I heard someone say this in a video recipe, followed by way more cheese than you should eat at once. It occurred to me that the phrase means ample, not nutritious.

  • @marlowe221
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    408 months ago

    Did the person happen to have a southern accent?

    As someone from the south, that’s what “healthy” means when used to describe an amount of something. It means “a lot”.

    Also, if you say someone looks healthy you’re basically calling them fat, depending on tone of voice and inflection.

    • @Mr_Blott
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      198 months ago

      South? Like Australia?

      But yeah “a healthy amount” in UK English too means"a large amount of"

    • @Zahille7
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      68 months ago

      Similar to “generous” or “liberal”

    • Carighan Maconar
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      38 months ago

      Yeah what I was going to say, too. “Healthy” in the context of an amount usually means “be quite generous”.