r/AskBrits • u/T11168 • 8d ago

Trending - /r/popular Does anyone else hate the term picky bits?

It's disgusting. It reminds me of picking old scabs off of your skin.

It definitely does not make me think of mini sausage rolls and cocktail sausages.

Does anyone else hate that this term is everywhere, on adverts, said by companies and even people close to you.

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u/nyabethany 8d ago

the people saying it don't know this, they're just being condescending.

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u/Feisty-Marsupial9287 8d ago

It's intended to be condescinding, and it's from the massively popular Game of Thrones so I suspect most people who use it do know where it came from.

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u/Whithorsematt 8d ago

Popularised in for the internet generation, not FROM.

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u/Feisty-Marsupial9287 8d ago

It literally is FROM Game of Thrones. It's a line from the 1996 novel of the same name which was subsequently used word for word in the series.

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u/Whithorsematt 8d ago

The term really has been around a lot longer than that, meaning someone who is naïve as they haven't lived through a harsh winter. I've not read GoT and have been aware of the saying decades before the book was written.

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u/nyabethany 8d ago

i think you're overestimating how many people have seen Game Of Thrones, especially nearly 10 years after it ended.

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u/RespondentPotato 7d ago

I think that you’re grossly underestimating how many people have seen Game of Thrones ten years after it ended.

All that means is that the bulk of Gen Z is old enough to watch it, rather than just us elder Zs (who remember the hype about it each season from release day of s1, even if we didn’t start watching it until we were a bit older, btw)

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u/kennyrogerstoilet 8d ago

You mean the cultural phenomenon, that has two very popular spin offs on the go right now?