Lunch meat.

But why is this a bone of contention in your house?

Why is this under general parenting forum? Wouldn’t it be better suited for the Food forum?

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in a cold cuts household but married into a lunch meat family.

I prefer the term charcuterie, which I just shorten to charcs. “Goin to the store, anyone need some charcs for their lunch buckets?”

Beautiful.

Lunch meat, if cold cuts is the only other choice.

(But I really call it deli meat for the catch-all term or sliced ham/sliced turkey if I'm being specific)

Sliced meat or sandwich meat

I grew up in a cold cuts household but married into a lunch meat family.

I prefer the term charcuterie, which I just shorten to charcs. “Goin to the store, anyone need some charcs for their lunch buckets?”

Sliced meats

Lunch meat here, although deli meat works, too.

Cold cuts just sounds weird.

deli meat

lunch meat

Anonymous wrote:I use a third option that will blow your mind: deli meat

Me too! Most often more specific though (deli turkey, deli ham) because people rarely eat all kinds of deli meat so it pays to be specific.

Cold cuts

(Although I don't see why it has to be one or the other and have always assumed the different usage is just regional differences.)

I use a third option that will blow your mind: deli meat

In my house, lunch meat.

Which is the correct usage?

I will total the responses and henceforth go with that.

Right now it is a simmering point of contention with the potential to flare into unpleasantness, and I do not want to enter the hols with this an open question.

16 Dec COB deadline for those interested in helping me.

This binary: one or the other. I do not want a bunch of DCUM existentialism or vignettes from your own families and how they wrestle with it.

Cold cuts / lunch meat. That’s it.

Thanks!