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If Rachael Ray says it, you can bet I hate hearing it.

Anything out of Rachael Ray's mouth!

I, too, shudder at the word "healthful". Urg! Drives me nuts. Same with delish and yum-o

Definitely see the annoyance with "tablescape".

agreed on the Rachel Ray crap. i know she says it to be cute, but it comes out annoying.

Another vote for any noun, verb, adjective, adverb, interjection, acronym, or dangling participle that emits from Rachel Ray's ever so slightly crooked mouth.

Put EVOO and it's creator on a rocket to the next galaxy...today!!!

I don't like mouthfeel for food but I think it is a good descriptor word for words.

food porn. yuck.

The word I really hate hearing come out of Rachael's mouth is: burger! Does she not understand that we all see right through the burger recipe and recognize she's really saying "I've run out of ways to make meals fast and I'm too busy on my other projects to put time into thinking up something new for the show that rocketed me to stardom in the first place?" I mean, come on! :)

Ever since seeing a brand of wine called "Wine for Foodies", foodie has started to grate me.

Wouldn't a foodie know precisely what kind of wine they would most enjoy with a certain meal without a label preaching to them? Talk about a term spiraling into meaninglessness.

I've always hated the word yummy. Ick. And looking at that image, I would say that at least half of the words irritate me. Hah! I second (third, fourth, whatever) the Rachel Ray comments above, too.

"Healthy" means that your food is not sick. Is that what you're trying to say? If not, "healthful" is the correct adjective to mean good for you, or wholesome.

I detest the word foodie.

The one that makes me cringe is "nom". I hear and see it everywhere.

And agreed re: Rachel Ray.

@reddylee @Patty708 Ditto that. I enjoy 30-minute meals but it's gotten to the point where I almost have to watch it with the volume off.

"Yum-o"
"Yummo"
"Sammy"
"EVOO"

And "Rachel Ray." That word wasn't listed.

I actually like the word--"toothsome"

Dislike: Foodie, Yum-O, Healthful, Deconstructed, Gelee and I agree on Tablescape.

Don't mind: Delish or Sammie (People were saying these before RR), EVOO (C'mon its just easier), Om Nom...

Anything relating to bacon. So over it.

"Sammies" for sandwiches; "patty" for anything other than a piece of squished-together ground meat meant to be eaten in a bun-- sounds so cheap; I prefer the term "cake" (i.e. salmon cakes to salmon "patties") or even burger. I can't decide if recipes that include "perfect" in the title annoy me or delight me, so I'll hold off on that for now (probably depends on whether I already have my own version).

SO glad that I am not the only one who wants to punch Rachel Ray in the face every time she opens her mouth! ...doubly so when she says EVOO.

Just reading the headline of this post, the only thing that came to mind was "anything Rachel Ray says."

Foodie. We have a real word for that - gourmand.

I hate when people call vegetables, "veg". Ugh, sounds dirty.

Nom. Worst word ever.

I hate anything that ends in -porn. Especially foodporn. It just reminds me of regular porn, and I don't need that near my food. Gross.

If so many people find RR as annoying as I do, why is she EVERYWHERE? Someone somewhere is supporting her, we must find this person and knock some sense into her.

I think that buzzword burnout is kind of inevitable seeing how many new food writers pop up every day, and how there are only so many adjectives you can use to describe the experience of eating anything.

What I think gets on my nerves more than anything are the catchphrases. Yum-o, Bam, EVOO, etc. And foodie does get on my nerves because I think, "What, before the last decade no one ever liked to cook or eat?"

Actually, healthful is correct when describing food, unless you mean that the food is not sick. Healthful means full of health; healthy means in good health. I know that healthful has given way to healthy in common usage, but I'm not willing to give it up.

Sorry to be the lone voice of dissent, but I am a Rachel Ray fan.

She is approachable, realistic, and has done more for home-cooking than she gets credit for. I prefer 30-Minute Meals to the daily talk show, but I still like her.

Give me Rachel over the Barefoot Contessa ANY day.

Rustic--it seems to be just a code word for messy.

Artisian...everything trendy is labeled artisian. artisian bread, artisian cheese, artisian wines. It's just an adjective to justify a large $$. I'm sick of hearing vegan this and vegan that, free range this and pasture fed that. Most of these terms have no definition, they only delude the person into spending more for something they preceive as more wholesome.

hahah! patty708! i agree. i can't say that i've ever watched the rachel ray show or any of her cooking segments but she reminds me of jim rome (the sports talk radio guy) when it comes to using terms. she creates her own little buzz words about stuff and then followers repeat that jargon and speak in catch phrases and unintelligible mumbo jumbo. shh, don't tell her, but it's actually my mom that does this.

EVOO.
foodie.
sammy/sammich.
(non-food word) whoot.

I hate hate hate the word "foodie."

Ditto on artisan! I can handle "yummy" when my 4-year-old says it. Everyone else? You sound like a 4-year-old when you say this.

My all-time, spans the decades, hate it HATE it is "sammiches." And sammy. See: 4 year old.

Do your worst!! I will never, *ever* quit saying "sammich."

Ugh, Rachel Ray. Every time she says "yum-o" I want to slap her in the mouth.

Nigella is where it's at...

Nom. Hate it!

"Delish" has got to go! It's like people that say "guac" instead of "guacamole." Just say the whole word. Stop being lazy. It sounds stupid.

And I hate to say it, but I'm getting pretty tired of EVOO...I just call it olive oil and move on.

What the heck does EVOO mean?

It's not a word, but a phrase. I hate the expression "to die for" when connected to food. I would die for my son and perhaps for my husband, but certainly for not a piece of chocolate cake.

Don't forget to cite your usage of that Wordle!

http://www.wordle.net/faq#use

Ugh, my dad has used the word "yum-o" all of my life and I've always hated it! Then Rachael Ray had to go make it a super-duper worldwide catchphrase and I CAN'T STAND IT!!!

It makes my skin crawl to hear people use that word!

stoup. dumb. effing RR.

Also I agree with herbstsonne: I am so tired of everything bacon! http://korovieva.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/bacon-is-for-eating/

My major annoyance with food packaging is the term "all-natural" or just "natural." What the heck does that mean? It's not organic. And it's not regulated by the FDA for the use of the term so it really means nothing. It's usually a marketing ploy and still has some sort of preservative or MSG or something else that I don't want in my body! Yuck.

Ditto on Rachel Ray. Yes, it's nice that she's getting people to have home-cooked meals that are approachable...but all the catchphrases drive me nuts.

Agree wholeheartedly on banishing "foodie", "EVOO" and some of the others mentioned. I admit that I am guilty of using food porn as a description for my numerous cooking magazines that I subscribe to and cringe even when I use it. But I'm not sure what "nom" is referring to???

MELTY! I think it started with a Taco Bell ad. Every time it came on I was like, "That's not even a word!!" And then it spread to other places...

VEG is annoying when non-Brits say it. I'm a non-Brit, I don't say it.

BrooklynBaker... Extra Virgin Olive Oil... EVOO.

Like rosebud I don't know of "nom"... is it like num? nummy? yummy?

Iona... vegan does have meaning... no flesh or animal products (milk, eggs, honey are examples).

The popular catch-phrases are extremely irritating when they're heard over and over... I can't watch a lot of the cooking shows anymore and RR is at the top of my irritation list.

Slow Food. Ever since Alice white cooked an egg on a spoon over a wood fire in her home kitchen on 60 minutes I have been unable to deal with the concept. I love the idea, but the presentation is odious.

Stoup. EVOO. Sammy. Any nickname word created by Rachel Ray that she still explains everytime she says it? Irritating.

"Its a good thing", because, invariably, with martha's recipes, its not.

"Fat free" ... but this only really bothers me when related to butter flavor sprays whose main ingredients are oil and salt.

Home style - especially when related to canned soups. Its not how I would make my soup taste, stop insulting my cooking.

Flexatarian. It doesn't mean anything.

Artisan & hand-crafted have been used to death and are now being used to sell fast food. And honestly, even a Big Mac is "hand-crafted."

And let's get rid of the exaggerated eye-roll that happens before a food personality has even closed their lips around the tines of their fork. "You haven't even tasted it yet!"

FWIW, "Nom" is a word that describes the sound of eating joyously. Imagine the noise Cookie Monster made when eating cookies ( "Om NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM" ).

Almost right on the alternate word for "foodie":

gourmand - one who is excessively fond of eating and drinking

*gourmet (when used as a noun) - a connossieur of food and drink


Stoup. Gah.

Nom is fantastic but only when said by an LOL cat.

Seems any word can be annoying when over used. Feeling a little defensive I guess of a few things.

Slow Food: If it's used to describe a cooking process I can see it as being annoying. But as a concept of embracing food that is cultivated in your back yard (locally) and not purchased from a fast food restaurant seems an excellent catchy term for a movement. If you want to move a movement forward people need a name for it.

Food Porn: A lot of people post pics on FB of the dinner they made last night. Seems the best descriptor for that is Food Porn.

RR: I guess I don't watch her enough anymore to be annoyed by her terms. I did watch her exclusively while living with my parents after college. She inspired me to cook for them and made cooking seem less intimidating. I'm sure she did this for many young adults. Anyone who can do that should not be totally thrown to the wolves.

Nah, throw her to the wolves. :)

Pukka.... hate it.

Flexatarian. It doesn't mean anything.

Amen. Ah-ha

"Unctuous" is one I hate, because it just sounds sooo pretentious. I bet most people who use that word don't even know what it means.

Also, I sort of hate "mouth feel" (which, funnily enough, is often used in combination with "unctuous.)" "Soupcon" also bugs me. Basically I hate the terms that make people sound prissy.

Like this:

"Oooh, this soupcon of paté has such an unctuous mouth feel!"

foodie, food porn--both make me nutty!

Okay, I'm sorry in advance - but just 'cause nobody has linked to this video when explaining the term "om nom nom."

Personally, I love the concept of nomming!

However, I definitely agree with the hate for "EVOO". And I can live with "guac" in speech, but not in writing.

@akay

QUOTE: "Nom is fantastic but only when said by an LOL cat."

Also, from a zombie in L4D or the Heavy in TF2 and his "Sandvich"

I'll fourth, fifth, whateverth "Anything that comes out of Rachel Ray's mouth." I HATE the deliberate cutesiness of it. HATE. I find it offensive and demeaning to all women who cram making dinner for their families or themselves into already swamped schedules.

I also like the concept of nomming. But mostly in relation to ice cream and other sweets, much like Cookie Monster. I think it's a geek thing.

Hmmm...I say nom nom nom all the time...

Gastropub.

Setting aside for a moment that the word reads and sounds like something you don't want happening to your lower intestines, the bigger issue is that it's increasingly being used incorrectly by places that have neither fine beer or food, by any stretch of the imagination.

Mouthfeel. I hate it.

I don't even know what "stoup" is! Is it a food network thing? Because I don't even have tv.

@Ah-ha - I completely agree. It enrages me how these weird TV people taste their food!! It's so irritating. I can watch the Travel Channel shows but the Food Network shows are so irritating - they must show all their presenters how they want them to eat the crap they make. It's so irritating! Watching Tony Bourdain eating is fine though. He's more normal.

I don't watch FN anymore but it didn't used to be like that. It's sad. I learned how to cook from watching Sara Molton, David Rosenberg, etc. - not being afraid and just go for it once you got the basic concept and learned about the ingredients. Now we're stuck with the Barefoot Contessa who measures the herbs she chops yet is constantly saying "approximately" so I stopped watching. The HGTV/Food Network/DIY juggernaut must be stopped!

Dee-lish and Yummo-good grief, Rachael Ray is annoying.

I watch mostly the PBS shows now or those on Create tv. Food Network has taken a real nosedive in the last 10 years.

Anyone who describes something food-related as "a revelation." Enough already.

Most food commentary should be done the old fashioned TV way: bite, close your eyes, smile and nod.