An American podcaster has sparked outrage amongst Australians after saying she has an issue with folks utilizing the phrase ‘brekkie’.
Jennifer Welch, who co-hosts the podcast I’ve Had It with Ange Sullivan, admitted she managed to ‘p**s off a whole nation’ after detailing her distain of the Aussie slang time period.
‘I’ve had it with folks calling breakfast, ‘brekkie’. Stop,’ she mentioned.
‘Quit placing in your Instagram ‘brekkie in mattress’, ‘going to brekkie with my boo’,’
‘Put a sock in it. Quit making up cute phrases to your performative Instagram posts.
‘Stop, for the love of God, calling breakfast, ‘brekkie’.’
Fans of the present had been fast to level out that it is a uniquely Australian phrase.
‘If you are an Aussie that is its title. It’s Brekkie,’ one wrote.
Another fan mentioned: ‘I believe you want do a deep dive into Australian slang.’
‘Australia is shook proper now,’ a 3rd joked.
Ms Welch took to TikTok on Saturday to a difficulty an apology saying ‘We unintentionally waged battle on Australia’.
The co-host advised Ms Sullivan how she had ‘actually walked into it’.
‘So, I’d had it with the phrase ‘brekkie’. Well, in Australia, that’s what they name ‘breakfast’ solely, is ‘brekkie’,’ Welch mentioned.
‘I need the nation of Australia to know that I’m particularly speaking about American – United States of America, Americans – influencers, on Instagram, that would not discover Australia on a map with each fingers and a flashlight.
‘These are the people who I’ve had it with. I’ve not had it with Australia, or Australians.
‘And now we’ve to go on the Aussie redemption tour.’
Jennifer Welch who co-hosts the podcast I’ve Had It with Ange Sullivan, admitted she managed to ‘p**s off a whole nation’ when she introduced her dislike of the phrase ‘brekkie’
Aussies had been fast to defend the time period, with one saying ‘Australia is shook proper now’ (inventory picture)
Podcast listeners had been as soon as once more fast to remark, this time providing their forgiveness.
‘Thanks for the readability! Us Aussies had been so triggered,’ one wrote.
‘Aussie right here. You’re forgiven,’ one other mentioned.
Confusingly, there have been many feedback from Australians saying they do not use the phrase ‘brekkie’.
‘We don’t name it solely brekky,’ one wrote.
‘Australian right here.. I’ll by no means say brekky as a result of I’m an grownup,’ one other mentioned.
‘I’ve by no means referred to as breakfast brekkie. Literally born in Australia. Maybe it is a Sydney/ Melbourne factor,’ a 3rd fan wrote.
Ange Sullivan laughed off her co-host’s blunder