No specific term in my family due to, uh, we seemed to do that nearly all the time? So at least one person making their own food or having dinner later was just normal lol
Resteessen (lit. eating leftovers), or Rührei (scrambled eggs -- kind of a family tradition that hails from my parent's university years, take the leftovers from the weak, put them in a bowl, add eggs, add spices, and dump it all into a big pan.)
We call them "fend for yourself nights." "Grab it and growl" is when the meal is cooked but you're expected to fix your own plate. (We don't eat meals as a group much, but grandma usually cooks dinner for everyone.) "Scrounging" or "snack tracking" is when it's not dinner and you check several places for food and/or cobble together a meal out of various snacks.
My parents call breakfast pastries (like croissants and danishes) "grunkies" and I have never encountered anyone else who does this. Is this a Thing? Where does it come from? (I kind of suspect that it's a My Parents Thing. They call little kids "chebarbs", which I thought for a long time was some sort of corruption of "chavo" or "chey", but it turns out that my grandma just didn't know how to say "cherub" and it stuck.)
Also, old post, but we call it “catching” in my family for some reason! (E.g. “What’s for dinner?” “Oh, we’re just gonna catch tonight.”)
Quick poll: is the color spelled gray or grey? Edit: for me its usually grey because my brain thinks it looks prettier? Also it feels softer
imo both, just depends on which key I hit/which letter I write first, but in school I got corrected to gray :T The rule I learned was 'a' for American spelling, 'e' for English British spelling.
I spell grey because like you said it's prettier and softer, and 'gray' is just ugly as hell in my brainmouth for some reason. It's... bloated. But if I go any farther into word-brain-associations I will never shut up so I stop here.
Gräy. I live in dysgraphia. (Seriously: Either because I was taught british englisch spelling in school but read US englisch books my dad had )
I tend to go with “gray” solely because It Is The American Spelling And Using The British Spelling Feels Wrong, but “grey” is INFINITELY prettier...a Dilemma :/
I like the way "gray" feels better, it is a more... Gray word. "Grey" just feels pretentious, like a crumbling old manor house, whereas "gray" is a tired factory town where the jobs are disappearing, and I tend to be more interested in the latter.
but where else will i throw my wineglasses to the floor and be a dramatic basic ass bitch vamp but in a crumbling old manor D:
