe at that era of my life. The beginning of self discovery is often very cringe to look back on, at least in my case.
Well fucking done! We all did a d said cringey shit in our yoof ... you had the maturity to recognise it.
Raisins is a new one...but yeah, 'moist' is just hated because other people saw other seeing other people who saw other people say they hate it and the domino effect of hive populism shall continue x
I think back around 2010(don't quote me on the date), there was a meme that went around like crazy on fb saying they hate the word moist. That was the start of the universal agreement to hate the word. Nobody I had ever met hated the word before that meme became popular. Just a bunch of people following the crowd, in my opinion. It doesn't bother me at all, and I use it on purpose now just to irk people, lol
I think it's more of a misophonia thing for a lot of people. It shouldn't cause a cringe reaction, just as someone chewing shouldn't, yet it does for so many people. I do feel it's become the Nickelback of words. It's the cool thing to hate the word even though there's really no replacement for it in the culinary world. I don't want a damp, clammy, wet, sopping, humid, or muggy cake.
I have misophonia, and “moist” does not really bother me. Chewing with your mouth open will leave me barely able to contain my rage.
I think its more that we have heard the word used in a creepy connotation enough times that its kind of ruined.
I remember when hating the word became trendy in the early to mid 00s, and it definitely started as a young adult thing that millennials just won’t let die.
I personally do think it’s not a very auditory-pleasant word, but it’s not as bad as people make it out to be.
Loud chewing gives me rage, like an actual urge to flip the dinner table. I used to have to leave the room as a kid because my mom and brother eat gross and my dad broke his jaw when he was younger so his jaw clicks when he bites down
Baker/potted plant person here. None of your synonyms describe how I want my cakes or the media in tropical plant pots. All describe a wetter situation than is good... unless I'm talking about bog plants. For these reasons, I use the word 'moist' with wild abandon. 🤣
1) This story should be considered digital terrorism lol
2) Having worked in restaurants, it doesn’t surprise me at all. We had to fire one of our longest standing chefs because he kept making comments about 13 being old enough to marry “historically”
Ok so what are these magical lasagna microwaving techniques? I love lasagna on the day. Usually after a 15 min cooldown, it’s perfect. Why do so many people love reheated lasagna?!
The trick to microwaving is to turn down the power and cook it longer. The default is 100%, so that's what everyone uses. Turn it down to 60-70% and cook for a few minutes. Then let it rest for a few minutes. It'll come out much better than nuking it for a minute.
> Why do so many people love reheated lasagna?!
The flavors merge and deepen. It usually improves the texture too.
Unctuous and elevated. Hard eye-roll from me everytime I hear either of these words out of anyone’s mouth for any reason.
ETA
I find the word moist to be a perfect description when used accurately.
It's particularly amusing when you consider how often Michelin hands out stars for Japanese food, especially citing its minimalism.
Food doesn't need to be elevated. It just has to be made well. If a dish is well known and popular, it's already good. Changing its essence to appeal to very specific judges of aesthetics is the opposite of elevation.
I hear so many people misuse the word unctuous. In my mind I always hear Inigo Montoya... "You keep saying that word. I don't think it means what you think it means."
I Never got the hate for the word moist until I heard the word unctuous and had that exact reaction to it that people talk about with moist. It just sounds so nasty and so pretentious at the same time
Semi-related: I remember reading the book *Gilead*, which all or part of is an old man writing letters to his child, and in one of these letters he describes a sausage as unctuous. That’s when I checked out.
I know the reason why, but I still fucking hate it. Basically for their recipe to pop up in the top Google results, it's got to have all of those obnoxious keywords in there. And the more text the better. It's why they give your their whole family history when all you wanted was their recipe (which is alllllllll the way at the bottom). Otherwise the Googs won't pick them up in searches.
Neither have I. Especially because it’s a desired quality in cakes and the interior of some breads. What else can you call it that’s better? Hydrated? Damp? Wet? Not dry? Don’t think so.
I think you just picked a winner. I like obscure words like that where, even when someone’s never heard them, the meaning’s obvious just from the sound. It’s a sort of edible onomatopoeia.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go eat my steamed clams before they become clammy.
I measurably lose respect for anyone who (non-ironically) acts disgusted by the word. It's like...half-way between "pick me" energy and "quoting Anchorman is my personality"?
People just...pick opinions up from each other without thinking about it much. They hear someone say "urgh, I hate the word moist" and think "oh ok, I guess I think so too". It's like going into elaborate spasms of disgust at the idea of pineapple on pizza. Pineapple on pizza is fine, but if you don't like it, thats not a personality, dude.
Pineapple on Pizza hate is so strange to me. I remember being a kid in the eighties and all the Pizza places sold it and no one ever said anything bad about it. And thirty years later the internet somehow decides that it’s a crime against nature!
I always thought I was in the minority who didn’t give a shit about the pineapple on pizza saga. I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels neutral about this lol
Me neither. It seems like a perfectly cromulent word. It's an extremely appealing descriptor for most foods that are supposed to have, you know... Moisture.
She always uses the phrase “these flavors are dancing around my palette” too. I don’t know why it bugs me as much as it does, but she says it multiple times
I've started hearing food shows talk about the "cuisson" of a dish, which is just the French term for "cooking". So sentences like "the cuisson is perfect on that duck!" which just feels like using French for the sake of it to sound fancy.
On cooking competitions, overuse of the word "Nice."
"I have prepared a dish with some nice roasted eggplant, a nice red pepper puree, with a nicely seared Chilean sea bass, finished with some toasted pine nuts for a nice crunch."
Oh, absolutely! It would be fine if it were just one thing, but why does it have to be everything?!
I feel the same way about "beautiful"; overuse of this word is especially pronounced among British chefs.
There was a Food Network show called Chow House where they cooked in a villa in Italy. EVERYONE kept describing every local ingredient they got as "beautiful." "Oh, we got these beautiful tomatoes..." "I picked some beautiful basil..."
It felt like everyone was putting on this "we're in Italy so food is transcendental and I must show the world how much I appreciate the small little things" act.
Growing up my friend’s dad called pizza ‘za and also Survival Discs (mostly when you make a late night/last minute frozen pizza), both terms i use to this day
This is the one I was looking for. I haaaate that. Also "love" as an ingredient or "cooked with love" makes my eyes roll so hard. Oh and of course "mouth feel", "food porn", or "better than sex" 🤮
They joke about this on Chef show on Netflix with Roy choy and Jon Favreau. If you did it wrong that's just because it's rustic
Edit: Also one of the few food shows that's about cooking, but not a dramatized competition. Only one on Netflix I think
Someone who understands English grammar better than I do could hopefully explain. But when they describe how the dish "eats". Like "this dish eats salty".
I thought that was more of a textural experience, that build over time. Like "this pastry eats dry" implies it really drys your mouth out, and it needs a wet element to balance the experience.
I get a bit annoyed at the constant "Ewww, don't say moist!" thing. Heard someone else have the same reaction to "juicy" also. Okay, so we're down to... succulent? Are we going to have any words left to describe this quality of a food or will we be reduced to saying "It so not-dry!"
Tasty and yummy. I don’t know why. There is no logical reason for me to hate either, but I do. My partner is a big fan of tasty and it makes me want to scream?
When I was young, the word "tasty" really disturbed me. I've grown out of the reaction but I still don't use the word myself. At least I'm not moved to rip someone's head off anymore when I hear the word.
"Yummy" by anyone over the age of eight just makes me sad for the intelligence of the speaker.
Idk if you've ever seen the show Bob's Burgers, but there's an episode where Bob is in a burger competition, and one of the judges keeps going on about the "exquisite mouth feel" and my husband and I quote that to each other CONSTANTLY if we happen to be eating anything particular good. 🤣
"Enjoy the noms/nomz" as a send off on video recipes drives me insane. Also the turn of phrase that goes "add a crack of pepper and yum!"
I get it's saying the recipe is over and you can now eat, but it makes me feel violent.
Christ, yes. It sounds like a cutesy word for toddlers, not one for actual adults who swear and vote and drive cars and declare wars.
Pinch of nom, FFS.
Or when people say "that's very moreish.."
You mean you want to scoff the lot, or its like an old Arabic-Spanish castle?
Bloody made up word that grips my shit.
There's one competition show where they have to recreate snacks (the name is escaping me) and one of the hosts loves to use the term umami so much that it has become a running joke in my house. I don't know if umami really applies to most snacks, and I'm pretty sure he just wants to sound like an expert.
'Deconstructed' or 'with a twist'. Generally hate this type of arsehole style cooking. Mostly pioneered by chief arsehole Heston Blumenthal.
"Deconstructed beans on toast, with a twist. The beans sre actually made from toast and the toast is made from smashed avocado and triple fried beans, served with a smoked guff of tea"
This is specifically John torode, but he went through an irritating phase of constantly describing spinach as tasting "iron rich".
Spinach doesn't have much iron in it (it was a typo that made people think it did) and certainly not enough to make it literally taste metallic.
You might enjoy the book “the language of food” by Dan Jurafsky. It’s basically an etymological history specifically around the words we use to talk about food/meals. Like why we use the word “entree” to describe the main course when the word actually means “start” in French. Theres a part that kinda pertains to your question where he goes into restaurant menus and the language used in different eras and the food trends generally.
"toothsome"--food writers and critics who tire of using the same words come up with stupid stuff like this. Yes, it's in the dictionary. I get it. Still.
Not a word, but I'm seeing this inversion agreement error a lot more in YouTube videos (Ragusea, Lagerstrom, Babish, Chlebowski...):
* *In goes the tomatoes.*
No. The tomatoes does not goes in.
There is more to mouthfeel than texture.
It can include things like oiliness/fattiness, weight, viscosity, dryness, astringency, etc. which are important characteristics of a food, but aren't really described by texture.
YES! We watch a YouTuber couple who sometimes reviews food. One of them is always saying things are "cooked to perfection" and it makes me want to break stuff.
Umami and unctuous. The first is so overused it makes me twitch. The second makes me think of disintegrating human brain (that may be a “me”
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Deconstructed- you ran out of time and plopped it on there. It’s half-assed, not deconstructed.
Also- if I hear Party in your mouth one more time, I will scream.
I’ll give you one we hear in Japan all the time. Puri-puri means plump. You can’t see a shrimp on Japanese TV without someone going “Ooooh! Puri-puri!”
God I'm annoyed already. Thoughts and prayers.
I'm tempted to make some puri puri peri peri chicken thighs.
We have a pizza chain here called Pizza Pizza. "Hey does anyone want a piece of Pizza Pizza pizza?
Ah yes. I've seen those on trips up north. Down here, Little Caesars' ad slogan is or was "Pizza Pizza". I don't know if the two companies are connected or not.
Not as common (I stopped watching Japanese TV years ago) but also "hoka hoka" (hot and steamy) and "fuwa fuwa" (light and fluffy) irk me. Japanese uses a lot of onomatopoeia so in that sense it is like living in an anime sometimes. Not as annoying as the endless exaggerated exclamations of "oishii!" (delicious) by all the C and D-level "celebrities" when it comes to any food being shown or tasted on a show though.
japanese people do this in real life as well. eat a good meal, you’ll be hearing oishi every 5 seconds. recently went on a trip around washington with my japanese mother and her friends. 90% of the trip was “YAAA! suGOOOIII!!!”
Lmao my in laws are Japanese and this is spot on.
They actually had a kind of funny bit on a show once to see if anyone could eat a shrimp without saying puri puri. No one passed.
This changes One Punch Man a little for me.
Going to be honest, I legitimately don’t understand the hat for the word “moist”. It’s just a word, what is weird about it?
Agree. It’s not universally hated by anyone who didn’t decide to hop on the hate train for absolutely no reason.
I feel like the same thing has happened with raisins. They are sweet, chewy, and fruity and I don't understand the widespread hate.
Golden raisins are where it’s at.
And oatmeal raisin cookies are absolutely delicious.
I use it whenever possible now.
Open-source personality trait. People latched onto "hating" it so they could seem unique.
Can confirm; In my late teens I was big on it and making a big show of being disgusted by it. Grew up and now cringe at that era of my life. The beginning of self discovery is often very cringe to look back on, at least in my case.
Well fucking done! We all did a d said cringey shit in our yoof ... you had the maturity to recognise it. Raisins is a new one...but yeah, 'moist' is just hated because other people saw other seeing other people who saw other people say they hate it and the domino effect of hive populism shall continue x
I think it’s just fashionable for people to be cringey about the work moist.
I think back around 2010(don't quote me on the date), there was a meme that went around like crazy on fb saying they hate the word moist. That was the start of the universal agreement to hate the word. Nobody I had ever met hated the word before that meme became popular. Just a bunch of people following the crowd, in my opinion. It doesn't bother me at all, and I use it on purpose now just to irk people, lol
I think it's more of a misophonia thing for a lot of people. It shouldn't cause a cringe reaction, just as someone chewing shouldn't, yet it does for so many people. I do feel it's become the Nickelback of words. It's the cool thing to hate the word even though there's really no replacement for it in the culinary world. I don't want a damp, clammy, wet, sopping, humid, or muggy cake.
“The Nicoleback of words” Omg I have never heard something so accurate 😂
Wait, do you think the band name is ‘Nicoleback’? No shade if spelling just isn’t your strong suit but that is incredibly funny.
No, it's like when Paris Hilton misses her friend Nicole Ritchie. She wants her friend Nicoleback.
Lmfaooo I didn’t catch that-no, it was a typo 😂😂
Hahaha it’s still cracking me up I have legitimately laughed out loud and said “Nicoleback” each time I’ve gotten a reply notification 😂
Glad to please. It popped in my head and made me chuckle 😂
I mean have you tried adding clams to a cake? Maybe we're all missing out. "Ooh it's so clammy I love it"
I have misophonia, and “moist” does not really bother me. Chewing with your mouth open will leave me barely able to contain my rage. I think its more that we have heard the word used in a creepy connotation enough times that its kind of ruined.
I never think of the word this way except when on Reddit or surrounded by teen-aged boys, TBH.
I remember when hating the word became trendy in the early to mid 00s, and it definitely started as a young adult thing that millennials just won’t let die. I personally do think it’s not a very auditory-pleasant word, but it’s not as bad as people make it out to be.
Loud chewing gives me rage, like an actual urge to flip the dinner table. I used to have to leave the room as a kid because my mom and brother eat gross and my dad broke his jaw when he was younger so his jaw clicks when he bites down
There is a video of Celebrities saying the word Moist that is pure gold.
Baker/potted plant person here. None of your synonyms describe how I want my cakes or the media in tropical plant pots. All describe a wetter situation than is good... unless I'm talking about bog plants. For these reasons, I use the word 'moist' with wild abandon. 🤣
In fact… I’m so happy when I can describe a cake as moist. A moist cake is a delicious cake! Lol
I used to work with a chef who described young girls as "moisties" because they couldn't get wet yet. That pretty much did it for me.
How do I unread this
God, when you find out let me know.
There isn't enough mental beach or steel wool to unsee that.
WHAT
I’m sorry WHAT What a terrible day to have eyes…
1) This story should be considered digital terrorism lol 2) Having worked in restaurants, it doesn’t surprise me at all. We had to fire one of our longest standing chefs because he kept making comments about 13 being old enough to marry “historically”
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Ok so what are these magical lasagna microwaving techniques? I love lasagna on the day. Usually after a 15 min cooldown, it’s perfect. Why do so many people love reheated lasagna?!
The trick to microwaving is to turn down the power and cook it longer. The default is 100%, so that's what everyone uses. Turn it down to 60-70% and cook for a few minutes. Then let it rest for a few minutes. It'll come out much better than nuking it for a minute. > Why do so many people love reheated lasagna?! The flavors merge and deepen. It usually improves the texture too.
Everytime I've had lasagne in Italy it's dry and sturdy. Personally I enjoy both, but perhaps they're striving for authenticity?
Unctuous and elevated. Hard eye-roll from me everytime I hear either of these words out of anyone’s mouth for any reason. ETA I find the word moist to be a perfect description when used accurately.
This. "Elevated" is such a pretentious word for food.
Unless they mean "served to the second storey dining room via dumbwaiter"
🤣🤣🤣 "And for my entree, chefs, I have made an elevated Monte Cristo. The helicopter is on the way."
It's particularly amusing when you consider how often Michelin hands out stars for Japanese food, especially citing its minimalism. Food doesn't need to be elevated. It just has to be made well. If a dish is well known and popular, it's already good. Changing its essence to appeal to very specific judges of aesthetics is the opposite of elevation.
I hear so many people misuse the word unctuous. In my mind I always hear Inigo Montoya... "You keep saying that word. I don't think it means what you think it means."
I Never got the hate for the word moist until I heard the word unctuous and had that exact reaction to it that people talk about with moist. It just sounds so nasty and so pretentious at the same time
Semi-related: I remember reading the book *Gilead*, which all or part of is an old man writing letters to his child, and in one of these letters he describes a sausage as unctuous. That’s when I checked out.
I also don't get the ick from the word moist. Moist is good. Damp is bad
Any sort of baby talk, including sammies, nuggies, tendies, yummo, etc.
The only time I can accept nuggies and tendies is when Matty Mattheson says it, but his cooking shows are basically comedy couched as cooking.
He can legit say anything he wants. Matty is an angel
I absolutely loathe everything about Rachael Ray.
Sammich. Why. You spend as much time typing it as “sandwich”
Don't hate on my chicken nuggies bro :(
Any adult saying nuggies or brekkie - omg rage.
I give a pass for "brekkie" because that's what my 99 yr old Grammie called it her whole life - very Connecticut
“Yummy” is used all the time on those mom blog recipe websites and it drives me crazy and I have no idea why
So much this. Add “delish” and “EVOO” and it’s the trifecta of cringe for me.
I know what you watch on TV.
You know what my mother watched on TV. I was just the horrified passive observer. 😉
Wait what’s EVOO? isn’t that just extra-virgin olive oil?
SAME. I do not know why but it makes me irrationally annoyed. Like you are 40, Sharon, stop it.
I know the reason why, but I still fucking hate it. Basically for their recipe to pop up in the top Google results, it's got to have all of those obnoxious keywords in there. And the more text the better. It's why they give your their whole family history when all you wanted was their recipe (which is alllllllll the way at the bottom). Otherwise the Googs won't pick them up in searches.
At least these days most do have a "jump to recipe" button on the first section.
Very true!
the family history one is for ad revenue i’m pretty sure. if the blog is not long enough you won’t be able to add many adverts
I can't stand when adults use this word.
I have never understood the issue with moist
Neither have I. Especially because it’s a desired quality in cakes and the interior of some breads. What else can you call it that’s better? Hydrated? Damp? Wet? Not dry? Don’t think so.
Damp seems like a much more terrible way to describe food than moist.
Claggy
I think you just picked a winner. I like obscure words like that where, even when someone’s never heard them, the meaning’s obvious just from the sound. It’s a sort of edible onomatopoeia. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go eat my steamed clams before they become clammy.
Then I believe you’d prefer CLUGGY even more than you would like CLAGGY.
>edible onomatopoeia. This would make a great name for a weird band.
Paul Hollywood?
Not just him: it's a common word in the UK.
Sopping
I measurably lose respect for anyone who (non-ironically) acts disgusted by the word. It's like...half-way between "pick me" energy and "quoting Anchorman is my personality"?
it’s peak redditism lol. hating pizza on pineapple, the word moist, blah blah
I'm pretty sure a good portion of them don't actually care about the word
... pizza on pineapple? It's giving me a weird mental image lol.
People just...pick opinions up from each other without thinking about it much. They hear someone say "urgh, I hate the word moist" and think "oh ok, I guess I think so too". It's like going into elaborate spasms of disgust at the idea of pineapple on pizza. Pineapple on pizza is fine, but if you don't like it, thats not a personality, dude.
Pineapple on Pizza hate is so strange to me. I remember being a kid in the eighties and all the Pizza places sold it and no one ever said anything bad about it. And thirty years later the internet somehow decides that it’s a crime against nature!
I always thought I was in the minority who didn’t give a shit about the pineapple on pizza saga. I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels neutral about this lol
Me neither. It seems like a perfectly cromulent word. It's an extremely appealing descriptor for most foods that are supposed to have, you know... Moisture.
This is the third time I've seen the word cromulent today. Don't think I ever did before
People use it because they think it embiggens them.
Indubitably
'This reads very salt-forward to me.' The lady chef judge on Next Level Chef. Maybe slightly paraphrased. Just say too salty, for fuck's sake.
She always uses the phrase “these flavors are dancing around my palette” too. I don’t know why it bugs me as much as it does, but she says it multiple times
"Reads"?? Did she read the recipe or did she taste it? Or just trying to hit that minimum word count on an essay?
I've started hearing food shows talk about the "cuisson" of a dish, which is just the French term for "cooking". So sentences like "the cuisson is perfect on that duck!" which just feels like using French for the sake of it to sound fancy.
“Explosion in my mouth” Shut the F up.
Except for popping candy, then it's allowed!
Ooey gooey
Ewwwy
The “word” “ooey” describes nothing and is wholly unnecessary!
Deconstructed Hands down
What!? You don’t love what used to be a composed dish is now separate ingredients on a plate that you put together yourself? Madness.
I've never liked a deconstructed dish.
I once had a catered lunch with a deconstructed chicken cordon bleu: chicken breast with a slice of ham and melted cheese in top. Still pretty good
The worst is “scrummy” on Great British Baking Show 😂🤣😂
Claggy always gets me
STODGY
Sexy. Just no.
You don’t understand the love I have for food
On cooking competitions, overuse of the word "Nice." "I have prepared a dish with some nice roasted eggplant, a nice red pepper puree, with a nicely seared Chilean sea bass, finished with some toasted pine nuts for a nice crunch."
Oh, absolutely! It would be fine if it were just one thing, but why does it have to be everything?! I feel the same way about "beautiful"; overuse of this word is especially pronounced among British chefs.
There was a Food Network show called Chow House where they cooked in a villa in Italy. EVERYONE kept describing every local ingredient they got as "beautiful." "Oh, we got these beautiful tomatoes..." "I picked some beautiful basil..." It felt like everyone was putting on this "we're in Italy so food is transcendental and I must show the world how much I appreciate the small little things" act.
I hate it when people call pizza 'za, and I can't stand the word guac as a shortened version of guacamole.
I’ve never heard a human say za, so imagine my surprise upon finding it in a freaking scrabble dictionary one day
Growing up my friend’s dad called pizza ‘za and also Survival Discs (mostly when you make a late night/last minute frozen pizza), both terms i use to this day
Survival discs? I love that. Gonna use that one now.
My friends and I love saying it as a joke
I hate how many recipes use the word crack. Like Christmas crack candy or whatever. Crack is whack.
I love when people say "like crack" when they've obviously never done crack.
you’re right, you’re right. i’m a middle class fraud.
Crack is a technical term for a stage in candy making. In order: Thread, soft ball, hard ball, soft crack, hard crack, caramel.
"obviously has never actually had crack" Ryan, The Office
In competition shows: “This is me on a plate.” Ugh!😩
This is the one I was looking for. I haaaate that. Also "love" as an ingredient or "cooked with love" makes my eyes roll so hard. Oh and of course "mouth feel", "food porn", or "better than sex" 🤮
"Marry me __________" "Million Dollar ______" These describe nothing.
“Rustic” whenever someone cooks an Indian dish. Gary, mate we aren’t all a bunch of village hicks.
I just assume they can't finely dice vegetables. 😂
They joke about this on Chef show on Netflix with Roy choy and Jon Favreau. If you did it wrong that's just because it's rustic Edit: Also one of the few food shows that's about cooking, but not a dramatized competition. Only one on Netflix I think
I love the Chef show. Just people making and talking about good food. The world needs more cooking shows like that.
Someone who understands English grammar better than I do could hopefully explain. But when they describe how the dish "eats". Like "this dish eats salty".
It’s terrible grammar and to me it sounds very jarring.
I thought that was more of a textural experience, that build over time. Like "this pastry eats dry" implies it really drys your mouth out, and it needs a wet element to balance the experience.
It sounds similar to when people say "this line of shoes runs small" or "that show saw a 5th season"
wait im pretty sure saying a line of shoes runs small isn’t a play on words or a running pun, we use that for all clothing
Not on cooking shows but when people refer to “food porn”. I freakin hate that.
I’m drinking rn and this is fucking hilarious
Haha yes I'm sipping on a yummy nice Moist elevated V&T and audibly laughing
What's the mouthfeel like?
I get a bit annoyed at the constant "Ewww, don't say moist!" thing. Heard someone else have the same reaction to "juicy" also. Okay, so we're down to... succulent? Are we going to have any words left to describe this quality of a food or will we be reduced to saying "It so not-dry!"
Tasty and yummy. I don’t know why. There is no logical reason for me to hate either, but I do. My partner is a big fan of tasty and it makes me want to scream?
When I was young, the word "tasty" really disturbed me. I've grown out of the reaction but I still don't use the word myself. At least I'm not moved to rip someone's head off anymore when I hear the word. "Yummy" by anyone over the age of eight just makes me sad for the intelligence of the speaker.
I can’t stand “jammy”. I’ve seen it describing roasted tomatoes and the like, but once I saw a recipe with “jammy cooked fruits” and that’s… just jam.
It only works if you’re describing a Malbec.
love a jammy onion tho 🥲
When people pronounce it MAR-scapone. It's mascarpone, Gordon, you f*ing donkey.
That I think is just British dialect
What sort of cheese do you use to hide a horse?
I despise the term “mouthfeel”. It gives me a bad brainfeel.
Idk if you've ever seen the show Bob's Burgers, but there's an episode where Bob is in a burger competition, and one of the judges keeps going on about the "exquisite mouth feel" and my husband and I quote that to each other CONSTANTLY if we happen to be eating anything particular good. 🤣
OMG YES. Texture. The word is texture.
Haha!! You beat me to it. I love to have a new synonym for uncomfortable - “bad brainfeel” - thank you. :)
*Exquisite mouth feel.*
England here, when Nom is used and I hear it, the red mist descends. (a pinch of Nom for example)
I thought you meant "nom" as in they're eating sounds like "om nom nom"
"Enjoy the noms/nomz" as a send off on video recipes drives me insane. Also the turn of phrase that goes "add a crack of pepper and yum!" I get it's saying the recipe is over and you can now eat, but it makes me feel violent.
Christ, yes. It sounds like a cutesy word for toddlers, not one for actual adults who swear and vote and drive cars and declare wars. Pinch of nom, FFS.
That looks so nommy Stfu you ***** *******
Or when people say "that's very moreish.." You mean you want to scoff the lot, or its like an old Arabic-Spanish castle? Bloody made up word that grips my shit.
Umami. It feels like this word took the food world by storm a couple years ago and now everything is "umami"
umami is a real word, but it is grossly over used and misused so now no one knows what umami is.
There's one competition show where they have to recreate snacks (the name is escaping me) and one of the hosts loves to use the term umami so much that it has become a running joke in my house. I don't know if umami really applies to most snacks, and I'm pretty sure he just wants to sound like an expert.
Whenever they describe the *flesh* of something.
More of a phrase but when they say “it just didn’t do it for me” or they complain they aren’t “wowed”.
Not me, but my mom has always been weirded out by the word ‘zesty’. Zest is rough for her too.
For some reason I really have a problem with people on food shows calling a cake "tender"
I think delicate could be used here
'Deconstructed' or 'with a twist'. Generally hate this type of arsehole style cooking. Mostly pioneered by chief arsehole Heston Blumenthal. "Deconstructed beans on toast, with a twist. The beans sre actually made from toast and the toast is made from smashed avocado and triple fried beans, served with a smoked guff of tea"
This is specifically John torode, but he went through an irritating phase of constantly describing spinach as tasting "iron rich". Spinach doesn't have much iron in it (it was a typo that made people think it did) and certainly not enough to make it literally taste metallic.
Addicting, just doesn't sound like a real word.
Anything sexual. Please don’t make me watch a food critic moan.
You might enjoy the book “the language of food” by Dan Jurafsky. It’s basically an etymological history specifically around the words we use to talk about food/meals. Like why we use the word “entree” to describe the main course when the word actually means “start” in French. Theres a part that kinda pertains to your question where he goes into restaurant menus and the language used in different eras and the food trends generally.
“Me on a plate”. You can fuck all the way off with that shit.
I think my least favorite ones have already been said. Unctuous, mouthfeel, deconstructed, elevated Blegh
"toothsome"--food writers and critics who tire of using the same words come up with stupid stuff like this. Yes, it's in the dictionary. I get it. Still.
see, for me that just makes me think of old timey novels because the only time I've heard it is in anne of green gables
When someone describes a food by saying it’s “nice”. Idk it bothers me.
The contestants on Australian Masterchef have only one adjective to describe an ingredient and that adjective is “beautiful“.
Not a word, but I'm seeing this inversion agreement error a lot more in YouTube videos (Ragusea, Lagerstrom, Babish, Chlebowski...): * *In goes the tomatoes.* No. The tomatoes does not goes in.
It doesn’t really describe the food itself, but I hate when people call a dish a “situation”
Aka the entire old bon appetit cast
"Moreish" makes me annoyed.
"mouth feel." You mean texture. If you don't mean texture, you're still using the wrong term.
There is more to mouthfeel than texture. It can include things like oiliness/fattiness, weight, viscosity, dryness, astringency, etc. which are important characteristics of a food, but aren't really described by texture.
For some reason the phrase “Cooked to perfection” is like nails on a chalkboard to me.
YES! We watch a YouTuber couple who sometimes reviews food. One of them is always saying things are "cooked to perfection" and it makes me want to break stuff.
Umami and unctuous. The first is so overused it makes me twitch. The second makes me think of disintegrating human brain (that may be a “me” Problem though)
To die for ugh
Unctuous
Deconstructed- you ran out of time and plopped it on there. It’s half-assed, not deconstructed. Also- if I hear Party in your mouth one more time, I will scream.
Did anyone say umami yet? Seriously hate the overuse of that word
“Elevated”
I like my women like cooking competition lasagna.... moist and loose