Eat Your Words - Paul Convery

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* an offering of food in the form of dainty or delicacy; a gastronomic gift

      remissals * remaindered food

      repasture * food for a feast

      reversion * leftover food

      salading * those herbs or vegetables suitable for eating raw, and so ideal for salads

      salsure * any seasoning brine useful for pickling or preserving food

      sampuru * false food; plastic display food (being a Japanese corruption of “sample”)

      saucepanful * a quantity of food or fluid sufficient to fill a cooking pan

      saucer-meat * a lost dialectal synonym for sausage meat, or sausages generally

      savouries * snack food items either salty or spicy in flavour, rather than sweet

      scitament * an archaism for delicate, delicacy, or downright delicious food

      scoffings * food in the vernacular

      scran * grub, scoff; originally, scraps of food eaten to sustain labourers at toil

      seafood * marine fish and shellfish used as food; the ocean’s bounty

      seasoning * any condiment, relish, or table sauce used to lend extra savour to food

      shambles-meat * fresh meat, not yet salted

      sheepmeat * mutton, hogget, or lamb—ovine flesh overall as a food resource

      shellfish * in cookery, the meat of exoskeleton-bearing aquatic invertebrates, such as lobsters, crabs, oysters, and prawns, served as food

      shmeat * meat analogue grown in a petri dish from tissue culture; lab meat

      shortening * edible fat used in cooking to make baked goods light and flaky

      sipperty * sauce or gravy; any relish for a dish

      sirtfoods * an informal dietary class of disparate foodstuffs alleged to share the potential to activate sirtuins, or fat-burning proteins, in the body

      slibbersauce * any foul, sloppy concoction ingested as foodstuff or pharmaceutical

      slink-meat * generally, meat deemed unfit for human consumption; more precisely, the flesh of an aborted animal passed off as veal

      slow food * quality fare carefully prepared using seasonal produce and honouring local culinary tradition

      soot-meat * sweets or similar dainties

      soul food * the comestibles and cuisine of Black America

      sowl * highly flavoured food, typically in the form of relish for bread

      space food * victuals specially prepared and processed for cosmic consumption

      specery * spice and all things nice

      spiceries * either spices or groceries, collectively

      spissament * any thickening agent used in cookery, as flour in gravy

      spoonmeat * soft or semi-liquid food taken by spoon; pap

      spreadum * butter, in the vernacular of bygone days

      staple * the basic foodstuff or essential dietary item of a given population

      stickjaw * any foodstuff that causes the teeth to stick together when chewed

      stodge * high-carb, farinaceous fare that sits heavy in the gut and is difficult to digest

      street food * viands cooked and sold outdoors for on-the-spot consumption

      stuffure * forcemeat; stuffing

      suckabobs * a generic term denoting boiling, or suckable, sweets

      suckings * any food that may be consumed by the action of sucking

      sugar-work * confectionery

      superfoods * nutrient-rich foods marketed on the basis of their purportedly superior health-giving properties

      suppage * light or fast food; supper’s fare

      suppings * food that may be supped or taken by spoon, as soup or broth

      surchargure * an excessive quantity of food devoured

      sustenance * food as the basic sustainer of life; that which makes one hale and hearty

      sweetmeats * sundry candies and confections, collectively considered

      swineflesh * pork, vulgarly

      syfling * in Old English coin, food eaten with bread; alternatively, salt or seasoning

      taureau * beef denominated as a culinary resource; also, broadly, jerked red meat

      theobroma * god-food

      thickening-stuff * victuals of any description, for any diet

      titbits * bites of choice food; tasty treats

      toothful * the smallest quantity of anything edible, nothing more than a morsel

      tracklements * savoury condiments or sauces, especially jellies, serving as an accompaniment to roast meat

      tragemata * fancy sweetmeats, in particular items of confectionery best chewed

      trail mix * high-energy snack food for those who enjoy the great outdoors

      treif * non-kosher fare

      tripes & trillibubs * offal; the edible entrails and internal organs of beast or fowl

      tubers * those starchy edible vegetables that grow underground on plant roots, as potatoes, yams, beets, and such

      tubesteak * in vitro or otherwise synthetic meat

      tucker * as grub, prog, scran, and so forth—food, informally speaking

      variety meats * a euphemism for a range of interior or inferior edible animal cuts

      vegetive * a vegetable, any vegetable

      venison * literally “hunted’ food”; the meat of any big game beast such as boar or deer

      vetches * a culinary descriptor once broadly applied to legumes and pulses

      viance * food in general

      viand * meat in general

      viands * eatables, often with a connotation of gastronomic merit

      victuallage * food held in stock or supply; catering provisions

      victuals * foodstuffs fit for human consumption

      victus * health-giving food

      viennoiserie * baked goods made from puff pastry, such as croissants and brioche

      vitafoods * foods made and marketed with the health-conscious consumer in mind

      vittles * demotic victuals

      vivers * Scots victuals

      voidance * uneaten food or scraps such as bones cleared from plate and table

      voip * tasteless food that is nonetheless filling

      wafery * light pastry

      washmeat * unsubstantial and unsatisfying food

      waybread * food, baked or otherwise, to sustain one on a long or arduous journey

      welfare * food in happy abundance

      werednys * “weirdness”—sauce or spice in the early English lexicon

      whitemeat * food prepared from milk; an outmoded synonym for dairy produce

      wholefood * additive-free plant food grown with minimal processing or refining

      wholemeal * any bread or other baked product made from the entire wheat kernel

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