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

by Anonymous 2 years ago

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

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Cow spheres?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Bull balls. Not a meatball!

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Those are Prarie oysters

by Anonymous 2 years ago

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

by Anonymous 2 years ago

assume the cow is a light smooth intensile particle

by Anonymous 2 years ago

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

by Anonymous 2 years ago

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

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Bovine globes

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Mooorbs

by Anonymous 2 years ago

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

by Anonymous 2 years ago

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

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Not to mention the Great Sandy Desert.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

or Wet Creek, NSW

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Different from Wet Creek, NSFW

by Anonymous 2 years ago

"I'm so wet!"

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Throwing blue mountains in here

by Anonymous 2 years ago

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

by Anonymous 2 years ago

dont get me started on western australia

by Anonymous 2 years ago

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

by Anonymous 2 years ago

maybe the australian capital territory too

by Anonymous 2 years ago

The aptly named "mount Lofty"

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Don't forget Blue Lake

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Mt. Disappointment my favourite

by Anonymous 2 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 Anonymous 2 years ago

Flat bread.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

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

by Anonymous 2 years ago

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

by Anonymous 2 years ago

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

by Anonymous 2 years ago

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

by Anonymous 2 years ago

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

by Anonymous 2 years ago

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

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Oysters? I'm bad at guessing.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Horse, spinach and peas?

by Anonymous 2 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 Anonymous 2 years ago

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

by Anonymous 2 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 Anonymous 2 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 Anonymous 2 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 Anonymous 2 years ago

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

by Anonymous 2 years ago

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

by Anonymous 2 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 Anonymous 2 years ago

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

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Lamb is just lamb

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Mutton

by Anonymous 2 years ago

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

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Should they have more complicated names?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

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

by Anonymous 2 years ago

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

by Anonymous 2 years ago

BLT? Black little things?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

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

by Anonymous 2 years ago

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

by Anonymous 2 years ago