Make sure you hero the peas enough!

Sporky

Who knew Masterchef Australia would produce such a pearl of wisdom? 

randella

Was it John Terode?

Sounds like the sort of nugget he would produce. 

thermionic

I don’t really want to think about the nuggets he produces.

Philly_Q

randella said:

Was it John Terode?

Sounds like the sort of nugget he would produce. 

Is he like a wombat?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-46258616

Sporky

randella said:

Was it John Terode?

Sounds like the sort of nugget he would produce. 

No - he's not in it. I think it was a finalist's wife. 

paulnb57

Give Peas A Chance....thats all we are saying.......

BigBearKris

What?

Sporky

BigBearKris said:

What?

I'm not sure.

I think it means "don't fuck up the peas".

They seem to use "hero" to describe the key focus of a dish, but this was the first time I'd witnessed "hero" being verbed.

In context it seemed to be about blanching the peas and then adding a LOT of butter.

DannyP

Sporky said:

BigBearKris said:

What?

I'm not sure.

I think it means "don't fuck up the peas".

They seem to use "hero" to describe the key focus of a dish, but this was the first time I'd witnessed "hero" being verbed.

In context it seemed to be about blanching the peas and then adding a LOT of butter.

That's the first time I've witnessed "verb" being "verbed"

Sporky

DannyP said:

That's the first time I've witnessed "verb" being "verbed"

It's meta. Or sarcastic. Something like that.

DannyP

It's like rain on your wedding day...

randella

DannyP said:

That's the first time I've witnessed "verb" being "verbed"

I find stuff like this quite interesting - how language changes.

In Australia, like anywhere, there's a gap between how normal people speak and how reality-TV-and-marketing-types speak.  Said gap seems to be getting wider Down Under every time I visit.

Australian advertising is occasionally funny (I remember an anti-littering campaign poster with the caption "Don't be a Tosser"); Aussie TV is uniformly fucking dismal.

There are many, many wonderful things about the country and free-to-air television is not one of them.

LoFi

Sporky said:

DannyP said:

That's the first time I've witnessed "verb" being "verbed"

It's meta. Or sarcastic. Something like that.

Verbing weirds language.

(c) Bill Watterson, circa 1995