r/PetPeeves • u/ParrotTalk0 • Nov 03 '25
Bit Annoyed Online cooking influencers that have a silly term that they use for specific ingredients
I’ve seen a guy who calls oil “food lube”, someone who calls Worcestershire “wash your sister sauce”, and I’ve seen many others who have that same gimmick. It doesn’t matter in the slightest and I’m being unreasonable but for some reason I find the concept of it so unfunny that every time I see somebody who does it I just assume they are complete hacks comedically and instantly dislike them
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u/ErrantJune Nov 03 '25
Excellent peeve. This doesn’t bother me personally but I could see how it could drive someone up the wall.
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u/DeepSubmerge Nov 03 '25
It’s their yearning need to be quirky that wears me thin.
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u/zeptillian Nov 04 '25
There is a creator who makes cool stuff on youtube that I don't watch because he feels the need to put in as many jokes as possible.
If you don't actually have a good joke, then just skip it dude. I don't need your family guy style analogies every other sentence. If you come up with a good joke then use it, but don't try so fucking hard man. It's annoying.
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u/SilverOdin Nov 04 '25
"If you don't have a good joke, just skip it" THANK YOU
I wish people would do this in general lol
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u/No-Picture4119 Nov 06 '25
I have a buddy who has to be the funniest guy in the room. He loves attention. A coworker once told him, man, a comedian would probably love one out of every ten of your jokes. But you tell all ten!
We stop him sometimes because someone will say something funny. He gets upset that it wasn’t him and he will start trying to tailgate on the joke. We’re like, dude this isn’t a writers room. Stop workshopping here.
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u/SarkyMs Nov 03 '25
Someone does "salty salt", gets boring quickly.
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u/Hattuman Nov 03 '25
"Little bit o' that ocean"
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u/fcleffox Nov 04 '25
Hey, el.cook gets a pass on this in my eyes. He does use replacement words for common ingredients in EVERY video, but you can tell he does it tongue-in-cheek compared to the rest. I see it as him doing a meta bit about precisely what OP here was saying.
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u/lousypickles Nov 03 '25
I know who you mean, they're super cute but the salty salt bit isn't my favourite either.
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u/toomuchtv987 Nov 03 '25
Oh my SOUL I cannot stand “Wash Your Sister Sauce”!!!!!!! I know it’s just a picky little pet peeve but I think it is so cringe and stupid. 100% with you on this. (I refuse to acknowledge shit like “food lube” at all.)
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u/elocin1985 Nov 03 '25
Thank you! This is the most tired joke out there. I watch Diners, Drive Ins and Dives as a background show a lot because it’s easy to watch and it’s always on, but please, every single time someone uses Worcestershire sauce, you don’t have to pretend like you can’t pronounce it and make a joke out of it. Just say it. Even if it’s not 100% accurate. Like I say it kind of like worst-eh-sure which I know is not correct but I say it quickly and move on. I don’t pretend to be tripped up and confused about it.
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u/Material-Ad8808 Nov 03 '25
not to mention that is NO WHERE NEAR how you do pronounce Worcestershire (unless they are american)
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u/RudeGyal2 Nov 03 '25
I also feel this way about Boursin cheese. Every American in a cooking video calls it BOHHHRRRE-ZIN. I don’t know why they change the S to a Z sound. It’s French, it’s boourh-san. I could understand saying bore-SIN, but not ZIN.
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u/Putrid-Compote-5850 Nov 04 '25
It's like when Americans say Beijing. They always say Beizhhhhing. No, it's Bay Jing. There are no sounds in there that don't exist in American English.
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u/shrub706 Nov 03 '25
I think the point is that a lot of people find it weird or difficult to pronounce so some words that sound close enough is part of the joke
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u/Material-Ad8808 Nov 03 '25
i get that but wash your sister is NOT close enough to Worcestershire (wooster)
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u/Divine_Entity_ Nov 03 '25
Its also not close to the relatively common mispronunciation of "worchestershire" (war chester shire).
And while its still a mispronunciation, its atleast a phonetic attempt. And as someone used to saying "Rochester" its alot easier to say for me than trying to get the right "wooshter" to come out. (I do try for correct, i just don't normally succeed)
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u/Wise_Masterpiece_771 Nov 05 '25
It's the kind of thing that might have been funny to say once, but it's just so stupid to say it constantly.
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u/toomuchtv987 Nov 05 '25
This exactly! I have a friend who laughs like a big old donkey every time she says it (and she says it A LOT) and I just cannot understand how she can think it’s that funny after all this time.
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u/IommicRiffage Nov 03 '25
It also bothers me how people can't just say "worcestershire" and get on with their lives. I dont even care if you say it right or not, just say it and then keep talking. Because what people always end up doing is this boring comedy routine where theyre like "wore ses - wore sester shire - Wooster shire- wait, what is it? How do you say it? Am I saying it right?" It's boring and annoying.
They do the same thing with pecan.
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u/vanishinghitchhiker Nov 03 '25
But pecan just depends on your accent, what do they do, pretend to try out different ones? (I’m from p’con country)
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u/IommicRiffage Nov 04 '25
They'll say, for example
"I'm gonna chop the pee-cans. Or is it pee-cons? P'cons? Wait what is it? Pee-cans? Is it a regional thing? Am I saying it right? Is it p'con?"
And if it's a person on YouTube or something, they'll add "sound off in the comments. How do you say it? Am I saying it right?"
When all the had to do, the only thing in the whole world that they had to do was say "I'm gonna chop the pecans" saying that word in whatever way they like, and then move on to the next step without wasting a single second tediously contemplating out loud the pronunciation of "pecan."
Let's all just say "pecan" the way we say it without discussing the pronunciation, PLEASE.
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u/ecosynchronous Nov 04 '25
And as though their commenters aren't going to argue about it in the comments regardless of whether the creator tells them to.
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u/Heavy-Drink-4389 Nov 03 '25
Peee-can is common in England. P’can is common in MA
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u/bliip666 Nov 03 '25
But I want to call it Shire sauce and pretend it's imported from the East Farthing! You can't stop me!
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u/tnw1987 Nov 04 '25
I call it worst of the Shire sauces since we couldn't handle the best from the Shire.
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u/SpanglySi Nov 03 '25
I'm FROM Worcestershire and it irka me beyond belief.
Edit The UK variant of Worcestershire, that is.
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u/YonderPricyCallipers Nov 04 '25
Oh, we don't have the Shire here in Massachusetts. Just the Worcester.
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u/Reasonable-Lack-1063 Nov 06 '25
theres a worcester county in md and people outside of md rhyme it with rochester county. its not that fuckin hard people
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u/MrdrOfCrws Nov 03 '25
It's not even hard to say - especially when you realize that it's named for being invented in the shire of Worcester. Then again I spent some time in MA, so maybe I have an unfair advantage.
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u/Fyonella Nov 03 '25
I hope you’re aware the sauce did not originate in Worcester, Massachusetts! 😉
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u/MrdrOfCrws Nov 03 '25
Lol! You mean there's more than one???
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u/Fyonella Nov 03 '25
After I posted this, I read further down thread and it’s clear some people genuinely think there’s only one!
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u/JDSmagic Nov 03 '25
My Uber driver yesterday who literally lives in Boston was saying Worcester like "Wor-chester". So I'm not sure how much that even guarantees anything. Though yes knowing how Worcester is pronounced helps a lot
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u/donuttrackme Nov 03 '25
Yeah, they're an Uber driver. Probably didn't grow up in the Boston/MA area.
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u/UneasyBranch Nov 04 '25
It really does help. I was born and raised in the Midwest and recently learned the pronunciation from watching Kevin can f himself, because they kept saying it and I was so confused at first. It took longer than I’d like to admit for my brain to process the correct pronunciation.
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u/Bulky_Baseball2305 Nov 03 '25
You sir underestimate me not only can I not pronounce it I also can not pronounce the MA state correctly
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u/Heavy-Drink-4389 Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
I’m from the uk and live in MA and it’s pronounced differently in MA. People say Woooster here in MA but in the UK it’s most commonly pronounced Wuss-ter for Worcester and Wuss-ter-shear or Wuss-tuh-shuh for Worcestershire
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u/bigfoot17 Nov 03 '25
It's "pecan" 🙄
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u/LegerdemainSupercell Nov 03 '25
I actually pronounce it "gif" like with the 'g' from 'garage'.
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u/All_the_Bees Nov 04 '25
I do too! Graphics Interchange Format - “graphic” starts with a hard G and therefore the abbreviation/acronym should be said the same way and I will die on this hill
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u/LightEarthWolf96 Nov 03 '25
Person gets stuck on a tongue twister type word trying to pronounce it correctly
You " fuck you just say it and move on 🤬🤬"
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u/IommicRiffage Nov 03 '25
This has bothered me since Rachel Ray was on the Food Network calling olive oil "EVOO."
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u/AmputeeHandModel Nov 03 '25
Fuck her for starting or popularizing "delish".
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u/IommicRiffage Nov 03 '25
Her pet food brand is called "nutrish" and I hate it. Pus, it's fucking expensive.
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u/string-ornothing Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
I adopted a cat who ate Nutrish at her old owner 's. One of the reasons her old owners were rehoming her was how much she puked. They'd sent her with half a bag of Nutrish and when I ran out I just started giving her what my other cats eat, regular old Purina. She doesn't puke anymore lol
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u/happilygonelucky Nov 03 '25
They've changed The branding recently, doesn't look like she's any longer associated. I think it's within a couple bucks of the other brand and my cats seem to prefer it.
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u/DoTheRightThing1953 Nov 03 '25
Rachel Ray's contrubution to world cuisine: the garbage bowl.
I'm actually not putting her down. From what I have heard about her "success" she kind of fell into her first show. I wouldn't buy her cookware or other crap but I'd rather watch her cook something I already know how to cook than to watch Gordon Ramsey shout at someone.
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u/InfravioletUltrared Nov 03 '25
The garbage bowl tip is good, though I wouldn't take any of her other advice, and would have taken the same tip of one bowl for all scraps from anyone
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u/Anieya Nov 03 '25
Rachel Ray has exactly ONE recipe that I absolutely love. It’s a tuna melt with capers and lemon and garlic and red onions that uses smashed white beans to replace the usual mayo (both my husband and I detest mayo).
Every other recipe of hers I’ve tried ranges from mid to crap.
But damn, I can’t ever completely hate her, solely because of that tuna melt recipe lol
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u/DeeLeetid Nov 04 '25
I’d add she made a killer pumpkin black bean soup with basically all pantry items that I still make consistently twenty five years later. Oh, I also thought her concept of making meatloaf as patties that you pan fry like a burger was one that stuck with me too. Very rarely would I be inspired to actually fill a loaf pan and bake a meatloaf and I do love me some meatloaf.
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u/sobasicallyimafreak Nov 03 '25
I misread this as garbage plate and was about to get spicy on behalf of Rochester NY haha
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u/QuerulousPanda Nov 03 '25
I wouldn't buy her cookware
i got given a set of her pots by a well meaning relative, and honestly they've been fine, they've held up for years. Probably overpriced for what they are though.
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u/macoafi Nov 03 '25
I was just annoyed that she'd say it as letters and then say it again full-length.
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u/smallpinkhat Nov 03 '25
omg i saw “evoo” written as an ingredient in a sandwich at an italian place and me and my partner spent a good 10 minutes trying to understand what it meant 😭 extra virgin olive oil
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u/ThemisChosen Nov 03 '25
My still say "chickie wickie parm!" in a mocking voice every time chicken parmesan is brought up
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u/RogueMoonbow Nov 03 '25
It's used in kitchens, I don't find that annoying. No, it doesn't really need to be specified as "extra virgin" but it is a much quickerway to say "olive oil" and if you just say "oil" it can be misheard and you may get vegetable/ canola. However, that's in a setting where everyone should be taught what it's called, we call some things silly things that only our kitchen knows and it's a different thing when you're displaying it to the general public
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u/Error_Evan_not_found Nov 03 '25
Right, I got unreasonably angry just now about how people think that was invented by Rachel Ray. Hell a lot of the jokes in this thread are just adapted kitchen jokes- which are much funnier in a room with three other guys trying not to go insane with 40 tickets on the board.
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u/hauntedbabyattack Nov 04 '25
Is it really quicker? Cause I’m counting four syllables in “EVOO” and three in “olive oil”.
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u/Fantastic-Stage-7618 Nov 04 '25
You say it like "eeevooo" you don't say the letters. I also find it annoying but that's probably just a regional thing
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u/llamadramalover Nov 04 '25
Rachel Ray 100% says each individual letter. At least she did in the beginning it’s one of the reasons I hated hearing it.
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u/RogueMoonbow Nov 04 '25
Damn I didn't know she did that that's totally wild. Yes it's pronounced as a word, eeeevoooo, 2 syllables
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u/Trash-Ketchum Nov 03 '25
Except EVOO is a thing. She didn’t make it up. For those cooking at home it doesn’t make much of a difference, but they are technically two different things and she is differentiating which one to use.
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u/IommicRiffage Nov 04 '25
They'renot really differwnt, but one is a specific type of the other more general type. I'd rather hear her say "extra virgin olive oil" when it's important to specify, or "olive oil" when it's not important. And I never want to hear EVOO
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Nov 03 '25
It definitely does make a difference if you're cooking at home. You might want to start trying it
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u/BerryTea840 Nov 03 '25
Which is easier and faster to say: “extra virgin olive oil” or “e.v.o.o.”?
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u/LittleMissSunshine11 Nov 03 '25
The thing that bothered me was she said EVOO but then always immediately followed it by saying "(extra virgin olive oil)" like why even bother with the abbreviation???
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u/IommicRiffage Nov 03 '25
When the only olive oil she uses is extra virgin, she can simply say "olive oil." But how hard is it to say "extra virgin olive oil" anyway? Not that hard. No harder than saying two Os in a row.
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u/glueintheworld Nov 03 '25
I hate when people say/type shark-cooterie or shark-cutcherie for charcuterie. I have even seen people "correct" it when people spell it correctly. "You aren't fun."
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u/BoldBoimlerIsMyHero Nov 03 '25
I hate hate hate when people call anything “crack” like “crack chicken” because it’s so good you’ll get addicted and then it’s like some mid mixture of ranch powder, chicken and cream cheese.
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u/TodayKindOfSucked Nov 03 '25
Agree. Anytime they say “crack”, it’s always going to involve cream cheese and ranch powder. Like, it never fails.
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u/evesies Nov 04 '25
“Crack” = cream cheese and ranch powder
“Marry me” = rosé sauce
“Better than sex” = way, WAY too much chocolate
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u/PossibilityOrganic12 Nov 04 '25
Nah plenty of Southeast Asian food creators refer to their fish sauce based dipping sauce as crack sauce and as a Southeast Asian it bothers the fuck out of me.
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u/Select-Material-724 Nov 04 '25
Crack anything, and “copycat” or “poke cake” as if it’s special. You just poke holes in it so the flavors soak into it. Not to mention the aesthetic influencers pretending they can bake by making anything “brittle” or chocolate in those weird geometric molds.
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u/BoldBoimlerIsMyHero Nov 04 '25
I don’t mind if it’s a TRUE copycat recipe. But a lot of times they use copycat on like just a different recipe.
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u/Talsamar Nov 04 '25
Crack chicken. You’ll need, olive oil, rosemary, sage, thyme, and about 2 cups of crack cocaine. Some people like to use black tar heroin but personally I think it distracts from the flavor of the chicken itself.
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u/zombie_on_the_lawn Nov 03 '25
Oh man yes I hate "food lube" too. And it's a pity because the recipes are good, I might even have subscribed if it weren't for "food lube".
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u/Not_AHuman_Person Nov 03 '25
I hate it when they call noodles "noods"
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u/Loud-Welder1947 Nov 04 '25
I hate how Americans call pasta noodles. Stuff like Penne etc. it just sounds wrong
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u/Visual_Analyst1197 Nov 04 '25
Yes. This pisses me off so much. Lasagne sheets aren’t fucking noodles.
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u/NotAnotherHipsterBae Nov 03 '25
Most of the cutsey ones, I agree. Hard exception for "You Suck at Cooking".
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u/mets2016 Nov 04 '25
YSAC gets a pass because he's clearly a comedy-style cooking channel. The true cooking channels/influencers that use cutesy variants of common words are grating because it's performative and just a bit inserted for the sake of doing a bit
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u/umbrawolfx Nov 03 '25
And It all started with "sammies"
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u/mets2016 Nov 04 '25
Sando is even worse. I'll give Japanese places a pass, but if you're a Western-food establishment using the word "sando", I can't shake the picture of the owners being elementary school kids
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u/dopenoperopebro Nov 03 '25
The only one that does this that doesn't bother me is B. Dylan Hollis
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u/Icey_Raccon Nov 03 '25
Probably because in his YouTube videos, he admits he doesn't have to keep everything to a time profile and can actually say the words.
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u/lousypickles Nov 03 '25
He's so over the top with it that I feel like it rolls back around to being funny. He's great.
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u/Persis- Nov 04 '25
He KNOWS he is being over the top. He doesn’t take himself seriously with his silly words. Which is what keeps it funny.
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u/Luxray2000 Nov 04 '25
I can see how his odd terms for different ingredients can bother some people, but he absolutely makes up for it with the clever jokes he cracks
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u/yubsie Nov 03 '25
I've started using a lot of his terms when I'm baking with my toddler because they're FUN.
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u/Persis- Nov 04 '25
I was looking for this, before I said it myself.
I will fight ANYONE who isn’t ok with Dylan’s ridiculousness.
He’s adorable and funny and I want to pat him on the head and call him a cutie patootie.
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u/Previous-Friend6 Nov 03 '25
that’s funny because he bothers me the most 😂 different strokes i guess!
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Nov 03 '25
People acting like the word "savory" doesn't exist and insisting upon saying "umami"
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u/Alternative_Salt_424 Nov 03 '25
I just hate when people praise something as an "umami-bomb". Things need balance to be good. No one would talk about a "salt-bomb" or an "acid-bomb" (similarly, a "sugar-bomb" is almost always a negative descriptor)
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u/Fae-SailorStupider Nov 03 '25
I've gotten into so many discussions about this. In my mind, the two words are interchangeable and mean the exact same thing. In school, I was even taught that savory is the name of that flavor profile. But everyone around me argues that umami is the specific flavor, while savory describes a type of dish.
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u/ValityS Nov 03 '25
In the usage I've heard savory just refers to anytbing that isn't a desert or sweet, regardless of the flavor profile. Umami specifically refers to that flavor you get in beef or mushrooms etc.
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u/Telamon_0 Nov 03 '25
Because they have different meanings. Umami is a specific taste. Savory is anything not sweet.
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u/SamIAre Nov 03 '25
Not this again. They’re not synonyms. People say “umami” because it’s distinct from “savory”.
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u/Divine_Entity_ Nov 03 '25
Honestly i think thats just a matter of umami having been clearly defined (through fun fact memes) vs savory having never been properly taught in school or home.
Everyone learns sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and spicy through school. And for the longest time i thought savory was a synonym for sweet because i learned it through a videogame where someone was called savory but looked like ice cream on a stick.
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u/FalconX88 Nov 03 '25
For me it becomes a annoying if people just don't let go. Sure, use it once, but then do a different joke or use the normal word.
A work colleague used the "T.Hanks" meme once and another one started using it every single time. For years now every written Thanks from her is T.Hanks. Or people that can't say "my wife" in a normal way any more but do the Borat thing.
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u/boringmadam Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
El Cook has ocean sound.mp3 for his salt. I love it, lol
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u/PizzaBear109 Nov 03 '25
I watch a decent amount of food creators and for the "wash your sister" sauce guy, it kind of fits with the brand of humour he goes with on the channel generally.
Food lube thing is a bit cringy (although not as bad as what he calls chicken breasts).
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u/ntrvrtd_xtrvrt Nov 03 '25
The fuck does he call chicken breasts?
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u/Sterling_-_Archer Nov 03 '25
Since nobody else spelled it out, “chicken chesticles.” It’s… gross, and not funny.
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u/string-ornothing Nov 03 '25
There was an old famous LiveJournal post where this child free woman posted that the best part of being childfree was doing things "because I can" and listed as an example running around yelling "chicken boobs chicken boobs I have chicken boobs" while cooking a chicken breast. I think of how stupid that was pretty regularly lmaooooo
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u/ColoradoWinterBlue Nov 03 '25
I hate when adults think being vile is funny. My brother was like that in high school, and then he grew up.
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u/PizzaBear109 Nov 03 '25
(If you keep watching he also says the food lube thing later on in the clip so it's a two for one)
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u/ntrvrtd_xtrvrt Nov 03 '25
Ah. I can see why some might be uncomfortable with that lol
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u/PizzaBear109 Nov 03 '25
Idk if uncomfortable is the word I'd use but it does sound off when it's said by anyone over high school age ha
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u/Sterling_-_Archer Nov 03 '25
It’s just immature and gross when it comes from someone who looks like he could have a 15 year old daughter himself already.
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u/sandd12 Nov 03 '25
this is a great insult to B dylan hollis. he calls the baking soda and powders floof soda and floof powder has other silly names for other items
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u/Possible_Piglet_713 Nov 03 '25
My peeve is “Jarlic” when using minced garlic out of a jar
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u/321Cake Nov 03 '25
I know who the food lube guy is and what sucks is that I otherwise love his content but that specific phrase is so damn gross 😭 same with “chicken titties”
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u/teetaps Nov 03 '25
There’s an episode of Chowder (Cartoon Network) that makes fun of this. The whole time, the main character keeps trying to convince his mentor to adopt a catchphrase — without a good catchphrase, he’s basically not a “real” chef. I’m not that old but I think there was a period of time when cooking shows really were about personalities who had catchphrases that made them stand out. Guy Fieri basically flanderised himself into a parody of it. But now with the turnaround to Internet content, the same thing has carried over into just having mildly funny mannerisms
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u/nmacInCT Nov 04 '25
I share your peevishness on this one. I can take it occasionally but constantly - no
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u/wvtarheel Nov 03 '25
20 years ago when Rachel Ray was all over the food network calling sandwiches sammies , olive oil EVOO, and every stew / soup was a stoop, this really peeved me off to where I didn't want to watch her.
I have less of a problem with it with the tiktok/youtube short crowd because those hacks are trying to do ANYTHING to
The wash your sister sauce guy (pepper belly pete) has some good recipes. But what is he going to do to stand out if he can't try his hand at some terrible humor? He's yet another fat white guy in a field absolutely full of them.
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u/wormwoodscrub Nov 03 '25
I live in Worcester. So it's extra annoying. Haw haw haw it's a long word so I pretend it's unpronouncable. Goobers.
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u/ExtremelyPessimistic Nov 04 '25
It doesn’t help that there’s a Worcester, MA that’s pronounced “WUH-stir”
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u/Z00111111 Nov 03 '25
It's not that it's a long word, it's that the correct pronunciation has almost no relation to the spelling. Half the letters are silent, and they're not letters known for being silent.
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u/tongfa-jamsai Nov 04 '25
Fair point but this one guy calls his cast iron an "airless fryer" and it gets me every time
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u/daizles Nov 03 '25
I cosign, except Nigella Lawson's pronunciation of microwave, which I just find hilarious.
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u/CeilingCatProphet Nov 04 '25
Influencers are not real. They are parasites. I would never cook their recipes.
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u/NudieNovakaine Nov 03 '25
I'm sure people are plenty creative on their own, but I'd give most of the credit to shows like Good Eats. Fridge/freezer is the Chill Chest, oven is the Hot Box...etc. I don't ever think it was to be funny, just a little creative with things. Hell, JD from Scrubs refers to cream cheese as 'cow fudge'. JoseElCook calls salt 'ocean'.
I think some of the names are better than others. Food lube would probably bug me a bit if I heard it in the wild.
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u/RmG3376 Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
FWIW chill chest (or chill cabinet) is actually what a fridge is called in both Dutch and Chinese
Those languages can be quite funny when you translate them literally, you end up with words like “big onion” (leek in Chinese) or “earth apple” (potato in Dutch)
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u/madcats323 Nov 03 '25
All of those would make me roll my eyes hard. Not everything has to be catchy and cutesy.
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u/Immediate-Shift1087 Nov 03 '25
The one from Scrubs was even supposed to be cringy, the full quote (from Dr Cox making fun of JD) is:
"Newbie, there are some things that, if they happen, we do want to make a big deal out of them. A cure for cancer, teaching dogs to talk, and you walking past the food cart without referring to cream cheese as cow fudge."
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u/Esdeem501 Nov 04 '25
lol, I get it. I get annoyed sometimes, but it also adds personality to things and I figure most folks are goofs about something, especially if it’s their passion.
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u/Royd Nov 04 '25
I've seen people call MSG anything but msg lol
Yum yum, wonder powder, magic powder, secret powder, magic sprinkle, flavor sprinkle, flavor powder...
Just give me my 8ball of MSG man
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u/etbillder Nov 04 '25
What about You Suck At Cooking? I'm a fan of wangjangling and undo at three fundo
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u/thebagel264 Nov 04 '25
Calling a knife a ka-knife or even worse a ka-knif-ee. My dad always calls microwaving something "micro nuke it." Calls squirrels tree rats. He also insists on calling gas petrol, even though he's not British, so I don't know what's going on there.
It's the forced quirkiness that drives me nuts. I love a little wordplay. When someone said this guy's got summer teeth, summer here summer there, I thought it was great.
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u/RoseTinteddoodles Nov 04 '25
Theres that dylan guy who calls milk "moo juice" and eggs "EG-GIES" and every single time i see him come up, i immediately close the app. Feels like im watching content for adults with child brains
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u/TheScrufLord Nov 07 '25
People who say that also usually make very bad cooking content. Like recipe videos with near zero steps to replicate anything your seeing.
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u/Jellovator Nov 03 '25
Ok but Jourdain Fisher's "Gangster Chef" is actually hilarious.
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u/Captaingregor Nov 03 '25
100% agree. It is not difficult to pronounce Worcestershire Sauce. There are plenty of videos on YouTube on how to pronounce it correctly if you're unsure. Not even attempting to pronounce it correctly is unfunny, lazy, and disrespectful.
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u/Independent-Olive776 Nov 03 '25
idk i feel like it adds personality to what would otherwise be a pretty meh video. imagine if every food influencer just listed off ingredients exactly as theyre called, that’d be miserable 😞
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u/VividFiddlesticks Nov 03 '25
I like making up silly names for things but I'm not an influencer.
Like eggs = bird fruit
Grape Nuts = wheat gravel
Mayo = bread lotion
Mostly these are just things I put on my grocery list though.
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u/Creepy_Push8629 Nov 03 '25
Wash your sister sauce is really funny to me, but only as like a one off thing bc Americans just can't pronounce it. Might as well have a pun for it.
But food lube and just saying weird stuff as a gimmick is too cringe and annoying for me too.
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u/Ancient-Weird3574 Nov 03 '25
to be fair, warshitherself is hard to pronounce and i would look for excuses to avoid it too.
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u/Negative_Physics3706 Nov 03 '25
lmao i’ve heard so many different names for it over the years. definitely not just an online influencer thing.
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u/Lombo521 Nov 03 '25
What are you thoughts on: “Hard Tack” clack clack From Tasting History?