Oh. Never mind. I thought you were talking about something else. [sub]D’oh.[/sub]
I already said she over reacted. I most certainly don’t think it requires a mental defect to get a visual image of a deer eye when hearing the phrase buckeye. It doesn’t matter where she lives, only what she has experienced, to influence what a word triggers in her mind’s eye. I most certainly think she behaved in a bad manner right off the bat, but that has nothing to do with nobody here admitting that a person can mentally picture a deer eye and be OK. It ruins some of the vitriol in this thread to admit that.
Hey now don’t go hijackin’ this thread with your “facts.”
As a recovering Ohioan, until this thread I’d never even considered the connection. It’s just a buckeye.
Some agreement.
I’ve heard of “buckeyes” all my life and never mentally thought about the etymology until I opened the linked recipes. When I saw the pictures, I suddenly understood, “myghod, it’s called a buckeye because it looks like the eye of a deer.”
I’ve probably only seen buckeye nuts a couple of times in my life, and the pictures made all things manifest:
Ohio Buckeyes named after the nut.
Buckeye nut named after resemblance to a deer’s eye.
Those things look like eyeball cookies, and I don’t ever want to think about the texture… (damm, I just thought of peanut butter and graham cracker crumbs!)
I’m squicking, and I’ve willingly eaten duck’s feet.
We need to update the listing methodology:
- You are all being too hard on her
- She is appropriately sensitive about the topic
- Lick my hairy nutsack you crazy ass bitch
- She has every right to her feelings
And, as others pointed out, she was not being oversensitive when she said she preferred to not call them “buckeyes,” which really is a gross word for a foodstuff. You, and that other guy who first acted like a jerk in that thread, could both use some time off. You’ve spent so long here that this board is the compass of your world.
AKA: Get a fucking life and you’ll not be so quick to get livid at piddly shit.
“I have a recipe for buckeyes that I’d love to foreward to you.”
“OMG, DON’T SAY BUCKEYES! IT’S GROSS!”
Yeah. Opal is being the level-headed one here.
This smacks of offenderattiism. Are we not allowed to refer to any foodstuff around her which might sound vaguely like it might have once been part of some sort of living being? She didn’t need to be such a snatch in condemning the term “buckeye” like it was a personal insult to her.
Penicillin can probably clear that up 
Yeah, you’ve got a point there. Although they did have prominent pupils, which the buckeye nuts in your link did not.
Is there something that looks like a flattened buckeye nut? I’ve got memories of something about that diameter, burnt umber in color, with a light spot, but flatter and indented.
Not to mention that term “buckeye” is so far removed from something that sounds non-vegetarian that had to be explained *why *it was gross to more than one person.
Perhaps, but there may be something else to it. In my opinion the only thing better than taking a vacation from Ohio is leaving it permanently. OpalCat seems like she may just be over it. The Buckeye State can do that to you.
It’s a name that many people use for the foodstuff. The first guy gave the name of the snack- buckeyes. If she didn’t like his recipe she could use the name to search out other recipes and find one she liked. And, when she typed in the name if she was unhappy she could easily pretend the B is a an F and noone would be the wiser and she would be happy to find many recipes.
I don’t know if I would start a pit thread over it. But, I don’t see how the other guy acted like a jerk at all.
She’s not even going to read this thread, which really comes off as diva-ish. Like she’s so special and so important on the Dope she can’t be arsed to see if anybody here has a legitimate complaint or we’re all just talking out our asses.
Exactly. It’d be like (almost) if she asked for possible baby names, someone suggested “Derek,” and she freaked out because it sounds like Derrick, which came into English after being the name of an especially busy hangman. It’s such a distant connection, I have to wonder why someone would pitch such a fit.
Seriously. If 1,000 people were to see a tray of Buckeyes, ready to eat, 999 would think of the nut, because they really do look like the nut. Only 1 person would hearken back to a buck’s eye. And to then go the extra mile and assume it’s a severed eye of a dead deer, rather than just something that looks like a deer’s eye… My mind boggles at such tortuous logic.
Well…would you read four pages of this? It’s complete bullshit. It’s like arguing over what to call a stupid snack. Who cares?
Opal does, apparently.
Obviously Opal does. She’s the one who raised a stink about it. And as far as I can tell, she’s the ONLY one who cares.
Four pages of this and I want some toad-in-the-hole.
She mentioned she didn’t like the name “buckeye” in a different thread…so what? I hate that we call it “hooking up” when two people make out or sleep together because it’s way too trendy, and I’m a special little flower who’s too cool to use it. Are you going to pit me now?
You may be whooshing me, but yeah, I’d read what people had to say about me.
See, some of us do wnder if some of our behaviors are annoying. I have often wondered if my mentioning I am from India is annoying, and I do watch and see if people complain. I have changed some of my other behaviors because people complain.
Some people adjust their MO. Some people think - oh, I never even realized I was doing that!
Some people think they’re too special.
ETA: It’s not really just about the goddamn buckeye, and you are being disingenous at the very least to say it is. Like others have said, it’s the last straw. She asks questions and then nitpicks every response. It’s annoying and this is only the latest manifestation of her rudeness.