Teen slang from the South, and food words that are tricky to pronounce. • High schoolers in Huntsville, Alabama, told Martha and Grant about their slang, including a term particular to their hometown. • How do you pronounce the name of that tasty...
At Lee High School in Huntsville, Alabama, students use snack for an attractive person: someone who looks like a good snack. A step up from that is whole meal, for someone even more appealing. Snack in this sense is fairly widespread in the United...
A sneck is a kind of latch. A listener in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, says his British relatives sometimes use the term snecklifter to mean “a gift that will get you in the door at a dinner party.” This is part of a complete episode...
A bed lunch is a bedtime snack, the kind a parent might offer to settle a child’s stomach before sleep. It’s another case where lunch doesn’t have to mean the midday meal, as in shift work where a legally or company-designated lunch break may...
Contrary to popular belief, gorp is not an acronym for Good Old Raisins and Peanuts. Earlier recipes for this crunchy snack contained all kinds of things, like soybeans, sunflower seeds, oats, pretzels, raisins, Wheat Chex and kelp, as in John...
Mashtags are potato snacks, pressed into the shapes of social media characters. Because marketers need a way to make junk food appeal to teens. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Social Media Snacks” Did you see these...