For the same reason people say toons and elfs
It’s a meme that kind of originated from the WallStreetBets reddit. It probably predates that, but the joke was that traders were investing sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars while sitting in their mom’s basement eating chicken tendies.
Someone would make a post about how much they had made on a trade and would get replies such as:
“That’s a lot of tendies”
Over time, “tendie” became synonymous with “currency”
Anyways, the reason it’s funny and people use it instead of tenders is because it sounds childish, and the idea of someone behaving like a child (living in their mom’s basement) while making large financial trades, was the joke.
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Because we want to be reminded of her as often as possible.
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I always thought Tom Haverford said Chicken Tendies on Parks and Rec and that’s where it came from. But I reviewed the episode and that’s not it!
So I blame Taliesin, as that is who I first heard call it that when this was announced.
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Yeah, probably Tali. But, like, I prefer WoW streamers who get things like ‘tendies’ and ‘Stony Tony’ going over the ones that get /spit taken out of the game. But, that’s just me.
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Tender can mean currency or things of value, like the term “legal tender” refers to cash and other forms of currency that enable transactions and trade.
It isn’t some new thing for WoW.
If one studied the History, they would know “tendies” was used back in 1750, when chicken tenders were the actual legal tender of British colonies in America. They didn’t want to weigh down the ships with lots of pounds from England. So chicken tenders were more valuable than cotton or tobacco. “King Tendie” people would call it.
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Is this the captain of the fun police?
Great responses. Thanks for educating me.
Nope. I’ve only attained the rank of Lieutenant.
Same number of letters. Same number of syllables. Sounds ignorant. I don’t get it either OP.
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Working in the veterinary field I absolutely hate that. None more so than furbaby though. That one loses all respect for people.
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I misread that as “goldfish.”
I thought, “they’re putting goldfish in fast food now? That’s better than worms, I guess.”
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Am I too late for “how do you do, fellow kids?”
I’m always late too these things, dang job.
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all it does is make me want chicken strips
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I call them Geoff.
Why so tensies?
Why do humans nickname anything?
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I don’t know if people think it’s cool or cute or whatever. But when an adult talks like a six year old thsts not cute. It’s weird. It’s almost a red flag.
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It legal tender. a monetary term.
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immensely? I dont think that term you use means what you think it means.
Many different reasons. I was curious which reason spawned “tendies”.
I know right? It’s odd when people presume their small subgroup culture should be common knowledge to the wider world.