I grew up calling it lunch meat (in the Midwest) but married into a cold cut family (DH is German) and now call it cold cuts, or just turkey/ham/etc. Once I started calling it cold cuts, "lunch meat" started to sound kind of gross to me. But that may be because back in the day the kind we ate was either that unnaturally square kind from Oscar Mayer or the stuff with cheese blobs in it, so my association with the phrase isn't the greatest.

Cold cuts

Lunch meat

lunchmeat

Lunch meat

Anonymous wrote:Lunch meat.

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

Ah, yes, OP here. Good question. We have the highest standards for usage in the household and so I want to be correct. Spouse is much smarter than I in this regard, has a strong opinion (but then, darn it so do I!), so I do not want to get it wrong. It has been an active, more or less friendly, debate for some time, and I thought, with a little extra time on my hands this year, why not settle it once and for all? And before it get personal. Like sex, spouse and I want this to be consensual.

And thank for your direct answer!

Is this a regional thing? Could people say where they are from when they answer?

Lunch meat.

Lunch meat

Anonymous wrote:Lunch meat.

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

Yes I’m way more interested in the backstory here than the actual answers…

Sandwich meat

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

OP here. My mistake. I get on here once in a Blue Moon and found the first convenient thread. Shouldn’t be on this thread. Darn.

Cold cuts

LOL, I thought this was going to be a question about how many times per week it was okay to feed this to your kids. (In my house, A LOT).

I don't call it cold cuts or lunch meat, though. Sorry, OP.

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Thank you. I studied abroad in Paris.