# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![glilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/48db29/32.png) [@glilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glilly)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/101 "2011-04-04T04:22:19Z")
“Meds” as a shortened form of “medications” irks me. ---
**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 4, 2011, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/102 "2011-04-04T04:59:24Z")
> [@CitizenPained](#): > > I got lost on my way to the freak porn thread… There was a freak porn thread and I was not informed? > [@Munch](#): > > I will counter that suggestion, unless these people also want to be subjected to the even more juvenile word “yummo”. And nightmares involving a female Joker character that consumes the souls of the innocent with the gaze of her dead, dead eyes… Yeah, I prolly should have put a “Not Safe For Humans” warning on that suggestion. 🙂 > [@Paranoid\_Randroid](#): > > Hubby and the wife > Hubby and the wife > One is infantile, the other’s misogynist tripe 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/103 "2011-04-04T12:44:18Z")
Ooooh, hey! I thought of one! I thought of one! The wife (heh) likes the show Castle, and so we watch it occasionally. The characters, like on all other police dramas these days, say “vic” instead of “victim”. Drives me nuts. Well, not really. I find it mildly irritating, in truth, but that’s the best I can do. ---
**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 4, 2011, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/104 "2011-04-04T13:07:17Z")
I’ve seen the word “journo” twice in the last day (short for “journalist”), which bring the grand total in my life up to…two. What’s up with this word? Why are people using it? Can I blame the twitter? ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/105 "2011-04-04T15:32:29Z")
Hey, slick. I’m a professional scientist, will have my PhD in molecular biology in less than a year, am generously above average in intelligence, and am widely read and traveled. I’m also a fair musician, and I don’t think anyone has EVER used “ignorant” as a descriptor for me. If I want to say “veggies”, “yummy”, or anything else, you’ll be making a grave mistake to look down your nose at me. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/106 "2011-04-04T15:46:06Z")
> [@dawson](#): > > I hate vegetables. Not the word. The food group. I share the hate. Over the decades I have eeked out small, precarious places in my heart for Caesar salad, grilled asparagus and broccoli rabe. The rest of the vegetable kingdom can flip off a cliff and be devoured by plagues of grasshoppers AFAIC. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/107 "2011-04-04T16:20:00Z")
I think I might have a veggie sammich for lunch. Just on principle. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/108 "2011-04-04T16:22:44Z")
> [@CitizenPained](#): > > How about > > “Please contract your sphincter muscles and push from your colon a feces sample from me.” 😃 Keep it scientific! Keep it on a “higher plane”. … I don’t see a thing wrong with the word “pee” as “pee into the cup”, as if this highly trained scientist is dumbing down to communicate with an ignorant peon. Is that doctor going to go home and tell his kids to micturate and eliminate before travelling in the automotive vehicle to a mid-level fast food establishment? Have you never watched an episode of Grey’s Anatomy? My Old Man always says he’s got to go drain the lizard, though I tell him passing urine is more proper, like. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/109 "2011-04-04T16:24:12Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > I think I might have a veggie sammich for lunch. Just on principle. Don’t you mean “on princcy”? ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/110 "2011-04-04T19:06:43Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > It’s fucking baby talk, and I suspect it’s used by people who can’t pronounce the word “vegetables”. All the people who can’t pronounce nuclear might as well get on board with nukie while they’re at it. “Veggies” pegs you as childish, ignorant, or both in my book. There’s even a [facebook](http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=101992789857057&v=wall&viewas=0) group I could join if only I didn’t hate facebook as well. Take the carrot out of your ass a calm down. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/111 "2011-04-04T19:16:38Z")
I don’t mind cutesy Britishisms (like “choccie” or “prezzie”) because I’m an Anglophile and I like most things British, even if they’re kind of stupid. 🙂 I don’t like: - Panties (for the underwear of anybody over the age of about 7) - Hubby (for that matter, I don’t like “husband” either) - Preggers (oh, please) - Baby bump (ditto) - Cankles (or any of the other oh-so-“cute” terms the hipsters come up with for less-than-perfect body parts, especially on women) - Coed (it’s just patronizing. The 50s called–they want their term back) I don’t mind “veggies,” though. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/112 "2011-04-04T19:46:04Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > Hey, slick. I’m a professional scientist, will have my PhD in molecular biology in less than a year, am generously above average in intelligence, and am widely read and traveled. I’m also a fair musician, and I don’t think anyone has EVER used “ignorant” as a descriptor for me. > > If I want to say “veggies”, “yummy”, or anything else, you’ll be making a grave mistake to look down your nose at me. Don’t call me slick; I’m professionally abrasive. ---
**Author:** ![turtledove\_river](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e79b87/32.png) [@turtledove\_river](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turtledove_river)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/113 "2011-04-04T23:04:56Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > I hate ‘’'veggies", but not as much as I hate “yummy”. Especially in the phrase, seemingly used by full-grown women, “Soooo Yummy!” Makes me want to fwoh up. One time I was reading on some childfree blog a list of the advantages of not having children. One of it was that she (the blogger) got to eat “yummy adult food”. I could only think that that made her sound more annoying and immature than any kid she could ever complain about. This is not a childfree rant, btw. I respect everybody’s decision to have or not have kids. Really. Back to hating veggies, please. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/114 "2011-04-04T23:31:05Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > Even worse is the British “veg.” Yeah, just like “fag” for gay men…oh wait I meant cigs :smack: ---
**Author:** ![xoferew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/e9a140/32.png) [@xoferew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xoferew)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/115 "2011-04-05T01:12:17Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > I don’t mind cutesy Britishisms (like “choccie” or “prezzie”) because I’m an Anglophile and I like most things British, even if they’re kind of stupid. 🙂 > > I don’t like: > > - Panties (for the underwear of anybody over the age of about 7) > - Hubby (for that matter, I don’t like “husband” either) > - Preggers (oh, please) > - Baby bump (ditto) > - Cankles (or any of the other oh-so-“cute” terms the hipsters come up with for less-than-perfect body parts, especially on women) > - Coed (it’s just patronizing. The 50s called–they want their term back) > > I don’t mind “veggies,” though. Wait, isn’t “panties” a real word though? From ye olden days? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/116 "2011-04-05T12:52:31Z")
> [@xoferew](#): > > Wait, isn’t “panties” a real word though? From ye olden days? You’re thinking of “females’ naughty crotch-juice absorber”. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/117 "2011-04-05T12:52:32Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > I hate ‘’'veggies", but not as much as I hate “yummy”. Especially in the phrase, seemingly used by full-grown women, “Soooo Yummy!” Makes me want to fwoh up. I’m not alone! ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/118 "2011-04-05T15:00:55Z")
I hated the word veggies, and yet somehow it wormed its way inexorably into my vocabulary. Now I use it all the time. Now after reading this thread I hate myself for not sticking to my principles. ☹ Damn you drastic\_quench you owe me $15,000 for therapy. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/119 "2011-04-05T15:50:49Z")
And it’s an “auris” not an “auricula”, damnit! ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986/120 "2011-04-05T16:40:14Z")
First of all, veggies does not mean vegetables necessarily, in many cases it is meannt to indicate that something is vegetarian, like Veggie burrito, means it has vegetables, and cheese, and tomato and maybe some tofu, Now some folks may even get upset in that case, but I don’t see how saying veggie burrito is childish at all. Secondly, [Young Frankenstein, Yummy Sound](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JUkfA_SaM4) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-word-veggies/576986.md?page=7)