eatertain

eatertain
 v.β€” Β«Kessler spends a lot of time meeting with (often anonymous) consultants who describe how they are trying to fashion products that offer what’s become known in the food industry as β€œeatertainment.” Fat, sugar, and salt turn out to be the crucial elements in this quest: different β€œeatertaining” items mix these ingredients in different but invariably highly caloric combinations.Β» β€”β€œXXXL” by Elizabeth Kolbert New Yorker July 20, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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