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More Food Words That Should Get 86’d

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We’ve previously discussed our disdain for terms like “mouthfeel” and “toothsome,” and pretty much everyone we know is sick of “foodie,” but now San Francisco mag editor Jan Newberry chimes in with her least favorite terms, which get red-lined whenever her writers use them. Among her most hated are also “crispy” (“‘It sounds like baby talk,’ my first editor told me, and I agree. Crisp means the same thing.”), “pristine” and “impeccable” (“They make food sound sterile.”), and “locavore,” which she no longer finds cute. [SF Mag]

More Food Words That Should Get 86’d