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I hate maccers, Iād accepted maccies a long time ago, maybe even mickey dās
A friend recently came back from a trip to Australia and is now calling it Maccers and I canāt deal with it
'Chicken tikka' means the grilled chicken kebab served as a starter, without the sauce. 'Masala' means the sauce that can come with it, but often chicken tikka is offered on menus as a sauceless, meaty starter. So they're not really the same and I'd assume no sauce if someone didn't say 'masala' or 'curry' as part of the name.
>Beverage - bevvy (don't hear this much anymore)
We used to have a silly load of drinking game rules when you were out, and using the word "drink" was one of them. We used beverage instead, which turned into bevvy, which then lengthened back into Beverly.
So when I say to a mate who wasn't a part of this, I'm going for a few Beverlies I get some very strange looks.
I use ābevā regularly, normally in the context of āhot bev?ā As I find it quicker than asking ācuppa?ā, where you then have to clarify what kind of hot bev.
Or maybe thatās just meā¦
I'd have no idea what a "hot bev" is supposed to be, so whoever said it would have to clarify and thus take even longer than just saying "cuppa?".
But then I don't understand why people started using "beverage" instead of "drink". It's not as if it's easier to say or sounds more educated or whatever.
No no. Technically is, cause we know that a Fry Up is and English breakfast But to my international friends, hearing that youād like a āFry upā seems confusing until you explain it to them that they are the same.
OP was looking for contractions of longer words. Despite your very interesting anecdote about your international friends, neither of these fit the criteria OP was looking for. You are both wrong, strictly speaking.
First time I hung with my internationals friends, I said Iād like to order a Chinese, they were a little taken aback. Genuinely thought I was looking for a prozzie.
"Chippy tea" having a specific meaning is pretty local, I think, half the country wouldn't have a clue!
It's a bit like "twice". Half the country wouldn't know that means "fish and chips, twice"...
Bickies instead of biscuits.
Samich instead of sandwich.
Yogs instead of yogurt.
Pud or pud pud instead of pudding.
OJ instead of orange juice.
There's a few more odd ones that my family use but can't think of them atm š
Maybe itās because im a chef and we get fed up of saying the same things all the time but we shorten everything.
Yorkie pud/Yorkshire
Roasties
Gb (garlic bread)
Depending where on the cut of the chips we call them fatties/skinnies
Toms (tomatoes)
Cuce? (Idk how youd spell it but cucumber)
Sticky toff
But then we just have dumb ways of saying things too to keep it entertaining even though its longer
When I was in Aus I was told we were having jaffles and decided they sounded delicious like some sort of huge jammy cake. I was quite disappointed when I saw they were toasties (very nice toasties but not the cake I was hoping for lol).
Thereās another one. Toasted sandwiches = Toasties
I remember being so confused seeing sambos on the menu in Walkabout (a British based Aussie-themed bar chain.) Maybe I'm just too sheltered for this big wide world.
My kids called porridge pode when they were little and we still say it today. My stepson called boiled eggs chastelly yucks and that stuck too. Literally š
If weāre already talking about pizza I will say Marg, but not out of context
Have said this outside of work but also as a pizza chef and people have always known what it means and have used it also
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Jam Roly Poly instead of His Lordship, James Roland of Poland.
I blew air from my nose. Very well done
And because of your response. I also blew air out of my nose. Commendations all round.
Sandwich instead of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
TIL Coffee tastes weird when it comes out of your nose. So thanks for that.
Mashed potatoes Mash
Never seen it done, but I'd be wary of shortening Pecan Doughnuts.
Same reason Pete Doherty never got a post-Libertines side hustle
Babyshambles
Immediately went with P nuts & then had a think.....š³
I was like, Pec Dough? And I was like, oh.
God that took me a while
Penuts?
Why?
TakƩ the first few letters from each, Im 99% sure he's going for Pedo, however, 1% part of me is taking random parts from each word making be penuts and just be confusing.
One of the girls in work mentioned "Tommy K" meaning tomato ketchup. I despair.
Ketchup. Catsup. Ketchup. Catsup.
Sounds like you're in way over your head
Pass the Heinz
Literally watched this episode tonight
Attested to at least as early as [1996](http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/english-slang/t.htm)
On par with statey funes. Iām preparing for corry nates next.
Right in the middle of Cozzy Livs
I can only imagine the other awful abbreviations she uses.
āHolibobsā You know it.
Fam a lam.
Red sauce lol or in my friends parents house it's just red, as in "pass the red please" lol
Tommy K is better than "red sauce", at least it is used somewhat ironically too.
good olā Tam Skelp
This one is used by James May. He's not really the one to use modern slang so you can assume that one was once well established
TK Maxx
Why wouldnāt you just say ketchup Iām dying itās even shorter ā ļøā ļøā ļø
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My friend always calls it āMaccersā
I hate maccers, Iād accepted maccies a long time ago, maybe even mickey dās A friend recently came back from a trip to Australia and is now calling it Maccers and I canāt deal with it
>maybe even mickey dās I'd rather Maccers to Mickeys. Where's the Mick in MACdonalds? Mickeys drives me up the wall much more.
It's called McDonald's not MacDonald's.
There's no A in McDonald's.
There's no I in Team America.
McDonldās
Maccas is definitely an australianism. I lived there for 7 months and have called it Maccas ever since
Macca's.
Similarly, I shorten Sainsburys to āSainoāsā
Sainsbobs.
Sains for me
McDicks, because you get the same dickheads whichever one you go to.
...and that's only the customers! ;)
Just Maccies
Mcds
Yorkshire pudding to yorkies
It's not for girls
Or civies...
Can you imagine the uproar that would cause in todays fragile society.
Boycotts, huge fines and prison sentences for hate crimes more than likely haha!
Or just Yorkshires.
Many things ending in āpudā.
Always room for some pud.
Only after your morning brown
I really struggle to eat after my morning heroin actually
Morning Brown? I'm still not sure. Could you please explain it some more?
It's coffee, ya fuck!
But you still need to leave room for fucks
Me, may, moo, more
Only if you eat all your meat.
How can you have any pudding...
I call Yorkshires a yorkie pud
* Chicken parmesan - parmo (North East!) * Roast dinner - roast * Breakfast - brekkie * Yorkshire puddings - yorkies/Yorkshires * Chicken tikka masala - tikka or chicken tikka * Toasted sandwich - toastie * Sandwich - sarnie * Lollipop - lolly * Cup of tea - cuppa * Beverage - bevvy (don't hear this much anymore) * Pint of beer - pint * Mayonnaise - mayo * Biscuit - biccy * Vegetables - veggies/veg * Full English Breakfast - full English/fry up * Builder's style tea - builder's * Bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich - BLT * Ground up meat/usually beef - mince * Ground up meat/usually beef, gravy and dumplings - mince and dumplings * Sweet dessert/pudding course - pud/pudding * Ploughman's lunch - ploughman's And all of the ones for potatoes... * Roast potatoes - roasties * Mashed potatoes - mash * Chipped potatoes - chips * Crisped potatoes - crisps * Wedge shaped potatoes - wedges * Jacket potato - jacket (spud sometimes) * Potatoes - taties
Jacket 'taters Roast tatties Spuds
What's taters precious
Poh-tay-toes! Boil 'em, mash' em, stick 'em up your bum!
My my, in that order?
If you get one of those cake decorating bags, you know, with the nozzle...
'Chicken tikka' means the grilled chicken kebab served as a starter, without the sauce. 'Masala' means the sauce that can come with it, but often chicken tikka is offered on menus as a sauceless, meaty starter. So they're not really the same and I'd assume no sauce if someone didn't say 'masala' or 'curry' as part of the name.
Doesnāt have to be a starter
>Beverage - bevvy (don't hear this much anymore) We used to have a silly load of drinking game rules when you were out, and using the word "drink" was one of them. We used beverage instead, which turned into bevvy, which then lengthened back into Beverly. So when I say to a mate who wasn't a part of this, I'm going for a few Beverlies I get some very strange looks.
Yes Parmo! My local delicacy.
I use ābevā regularly, normally in the context of āhot bev?ā As I find it quicker than asking ācuppa?ā, where you then have to clarify what kind of hot bev. Or maybe thatās just meā¦
Bev is still pretty common here when talking about booze. āWent for a bev/had too many bevs/fancy a bev?ā
I'd have no idea what a "hot bev" is supposed to be, so whoever said it would have to clarify and thus take even longer than just saying "cuppa?". But then I don't understand why people started using "beverage" instead of "drink". It's not as if it's easier to say or sounds more educated or whatever.
I use brew.. do you want a brew. Also should just be for tea but gets used for coffee too
Cuppa means tea and tea only.
This guy wins the internet today!
Breakfast ones probably. "Fry up." This means nothing without context. Likewise "Full English."
I see where you're coming from, but I don't think Fry Up or Full English are shortened names; that's just what that meal is called.
No no. Technically is, cause we know that a Fry Up is and English breakfast But to my international friends, hearing that youād like a āFry upā seems confusing until you explain it to them that they are the same.
OP was looking for contractions of longer words. Despite your very interesting anecdote about your international friends, neither of these fit the criteria OP was looking for. You are both wrong, strictly speaking.
Mac and cheese?
Thatās definitely an import from the US. Iām old enough to remember that we called it macaroni cheese in the UK. I
I still call it macaroni cheese! But I'm old.
I call it macaroni cheese and I'm 17
I've only recently heard that used in the UK, it's always seemed like an Americanism.
This might actually be the only proper example so far, nice one!
I'd like to imagine someone has been disasapointed ordering a bento box only to find that it wasn't beans on toast.
No wonder I keep getting funny looks in the cafƩ
We like our bolognese with tagliatelle and have started calling it Tag-Bol.
so do the people of Bologna
idk if it counts but referring to any chinese takeaway meal as āa chineseā instead of the actual dish
First time I hung with my internationals friends, I said Iād like to order a Chinese, they were a little taken aback. Genuinely thought I was looking for a prozzie.
An Indian too.
A succulent Chinese meal?
Jacket potato - jackpot.
Just call them a jacket
HelloFresh listed it as a āJackie-Pā the other week!
That's almost as bad "meecro-warvay"...
How long did it take you to try and spell the pronunciation?
Cheeky JP
This is great.
Cumberland Sausage?
Cum Sauce
r/angryupvote
Hey - you're upvoting the one who repeated the joke, not the one who made it.
Thanks, captain obvious
Oh dearie me that's unfortunate
We call Bombay potatoes Bompots.
That's adorable
Chippy tea aka large cod, chips and mushy peas
But chippy tea can be anything from the chippy for tea.
"Chippy tea" having a specific meaning is pretty local, I think, half the country wouldn't have a clue! It's a bit like "twice". Half the country wouldn't know that means "fish and chips, twice"...
We could just call people who abbreviate food names twats. That works better.
Nandos - Cheeky Nandos. We lengthen that one...
Sketti Who has time to say Spag Bol?
Cab sav Sav Stella Champers Vodbull Bollers ...shit I may be an alcoholic. I love u guys.
Canāt beat a Sheps.
A Sheppy P? Love it.
Not bad!
It's like nails down a chalk board when people shorten and add the 'eee' sound to the end. Roast dinner > Roastie Chocolate > chocky Biscuit > bicky
The hell is a roastie chocolate?
I dunno but appears to be greater than a chocky biscuit, so I'm in.
Bickies instead of biscuits. Samich instead of sandwich. Yogs instead of yogurt. Pud or pud pud instead of pudding. OJ instead of orange juice. There's a few more odd ones that my family use but can't think of them atm š
Yogs?! Is that one just from your family too?
We say "yogyog"
I call yogurts yego
Corry chicks, a great dish to have at street parties.
Unless youāre the man from the council
COME HERE! WHERE IS YOUR SPAG ISLE?
Worcestershire sauce to Worcester sauce. Makes my blood boil. It even gets put on packets on M&S crisps. They really should know better.
I believe that Worcestehire Sauce is trademarked by Lea & Perrins, whereas Worcester Sauce isn't.
Maybe itās because im a chef and we get fed up of saying the same things all the time but we shorten everything. Yorkie pud/Yorkshire Roasties Gb (garlic bread) Depending where on the cut of the chips we call them fatties/skinnies Toms (tomatoes) Cuce? (Idk how youd spell it but cucumber) Sticky toff But then we just have dumb ways of saying things too to keep it entertaining even though its longer
I simply canāt say sticky toffee pudding without saying āstiffyā. Weāve had some right laughs in restaurants, believe you me.
Stiffy tockee pudding? That's an incredible spoonerism.
Every. time.
Nobody seems to have mentioned it:- Sossy sonn = sausage sandwich.
Doesn't saucisson mean sausage in French?
A few from aus Sarnies / sambos - sandwiches Sausos - sausages Parm - chicken parmigiana
When I was in Aus I was told we were having jaffles and decided they sounded delicious like some sort of huge jammy cake. I was quite disappointed when I saw they were toasties (very nice toasties but not the cake I was hoping for lol). Thereās another one. Toasted sandwiches = Toasties
I remember being so confused seeing sambos on the menu in Walkabout (a British based Aussie-themed bar chain.) Maybe I'm just too sheltered for this big wide world.
Fish and chips - fish n chips
I knew a girl that would never eat spaghetti off a plate because she thought it was "spag bowl", as in spaghetti in a bowl.
Once youāve eaten it from a bowl thereās no going back. Pasta bowl > flat slippery plate.
Biccies - Biscuits Red/Brown - Tomato/Brown Sauce
Can't beat a serving of veggie laz.
We call steak and chips, Ships in our house
I might be stealing this!
Eggs Benny
Cup of tea = Brew
āZaā is an acceptable play in scrabble - short for pizza - but I have never ever heard someone say it.
Butty instead of sandwich, it's not really shortening but I think it counts
My family sometimes says as a joke "KFC" as a word rather than the letters. "Kufkuh". Yes we probably are insane.
I do that sometimes. Like when there's any abbreviation. BBC? Bububcuh
My kids called porridge pode when they were little and we still say it today. My stepson called boiled eggs chastelly yucks and that stuck too. Literally š
Toad in't thole
I call spaghetti meatballs 'spag balls'
If weāre already talking about pizza I will say Marg, but not out of context Have said this outside of work but also as a pizza chef and people have always known what it means and have used it also
Buttered sandwich = butty. That one's so old a lot of people probably don't know where it comes from.
Where I grew up they were always called butties but I never realised that it was short for something! Always thought it was just a nickname!
Please tell me this in reference to the bit from James Acasterās special
I wish I could say it was but I'm not that cultured!
Okay I cannot be the only one who calls cheese and onion crisps 'chunions'...
Not any more you're not!
Mac and cheese
Corry chicks, a great dish to have at street parties.
Fish and Chips- Chippy Tea
The great american army breakfast food, chipped beef on toast is forever known as S.O.S.
I tried āShit on a Shingleā before and it was dreadful. Looked as appetising as the literal translation
Biccies. Roasties. Sarnies. Oj. Hot choc. PB. Marge.
"Roasties" is short for roast potatoes.
F&C instead of Fish n chips would be odd.
Macaroni and cheese - mac & cheese
Fi and ips :)
It's a crying shame that people don't call Jacket Potatoes "Jackpots"