I never use either of those. I’m also not a fan of “selfie” or “doggo” or anything else that sounds like baby talk.
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Dunno, I’m much more sensitive to shitty grammar/mispronunciation than people’s lingo 
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That too. Also faux-iness, like performatively dropping g’s and like that.
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Me too. Perhaps the worst phrase I’ve ever heard: “If I would of known I would of went”.
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Ouch. That one hurts.
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One of my sisters had a friend who, at the end of a meal, would say, “I’m SO satisfied”. Used to irritate my sister.
Time to pull out:
‘Eats, Shoots, and Leaves’
‘More Eats, Shoots and Leaves’
and
‘The Girl’s Like Spaghetti’
all by Lynne Truss.
Fun reading for grammaticians and others.
Fortunately, most everything posted on this site is digestIble.
Speaking of digestible, does anyone make digestible/digestive biscuits at home?
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I don’t like selfies, but not because of the word but because of the premise. I don’t mind the word because I personally can’t think of another word to use in place of it. And I don’t think “self-portrait” is an acceptable replacement for it because to me, that doesn’t connote a photo as much as it does a painting/drawing/sketch.
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I teach English in Japan and while I can often just accept poor grammar and/or mispronunciation in ESL speakers, it really pains me to hear it when it comes from other teachers. 99% of the time I am forced to grin and bear it rather than point it out to the offender. However, if they are one of my students, I will try to teach them the correct grammar and/or mispronunciation.
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I took self-portraits with my camera decades before the word selfie was coined. That’s what the timer was for!
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For whatever reason “doggo” doesn’t remind me of baby talk. Since I regularly call all canines doggies (in as high a pitch as humanly possible), it’s similar enough for me. I also make exceptions for cute little animal names that probably drive normal adults mad (like bun buns).
All other baby talk though is truly grating in most contexts, especially what people seen as baby/toddler grammar, like “hims the best”. 
To bring back the food element, I totally approve of calling said cute animals with food terms though. Like little nuggets, cute little morsels, etc.
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Somewhat off topic, but not completely
In my opinion, it’s time for people that are over the age of 12 to stop using U or u for “you”. I have some smart friends that use that, it drives me to almost scream. But I don’t say anything to them, because they’re otherwise great folks. And many of them are family.
But especially on a board like this, makes you look like what would be formerly called a 'tard if it hadn’t been rightfully stricken from proper use.
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My first exposure to this funny thread and most everybody is right on. Just wanted to say, any references to excrement the related body parts and process should have no place in food discussions. Just take my head to a very wrong place.
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Inserting the word “off” unnecessarily in speech, as in “bake it off”, “fry it off”, “sear it off”, etc.
This is a motion rather a word: I used to work with a woman who used to stick her finger towards her open mouth to simulate vomiting every time she saw me eating an egg sandwich.
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Hmmm. Perhaps your response could have been “F**k off!” every time she did that. Pretty sure that’s not an unnecessary insert of the word “off”. 
(j/k, but kinda not!)
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That would definitely have been an appropriate use of “off”, but I prefer to choose my battles. I was, however, tempted to ask her if her mummy did not teach her that use of that gesture was rude.
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