# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/61 "2011-04-03T16:04:00Z")
> [@CitizenPained](#): > > ME TOO! It’s like vagina wedgies. That’d be **ved** gies. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/62 "2011-04-03T16:29:24Z")
> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > This just in: When you hear veggies you now lose The Game. God dammit, it’s been forever since I lost The Game. Thanks a lot :mad: I don’t hate veggies. I do hate vag, though, but not as much as vajay jay. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/63 "2011-04-03T16:52:10Z")
Also to be added to the list alongside “veggies” and “yummy”: nom nom nom Shut the fuck up. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/64 "2011-04-03T17:12:42Z")
I’m waiting for the obligatory post you just know someone will write that goes along the lines of “Hubby brought home sammies and veggies. Yummy! Nom nom nom”. Sorry, the anticipation was too intense for me. I guess this post counts for it. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Commissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c68b51/32.png) [@Commissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commissar)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/65 "2011-04-03T17:24:47Z")
> [@Cazzle](#): > > 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}}} I’m perfectly fine with “veggies,” but I absolutely loathe such internet-propagated faux-English terms as “squicked out.” Why not just use proper English words like “disgusted” or “repulsed?” This shit is neither cute nor clever; I wish people would just knock it off. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/66 "2011-04-03T17:35:29Z")
I use ‘veggies,’ but only to describe people; eg “I’m a veggie” and so on… ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/67 "2011-04-03T18:22:47Z")
> [@CanvasShoes](#): > > There’s just something about the word vegetable that its … almost arrogant. I find that very odd. Vegetable an [almost] arrogant word … ---
**Author:** ![Candyman74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Candyman74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candyman74)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/68 "2011-04-03T18:27:57Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > It’s fucking baby talk, and I suspect it’s used by people who can’t pronounce the word “vegetables”. Your suspicion is incorrect. > [@](#): > > “Veggies” pegs you as childish, ignorant, or both in my book. That’s cool. This thread pegs you as obnoxious, narrow-minded, pedantic and bigoted in my book. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/69 "2011-04-03T18:31:24Z")
> [@xoferew](#): > > 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. ;)) But I WANT my medical professionals to be authoritative and clinical. I’m a grown-up, I can handle it. If ‘urinate’ will not do, they can tell me to empty my bladder or fill a cup with urine, or find some other way to avoid a word for three year olds. Perhaps too many people find ‘urinate’ arrogant? (I’m trying out the concept) ---
**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, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/70 "2011-04-03T18:39:00Z")
The number of people who waste their time online trying to tell other people what’s adult and/or manly just makes me laugh sometimes. Y’all have absolutely nothing to do with reality, and that’s someone who spend nearly all of his free time at the computer saying that. > [@Munch](#): > > Also to be added to the list alongside “veggies” and “yummy”: > > nom nom nom > > Shut the fuck up. I’m with you here. It should be **om** nom nom. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/71 "2011-04-03T18:46:05Z")
> [@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. Would you prefer it if they told you to go in the bathroom and whiz in the cup, or to go in the bathroom and initiate micturition? ---
**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, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/72 "2011-04-03T18:53:27Z")
From what I hear, most people fail to enunciate the **d** in we **d** gie. Veggies are vagina wedgies. veggie weggy vagina Also, I happen to like saying “frip-frappery”. ---
**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, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/73 "2011-04-03T18:55:00Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Would you prefer it if they told you to go in the bathroom and whiz in the cup, or to go in the bathroom and initiate micturition? How about “Please contract your sphincter muscles and push from your colon a feces sample from me.” ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/74 "2011-04-03T19:13:23Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > Yes. If someone says I’m having a “Sammy” for lunch I will be expecting to dine with the Red Rocker and pissed if I get something with bread, instead. If they say you’re having vegetable for lunch, would you expect David Lee Roth? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/75 "2011-04-03T19:29:15Z")
Another word that’s terrible is “wedlock”. Let’s think about this for a minute. The lock is what makes handcuffs, prisons, cages, fences, chaste belts, assorted S&M pain devices, and other traps into what they are. It makes marriage sound like a huge trap. Maybe it is, but if you want to go on and on in news-stories about “teenage moms out of wedlock” I’m left picturing teenage moms in cages as the alternative. Creepy thing for society to get obsessive over. Not enough teenage moms in cages. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/76 "2011-04-03T19:36:54Z")
I find slightly annoying the term “kiddo” used by pediatricians and child therapists for “child” or “children” - as in, “We see this in kiddos occasionally”. It sounds awkward and silly since they’re the only people in this world who use that word as a term for kids in general. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/77 "2011-04-03T19:59:58Z")
> [@xoferew](#): > > \ > > 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!? 😛 “Wipe your hooha first.” > [@CitizenPained](#): > > How about > > “Please contract your sphincter muscles and push from your colon a feces sample from me.” From, for - the difference a few letters make. 😃 For those of you who haven’t heard “sammies,” I suggest you check out Rachael Ray. ---
**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, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/78 "2011-04-03T20:19:08Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > “Wipe your hooha first.” > From, for - the difference a few letters make. 😃 > > For those of you who haven’t heard “sammies,” I suggest you check out Rachael Ray. I got lost on my way to the freak porn thread… ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/79 "2011-04-03T20:33:54Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Would you prefer it if they told you to go in the bathroom and whiz in the cup, or to go in the bathroom and initiate micturition? Don’t be ridiculous. Why would I prefer an inaccurate verb-noun phrase (after all, they don’t want be to just ‘initiate’, do they now?), when there is a perfectly good grown-up verb that works all by itself? Is there a verb, such as ‘micturate’? Yes, there is. Asking me to ‘micturate’ would be fine. Up until today I would have had to ask what that meant, but, you know what? I can do that. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/80 "2011-04-03T21:08:14Z")
This thread has really widened my horizons. I had no idea that there was such an incredibly huge number of things I could getting pissed off about that I’ve been totally ignoring. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986.md?page=5)