 I swear, I had to come back into the living room and back up the TiVo to make sure I wasn't hallucinating. I listened to the commercial once, then again, then verified with my husband. "I didn't just fall and bump my head, right? The announcer did actually say, 'Any'tizers® QuesaDippers™,' right?" Yes. Yes he had. Hey, I dig a good neologism or tasty portmanteau as much as the next lady. For crying out loud, the word "Eatocracy" came into being during a conference call last spring as I ranted, "It'll be a food democracy! A foodocracy! Heck, an eatocracy!" Boom. Legal department e-mailed, domain nabbed, Twitter feed and G-mail addy secured and now we have, like, officially-printed aprons and cutting boards and everything. For web-based businesses, I totally cut slack. Decent domain names are wickedly hard to snare, and creative spelling often called for. But a food item? Generally at least a tad suspect for me. There's a good chance it's madly processed, because the more naturally or classically made stuff already has, you know - names (confit = okay, word with a ®, ™ or random apostrophe ≠ okay). I'm not saying that a piping hot basket of Any'tizers® QuesaDippers™ or some Very Cherry Crispitos® ("With a convenient hand-held shape...a practical option for an on-the-go lifestyle.") wouldn't taste pretty righteous after a night of pounding down some Hpnotiq®. But, with all my language faculties intact, they just don't sound like a smart idea. Bonus round - share your favorite made-up food names in the comments below! |
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I really liked the article, and the very cool blog
I do admit... The names for foods are becoming very strange... I Think it should be simple, what if you are starving for exalmple; the name needs to be short and simple. Spend less time trying to figure out the name and more time eating it!
it looks like delicious..hmmmm
all of you die
I like made-up words for just about anything, and I think food – Spam, for instance – benefits from creative wordification.
Pass the nachos.
I'll try anything once; but very few innovations seem to really pan out when it comes to food. And it's not the names that are bad; but the actual food. For example, McDonald's is bringing back the Arch Deluxe. I don't like McDonald's hamburgers very much; but I did try it the first time it came out. I'll take a Big Mac or 1/4 pounder over that any day of the week, and twice on Sundays, and they actually hired a fancy chef to design that as well as some other menu items that came out at the same time.
You know... I generally love the food and all, but the salt content apparently skyrockets the more the name is made up. I'm only 23, 6 foot, and around 200 lb. I can't help but glare when I see these kinds of names on food because I've had high blood pressure since I was 16 because of this b.s. I don't know which offends my senses more the rediculus salt content that goes up with every odd name after the other, or the way the "english" grates on my nerves every time I read them.
Where is the option in the poll for "No"?
anytizers? lame, How about simply what it is tizer. Like free range chicken breast trimmed dipped in beeten egg rolled in parmesean,chayene,chili powder, salt n pepper. hmmmmmm long for the box dang it I'll have to go for FRCBPCCPSNP. Sounds yummy???
Why can't I select the title of the poll as an option? Yes, a different sounding name gives me pause. It's good advertising.
I have a hard time grasping the concept that all these big name food companies employ to further their sales. As a restaurant owner for over five years, I have come to realize what low food quality standards most businesses have these days. Seasoned and precooked taco meat in a can – really? Because it is so hard to cook some ground beef in a skillet. I am rather meticulous about the quality of the items in my kitchen and I hope that my customers appreciate it. It saddens me to realize what people will eat and with lack of food knowledge, it's even worse. There are entire TV channels dedicated to learning all aspects of food – watch it and take some of it in and maybe you won't be eating something that isn't even a real word, just a ploy to gain your interest and buy their product. Make a move, not only toward eating better, but making food that actually tastes good!
Theory fail. I've been pounding redbull voddies all day and chased it all with a Whopper now my stomach is severely questioning my judgment and my right middle finger is itching to go down my throat to yack it all up and feel better. Your theory of Hypnotiq and cherry whatever is making my stomach turn more tricks just thinking about it.
Often wondered what part of the chicken do the nuggets come from......and when did a peanut butter sandwich and an apple fall out of favor as a lunch option? Easy to pronounce and doesn't require a drivethru lane.
They're found just above the chicken fingers.
Two words to describe the horror of made up food names: "King Krab"
I have a few simple rules about food descriptions. I will NEVER eat any of the following foods:
1. If the product name begins with "I can't believe it's not..."
2. "made with REAL, (fill in the blank)!!!
3. or any food prepared with a device that has been "seen on TV"
No food-item with a copyright will EVER enter my kitchen.
Good call. I take it you avoid genetically-modified foods as well.
Vomit!
had a hotdog lately? see folks much ado about nothing. how come a pocketbook can't fit in your pocket? if you make up a recipe or food item you can call it anything you want.
it is amazing a simple topic and people can go off at the handle. it "overboggles" the mind! lol
many years ago I made up the word FUNTASTIC and now people are using it... and no one can refudiate that!
Fake foods are for fools.
how can you say the food is fake and you can actually buy it?
For me, made-up food words is a cue to run away.
The only made up word I use is sacrilicious.
Made up food words do give me pause, but mostly to marvel at some clever ad agency person for turning a word into a 'sensation'. I've also heard the term 'Productive Morphology' mostly used to refer to the adaption of words to a specific field of work or tools used therein.
Well, an "Any'tizer" is not food, so why not call it that? Call it a "sfgkjd". "Cheetoh" doesn't mean anything either; it's only purpose is to identify a manufactured product. Let's not succumb to believing a "QuesaDipper" is food.
I figure the more artificial the name, the more artificial the ingredients. Try my hardest to steer clear and eat natural foods that are probably covered in pesticides anyway :-/
Any'tizers®? QuesaDippers™?
Non-toxic? I suppose, or their lawyers wouldn't let them sell the stuff, regardless of the opinions of their food engineers.
Digestible? Maybe, in small quantities.
But none of this stuff qualifies as actual food...
I voted 'other' – I don't give a sh** what it's called, if it tastes good.
At the tiny cafe where I work, we made up "Rockin' Roni" which is macaroni and cheese made with 4 kinds of cheese and bacon. It was instantly a good seller, and I get a kick out of the strait-laced white collar people asking for it by name. Success!!!
which one of the poll options means that i think it's stupid? i can't tell with all of the slang and vagueness in the options. almost ironic considering the article.
Should people write slower so you can read it? (It's the 1st option.)
All I heard was blah blah blah. But I have the squirts, so who knows.
and chemicals.
Don't forget the ever present high fructose corn syrup. think about it – corn fattens cattle, and that's in it's natural state. When they isolate the sugar and pour it into everything to the point where it's one of the first three ingredients, is it any wonder we get fatter and fatter as a nation?
I think advertisement is the biggest fraud of an industry as it try's to brain wash you into thinking there product is the best and/or only thing that can help you do what you want to eat or do.
Vegetables and fruits can't afford commercials.. So i guess we'll just keep eating genetically modified foods and sugar and corn starch.
Has anyone else noticed that the foods featured in the article picture are all the same shade of beige?
Rocky Mountain Oysters, Let me tell you they are not oysters.
We know them round these parts (Central Canada) as Prairie Oysters. Same thing :)
But they're delicious no matter what you call 'em!
Food is the enemy
Food is ok, we need it to live. Food that is no longer really food is the enemy.
made up names for food tells me its low quality, I will almost always buy the thing that has the real name over the fake name
Just another way to keep what is actually IN the food in the dark.
"Eatocracy" makes my skin crawl. Jail time should have been issued instead of a domain name.
I like that the "poll" only allows you to answer in favor of the weird words. If you don't love them I guess you could always put "other".
The first option indicates not liking food with weird names.
Wow! AnyTizers Quesadippers! My 5 year-old mind loves it!
being of mexican-american descent and familiar with mexican food, i enjoy the marketing schemes of taco-bell...lol...this company makes my mind reel with concoctions such as the soft taco incased in a crispy taco or is it vice verse...now i realize there food is not cuisine, hell, its not even close to homemade, but hey, some of their concoctions are REALLY outside the box...and what the hell, its funny to see them re-engineer old favorites and its not my dollar they're spending and more important...its never going in my mouth....fofl...bon appetit...:)
FYI in case anyone actually wants to try the Anytizers....I bought some purely because I like chicken nuggets, I very rarely eat them, and the kid who played Walt on "Lost" was in the commercial. I know that last resaon is lame, but I LOVED "Lost." Anyways, so I figured they'd be no better or worse than Tyson chicken fingers or something...except when I heated them up, they were DISGUSTING. Whatever was inside those nuggets, most of it wasn't chicken meat. They were gelatinous and awful and I had to throw them out. There wasn't even enough meat to make it worth picking around the gross parts. On the plus side, they've turned me off of just about any freezer food that isn't plain vegetables (or vegetarian burgers/sausages), so...that's helping me to keep eating fresh and healthy. Thanks, Anytizers?
I'm not surprised, processed food is usually gross and disappointing, as well as being expensive. We pay for the convenience, not taste and nutrients. Frozen pizza and other junk food is some of the worst "food" out there. More and more my husband and I cook at home, and not frozen or boxed process crap. There's high fructose corn syrup in just about all of that processed junk, eating it creates a craving for MORE. Is it any wonder that there's an obesity and diabetes epidemic in america?
Why would I eat something, if I can't tell what it is? Some names can still identify the food, some are a surprise.
When I created the Fajita Pita, I made the name up. I am proud to say that the US has embraced the name and my food. We don't make it till you order it.
How about fatbastardo and lardbucket ?
Why, because fat is the last acceptable prejudice, depite the fact that the majority of americans are overweight? Better watch out, you may be spouting your clever hate and get sat on by one of us.
You forgot the lowfat version – skinnyignoramus sauce.
Doc, you sound like you need to take a vacation. You're getting kinda pricky.
I'm embarrassed at the gobblety-goop some marketers spout. Anytizers? Sounds like sanitizer, and I wouldn't eat it.
Tired of these fast food places and lousy restaurants killing usl. Serve us some healthy, low fat, close to nature foods that won't make us fat, clog our arteries, and prematurely kill us. Shows like Drive ins, diners and Dives glorifiy these types of lifestyles that make us fat and unhealthy in many parts of North America. Eat healthy people.
How's the weather up where you're at?
I would like to respond to Pharris regarding his/her comments on chicken nuggets. Do you have any idea how they are made and why. They are the leftover parts of the chicken that no one would eat if they saw them in their true state. They are the bottom parts of the breast, legs, wings and any other part of the chicken that can't be sold in it's true form. I wouldn't feed them to my cat.
This is foodism. Why does it matter what part of the chicken it is, if it's got nutrients in it?
For the record, nuggets are not just chicken. Per our pals at CNN Health they "contain the chemical preservative tBHQ, tertiary butylhydroquinone, a petroleum-based product. They also contain dimethylpolysiloxane, “an anti-foaming agent” also used in Silly Putty."
http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/25/a-tale-of-2-nuggets/
I read then I thought to myself "aren't all food names made-up? whats "lasagna"? its a made up word as well, "steak" ? why is steak any less made up than "quesadippers" ? "quesadilla dippers", hamburger, isnt that made up too?
ALL FOOD NAMES ARE MADE UP!
Whoa, Dan, you're blowing my mind here.
Hey Dan, pass the dutchie over here..
I think she's talking about trademarked, copyrighted names.
Making up words for a marketing/advertisement company would be super-tastic and fun-dascious!!
Anyone for some mountain oysters?
Anything that sounds like it combines two words, like CrunchWrap, Anytizer, or even a word like TurDuckEn – has way too much added to it that no one should really be ingesting. Dr. Phil could have a field day with this topic. Grosses me out.
Just the word Tofurkey nauseates me.
and what's the deal with airliine food? Am I right?
What I find funny is this article making fun of made up words under a page called "Eatocracy"
Did you not read the part of the article where they talked about that?
well played, sir (ma'am).
My favorite was a big sign in a grocery store "Vine-Grown!! Tomatoes" .... wait a minute, how else would you grow tomatoes? Tomato plants are vines. Ahah, marketing-speak! What they actually say is correct, but your brain is supoosed to read it as "vine-ripened" and therefore better than those other plastic tomatoes down the street. I rarely believe anything Marketing says anymore, even if they don't use nonsense words.
Pfffwwaaaahhh! I especially love "farm grown." Where the heck else is it grown? Even a factory farm is still a farm. Are they saying they don't grow the vegetables in government buildings or movie theaters?
I still get a kick out of using the word "organic" to describe any type of food. You mean my apple was ALIVE!?!?! No way! I wish they had chosen a different word...
Q – Which costs less, chicken nuggets or deer nuggets? A – Deer nuggets, they're under a buck.
And I do believe we have our comment of the day!
What kind of sauce comes with that? Man-yonnaise?
What about pizza then? Does the origin mean dough with tomato sauce, cheese, and toppings?
I read that in Iran the gov't spin people try to discourage Iranians from using American words and slang, as such the word "pizza" is a banned word. The official gov't term for pizza is "elastic bread with tomato sauce and cheese." Catchy, isn't it?
The author shouldn't be bragging about these neologism tendencies. Sure, Any'tizers® QuesaDippers™ are horrible torture of the language, but I think "Eatocracy" is just as awful.
How I agree! How I agree.
In the attempt to be clever they hit in an ironic truth – this nation of fatties really is an eatocracy. Signed, a fattie.
These made up food names are as pretentious as "play dates," "comfort food," and "retro." Another example of the fact that the human animal is an inferior life form.
You started two of your 3 paragraphs with "Hey." Crappy writing, but wow, you must be so hip.
And a delightful Saturday to you too, sir!
Happy Saturday! What is up with the annoying English teacher wannabe's?? Ando where do we get our aprons!!??
Hey Jared, man...can you get me some munchies from Subway... man?
Fajitas were invented in the US. The word itself is a very obscure, rarely used word in Spanish meaning "girdle" or "underwear"
It means girdle or more commonly little belt, because of the cut of meat's shape and location on the cow.
My husband always liked "chilitos." I hear that among mexicans that word is slang for a teeny little something he wouldn't be caught dead putting in his mouth.
Absodiddily Scumpdilddlioisous
A writer who says, without a trace of irony, that "we have, like, officially-printed aprons and cutting boards and everything" should leave commentaries about language to writers with, like, more knowledge about language and with the, like, creativity and imagination and stuff to, like, at least come up with a third concrete, specific noun to end a three-item series. KnowhatI'msayin'?
Ya but we just don't Carewhatyersayin.
Without a trace of irony? Really? The "like" didn't tip you off? Whole thing was ironic!
And the irony here is that Joe Bleaux completely failed to pick up on the irony.
Like, chill, man! And rent a sense of humour...
I don't give a rip what it's called. If it looks good, then, like Andrew Zimmern, I'm eating it!
Hey here's just a question that dosen't really have to do with thsi subject, but i would like to know: How often do you have fast-food? Please reply.
Never! (I have crazy-random food allergies in addition to celiac and crohn's disease, so, nothing that didn't go from natural form to food form via my own hands.)
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Real food already comes with names. So if something has a made-up name, either a) it didn't come with a name to being with, which means it's not actually food, or b) someone is trying to use a trademark as a weapon against other businesses who sell the same food, which is abuse. Either way, I don't want to eat one, AND it will make me question whether I want to eat at the place that's trying to sell me one, too. There has to be a reason why they can't use a normal name for the thing, and that reason is never good for the buyer.
Food manufacturers try to come up with fun, quirky, memorable names for the myriad of crap they try to sell us as food. On one hand, us fat americans take so much consternation from others to stop being fat slobs, while food manufacturers come up with more ways to offer corn syrup and fat mixed with byproducts to make food even more fun!!!! I have a hard enough time with regular food, I avoid food marketed as fun.
Made up names for food just go over my head.
actually they go INTO your head and OUT the OTHER end.
Well, if the name isn't exactly a real name, then chances are it isn't really made out of real food. That is gross.
Head cheese
Enchirito from Taco Bell , that's gnarly. Try going to Mexico and asking for one, they won't know what you're talking about.
I think this is silly – food is food – this is just more marketing hype
Okay, this made me laugh out loud because even in those weak moments whene I think a food with a made-up name sounds and looks appetizing, I'm able to refrain because I feel so stupid saying, "Oh, yes, I'll have the quesadippers and an order of the clucks and fries."
Oh yes! I refuse to put Mac in front of anything if I order from Mickey D's.
Poppycock!
And they scoffed and laughed when the chef said. "No, really, let's sell fish tacos".......
I have never tried one, as I love beef. But my husband can't seem to get enough.
i laughed so hard at this reply. please tell me the double entendre's are intentional.
Personally, Bearded Clams are the bomb!
I think there's a point where people can tell that a quirky new name was a spontaneous thing that stuck and really fits the company/product, and they really like it. But that doesn't happen that often. Most of the time that quirky new name came from hours of deliberation and market research. Often it comes from someone trying desperately to start an overnight sensation or trend, or someone who threw out an idea during the creation process and thought they'd been incredibly clever, and that was that.
The point is, people can tell when it's a genuinely clever name, and when the company is trying to hard.
And these cutesy, made up names don't appeal most of the time. Sure, if you are marketing a new toy to toddlers, by all means it should be called a whalerinomus. It should also be a bright red plastic and sing kid's songs in ceaseless, mind-numbing loops. That's the nature of the product and the consumer you are marketing to. But when you are marketing to adults, cutesy, "clever" names are generally a bad way to go. The caveat to that is to make sure that your product/company doesn't have a banal name, either. Sometimes that does require making up a new word or name, but it should keep in mind the customer it is targeting.
They should not be marketing Any'tizer QuesaDippers to anyone over the age of 5. It would definitely be a deal breaker for me.
And while we're on this thought, can we please stop creating "clever" phrases to describe people. Whoever thought up the word "recessionista" (and then proceeded to tack "ista" onto everything they could get away with) should be burned at the stake.
Trying too hard, I meant to say. Dern speliing.
tldr
Fried Pork Rinds – now there's honest food.
isn't that the dying truth
Pork rinds are awesome food. They're actual FOOD, too. I'll take them over potato chips any day.
. . .and don't forget Screaming Yellow Zonkers.
OMG! I used to LOVE Screaming Yellow Zonkers! And Fiddle Faddle too, and Fluff. All good stoner food.
Rooty Tooty Fresh and Fruity pancakes at IHOP. 'nuff said.
Chimichanga
Chimichange IS A REAL Mexican food, dumb-dumb.
What about Chalupa?
Good lord. Yes iChalupa is a real mexican food. Just like tacos, burritos, tamales, mole, chorizo, sopes, caldo, menudo, and the list goes on. Ay ay ay. Silly gringos! Lol
Trying to eat better for my health, so right now ANY junk food sounds like a little slice of heaven. May my arteries forgive me!
I prefer normal words, but this never stops anyone. Businesses use made up words to make their product sound better or more different than it actually is. It is irritating, but we are eating food.
Can you say "Canola" oil? (CAnada OiL A). It sounds better than Rapeseed oil.
Whoa! Never knew that. It's CANada Oil Low Acid, but still cool!
I wish I had gotten in on the ground floor in the early 1990s when Snapple got hot.
Never too late for "Monkey Chunks"
IMHO, advertisers live in their own little world, competing with other advertisers for this year's "cool". I know these names are a deterrent, not an enticement, for me.
I want an apron!
ME TOO! ME TOO!
Aprons, cutting boards!? Do tell where to get these priceless gems??
Oh, and can you say "Chalupa"? I agree, the made up name foods I do avoid as they are probably terribly bad for you. Do chickens really have nuggets?
No, Chickens do not have nuggets. Been years since I ate one of those. I prefer my Chickens free range and not chemically treated. Also, whats the deal with Salmonella getting into every food imaginable? Is it really that hard to keep food clean from farm to market? None of my plants have made me sick so where is the problem? I suspect Elves breaking into warehouses in the dead of night. They spray all of the leafy vegetables they can find with Salmonella and then flee back to their underground lair.
@ NaoOkami – Watch "Food Inc." and you'll have your answer about Salmonella.
Chickens, indeed do not have 'nuggets'. Then again, Steaks and Fish dont have 'fillets', Carrots dont have 'sticks' and soy certainly doesn't make 'milk'. Your language reasoning as to why you would or would not eat certain foods, for example, the chicken nuggets you have mentioned, is plainly moronic.
Wether or not the chickens are free range, held in pens or genetically created in a molecule beaming tube on the planet Spinlock, 'nuggets' are simply a shape the food can be cut/formed into.
Stop being an ignoramus.
Excellent, Pharris!
not to mention the fact that chalupa is a mexican food. taco bell didn't "make it up"
Ha. Taco Bell's chalupas are also not authentic. Just like the rest of their food.
Eatrocracy has aprons and cutting boards? Who knew. I think some of the made up food names andcan be pretty amusing... and a little icky at times. But after a few adult beverages, just about anything sounds good.
Have to say the marketing guys definitely get me...still i try to cook my restaurant favorites at home..it cuts the calories by making it my way.. that was one of my resolutions this year..I have decided to start cooking for myself this year to eat healthier... my friend also got me this hilarious cookbook for Xmas that has been great.. I can't tell you the name of it here cause it's a bit politically incorrect, but if you search for "whipped and be aten culinary works" you can find it.. but seriously don't go to the site if you can't take a good joke, or if you get offenced easily....
@Kyle: GO DIE IN A FIRE, YOU SPAMMING SCUMBAG.
That's a crap book for crap people. GTFO spammer.
Amen to what these other guys said... This isn't the place to advertise crap. Shoo!
Wow.. some people are hostile this afternoon.. I actually thought it was a real hoot! spam or not.. thanks Kyle!
Lol @ Kyle! Cool book...looks like fun. Definitely not for conservative people. Don't google it if you're easily offended.
I don't see this as spam, just sharing a cookbook. I would say there is more spam in the article itself if referring to the name of something is now spam.
Thank you so much for sharing Spam. Spam is my favorite made up food word too. Praise His name!
LOL @ the "legal crap" section. Good stuff.
Said best by Monty Python's crew..."I HATE SPAM!"
LOL – I swear, I see your post on every culinary article! I am now wondering if you aren't trying to get free advertising! I mean, the wording is word for word what I've read other places. Seriously!
How is this spam you vengeful f...flocks.
Great name for a book! Love It! And just ignore the haters – they have no lives. Almost makes you feel sorry for them – ALMOST!
It's so easy to see who's new here. The people who are frequent fliers have seen this ad a dozen time. I've seen it on FB, on Twitter, everywhere. And there's usually at least two 'total strangers' who pipe up to defend the poster, sucking more people in.
I'm getting tired of seeing this copy/pasted ad, though. It's got to go.
You are an idiot "Kyle".
Can take a joke. Googled the book. Expected to laugh. Was disappointed. If your gonna spam, you gotta be on point.
Go eat a bullet
I agree, shoo, until you learn how to spell.
hi caroline. my name is joe and im just your average unemployed, yet unaveragely smart american citizen. it seems like people arent being creative in their new names for food or slogans and it literally hurts my head how stupid of names people can come up with. for instance i walked into a gas station to buy a soda. coca cola had its new slogan plastered over the two coke containing freezer doors. the slogan was "more is morer" first of... morer is not a word, and 2nd off... what the **** is that supposed to mean? more is morer... it literally triggered in that moment a synapse response in my mind that caused me to be like the terminator. i wanted to destroy everybody in my path to the corporate office of coca cola in an effort to have the possibility at slapping the corporate owners in the head. now, upon leaving the store, i cooled down... but to this day i sit, slapping myself in the head trying to get over the fact that i know such a stupid saying exists, and that it was obviously okayed by im sure more than 10 people in charge at the coca cola factory HQ. this means top businessmen are really THAT stupid. it makes me have no faith left in humanity... on that note you should try a fully baked chicken breast between two pop tarts... i call it chika-pop tart surprise. just end it, please..... by the way, that last remark was FULL of sarcasm. p.s. radio shack "do stuff"
Chum is Fum. Fum is Chum.
I think you think too highly of your self.
If you were smart you would be employed.
Gosh, you guys need to get a life. Stupid slogans have been around for couple hundred years. You should look at some old advertising! When I see something stupid like "More is morer" I just laugh it off, no big deal. If it turns me off, then I don't buy the product. When they see that using "More is Morer" is causing less than lesser sales then they will stop using it. Simple.
Anyone ever seem a chicken wing without bones?????
You are right, morer is not a word. Then again, neither is unaveragely. I think the term would be smarter than average. Only people who are should say that, though.
oh stop being so uptight and learn to be funtastic! lol
So.. You're smarter than the average bear, as it were.. Yet you haven't been able to come up with a way to stay employed during this recession ruckus.. See, being unemployed is a pretty common thing these days, so no one would think less of you for being hit by that problem. That is, no one would think less of you if you weren't full of yourself. If you made no claim to be extra-intelligent, then sure – unemployment is just bad fortune. If you really were very smart, though, you'd have found a solution to that problem like so many of the rest of us have.
Also, I'll admit it; I couldn't finish reading your post. I had my qualms about it once you professed to be smarter than most – a claim made only by the insecure idiots who either don't want people finding out they're stupid or, even more often, those who honestly believe they have some sort of insight into life that keeps them from WANTING the success of the more intelligent. That isn't why I couldn't finish, though. The problem was that you started by touting your brilliance and then said you were "literally" triggered to become like "the terminator".
Unless you actually became a cyborg murderer from the future, you're an idiot for using words you don't know when you've just claimed you're smarter than the rest. Don't do that. It's embarassing for everyone involved. It literally offends me, and it makes my head want to figurately explode.
See what I did there? I used words correctly. "Literally" is not an expression of quality or degree – don't use words you don't know. If you're going to use words you don't know, don't try to pretend that it's because of the towering intellect that was unable to help you learn how to speak english correctly OR how to keep steady work.
The word that gets me is when they say "spoonfuls" or "spoonfulls". As if made-up words isn't bad enough, now we encourage horrific grammar as well.
If spoonful is not a word, someone needs to get the word out to Mary Poppins.
To nuffsed: "Spoonful" is a word but "spoonfuls" is not. The correct term is "spoonsful", and that was Glenn's point. It's like saying "brother-in-laws" when what one really means is "brothers-in-law". The "s" is for the word that's the multiple, not its descriptor. It's called an infix.
This is one of my pet peeves, too. Little points of speech like this will eventually die off because they're a peculiar part of English and few people use them correctly. The philologist in me appreciates that, but the old-fashioned English speaker in me just screams in frustration when I hear what is, currently, bad form.
Penis