We’ve talked before about needing a word for the disappointment you feel when your favorite restaurant closes for good. A listener suggests a pun on melancholy, meal-ancholy. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Mealancholy”
We asked a while back for the term you could use when your favorite restaurant closes. You know, it’s so disappointing, right?
And we heard from Kelly Flurry, who suggested the word melancholy.
Melancholy.
Feeling melancholy.
It just closed.
We had dinner plans to go to that place.
Yeah, and that is the worst when you don’t know that it’s closed.
Yes.
And of course, it’s still going to be open, so why would you check?
Why would you call in advance?
Right.
You’ve talked it up to your out-of-town guest, and there you all are.
Yeah, you’ve planned your week around going to this restaurant.
And you pull up, and it looks like it’s about to be bulldozed.
