Fuzzy memory.
Yeah, that’s about the era when I first was exposed to it. College, mid-90s, but it goes back to 1968 as “student slang” according to Etymonline.I’m not entirely sure I’ve ever heard anyone say it unironically, though. I don’t think it’s meant to be “cool”, just silly. But perhaps I’m being generous in my assessment of people who use it.
I dislike both veggies & veg.
I find, “Eat your vegetables!”, to be just as annoying, but we all have our buttons. LOL
Never heard of CLOP but it’s the breakfast of bachelors.
You mean as words or to eat? I detest celery, for example.
But that’s a segue into a different topic. 
Not sure about breakfast? More like an attack of the munchies in the small hours when the beer has started to wear off…
Language, Timothy.
I was going to mention this song and ask if OP wanted us to call them “tables”.
My son (the sweet summer child!) calls Brian Wilson’s pronunciation of Vegetables “the most tortured set of syllables ever”.
Poor kid hasnt heard some really fun Bob Dulan lyrics oe Mountain Goats.
In the past year I’ve heard two objections to this. When someone describes something as “easy peasy lemon squeezy,” you may look shocked and say:
- “No! Stressed, depressed, lemon zest!”
or - “No! Difficult, difficult! Lemon difficult!”
I’m not sure which response I prefer.
I also cringe at “veggies.” It sounds like talking to a toddler, or a pet.
Surely that should be “No! Difficult, pifficult, lemon squifficult!”
Are you saying your memory is fuzzy or mine? Can you show some examples of someone saying “veejay” or “veejayjay”? I’ve never heard it with the “vee” sound.
Mine. I try not to pick fights here.
You totally win the thread. I bow to your superior … whatever the hell it is you have. 
Nah. Folks were talking about 'za in the earky 80s at college - seems more like a preppie thing - “I had 'za with the 'rents”
Oops - someone beat me to both of these
Toot-Toot is forgiven because he’s Toot-Toot.
Nobody else is allowed to say it.
Before I heard it spoken, I read vegan as vay’gun.
there used to be an Italian produce guy on news used to say it like that