+157 Meatball is the most lazy named food. amirite?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

They tried calling them "beef orbs" but nobody would eat them.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Cow spheres?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Bull balls. Not a meatball!

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Those are Prarie oysters

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Assume a spherical cow of uniform density in a frictionless vacuum.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

assume the cow is a light smooth intensile particle

by Anonymous 1 year ago

What is his velocity as he is shot out of a canon ?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

"borbs" was an even less popular suggestion, I imagine

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Bovine globes

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Mooorbs

by Anonymous 1 year ago

They do also have another name that I dare not mention for fear of being misunderstood and banned from the internet.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Meatball is named like Australians name their geography - looking at you, Snowy Mountains.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Not to mention the Great Sandy Desert.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

or Wet Creek, NSW

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Different from Wet Creek, NSFW

by Anonymous 1 year ago

"I'm so wet!"

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Throwing blue mountains in here

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Nah we get pretty creative with our names, look at South Australia on a map.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

dont get me started on western australia

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Nah mate, the Northern Territories of Australia is where its at

by Anonymous 1 year ago

maybe the australian capital territory too

by Anonymous 1 year ago

The aptly named "mount Lofty"

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Don't forget Blue Lake

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Mt. Disappointment my favourite

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I mean...Meat Loaf. Chicken Wing. Fish Stick. Oat Meal. Shredded Wheat. Granola Bar. Mixed Drink. [Insert fruit] Juice... You're not wrong that it's up there, but I think that's just how we name food hehe.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Flat bread.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Fun fact: The official name of the NASA logo is the Meatball.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

*"Animal derived processed protein sustenance sphere."* I sure feel like some spaghetti and *insert above*. No lazy in that 😎

by Anonymous 1 year ago

What are we having for dinner? Chops Did you just hit that meat with an axe? Aahhhhh

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Well, the Dutch word for baguette is stokbrood, which literally translates to stickbread

by Anonymous 1 year ago

The Narragansett Indians had a word for a food, 'askutasquash', that was adopted into English as 'squash'.. It means 'eaten raw'.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

We have a semi-national dish called dumpling-pork-cabbage. Guess what are the ingredients.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Oysters? I'm bad at guessing.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Horse, spinach and peas?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It was named after it's cousin, Meat loaf. The kid showed promise. Seemed well rounded, versatile, and active, than the cousin did. The loaf is uninspired, and pretty much just lays around.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

"Yam". the people who named it literally named it "yum" in their language cause it tasted pretty yummy

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Just going to put it out there... Toast. It's just an adjective that we turned into a noun. You can toast a lot of things, but toast... is just toast.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Pretty much all cultures have lazy ways of naming foods. Examples: *Aloo palak*: potatoes (*aloo*) and spinach (*palak*). *Aloo gobi*: potatoes (*aloo*) and cauliflower (*gobi*) . *Niku jaga:* beef (*niku*) and potatoes (*jagaimo*) cooked together. *Shira ae*: dressed (*ae*) with white stuff (*shiro)*(whatever you like dressed in a white sauce made from tofu, sesame, and miso). *Age dashi tofu:* Tofu deep-fried (*age*) and served in *dashi*. I know this is only two cultures. Other people have also given plenty of other food names in English. I think this is enough to see a pattern.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Still better than Penne (Italian). We have p. today family!! Yeah, I totally understand that in English they rebranded like macaroni (Spanish macarrones).

by Anonymous 1 year ago

In Denmark you can buy "balls" in the frozen section. "Balls in curry" is a popular dish here.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Lazy or accurate? What other food has such specificity in its name?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I don't know, we call cows beef, we call pigs pork, we call deer venison, but we just call chicken chicken. Why don't birds get special names for their meat?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It's because chicken was the poor man's food.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Lamb is just lamb

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Mutton

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Fried rice and BLT are pretty lazy too now that you mention it

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Should they have more complicated names?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I'll have a cured pork belly, iceberg lettuce and Roma tomato on 2 slices of wholemeal bread please

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Not at all. Their names are succinct, but their quality is not defined by the simplicity of what they're called

by Anonymous 1 year ago

BLT? Black little things?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I find it completely normal, cuz in my mothertongue, every food is named as such. Just [main ingredient] + [main procedure].

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Oh, you still call them meatballs? Everyone I know calls them carnispheres.

by Anonymous 1 year ago