A no-cook meal of cheese, crackers, cold cuts, olives, grapes, and whatever else is handy in the fridge is jocularly known in some places as girl dinner. In Britain, a similar fuss-free meal is called picky bits. Then there’s the word for making do in the kitchen when nobody cooks for anyone else: getcheroni. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of ““Girl Dinner,” “Picky Bits,” and “Getcheroni”: Words for Fuss-Free Meals and Making Do in the Kitchen”
You know that casual meal you throw together when you can’t be bothered to cook?
So you just put out some cheese and crackers and maybe cold cuts and olives and grapes and just whatever is handy in the fridge.
Girl dinner, they call that.
Right.
You you know, in Britain, that’s called picky bits.
Picky bits.
And it ranks me so much in one of those words that we learned from our listeners about when nobody cooks for anybody else and you have to make do in the kitchen on your own, and it’s called get your roni.
Oh, yeah.
Instead of a macaroni.
Well, get your phony and call us.
