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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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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)
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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Synthience
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sinθīəns
Sentence: Some people are drawn to labels like ”All Natural” or ”No Artificial Ingredients”. Not Tim. He just loves his beverages created by synthience.
Etymology: synthetic (made by chemical synthesis) + science (systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment)
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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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)
Rinkydrink
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: Ring - kee - dreenk
Sentence: Norton exclaimed, "What kinda rinkydrink is this?!!!!" It is full of Sweententame, Carcinocolor 30, Noxphoric Acid, Nomassium Renzoate, Nomassium Bitrate, Baselcellame Nomassium and.... its loaded with Daffeine to boot!!
Etymology: Rinky Dink + Drink >>> Rinky Dink(Of poor or inferior quality; hokey; sloppy; chintzy; small; flimsy; inadequate) >> Drink (consumable beverage).
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COMMENTS:
Easy to remember, quick to come to mind ... will use it a lot! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-29: 08:37:00
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Mystreats
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: mis-treet-z
Sentence: Esau, who always chose the quick and easy way to get his food, grew fat in the land on his convenient die-et of mystreats.When he suddently departed this life from cardiac arest, his secondary cause of death was listed as "mystreatment." Full stop.
Etymology: From MYSTERY, things unexplainable + TREATS, small pleasures; also playing on MISTREAT, to misuse, abuse
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
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
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James