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Meatball is the most lazy named food. amirite?
by Anonymous2 years ago
They tried calling them "beef orbs" but nobody would eat them.
by Anonymous2 years ago
Cow spheres?
by Anonymous2 years ago
Bull balls. Not a meatball!
by Anonymous2 years ago
Those are Prarie oysters
by Anonymous2 years ago
Assume a spherical cow of uniform density in a frictionless vacuum.
by Anonymous2 years ago
assume the cow is a light smooth intensile particle
by Anonymous2 years ago
What is his velocity as he is shot out of a canon ?
by Anonymous2 years ago
"borbs" was an even less popular suggestion, I imagine
by Anonymous2 years ago
Bovine globes
by Anonymous2 years ago
Mooorbs
by Anonymous2 years ago
They do also have another name that I dare not mention for fear of being misunderstood and banned from the internet.
by Anonymous2 years ago
Meatball is named like Australians name their geography - looking at you, Snowy Mountains.
by Anonymous2 years ago
Not to mention the Great Sandy Desert.
by Anonymous2 years ago
or Wet Creek, NSW
by Anonymous2 years ago
Different from Wet Creek, NSFW
by Anonymous2 years ago
"I'm so wet!"
by Anonymous2 years ago
Throwing blue mountains in here
by Anonymous2 years ago
Nah we get pretty creative with our names, look at South Australia on a map.
by Anonymous2 years ago
dont get me started on western australia
by Anonymous2 years ago
Nah mate, the Northern Territories of Australia is where its at
by Anonymous2 years ago
maybe the australian capital territory too
by Anonymous2 years ago
The aptly named "mount Lofty"
by Anonymous2 years ago
Don't forget Blue Lake
by Anonymous2 years ago
Mt. Disappointment my favourite
by Anonymous2 years 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 Anonymous2 years ago
Flat bread.
by Anonymous2 years ago
Fun fact: The official name of the NASA logo is the Meatball.
by Anonymous2 years ago
*"Animal derived processed protein sustenance sphere."*
I sure feel like some spaghetti and *insert above*.
No lazy in that 😎
by Anonymous2 years ago
What are we having for dinner?
Chops
Did you just hit that meat with an axe?
Aahhhhh
by Anonymous2 years ago
Well, the Dutch word for baguette is stokbrood, which literally translates to stickbread
by Anonymous2 years ago
The Narragansett Indians had a word for a food, 'askutasquash', that was adopted into English as 'squash'..
It means 'eaten raw'.
by Anonymous2 years ago
We have a semi-national dish called dumpling-pork-cabbage. Guess what are the ingredients.
by Anonymous2 years ago
Oysters? I'm bad at guessing.
by Anonymous2 years ago
Horse, spinach and peas?
by Anonymous2 years 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 Anonymous2 years ago
"Yam". the people who named it literally named it "yum" in their language cause it tasted pretty yummy
by Anonymous2 years 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 Anonymous2 years 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 Anonymous2 years 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 Anonymous2 years ago
In Denmark you can buy "balls" in the frozen section. "Balls in curry" is a popular dish here.
by Anonymous2 years ago
Lazy or accurate? What other food has such specificity in its name?
by Anonymous2 years 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 Anonymous2 years ago
It's because chicken was the poor man's food.
by Anonymous2 years ago
Lamb is just lamb
by Anonymous2 years ago
Mutton
by Anonymous2 years ago
Fried rice and BLT are pretty lazy too now that you mention it
by Anonymous2 years ago
Should they have more complicated names?
by Anonymous2 years ago
I'll have a cured pork belly, iceberg lettuce and Roma tomato on 2 slices of wholemeal bread please
by Anonymous2 years ago
Not at all. Their names are succinct, but their quality is not defined by the simplicity of what they're called
by Anonymous2 years ago
BLT? Black little things?
by Anonymous2 years ago
I find it completely normal, cuz in my mothertongue, every food is named as such. Just [main ingredient] + [main procedure].
by Anonymous2 years ago
Oh, you still call them meatballs? Everyone I know calls them carnispheres.
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