# I Hate the Word "Veggies" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 2, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986 "2011-04-02T23:42:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/41 "2011-04-03T06:54:58Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > If “vegetable” is too difficult for you, you can just say, “veges” when you’re speaking to anyone older than four. How is that pronounced differently from veggies? Vej-ehs instead of vej-ees? Yes, that’s far more mature and adult. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/42 "2011-04-03T07:06:21Z")
Can I mention again how much I hate the word “tot,” especially used in news headlines? I know why it’s used: because it’s three letters, two of which are thin. But damn, it grates. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/43 "2011-04-03T07:26:41Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > What’s your position on “sammies” or “samwiches?” I hate it with the white hot hatred of 1000 blinding bright suns. In fact, there is a new restaurant I have heard good things about that I refuse to patronize because they have a section on their menu titled “Sammies!”. I’m not a freaking 8 year so stop talking to me like you think I am. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/44 "2011-04-03T07:50:39Z")
Veggie and vegetable have two different meanings. Vegetables are what you buy at the grocery store. Veggies are what they put on you Subway sub. If you have a bunch of vegetables cut up into small pieces, and it’s not a salad, they are veggies. Veggie platter (cut up vegetables on a platter with dip) Shish Kabobs require veggies, same with a stir fry. The soggy paper plate of sliced tomatoes, onions, pickles and a few leaves of lettuce sitting next to the buns at the BBQ, those are veggies. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/45 "2011-04-03T08:07:09Z")
It’s always amazing how people get upset over something so innocuous. The only thing worse might be getting upset over a thread about people who are upset over something so innocuous. Shit, I’ve gone cross eyed now. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/46 "2011-04-03T08:18:55Z")
Anyhoo. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/47 "2011-04-03T09:56:16Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > It’s always amazing how people get upset over something so innocuous. The only thing worse might be getting upset over a thread about people who are upset over something so innocuous. Shit, I’ve gone cross eyed now. It’s always amazing how people get upset over people getting upset over something so innocuous, as if there is only one thing in the world that someone can be focused on at any one time at the expense of everything else. My life does not stop because something annoys me, and most of us are not so busy that we can’t spare a minute or two to register annoyance about it. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/48 "2011-04-03T11:09:53Z")
“Veggies” doesn’t bug me, but I hate the word “panties”. It truly makes me wince. “Undies” is marginally ok. “Hubby” doesn’t get to me, but “sammich” does. Never really heard (or seen written) “sammy”. I can deal with “anyhoo”, but “prolly” makes me think less of the writer. Yes, I’m fickle and judgmental, what’s your point? ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/49 "2011-04-03T11:30:12Z")
> [@sitchensis](#): > > Veggie and vegetable have two different meanings. Vegetables are what you buy at the grocery store. Veggies are what they put on you Subway sub. If you have a bunch of vegetables cut up into small pieces, and it’s not a salad, they are veggies. > > Veggie platter (cut up vegetables on a platter with dip) > > Shish Kabobs require veggies, same with a stir fry. > > The soggy paper plate of sliced tomatoes, onions, pickles and a few leaves of lettuce sitting next to the buns at the BBQ, those are veggies. Starts a slow golf clap. H/She’s right. There’s a time and a place for veggies that doesn’t come across as infantile. Someone who says their trying to get their DH to eat more veggies? Kick in the shin. But someone who asks for my veggie dip recipe? Not so much. ---
**Author:** ![MrBerious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MrBerious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrBerious)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/50 "2011-04-03T11:37:27Z")
“Meat and two vegetables” just doesn’t roll off the tongue. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/51 "2011-04-03T11:43:42Z")
Hate “veg”, no problem with “veggies”. Completely squicked out by “yummy” when it’s used to describe a person, as in “Oooh! Colin Firth is yummy!!” {{{shudder}}} ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/52 "2011-04-03T12:01:58Z")
I have been buying [these](http://www.dole.com/salads/us/blends/dole-very-veggie-salad.html) bags, have a couple of them in the fridge right this very minute. And now, after reading this…the name is really beginning to bother me. I can hardly stand it! Curse you! You who started this thread! ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/53 "2011-04-03T13:15:02Z")
Don’t mind veggies at all. Perhaps I’m just lazy of speech. I can’t abide ‘hubby’ though. Or kiddies. \ ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/54 "2011-04-03T13:39:32Z")
> [@MrBerious](#): > > “Meat and two vegetables” just doesn’t roll off the tongue. It does if you’re a really sloppy eater. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/55 "2011-04-03T13:40:51Z")
ME TOO! It’s like vagina wedgies. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/56 "2011-04-03T14:14:36Z")
Yeah but I like to veg on the couch. ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/57 "2011-04-03T14:15:17Z")
Another vote for hating the word “hubby”. A co-worker asked me “And how’s hubby?” last week and I had to ask her to repeat herself before I realized she was asking after my dear spouse. (I thought she was asking after someone named “Habeeb”!! I _never_ use the uber-ridiculous word “hubby”!!) ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/58 "2011-04-03T15:05:11Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I don’t actually hate the word vegetables. But if I were to hate a word, I think vegetables is a better candidate than veggies. Saying you hate the word veggies is like saying you hate fun. The word “veggies” is an attempt to make vegetables seem fun (to a 3 year old). It doesn’t work any more than calling dog shit “chocolate”. > [@j66](#): > > I have to ask if this is really Pit Worthy. > > I really, really, really hate it when an adult medical professional instructs me to ‘pee’, but I wouldn’t start a pit thread about it. This may not be pit worthy…however, if a medical professional instructed me to “pee”, I would find a different medical professional. As I would find a different nutritionist if one told me to eat my “veggies”. That’s just condescending. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/59 "2011-04-03T15:59:22Z")
\*\*Father \*\* Yes, you can’t beat wood … Gorn! \*\*Mother \*\* What’s gorn dear? **Father** Nothing, nothing, I just like the word. It gives me confidence. Gorn … gorn. It’s got a sort of woody quality about it. Gorn. Gorn. Much better than `newspaper' or `litterbin’. **Daughter** Frightful words. \*\*Mother \*\* Perfectly dreadful. \*\*Father \*\* Ugh! Newspaper! … litterbin … dreadful tinny sort of words. Tin, tin, tin. ---
**Author:** ![xoferew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/e9a140/32.png) [@xoferew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xoferew)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/60 "2011-04-03T16:00:59Z")
> [@jasonh300](#): > > This may not be pit worthy…however, if a medical professional instructed me to “pee”, I would find a different medical professional. I would guess these people are trying to use language they think will sound natural to their patients so the patient feels like they are on the same team rather than the authoritative professional making pronouncements down to them. It may backfire in your case but surely there a lot of less-educated people out there who are intimidated by doctors and urination is just barely within their vocabulary horizon. Might as well use the common term “pee” with them. Also, pee sounds warmer to me and urinate sounds cold and clinical. (Of course both are cold after being in the specimen cup for a while. ;)) I feel odd when my doctor tells me to “wipe my vagina first” because no one else ever talks to me about my “vagina” but I can’t imagine what other term he could appropriately use. I think in this case using a more clinical term makes it less embarrassing. …Oh, wait, we were talking about vEggies!? 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986.md?page=4)