Top bananas, sharp cookies, and rotten apples - the expressions referring to people

urban dictionary:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=silly+sausage

Has anyone mentioned big ham yet? That is someone who 'hogs' the spotlight.

afterthe tesco horse burger scandal (google it), how about...

the italian stallion?

Bird.

Yeah, yeah ... not food.

egg head

dumpling

unless of course it was four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie!

a cockney word for a girl is "treacle"

"alright treacle? 'ow's it gahn?" - hey babe, how's it goin?

and we also use "marmite" after the marmite advertising slogan "you either love it or hate it"

he's a bit marmite. you'll either love him or hate him.

not to be confused with "mmmmmmwow"...



R(but i digress)P

pizza face...

heheheheheh

Jespah, you are right, when we call someone by animal names it is known as zoosemy, though animals are edible for human beings indeed. Foodsemy, which is the topic of this post, is calling people by strictly food names.

Thank you for your interest in the topic and your replies, appreciate it.

apple of my eye
vegetable--someone with essentially no mind left
breadwinner--a wage earner

I don't know if these are exacctly food-related, tho you can eat them:
crab--foul tempered person
snail--very slow person
rabbit--meek, timid person
fruit loop---crazy person
ham--over-emotive actor
soupy--cloyingly emotional
cheesy--cheap, tacky

nutball

I know we did sugar, did we do honey?

Don't know, but Bertie included treacle.

corny, cornball--unsophisticated, trite
(this may be dated) crackerjack--very sharp, good at the job, as in crackerjack salesman
crackers--crazy
spammer
you're dogmeat, you're toast--you deserve to be dead

He's a different kettle of fish
She's a tough cookie
He's a bean counter
He beaned him on the head with the ball
He has bigger fish to fry
Butter fingers dropped it
He can't cut the mustard
He cherry-picked
She has chicken legs
She's cool as a cucumber
He's full of beans
What a goober!
She's a granola eater
He's the greatest thing since sliced bread
She's ham-fisted
He's in a pickle
She's like a fish out of water
Lily-livered varmint
Madder than a wet hen
What a marshmallow
He's a milquetoast
She's pie-eyed from all that vodka
He has scrambled eggs for brains
Shrimp!
Beanstalk!
He's slower than molasses in January
They cooked his goose
He clammed up
She's a cheesehead

trout - old woman
pickled - drunk
saucy - kinky, cheeky (in a sexual way) e.g. oooohhhhhhh saucy!
chip off the old block - someone who is just like their parent (i know,
technically it's a stone chip, from a stone block
not a potato based snack)

fish food - someone whos corpse has been dumped at sea...e.g. bin laden

...about as much use a a chocolate teapot - someone who isn't very good at something.

beanpole - skinny person

pea brained

Hold on ... you said Jespah was right, but I think you meant to say Ticomaya is right ... please clarify ... yes, this is important.

It is?