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Meatball is the most lazy named food. amirite?
by Anonymous1 year ago
They tried calling them "beef orbs" but nobody would eat them.
by Anonymous1 year ago
Cow spheres?
by Anonymous1 year ago
Bull balls. Not a meatball!
by Anonymous1 year ago
Those are Prarie oysters
by Anonymous1 year ago
Assume a spherical cow of uniform density in a frictionless vacuum.
by Anonymous1 year ago
assume the cow is a light smooth intensile particle
by Anonymous1 year ago
What is his velocity as he is shot out of a canon ?
by Anonymous1 year ago
"borbs" was an even less popular suggestion, I imagine
by Anonymous1 year ago
Bovine globes
by Anonymous1 year ago
Mooorbs
by Anonymous1 year ago
They do also have another name that I dare not mention for fear of being misunderstood and banned from the internet.
by Anonymous1 year ago
Meatball is named like Australians name their geography - looking at you, Snowy Mountains.
by Anonymous1 year ago
Not to mention the Great Sandy Desert.
by Anonymous1 year ago
or Wet Creek, NSW
by Anonymous1 year ago
Different from Wet Creek, NSFW
by Anonymous1 year ago
"I'm so wet!"
by Anonymous1 year ago
Throwing blue mountains in here
by Anonymous1 year ago
Nah we get pretty creative with our names, look at South Australia on a map.
by Anonymous1 year ago
dont get me started on western australia
by Anonymous1 year ago
Nah mate, the Northern Territories of Australia is where its at
by Anonymous1 year ago
maybe the australian capital territory too
by Anonymous1 year ago
The aptly named "mount Lofty"
by Anonymous1 year ago
Don't forget Blue Lake
by Anonymous1 year ago
Mt. Disappointment my favourite
by Anonymous1 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 Anonymous1 year ago
Flat bread.
by Anonymous1 year ago
Fun fact: The official name of the NASA logo is the Meatball.
by Anonymous1 year ago
*"Animal derived processed protein sustenance sphere."*
I sure feel like some spaghetti and *insert above*.
No lazy in that 😎
by Anonymous1 year ago
What are we having for dinner?
Chops
Did you just hit that meat with an axe?
Aahhhhh
by Anonymous1 year ago
Well, the Dutch word for baguette is stokbrood, which literally translates to stickbread
by Anonymous1 year ago
The Narragansett Indians had a word for a food, 'askutasquash', that was adopted into English as 'squash'..
It means 'eaten raw'.
by Anonymous1 year ago
We have a semi-national dish called dumpling-pork-cabbage. Guess what are the ingredients.
by Anonymous1 year ago
Oysters? I'm bad at guessing.
by Anonymous1 year ago
Horse, spinach and peas?
by Anonymous1 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 Anonymous1 year ago
"Yam". the people who named it literally named it "yum" in their language cause it tasted pretty yummy
by Anonymous1 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 Anonymous1 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 Anonymous1 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 Anonymous1 year ago
In Denmark you can buy "balls" in the frozen section. "Balls in curry" is a popular dish here.
by Anonymous1 year ago
Lazy or accurate? What other food has such specificity in its name?
by Anonymous1 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 Anonymous1 year ago
It's because chicken was the poor man's food.
by Anonymous1 year ago
Lamb is just lamb
by Anonymous1 year ago
Mutton
by Anonymous1 year ago
Fried rice and BLT are pretty lazy too now that you mention it
by Anonymous1 year ago
Should they have more complicated names?
by Anonymous1 year ago
I'll have a cured pork belly, iceberg lettuce and Roma tomato on 2 slices of wholemeal bread please
by Anonymous1 year ago
Not at all. Their names are succinct, but their quality is not defined by the simplicity of what they're called
by Anonymous1 year ago
BLT? Black little things?
by Anonymous1 year ago
I find it completely normal, cuz in my mothertongue, every food is named as such. Just [main ingredient] + [main procedure].
by Anonymous1 year ago
Oh, you still call them meatballs? Everyone I know calls them carnispheres.
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