Objectionable Food Adjectives
Dec 30, 2010
The list of objectionable adjectives that Big Food uses to market their products seems never ending, and I thought it’d be fun to create a mashup with some of my favorites. They seem to get more extreme each year, and I’m looking forward to seeing what they can come up with in 2011.
Happy New Year, everyone!
Thanks to the folks who sent in suggestions. Did I miss any humdingers? Share ’em in the comments!
Great list or rather great collage of a bad list maybe? I can’t believe I don’t see this one there, you’ve done such a great job but Super-Sized seems to be missing!
How on earth did I miss “super-sized”? (I’ve included “king-sized” and “fun-sized,” at least.)
Pretty sure anything that ends in “-sized” is objectionable.
I like the “mantastic” and “macho.” I always thought it was macho when a runningback pushed the entire defensive line back into the endzone. I guess other people think is macho to have man boobs and ranch dressing on your chin.
Hahahaha! Though I have to admit, I kind of wish I was the guy who coined the term “mantastic.”
I like the mash-up style, ha! It reminds me of when they would show marketing in cartoons in the 80’s, and it would be big words in neon that the cartoon character would be running through or away from.
Thanks, Kristy! I had fun putting this together (I’m a bit of a font geek…), and I hope it shows. 🙂
Great collection! Wonderful example of what an extremist country we are. Gluttony and remorse. Take a look at all the diet books lining the shelves in bookstores right now as diet/detox season is upon us. You could make another collage of all of those words!
You’re totally right. It seems everywhere I look, America is more and more polarized, across just about every spectrum imaginable… I guess “Extremist” is a good (and awful) word for it. (and yes, I need to go troll the diet book aisles for a couple of hours! yikes!)