on my list
I'm really not into the word "veggie." It's right up there with "foodie" and describing desserts as "sinful" on my list of irritating things. Maybe I feel that calling vegetables "veggies" assumes that we're all stubborn children
who must be coaxed into eating them, and I think that's a bad assumption to start from.
Have you noticed that French people speaking English use the word "veggie" almost to the exclusion of "vegetable"? I would really like to know if the standard English textbook for French schoolchildren makes a big deal about this little word.
That is all.
I also hate the word veggies. Maybe we're related. Less than a week ago I heard it used on Survivor and I was annoyed. Really, Probst, really?
Posted by: robin | 12 March 2008 at 04:17 PM
Well, we both do have bird names. Peep peep peep!
Posted by: Robin | 12 March 2008 at 10:42 PM
ugh, yes, what a word. I only hate "sarnie" more. Why would people call sandwiches that?
Spanish people aren´t taught to say "veggies", if that´s any help in your linguistic research.
Posted by: lobstersquad | 13 March 2008 at 05:34 AM
Oh, gracious, "sammie," make it stop! The next step is for every adult in the United States to demand feeding via airplane-fork.
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Eileen (passions to pastry)
Posted by: Eileen | 15 March 2008 at 03:07 PM
Sammi freaks me out. Veggie, idk, I always thought it was a cutesy term to make children eat their vegetables. I really hate when it's used to refer to vegetarians (I've gone veggie!).
Is it the French that are really into shortened little nicknames though? Maybe that's where it comes from?
Posted by: Anastasia | 26 March 2008 at 04:20 PM
Aiii, the word veggie! Three years ago, I took all of five seconds to pick a blog name, having zero understanding of what blogs were, expecting to blog for only a single month and worst -- without realizing that the word veggie had been co-opted by vegetarians/vegans who send the nastiest hatemail when they realize that it's an omnivore site, even if 90% vegetarian and 80% vegan. (It's vegetables, after all ...) Don't even get me started.
Posted by: Alanna | 28 March 2008 at 02:05 PM