Kummerspeck
Language: German · [ˈkʊmɐˌʃpɛk] · Pronunciation: KUM-er-shpek
Pronunciation: Jeuwre · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Meaning
the weight you gain from comfort eating — literally 'grief bacon'
The story
Kummer is grief, Speck is bacon, and the internet fell for the literal translation the moment it surfaced: grief bacon, the kilos a rough patch leaves behind. German dictionaries list it with a straight face. English keeps the cause and hides the evidence: comfort eating.
The four rounds
- Which language is it from?
- German
- What does it literally say?
- Worry-bacon
- What feeling feeds it?
- Heartbreak and long, low evenings
- What does it mean?
- Weight gained by eating your feelings
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