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DEFINITION: n. Any highly-processed food or beverage in which the natural ingredients have been removed and replaced with artificial flavors and additives. v. To consume food products laced with synthetic sweeteners, imitation flavors, and other carcinogens.
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Fastfraud
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: junkfeed
Sentence: Jim began junkfeeding as a child. As a young adult he consumed his favourite, seriously overprocessed, junkfeed in quantities disproportionate to his energy needs so that he became unhealthy. His doctors warned him to avoid the common, easy to reach, junkfeed and return to a simpler diet rich in real food. Jim learned what real food is but unfortunately couldn't find real foods around him...
Etymology: junkfeed v and n. from junk or useless stuff/what has no purpose and the verb feed, for an organism's tendency to eat for necessity and not the enjoyment of food
Piquantoxifodder
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: PICK-one-TOCKS-ih-fodder
Sentence: Chuck planted his corpulent posterior in the orange naugahide chair and settled down to his first day at the new job. Thankful to be employed, he relished his new assignment at Universal Test Kitchens...sampling and rating new food products before they were foisted upon the unsuspecting public.Being a true foodlum, he had quaffed, chomped, swigged and munched through an array of buyprodux, each containing an ersatz nutritute carefully engineered from corn syrup and cheap tropical fat. Some dishes were trendylicious and pungent, others had all the appeal of a used bovine salt lick. It wasn't until the late afternoon when Chuck found his favorite concoction. It was real PIQUANTOXIFODDER - stripped of any wasteful vitamins, yet replete with satisfying textures that reminded him of that strangest of foods- tapioca. After secretly cramming down his third helping, Chuck succumbed to a case of megacramps that a gallon of peptodismall wouldn't cure. On the way home, he had to pull over discreetly near an irrigation ditch and make a contribution.Plop Plop Fizz Fizz. Sweating like a cut of rancid pork, Chuck knew that the product he ingested was sure to be a great seller. It was....ambrosia!
Etymology: PIQUANt+TOXIc+FODDER=PIQUANTOXIFODDER.....PIQUANT:agreeably stimulating to the palate,engagingly provocative taste;Middle French, from present participle of piquer.....TOXIC:containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation,extremely harsh, malicious, or harmful;Late Latin toxicus, from Latin toxicum poison, from Greek toxikon arrow poison, from neuter of toxikos of a bow, from toxon bow, arrow.....FODDER:something fed to domestic animals ; especially : coarse food for cattle, horses, or sheep,-inferior or readily available material used to supply a heavy demand;Middle English, from Old English fōdor; akin to Old High German fuotar food.....AMBROSIA:the food of the Greek and Roman gods;Latin, from Greek, literally, immortality, from ambrotos immortal.(bonus word)
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COMMENTS:
Amusing OLD advertisements:
http://www.lileks.com/oldads/index.html - metrohumanx, 2009-01-29: 01:56:00
This space intentionally left blank. - metrohumanx, 2009-01-29: 21:27:00
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Riceboobles
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: rice - boo - buls
Sentence: When it comes to a bit of flavour instead of nutrition there's nothing like a bowl of cornfakes and riceboobles.
Etymology: rice bubbles + boob (mistake)
Nutrideficient
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: new-treh-de-FISH-unt
Sentence: Filbert was in complete denial about the 'power drink' he consumed daily, thinking it was packed with added vitamins, minerals and nutriments but it was in fact, totally nutrideficient.
Etymology: Blend of 'nutrition' (beneficial attribute of food) and 'deficient' (in short supply-absent)
Badditive
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: bad dit tiv
Sentence: One day when Chad was told by his doctor to watch what he consumed, he started reading the labels. He was amazed to see all the badditives placed in his food and drink. Latin-sounding, unpronounceable names, sinister sounding words and all the ingrediants were at least 15 letters long. Every badditive was making the Chadditive both sadditive and madditive!
Etymology: Bad (that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; capable of harming;reproduced fraudulently) & Additive (something added to enhance food)
Sinmatation
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sin ma tay shun
Sentence: John's kitchen was a chemist's nightmare. His prepared and processed foods were full of ingredients with very long, complex and foreign sounding components. His fridge and freezer were filled with modified products like near-beer, fake-a-cola, meatcheat, shamham, narydairy, stiltedcheese, designwine, oughterwater, yolkjoke, pearsatz and artifishfingers. John had traded away nutrition and healthy sustenance for convenience and sinmatation. His pantry contained replicas of foods, like synammon, appeteasers, fakemixes, bastardpasta, forgeporridge, macaphoni, wannabeans, dupesoup,inbreads, fauxjoe, cornterfeits and other appetite simulants. Yes, John, would learn later in life that trading off cooking time and a few calories and possible tooth decay for mysterious, unpronounceable carcinogenic substances was a short-sighted exchange.
Etymology: Sin (an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will) & Synthetic (a compound made artificially by chemical reactions;not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially) & Imitation ( copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone/something else)
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COMMENTS:
You crack me up every time, Nosie.
Those new "lite" pierogies just don't do it for me, though. - metrohumanx, 2009-01-29: 01:39:00
They go with cabbage droles and cubelsa! - Nosila, 2009-01-29: 01:50:00
Super sentence. Super Word! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-29: 22:20:00
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Caldrieath
Created by: leeannhamers
Pronunciation: Ka-Al-dree-eth
Sentence: My mom told me not to have soda its one of those Caldrieath foods.
Etymology: Calories, Drinks, Death
Pseudapop
Created by: otherguy
Pronunciation: soōdapäp
Sentence: Sodapop is bad enough, but substituting artificial flavoring and sweeteners for anything almost natural change it over to pseudapop.
Etymology: pseudo: fake + pop: soda
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COMMENTS:
Nice word. - artr, 2009-01-29: 06:11:00
Very good! - Mustang, 2009-01-29: 07:17:00
excellent - Jabberwocky, 2009-01-29: 09:43:00
Perfect fit for word definition good job! :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-04-24: 07:16:00
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Alacartificial
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Al-a-cart-i-fish-ull
Sentence: Tom always used the alacartifcial way of dining, he would gorge on anything that included MSG or had been synthetically altered in some way. Being only twenty-one he didn't think of what this might be doing to the state of his health a few years down the line.
Etymology: A la carte(a type of menu) + Artificial(contrived or affected) = Alacartificial
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COMMENTS:
well-crafted word - silveryaspen, 2009-01-29: 08:34:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James