# Is anyone else annoyed by the word "veggies"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 6, 2023, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796 "2023-03-06T18:44:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/221 "2023-03-20T13:35:03Z")
Is UK usage perhaps more blunt? Wouldn’t surprise me. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/222 "2023-03-20T13:40:28Z")
It could be that, we aren’t really a religious lot either so that could skew the word usage that I come into contact with. Of course I’d never criticise anyone for their choices in such circumstances but it gives me an inward twitch nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/223 "2023-03-23T20:32:21Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > So a _katsu sando_ is a pork cutlet (_tonkatsu_, shortened) sandwich (_sandouichi_, also shortened). Likewise, konbi or konbini for convenience store and wapo for word processor. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2023, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/224 "2023-03-26T04:28:22Z")
Young adults these days regularly use “nuggies” and it bothers me. It’s probably a me problem but the cutesy juvenile speak by adults is annoying. That plus the fact that this generation is the generation of adults eating food that could be called “nuggies” when that was previously a domain of very young children. Older kids and young adults usually graduated to tenders or fingers if they still needed to be childlike. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2023, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/225 "2023-03-26T11:35:39Z")
I hate to attract cat-calls of “OK, Boomer”, but ISTM that a lot of even 30-somethings these days not only suck at what they call “adulting”, but they actively revel in avoiding it and failing at it. It’s a form of learned (and heavily practiced) helplessness. When I was 15, 25, or 35 the thing I wanted most was to be capable at everything, not helpless at anything. To be sure, I was not nearly as capable as I fancied myself to be, and the younger I was the more that was true. But at least I was trying to get better, not stay worse. And don’t get me started on kiddies num-numming their nuggies on my lawnie :snarl: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2023, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/226 "2023-03-26T11:58:32Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > And don’t get me started on kiddies num-numming their nuggies on my lawnie :snarl: 😉 Be careful. You may have to give them a ride back to their homie, since they refused to learn how to drive-ie. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2023, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/227 "2023-03-26T12:02:39Z")
They can bloody well walkie walkie. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2023, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/228 "2023-03-26T12:05:49Z")
OK, Boomer. (_d & r off lawn_) ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2023, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/229 "2023-03-26T12:48:26Z")
In my twenties serving a veggie tray was _du rigueur_ though we sophisticates called them crud-ites with artichoke dip. 🤣 I recently saw a meme that todays young adults find **charcuterie** boards all the rage because they grew up with **lunchables**. Eat your veggies and meaties kiddos or it will get fed to your fur babies. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2023, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/230 "2023-03-26T14:46:08Z")
> [@chela](#): > > I recently saw a meme that todays young adults find **charcuterie** boards all the rage because they grew up with **lunchables**. That’s an interesting connection. Charcuterie boards around here started becoming popular maybe 15 years ago, mostly at brew pubs, straddling a Boomer, Gen X and early Millennial audience. I think they’re fantastic, because I essentially grew up with something like that from a Eastern European background, where you’d get a bunch of cold cuts, sausages, cheeses and slices of rye bread to nom on in between drinks, and it’s much lighter than the heavy deep-fried apps that are typical beer food. At any rate, I don’t think in that first wave most of grew up on lunchables. Maybe more recent interest has some connection with that. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2023, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/231 "2023-03-26T17:50:57Z")
And now there’s also the grazing board which veers to a custom goody tray arranged artfully on a board. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/232 "2023-03-26T19:04:58Z")
Ok, that one I had to look up, but how is that much different than the spreads you might see at weddings, with cheeses, meats, chips, fruits, dips, and the such? I suppose it’s possible I just live in a place that is oh-so-ahead-of-the-times (doubt it), but this is something I’ve seen for the last twenty years, at least, though with a different name. I suppose maybe it’s the presentation? ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Krupe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Leo\_Krupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Krupe)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/233 "2023-03-26T19:23:06Z")
My daughter used to tell me that “growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional”. I put that thought out of her head pretty quickly. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2023, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/234 "2023-03-26T19:33:52Z")
I would not go quite that far. I’m 64 and trying my damnedest to stay ~35. Trying to stay 12 though is for the birds. Kind of depends on what one considers “grown up”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796.md?page=11)