Verboticism: Grossceries
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.
Grossceries
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: gross/cer/ees
Sentence: When John goes shopping for food, he fills his cart with grossceries with zero to no nutritional value such as sham spam, potato hydrogenated artery filler, cancerspartan sweetened pop, hot (cow eyes, teeth and skin) dogs, mock chicken (wrack of rat) and Wonder enriched bread (less than 50% wood chips and white drywall dust).
Etymology: GROSSCERIES - noun - from GROSS + GROCERIES
Points: 1523
Comments: Grossceries
silveryaspen - 2009-01-29: 08:26:00
So apt!
galwaywegian - 2009-01-29: 08:53:00
like it.
Nosila - 2009-01-29: 19:46:00
Now I no longer Wonder why they called it Wonder Bread!